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Definitions: ERECTOR |
ERECTORNoun1. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted. 2. A muscle which raises any part. 3. One who, or that which, erects. |
Date "ERECTOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military & Defense | A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Erects and tests machinery and heavy equipment, such as hydraulic turbines, turbine wheels, jaw stone crushers, industrial surface condensers, flaking machines, valves, and mine hoists, according to blueprints and specifications, using handtools, heating equipment, and measuring instruments: Positions steel beams to support bedplates of machines and equipment. Levels bedplate and establishes centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit. Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR (any industry) 921.663-010 to lower basic assembly unit, such as shaft, shaft casing, frame, or housing unit, to bedplate and aligns unit to centerline. Lays out mounting holes, using measuring instruments and drills holes with power drill. Bolts parts, such as side and deck plates, jaw plates, and journals, to basic assembly unit. Attaches moving parts and subassemblies, such as shafts, rollers, flywheels, runners (water wheels), valves, gates, bearings, and bearing supports, to basic assembly unit, using handtools and power tools. Shrink-fits bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items, using portable gas heating equipment. Inserts shims, adjusts tension on nuts and bolts, or positions parts, using handtools and measuring instruments to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts. Connects power unit to machines, or steam piping to equipment, and tests unit to evaluate its mechanical operation. Replaces defective parts of machine or adjusts clearances and alignment of moving parts. Dismantles machinery and equipment for shipment to installation site. (references) |
| Inspects internal combustion engines after test for conformance to blueprints and specifications, using measuring instruments and handtools: Reviews performance test report and compares log data, such as temperature, lubrication compression, horsepower, fuel consumption, and manifold pressure with specifications. Signs inspection tag to release engines from test floor or analyzes data to locate assemblies and parts not functioning according to specifications. Measures dimensions of disassembled parts and assemblies, such as pistons, cylinder liners, valves, bearings, shafts, governors, injectors, or carburetors, and clearances between moving and stationary parts, using scale, micrometers, special tools, and gauging setups. Compares measurements with specifications to locate faulty parts. Records findings and notifies supervisor of results of inspection. May inspect incoming materials for conformance with specifications. May disassemble engines during inspection process. May supervise crating and shipping of engines to consignees. May be designated according to type of engine inspected as Diesel-Engine Inspector (engine-turbine); Gasoline-Engine Inspector (engine-turbine). (references) | |
| Assembles metal products, such as vacuum cleaners, valves, or hydraulic cylinders, partially or completely, working at bench or on shop floor: Positions parts according to knowledge of unit being assembled or following blueprints. Fastens parts together with bolts, screws, speed clips, rivets, or other fasteners, using handtools and portable powered tools. May remove small quantities of metal with hand files and scrapers to produce close fit between parts. May operate drill presses, punch presses, or riveting machines to assist in assembly operation. May disassemble power brake boosters, air-brake compressors, and valves for salvage of parts and be designated Disassembler, Product (machine shop). May assemble and test patient lifting devices and be designated Assembler, Patient Lifting Device (protective dev.). Usually specializes in assembly of one type of product. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ERECTOR |
| English words defined with "ERECTOR": Erecter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ERECTOR": awning erector ♦ crane rigger ♦ DIESEL-ENGINE ERECTOR ♦ erector appentice, erector operator ♦ hook tender ♦ MACHINERY ERECTOR, marine erector ♦ PLAYGROUND-EQUIPMENT ERECTOR, PUMP ERECTOR ♦ reinforcing-steel erector ♦ SIGN ERECTOR I, SIGN ERECTOR II, steel erector ♦ tank builder, TANK BUILDER AND ERECTOR, TANK ERECTOR, TANK SETTER ♦ yard rigger. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ERECTOR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (erector). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ERECTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ERECTOR" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ERECTOR": transporter-erector. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
erector set | 164 | metal building erector | 4 |
erector | 57 | erector toy | 4 |
case erector | 13 | meccano erector | 3 |
erector spinae | 11 | brio erector | 3 |
gilbert erector set | 9 | case erector tape | 3 |
steel erector | 7 | erector transporter | 3 |
meccano erector set | 6 | erector optical | 2 |
erector set toy | 6 | brio erector set | 2 |
tray erector | 6 | erector mecanno | 2 |
erector part set | 5 | erector muscle spinae | 2 |
antique erector set | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ERECTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | elektricist, themelues (father, founder, patriarch, promoter), ndërtues (builder, constructor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عضلة منعظة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | строител (builder, constructor, master builder), монтьор, повдигащ мускул (levator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzpřimovaè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | erector, montør (assembler, fitter), lavette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | erector, oprichtinstallatie, monteur (adjuster, assembler, engine fitter, erecting machinist, fitter), installatie om de tunnelringsegmenten op hun plaats te brengen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuljetus-ja pystytysajoneuvo, asentaja (electrician, fitter, mechanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | érecteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erbauer (architect, builder, constructor, constructors). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηχάνημα για την κατασκευή σηράγγων, μονταδόρος (engine fitter, erecting machinist, fitter), εφαρμοστής (engine fitter, erecting machinist, fitter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | emelõ (hoist, lifter, lifting), merevítõ izom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erettore, sostenitore-sollevatore, muscolo erettore, montatore (adjuster, assembler, assembly operator, assemblyman, fitter, fixer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | となりの芝"は'い (also called, certainly, construction worker, last, of course, rather, scaffold erector, the grass is always greener on the other side, to be sure, totteringly, trudgingly, where ... is concerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とび (construction worker, scaffold erector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 창설자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erectoray eretor, zorra especial para foquetões, montagem (assemblage, assembly, building, building up, composition, dubbing, erection, furniture, installation, installation fee, lasting, making-up, montenegrin, mount, mounting, page-setting, setting, setting up, setting-up, set-up, to mount, to set), músculo erector, instalador. (various references) эректор, сборщик (collector, picker), основатель (constitutor, founder, founding father, founding fathers). (various references) podizač (heaver, lifter, tappet). (various references) erector. (various references) montör (fitter). (various references) ผู้สร้าง (architect), กล้ามเนื้อที่ยกส่วนต่างๆ ของร่างกาย. (various references) organı kaldıran kas, kurucu (builder, constituent, constitutive, creator, father, floater, founder, foundress, framer, incorporator, promoter), dik tutan şey (stiffening). (various references) засновник (founder, progenitor, promoter), еректор, будівельник (constructor, house builder). (various references) người l m đứng thẳng, người dựng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ERECTOR": erectors. (additional references) | |
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"ERECTOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cereclor, drector, efector, Egertro, Elremco, erator, Erteco, recetor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ERECTOR" (pronounced ire"kter) |
| 5 | -r e" k t er | rector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | collector, connecter, connector, defector, detector, director, Hector, injector, inspector, lector, nectar, objector, projector, protector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: rector, retore. | |
-2 letters: corer, crore, erect, recto, retro, terce. | |
-3 letters: cere, cero, cete, core, cote, rete, rote, torc, tore, torr, tree. | |
-4 letters: cee, cor, cot, ere, err, orc, ore, ort, rec, ree, ret, roc, roe, rot, tee, toe, tor. | |
-5 letters: er, et, oe, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: erectors, receptor, rejector, rocketer, secretor, torchere. | |
+2 letters: converter, corrected, correcter, correlate, coverture, crocheter, decretory, excerptor, excretory, execrator, overreact, precentor, preceptor, procreate, receptors, reconvert, recounter, rectorate, rectories, refectory, reflector, rejectors, rencontre, retoucher, retrocede, rocketeer, rocketers, secretors, secretory, torcheres. | |
+3 letters: celebrator, centromere, charioteer, clerestory, cointerred, converters, cordierite, correctest, corrective, correlated, correlates, corsetiere, corsetries, couturiere, covertures, crocheters, crosstrees, desecrator, ergometric, escritoire, excerptors, execrators, forecaster, micrometer, overdirect, overreacts, persecutor, precentors, preceptors, preceptory, preconcert, procreated, procreates, reconverts, recounters, recreation, rectorates, redecorate, reflectors, rencontres, rencounter, retouchers, retroacted, retroceded, retrocedes, retrospect, rocketeers, rocketries, threescore. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 52 45 43 54 4F 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. . -.-. - --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010010 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E R E C T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0052 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052 |
| 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)39523937544952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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