Defrost vs. Freeze
Defrostverb
(transitive) To remove frost from.
Defrostverb
(transitive) To thaw something.
Defrostverb
To recover from something tiresome.
Defrostnoun
The removal of frost.
Defrostverb
To remove the frost or ice from; as, to defrost the car window; to defrost a refrigerator.
Defrostverb
To become free of frost or ice; as, it took four hours for the refrigerator to defrost.
Defrostverb
To thaw; - used especially of items removed from a freezer, such as frozen foods.
Defrostverb
make or become free of frost or ice;
Freezeverb
(intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
Freezeverb
(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
Freezeverb
(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
Freezeverb
To be affected by extreme cold.
Freezeverb
(intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
Freezeverb
(intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
Freezeverb
(transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
Freezeverb
(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
Freezeverb
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
Freezeverb
(transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
Freezenoun
A period of intensely cold weather.
Freezenoun
A halt of a regular operation.
Freezenoun
(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
Freezenoun
(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
Freezenoun
A block on pay rises.
Freezenoun
A frieze.
Freezenoun
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Freezeverb
To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Freezeverb
To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
Freezeverb
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
Freezeverb
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
Freezenoun
the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Freezenoun
weather cold enough to cause freezing
Freezenoun
an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement;
Freezenoun
fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level;
Freezeverb
change to ice;
Freezeverb
stop moving or become immobilized;
Freezeverb
be cold;
Freezeverb
cause to freeze;
Freezeverb
stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
Freezeverb
be very cold, below the freezing point;
Freezeverb
change from a liquid to a solid when cold;
Freezeverb
prohibit the conversion or use of (assets);
Freezeverb
anesthetize by cold
Freezeverb
suddenly behave coldly and formally;
