freeze | fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level, a freeze on hiring |
hiring freeze | a freeze on hiring |
price freeze | a freeze of prices at a given level |
wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
freeze halt | an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement, a halt in the arms race, a nuclear freeze |
deep-freeze Deepfreeze deep freezer freezer | electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time |
hiring hall | a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation |
freeze frost | weather cold enough to cause freezing |
freeze freezing | the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid |
freeze-drying lyophilization lyophilisation | a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure, material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes |
deep freeze | temporary inactivity or suspension, the legislation has now been revived after ten years in the deep freeze |
freeze | suddenly behave coldly and formally, She froze when she saw her ex-husband |
freeze | anesthetize by cold |
freeze | be cold, I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on |
freeze-dry | preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum, freeze-dry the strawberries |
freeze block immobilize immobilise | prohibit the conversion or use of (assets), Blocked funds, Freeze the assets of this hostile government |
freeze suspend | stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it, Suspend the aid to the war-torn country |
freeze | change to ice, The water in the bowl froze |
deep freeze | store in a deep-freeze, as for conservation, deep-freeze the food |
quick-freeze flash-freeze | freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors, quick-freeze the shrimp |
freeze | cause to freeze, Freeze the leftover food |
freeze freeze out freeze down | change from a liquid to a solid when cold, Water freezes at degrees Fahrenheit |
reject spurn freeze off scorn pooh-pooh disdain turn down | reject with contempt, She spurned his advances |
freeze stop dead | stop moving or become immobilized, When he saw the police car he froze |
freeze | be very cold, below the freezing point, It is freezing in Kalamazoo |
freeze-dried | preserved by freezing and drying in a vacuum, freeze-dried coffee |
lyophilized lyophilised freeze-dried | used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances, dried by freezing in a high vacuum |