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Definition: Defrost |
DefrostVerb1. Make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DefrostSynonyms: deice (v), de-ice (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Defrost |
| Specialty definitions using "defrost": curing packer ♦ green-meat packer ♦ Un-thaw ♦ vat overhauler, vat packer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | On some Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestion: Defrost. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Liquid distortion" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "The back window of my car; the defrost wires looked rather cool underneath the raindrops." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Never defrost food on the kitchen counter. (references) | |
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| "Defrost" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "Defrost" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 58.82% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (singular) | 25.49% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.69% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "defrost": defrost pan ♦ thermobank defrost. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "defrost": auto-defrost. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
defrost | 27 |
defrost timer | 14 |
defrost fridge problem | 11 |
defrost freezer | 8 |
defrost refrigerator | 5 |
defrost thermostat | 4 |
chicken defrost | 4 |
refrigerator defrost timer | 4 |
defrost heater | 3 |
defrost meat | 3 |
defrost paragon timer | 3 |
defrost gas hot | 2 |
defrost tray wonder | 2 |
auto compact defrost refrigerator | 2 |
defrost freezer manual | 2 |
defrost heat pump timer | 2 |
defrost vent | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "defrost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | heq akullin. (various references) | |
Arabic | إزالة الجليد, أزال الصقيع. (various references) | |
Chinese | 除霜. (various references) | |
Czech | rozmrazit (thaw, unfreeze), odmrazit (defreeze). (various references) | |
Danish | drypbakke (defrost pan, drip tray), termobank afrimning (thermobank defrost). (various references) | |
Dutch | ontdooien m.b.v.een warmte-accumulator (thermobank defrost), lekbak (defrost pan, drip tray). (various references) | |
Farsi | یخ چیزی رااب کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tippuvesiallas (defrost pan, drip tray). (various references) | |
French | dégivrer, dégelons, dégelez, dégelent, décongeler. (various references) | |
German | entfrosten (quick freeze, to defrost). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεπαγώνω (thaw). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להפשיר (melt, temper, thaw, unfreeze). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felenged (gave, given, liquefy, thaw, to ease off, to expand, to give, to take one's hair down, to thaw). (various references) | |
Italian | disgelare (thaw), scongelare (thaw, thaw out, unfreeze), sbrinare. (various references) | |
Korean | 녹이십시요 (Dissolve). (various references) | |
Manx | theinniu (liquefaction, liquefy; thawing, thaw). (various references) | |
Norwegian | avrime. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efrostday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | descongelar (defreeze, unfreeze). (various references) | |
Russian | размораживать (defreeze, unfreeze). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otopiti (melt, thaw out), odmrznuti (defreeze, unfreeze), odlediti (defreeze, melt). (various references) | |
Spanish | descongelar (defreeze, thaw, unfreeze). (various references) | |
Swedish | tina upp (loosen up, thaw out, unbend), avfrosta. (various references) | |
Turkish | buzunu eritmek, çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розтоплювати (melt, thaw), розморожуватися, розморожувати (defreeze, thaw, unfreeze), танути (evanish, melt, melt away, thaw). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defrost": defrosted, defroster, defrosters, defrosting, defrosts. (additional references) | |
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"Defrost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defort, defosit, defract, defrons, Durfort. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defrost" (pronounced dufrô"st) |
| 5 | -f r ô" s t | frost. |
| 4 | -r ô" s t | crossed. |
| 3 | -ô" s t | accost, embossed, exhaust, glossed, lost, tossed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: frosted. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: doters, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, softer, sorted, stored, strode. | |
-2 letters: doers, doest, doser, doter, dotes, drest, feods, fetor, fords, fores, forte, forts, frets, froes, frost, ofter, redos, resod, rosed, roset, rotes, store, tores, torse, trode. | |
-3 letters: deft, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, efts, eros, erst, feds, feod, fets, foes, ford. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: deforest, defrosts, forested, fostered, frosteds, frowsted, telfords. | |
+2 letters: defectors, deflators, deforests, defrosted, defroster, foredates, piedforts, tradeoffs. | |
+3 letters: afforested, afterwords, deflectors, deforested, defrosters, defrosting, forecasted, forestland, foretasted, fortitudes, fortressed, forwardest, godfathers, interfolds, ironfisted, isografted, overdrafts, postformed, reforested, surefooted, unforested. | |
+4 letters: afterworlds, centerfolds, defalcators, defoliators, deforesting, deformities, fatherhoods, federations, feudatories, floodwaters, floridities, fluoridates, footbridges, foresighted, forestalled, forestlands, outfielders, overstaffed, overstuffed, profoundest, rustproofed, softhearted, tenderfoots, transformed, undercrofts, waterfloods. | |
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