refrigeration

Roget category 385

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#385. Refrigeration

noun

refrigeration, infrigidation^†, reduction of temperature — cooling etc. v. — congelation^†, conglaciation^† — ice etc. 383 — solidification etc. (density) 321 — ice box (refrigerator) 385.
extincteur [Fr.] — fire annihilator — amianth^†, amianthus^† — earth-flax, mountain-flax — flexible asbestos — fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility) 388.1. incombustibility, incombustibleness etc. adj.^†.
(insulation) 388.1. air conditioning [residential cooling], central air conditioning — air conditioner — fan, attic fan — dehumidifier.

verb

cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice — congeal, freeze, glaciate — benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate^†, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench — put out, stamp out — extinguish — go out, burn out (incombustibility) 388.1.

adjective

cooled etc. v. — frozen out — cooling etc. v. — frigorific^†.

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