According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
REFRIGERATE
refrigerate
(verb) cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; “refrigerate this medicine”
refrigerate
(verb) preserve by chilling; “many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)
(transitive, obsolete in general sense) To cool down, make cool.
(transitive) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*frig"er*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refrigerated (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Refrigerating.] Etym: [L. refrigeratus, p. p. cf. refrigerare; pref. re- re- + grigerare to make cool, fr. fragus, frigoris, coolness. See Frigid.]
Definition: To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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