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Definition: Agitator |
AgitatorNoun1. One who agitates; a political troublemaker. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "agitator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Agitator \Ag"i*ta`tor\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A portable machine designed to prevent segregation of mixed concrete by imparting to it an occasional mild mixing action en route to the work. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A concrete mixer mounted on the chassis of a truck used for mixing and delivering concrete. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemistry | A receptacle in which ore is kept in suspension in a leaching solution. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A device causing turbulent motion in a liquid inside a tank. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A tank in which very finely crushed ore is agitated with leaching solution. Usually accomplished by means of a current of compressed air passing up a central pipe and causing circulation of the contents of the tank. Sometimes called a mixer b. A device used to stir or mix grout or drill mud. Not to be confused with shaker or shale shaker c. A device used to bring about a continuous vigorous disturbance in a pulp; frequently used to assist bubble formation. (references) |
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Synonym: AgitatorSynonym: fomenter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | And I also have the Solex Agitator (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Krasnyj agitator Trofim Glushkov (1969) The Agitator (1944) Domovoi agitator (1920) The Agitator (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The agitator : who is it's brought us here, I ask you? : who's a-grindin' us under the iron heel o' despotism? : I say to you the time has come, when ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Human Rights | Togo | There were no developments in the investigation of the March 2000 killing of an alleged government-paid agitator on the University of Benin campus in Lome. (references) |
Dominican Republic | The police claimed that the two other individuals killed during the protests were not killed by members of the National Police, but by a civilian, Hector Bienvenido Cross, whom they alleged was a neighborhood agitator. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Agitator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agitator" is used about 32 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% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "agitator": agitator truck ♦ malicious agitator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "agitator": agitator-pads. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "agitator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aktivis (abetter, activist), agiteerder, agitator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | agjitator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مثير الاضطراب السياسي, المهيج, المزاجة, الخضاضة, دعاية وبخاصة للمبادئ اليسارية, داعية يستهدف إثارة الشعور, داعية (lay reader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | активатор, агитатор (tout), бъркачка (beater, blender, impeller, mixer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "动者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | agitátor (campaigner, canvasser), míchaèka (blender, mixer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | agitator, roerevaerk (stirrer), roereanordning (paddle), omrøringstank, krydsomroerer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | agitator met vleugels, agitator (abetter, activist), activist (abetter, activist), vleugelwasbeweger (paddle), twiststoker (abetter, activist), stokebrand, roerwerk, roervat, roertoestel, roerkuip, roerketel, roerinrichting (rabble), ophitser (abetter, activist, firebrand, instigator), onruststoker (abetter, activist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اسباب بهم زدن مایعات , اشوبگر (Rioter, Troublemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sekoituskone, sekoitin (batch mixer, blender, mixer, rabble, stirrer, stirring rod, thimble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agitateur (agitating truck, agitator truck, manure agitator, sump agitator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scharfmacher (rabble rouser), Aufwiegler (abetter, activist, instigator), Agitator (stirrer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταυροειδής αναδευτής, υποκινητήσ (abettor, abettter, instigator, mover, stirrer), ανάμικτρον, ανάμικτρο, αναμικτήρασ (agitating), αναμικτήρας (carburettor, mixer), αναδευτήρας (agitation auger, mixer, rabble, rotor, stirrer, thimble), αναδευτήρ, ταραξίασ (heckler, hoodlum, rioter, rowdy, ruffler, trouble maker), ταραχοποιόσ (skinhead, trouble maker), διάταξη για το ανακάτεμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | agjitator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסית (firebrand, incendiary, inciter, inflammatory, instigator, seditious, trouble maker), תעמלן (canvasser, propagandist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lázító (factious, incendiary, seditious), agitátor (stirrer, ward heeler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penghasut (demagogue, instigator), pembakar (arsonist, burner, fomenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agitatore (mixer, paddle, rabble, stirrer, thimble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 扇動者 , アジソン病 (Addison's disease, adjust, agitating point, agitation, agitation bill, hideout, secret base of operations). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"どうしゃ (bellwether, vanguard), アジテーター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교반기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seiyeyder (mixer, propeller), seiyder (mixer, pusher, shover, sticker, stirrer, thruster), greeseyder (egger-on, excitant, inciter, instigator, parliamentary whip, poker, provoker, stimulant, stirrer, tickler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agitatoray agitador (beater, disunion, dump cradle, mixer, rabble, stirrer, thimble, tilter, tipper, tumbler). (various references) agitator (stirrer), malaxor (masticator). (various references) агитатор. (various references) agitator (canvasser), smutljivac (troublemaker), mešalica (blender, mixer). (various references) agitador (incendiary, manure agitator, mixer, rabble, stirrer, sump agitator, thimble). (various references) agitator (demagog, demagogue, electioneer), uppviglare (incendiary, instigator), omrörarkärl, omrörare (rabble, stirrer, stirring rod, thimble), flyttbar omrörare. (various references) tahrikçi (fomenter, prompter, provo, provocateur, provocative, provocator, seditious, setter-on), karıştırıcı (blender, mixer), kışkırtıcı (coat-trailing, demagog, demagogue, factionist, factious, fomenter, incendiary, instigating, instigator, irritant, plotter, provocateur, provocative, rabble-rousing, seditious, setter-on, stumper), fesat (corruption, depravity, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, malice, mischief, plot, poisonous, sinister). (various references) мішалка (churn, mixer), агітатор. (various references) người khích động quần chúng (rabble rouser), người gây phiến động máy trộn, máy khuấy. (various references) cythryblwr, cynhyrfwr (disturber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agitator": agitators. (additional references) | |
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"Agitator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aggitator, agitater, Aichatou, Algistat, Gistutor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agitator" (pronounced a"jutā'ter) |
| 5 | -u t ā' t er | facilitator, imitator. |
| 4 | -t ā' t er | commentator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, Moderator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, regulator, renovator, respirator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: agitato. | |
-3 letters: agora, agria, aorta, argot, atria, attar, gator, griot, groat, ottar, ratio, riata, taiga, tarot, tatar, tiara, tragi, trait, trigo. | |
-4 letters: agar, agio, airt, aria, gait, giro, girt, goat, grat, grit, grot, iota, raga, ragi, raia, rato, riot, rota, roti, taro, tart, tiro, toga, toit, tora, tori, tort, trig, trio, trot. | |
-5 letters: aga, ago, air, ait, art, att, gar, gat, git, goa, gor, got, oar, oat, ora, ort, rag, rat, ria, rig, rot, tag, tao, tar, tat, tit, tog, tor, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: agitators. | |
+2 letters: castigator. | |
+3 letters: castigators, gratulation, gravitation. | |
+4 letters: autografting, autorotating, gastrulation, gratulations, gravitations, ingratiation, ingratiatory. | |
+5 letters: antilogarithm, argumentation, extrapolating, fractionating, fragmentation, gastrulations, geostationary, gratification, gravitational, ingratiations, narratologist, ratiocinating, strangulation, teratological, translocating, transmigrator, triangulation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 69 74 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .. - .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g i t a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0069 0074 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)3573758667868184 |
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