prefreeze

prefreeze

(priːˈfriːz)
vb
(tr) to freeze beforehand
adj
occurring before a freeze
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prefreeze


Past participle: prefrozen
Gerund: prefreezing

Imperative
prefreeze
prefreeze
Present
I prefreeze
you prefreeze
he/she/it prefreezes
we prefreeze
you prefreeze
they prefreeze
Preterite
I prefroze
you prefroze
he/she/it prefroze
we prefroze
you prefroze
they prefroze
Present Continuous
I am prefreezing
you are prefreezing
he/she/it is prefreezing
we are prefreezing
you are prefreezing
they are prefreezing
Present Perfect
I have prefrozen
you have prefrozen
he/she/it has prefrozen
we have prefrozen
you have prefrozen
they have prefrozen
Past Continuous
I was prefreezing
you were prefreezing
he/she/it was prefreezing
we were prefreezing
you were prefreezing
they were prefreezing
Past Perfect
I had prefrozen
you had prefrozen
he/she/it had prefrozen
we had prefrozen
you had prefrozen
they had prefrozen
Future
I will prefreeze
you will prefreeze
he/she/it will prefreeze
we will prefreeze
you will prefreeze
they will prefreeze
Future Perfect
I will have prefrozen
you will have prefrozen
he/she/it will have prefrozen
we will have prefrozen
you will have prefrozen
they will have prefrozen
Future Continuous
I will be prefreezing
you will be prefreezing
he/she/it will be prefreezing
we will be prefreezing
you will be prefreezing
they will be prefreezing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been prefreezing
you have been prefreezing
he/she/it has been prefreezing
we have been prefreezing
you have been prefreezing
they have been prefreezing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been prefreezing
you will have been prefreezing
he/she/it will have been prefreezing
we will have been prefreezing
you will have been prefreezing
they will have been prefreezing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been prefreezing
you had been prefreezing
he/she/it had been prefreezing
we had been prefreezing
you had been prefreezing
they had been prefreezing
Conditional
I would prefreeze
you would prefreeze
he/she/it would prefreeze
we would prefreeze
you would prefreeze
they would prefreeze
Past Conditional
I would have prefrozen
you would have prefrozen
he/she/it would have prefrozen
we would have prefrozen
you would have prefrozen
they would have prefrozen
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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Put the resulting solution into the ultralow temperature freezer (-80[degrees]C) for two days to prefreeze and then it was freeze-dried at -50[degrees]C for 48 h to obtain the water-decocting extract, which is always called crude polysaccharide [29, 30].
In Column (5), we compare the average of the annual employee growth rates in three years postfreeze with the average over three years prefreeze. The t-tests (of the means) and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (of the medians) indicate that the employee growth rates either increase (Columns (2)-(4)) relative to the base year or do not change significantly (Columns (1) and (5)).
Role of prefreeze cooling/holding times, dilutors and thaw rates in improving freezability and post thaw survival of bovine spermatozoa.
These self-contained countertop units have a built-in compressor-freezer, so there's no bowl to prefreeze. That means frozen desserts are ready to enjoy sooner.
The mean change associated with each freeze-thaw cycle (and its accompanying 30-min exposure to room temperature) was <4% of the estimated prefreeze concentration for all analytes and <2% for nearly all of them (Table 1).
Goodlife, tel:0192 583 7810, avoid prefreeze frying to ensure all the flavour is locked in and 'spilled' only on the plate.
[check] Prefreeze blanching times are USDA standard for one pound of food.
Freeze-tolerant insects benefit from this process because even moderate prefreeze supercooling is precluded (Bale et al., 1988; Fields and McNeil, 1986, 1988; Shimada and Riihimaa, 1988; Layne et al., 1990; Gehrken et al., 1991; Gehrken, 1992).
Spring frogs apparently lacked this benefit, as their glucose levels had either returned to (liver, muscle) or dropped below (heart, brain, plasma) prefreeze levels within the recovery period.