Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To preserve (food, for example) by rapid freezing and drying in a high vacuum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
volatile liquid from a substance bysublimation (normally undervacuum ) from thefrozen state
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum
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Examples
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Most new dishes start with an interrogation: What happens if we freeze-dry foie gras?
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Most new dishes start with an interrogation: What happens if we freeze-dry foie gras?
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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Ain't like we can freeze-dry Barry and wake him up when he grows his balls back, and I don't see Hillary swooping in to save the day.
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We can ' t freeze-dry our kids and wait for your pilot programs to pan out.
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Do you remember when the girls started to freeze-dry, to turn into plastic at sixteen, so that no breast ever sagged, no wrinkle ever folded?
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I find in writing my Guardian column that it helps to freeze-dry ideas and discussions; it can improve my thinking.
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The book will freeze-dry onto paper many of the ideas we explore here.
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"I knew the one mistake I could make in the film was to freeze-dry them and pretend they weren't in their 40s now."
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The ideas of architects like Piano, that neither bulldoze the past nor freeze-dry history, are likely to be the only way to give cities new life and meaning.
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The book will freeze-dry onto paper many of the ideas we explore here.
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