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Definition: Dumbwaiter |
DumbwaiterNoun1. 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: DumbwaiterSynonym: food elevator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elevation | Dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dumbwaiter |
| Specialty definitions using "dumbwaiter": dietary aide ♦ FOOD-SERVICE WORKER, HOSPITAL ♦ SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS, AND DUMBWAITERS ♦ tray worker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 pequeno monta-cargas (goods lift), monta-pratos (food elevator, food lift, kitchen elevator, kitchen lift), monta-comidas (food elevator, food lift). (various references) вращающийся столик. (various references) mali lift. (various references) montaplatos (service lift). (various references) serveringsbord (service table), mathiss. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dumbwaiter": dumbwaiters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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