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freezing vs freeze-drying

freeze-drying vs freezing

freezing and freeze-drying both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
freezing Yes No No No
freeze-drying Yes No No No
As nouns, freeze-drying is a hyponym of freezing; that is, freeze-drying is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than freezing:
  • freezing: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
  • freeze-drying: a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
Other hyponyms of freezing include lyophilisation, lyophilization, frost, icing.
freezing (noun) freeze-drying (noun)
the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
Difference between freezing and freeze-drying

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