Freezer vs. Icebox

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Main Difference

The main difference between Freezer and Icebox is that the Freezer is a household appliance for preserving frozen food and Icebox is a non-mechanical household appliance for cooling foodstuffs

  • Icebox

    An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as “refrigerators”. Only after the invention of the modern day electric refrigerator did the early non electric refrigerators become known as an icebox. The terms ice box and refrigerator were used interchangeably in advertising as long ago as 1848.

Wikipedia
  • Freezer (noun)

    An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

  • Freezer (noun)

    The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

  • Freezer (noun)

    A Parkinson’s disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.

  • Icebox (noun)

    A box or compartment containing ice. from 19th c.

  • Icebox (noun)

    A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.

  • Icebox (noun)

    A refrigerator. from 20th c.

  • Icebox (noun)

    A prison. from 20th c.

  • Icebox (noun)

    A morgue.

  • Icebox (adjective)

    agreeable, awesome. as a superlative of cool

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