Dumbwaiter

  

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Dumbwaiter

Definition: Dumbwaiter

Dumbwaiter

Noun

1. A small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Dumbwaiter

Synonym: food elevator (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dumbwaiter

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Elevation

Dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dumbwaiter

Specialty definitions using "dumbwaiter": dietary aideFOOD-SERVICE WORKER, HOSPITALSERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS, AND DUMBWAITERStray worker. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dumbwaiter

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The dumbwaiter. (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder)

Movie/TV Titles

Ruined by a Dumbwaiter (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Dumbwaiter

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Blue Ball, (vicinity). Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dumbwaiter food safe which descends into the basement when not needed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dumbwaiter

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dumbwaiter

67

dumbwaiter kit

5

dumbwaiter industrial

4

dumbwaiter elevator

3

dumbwaiter manual

3

build can dumbwaiter i

3

dumbwaiter lift

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dumbwaiter

Language Translations for "dumbwaiter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

кухненски асансьор, масичка за сервиране с колелца. (various references)

   

Czech

  

servírovací stolek (trolley). (various references)

   

Danish

  

madelevator (food elevator, food lift), godselevator (goods lift). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spijslift (food elevator, food lift, goods lift), boekenlift (goods lift). (various references)

   

French

  

monte-plats. (various references)

   

German

  

drehaufzug, Speisenaufzug (food elevator, food lift), Kleinlastenaufzug (goods lift). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανυψωτήρασ πραγμάτων, ανελκυστήρας μικρών φορτίων (goods lift), ανελκυστήρας φαγητών (food elevator, food lift), αναβατόριο μικρών φορτίων (goods lift), αναβατόριο φαγητών (food elevator, food lift). (various references)

   

Italian

  

piccolo montacarichi (goods lift), montavivande (food elevator, food lift, kitchen elevator, kitchen lift), montapiatti (food elevator, food lift). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umbwaiterday

   

Portuguese

  

pequeno monta-cargas (goods lift), monta-pratos (food elevator, food lift, kitchen elevator, kitchen lift), monta-comidas (food elevator, food lift). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вращающийся столик. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mali lift. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

montaplatos (service lift). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

serveringsbord (service table), mathiss. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dumbwaiter

Derivations

Words beginning with "dumbwaiter": dumbwaiters. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dumbwaiter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-m-r-t-u-w"

-2 letters: drawtube, drumbeat, imbruted, muriated.

-3 letters: bawdier, bruited, daubier, imbrued, imbrute, matured, muriate, readmit, redbait, rumbaed, terbium, tribade, wartime.

-4 letters: abider, admire, airted, arbute, atrium, baited, baiter, barite, barium, barmie, bawtie, bruted, burdie, buried, dauber, dautie, dawtie, dreamt, dumber, erbium, imaret, imbrue, imbued, iterum, marted, mature, mitred, radium, rebait, remuda, rubati, rubied, tabued, tambur.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-m-r-t-u-w"
 

+1 letter: dumbwaiters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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