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Definition: Stoker |
StokerNoun1. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912). 2. A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship). 3. A mechanical device for stoking a furnace. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Stoker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Stoker \Stok"er\, noun. [from Dutch expression See Stoke, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A mechanical appliance for feeding coal, coke, or other fuel into a boiler or furnace. In hand stoking, the person who shovels the fuel into the furnace is known as the stoker. See also:underfeed stoker;vibrating grate. (references) |
Occupations | Tends portable or stationary high pressure boilers that supply heat or power for engines, turbines, and steam-powered equipment, such as steam shovels, pile drivers, or cranes, or industrial processes: Shovels fuel, such as coal or coke, into firebox or conveyor hopper, or turns valves and moves controls to regulate flow of fuel, such as gas, oil, or pulverized coal, into firebox. Reads gauges and moves controls to maintain specified steam pressure and water level in boiler. Removes ashes from firebox, using shovel and bucket. May clean and repair boilers. May treat boiler feed water, using specified chemicals. May be required to hold license issued by state or municipality. May be designated according to type of boiler tended as Firer, Automatic Stoker (any industry); Firer, Portable Boiler (any industry); Firer, Stationary Boiler (any industry); or type of equipment supplied with power as Firer, Locomotive Crane (any industry); Firer, Pile Driver (any industry); Firer, Steam Shovel (any industry); or type of installation as Firer, Powerhouse (any industry). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: StokerSynonym: fireman (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stoker |
| English words defined with "Stoker": ablaze, aflame, apt, aroused ♦ clever ♦ Dracula ♦ sidelong ♦ Teazer, turned on ♦ waxen, waxlike, waxy, weird. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Stoker": boiler house operator, BOILER OPERATOR ♦ coal segregation, coking stoker, control-room operator, cooler servicer ♦ firer, boiler, fuel feeder ♦ LEAD-NITRATE PROCESSOR, lead-shop operator ♦ nonsegregating chute ♦ Raymond flash dryer ♦ screenings crushing, steam-power-plant operator, STOKER ERECTOR-AND-SERVICER, stoker-installation mechanic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Stoker": Chauffeur. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Stoker (1935) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Business | The market for large MWIs currently is dominated by Japanese and European companies who generally provide a stoker type of incineration technology, since until recently, this has been the preferred type of incineration technology in use in Korea. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stoker" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.38% of the time. "Stoker" is used about 74 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 (proper) | 78.38% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.62% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Stoker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stoker | Last name | 3,000 | 4,590 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Stoker": Abraham Stoker ♦ Bram Stoker ♦ mechanical stoker. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Stoker": Dow-stoker. | |
| 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 "Stoker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Ushqyes (alimentary, feeder, nourishing), Fokist (fire man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الوقادة آلة للوقد, الوقاد (fireman), شاحن (loader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Огняр. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 火夫. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Topiè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fyrboeder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stoker (gas maker, producer man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متصدی سوخت کوره , تون تاب , سیخ بخاری (Poker), سوخت (Combustion, Fuel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veturilämmittäjä (fireman), lämmittäjä (fireman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Chauffeur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Heizer (boilerman, stokers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Θερμαστήσ, θερμαστής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ־תקן ִסק", ־סיק. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | piszkavas (firing-tools, poker, rabble, rabbler, rake), kazánfűtő, fűtő, bolygatórostély (mechanical stoker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fuochista (fireman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 罐焚き (fireman), 火手 , 火夫 (fireman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かしゅ (good drink, good impression, good taste, good wine, singer, strong drink), かまたき (fireman), かふ (fireman, flower album, genealogy, grant, issue, one's father, pedigree, steward, widow, widower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 급탄차. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stokaleyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okerstay grelha mecânica, fogueiro (fireman), fogo vivo (active fire, going fire), chegador, carregador automático. (various references) Stocher, Fochist (fireman, greaser), Focar Cu Încãrcare Mecanicã. (various references) Кочегар, Истопник. (various references) ložač. (various references) Fogonero (black cod, black pollack, coalfish, pollack, saithe, sillock). (various references) Eldare (coaler, fireman). (various references) Kömür Atma Makinesi, Ateşçi (fireman). (various references) Кочегар, Стокер. (various references) taniwr (fireman, firer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gir-bil. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Stoker": stokers. (additional references) | |
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"Stoker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Otokar, Schoukerk, skoter, Slokar, staker, stoken, stokker, stokkr, Stoleru, stonker, stoper, stower, stpke, stroker, stuka, Tokar, Toker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Stoker" (pronounced stō"ker) |
| 3 | -ō" k er | broker, croaker, joker, mediocre, nonsmoker, ochre, poker, smoker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stroke, tokers, trokes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: roset, rotes, stoke, store, stork, toker, tokes, tores, torse, torsk, treks, troke. | |
-2 letters: eros, erst, keto, kore, kors, okes, ores, orts, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, soke, sore, sort, toes, toke, tore, tors, trek. | |
-3 letters: ers, kor, kos, oes, oke, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sot, toe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: restock, restoke, rockets, stocker, stokers, stooker, stroked, stroker, strokes. | |
+2 letters: bookrest, brockets, corkiest, crockets, dorkiest, forkiest, instroke, jokester, keratose, knotters, kotowers, kurtoses, networks, overtask, porkiest, reitboks, restocks, restoked, restokes, rockiest, rookiest, seatwork, skywrote, sprocket, stockers, stockier, stookers, strokers, upstroke. | |
+3 letters: bookrests, bookstore, breakouts, brookites, brooklets, croakiest, freakouts, fretworks, instrokes, jokesters, kenotrons, keratomas, keratoses, keratosis, keynoters, keystroke, kowtowers, kryolites, lakeports, lorikeets, nonskater, outbreaks, overskirt, overstock, overtakes, overtalks, overtasks, parrokets, pocketers, pokeroots, restocked, restoking, rocketers, seatworks, shortcake, skyrocket, snakeroot, sprockets, steelwork, stonework, strikeout, sunstroke, takeovers, teamworks, timeworks, tubeworks, turkoises, upstrokes, workmates, worksheet. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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