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Definition: Aerator |
AeratorNoun1. An apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Fixture added to a water tap in order to aerate the water and to avoid splashing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Apparatus to supply air or gas. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Opening through which conditioned air is let out. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | A machine used to break down, aerate, reduce bulk density and generally improve the moulding properties of sand. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An apparatus for charging water with gas under pressure, esp. with carbondioxide. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonym by domain: aerating (food & agriculture, building & civil engineering). |
Crosswords: Aerator |
| English words defined with "aerator": Eleocharis acicularis ♦ hair grass ♦ mount ♦ needle rush, needle spike rush ♦ overload ♦ slender spike rush. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aerator": LAWN-SERVICE WORKER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Recent developments that have proved popular are loppers with telescopic arms to reach inaccessible tree branches, and the Garden Claw, which acts as a weeder, cultivator, and aerator. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aerator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aerator" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aerator | 900 |
lawn aerator | 203 |
pond aerator | 131 |
aerator wind | 68 |
core aerator | 25 |
aerator sandal | 16 |
plug aerator | 16 |
aerator shoes | 16 |
aerator electric | 15 |
septic aerator | 14 |
aerator ryan | 13 |
faucet aerator | 12 |
windmill aerator | 12 |
aerator pump | 12 |
rolling lawn aerator | 10 |
aerator turf | 9 |
aerator core lawn | 9 |
aerator lawn shoes | 9 |
aerator jet | 9 |
water aerator | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aerator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 充"器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udluftningsgreb-udluftningsmaskine, sandpisker (disintegrator, sand cutter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aeringsinstallatie (aerating plant), zandwolf (disintegrator, sand cutter), ventilatiemond (air blower), luchtuitlaat (air nozzle, individual air outlet, swivelling air outlet), installatie voor het toevoeren van lucht (aerating plant), bodemventilator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maanilmastin, ilmastuslaite (aerating plant), hiekkapiiskuri (disintegrator, sand cutter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aerateur, aérateur (aerating plant), diviseur-aérateur, diviseur, dispositif d'aération (aerating plant), brise-jet, bouche de ventilation individuelle, bouche de ventilation, bouche de soufflage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lüfter (blower, fan, ventilator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στόμιο εξαερισμού (air blower), στόμιο ατομικού εξαερισμού (air nozzle, individual air outlet, swivelling air outlet), εδαφοαεριστής, αεριστήρας άμμου (disintegrator, sand cutter), αεριστήσ, αερωτής (aerating plant), διάταξη αερισμού (aerating plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szellőző (ventilating), szénalazító, levegőző, lazítószer, gázfertőtlenítő készülék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aeratore (aerating plant, air blower, fan, ventilator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aereyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aeratoray arejador (aerating plant, ventilator), aerador (air blower), ventilador individual:boca de saída de ar:saída de ar individual (air nozzle, individual air outlet, swivelling air outlet), ventilador (appliance for artificial respiration, artificial respirator, blower, blowing engine, brattice, fan, mechanical blower, respirator, ventilator, ventpipe, wind blower), dispositivo de arejamento (aerating plant). (various references) аэратор. (various references) aireador (aerating plant, ventilator), dispositivo de aireación (aerating plant), desintegrador por aire (disintegrator, sand cutter). (various references) anläggning för luftning (aerating plant), vertikalskärare, sandpisk (disintegrator, sand cutter), pisk (disintegrator, sand cutter, whipping), luftare (aerating plant), djupräfsa. (various references) havalandırıcı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aerator": aerators. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aerator": deaerator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aerator": deaerators. (additional references) | |
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"Aerator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerat, aeriator, airator, Arato, arator, aratos, Arbatov, Arlathorp, Azerado, erator, serrator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aortae, errata. | |
-2 letters: aorta, oater, orate, rater, reata, retro, tarre, terra. | |
-3 letters: aero, area, orra, rare, rate, rato, rear, roar, rota, rote, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, tore, torr. | |
-4 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, err, eta, oar, oat, ora, ore, ort, rat, ret, roe, rot, tae, tao, tar, tea, toe, tor. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ar, at, er, et, oe, or, re, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aerators, arboreta, arrogate. | |
+2 letters: arrogated, arrogates, deaerator, macerator, separator. | |
+3 letters: aberration, alternator, arborvitae, arteriolar, bardolater, crematoria, deaerators, eradicator, evaporator, macerators, marathoner, praetorial, praetorian, preparator, reparation, separators, tracheolar, variegator. | |
+4 letters: abbreviator, aberrations, accelerator, adulterator, advertorial, alternators, ameliorator, appreciator, appropriate, arborvitaes, arteriogram, bardolaters, broadcaster, declaratory, equatorward, eradicators, evaporators, exaggerator, heterokarya, labradorite, marathoners, paratrooper, praetorians, preparation, preparators, preparatory, proletarian, proletariat, radiotracer, rarefaction, reactionary, rebroadcast, reparations, reradiation, retaliatory, retardation, starboarded, steatorrhea, variegators. | |
+5 letters: abbreviators, aberrational, accelerators, accretionary, adulterators, advertorials, ameliorators, amelioratory, antipredator, appreciators, appreciatory, appropriated, appropriates, aromatherapy, arteriograms, bardolatries, broadcasters, carbohydrate, cartographer, correlatable, dorsolateral, exaggerators, exaggeratory, extrapolator, galactorrhea, harbormaster, imperatorial, laboratories, labradorites, metrorrhagia, noncharacter, nonnarrative, overabstract, overdramatic, oversaturate, parathormone, paratroopers, perambulator, perorational, plasterboard, preparations, prevaricator, procathedral, proletarians, proletariats, radiotherapy, radiotracers, rarefactions, rationalizer, rebroadcasts, recreational, reflationary, renaturation, repatriation, reradiations, retardations, skateboarder, steatorrheas, trapezohedra, trochanteral, weatherboard. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 65 72 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . .-. .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e r a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 0072 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35718467868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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