英和和英

語源

From liquidize +‎ -er.

発音

名詞

liquidizer (plural liquidizers)

1. (Australia, India, UK) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
   • 1976, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:

     […] tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.

   • 2013, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories, →ISBN:

     She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.

   • 2013, Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes, →ISBN:

     Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer, add a cupful of cold water and blend.

使用する際の注意点

• In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated.
• The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.

引用

• 2000, Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II, →ISBN, page 145:

  By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.

同意語

• blender (US)
• vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

関連する語

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquor

参考

• food processor
• mixer