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Definition: TROMMEL |
TROMMELNoun1. A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores. |
Etymology: Trommel \Trom"mel\, noun. [Compare to German trommel drum.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | Screening. . . of the gravel and sand is carried out. . . by means of cylindrical rotating screens. A r. s. is a sieve fitted with a riddle. A conveyor feeds the sand into the riddle from which a rotary motion removes it by gravity. The screenings are collected separately. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A revolving cylindrical screen used in size classification of coarsely crushed ore, coal, gravel, and crushed stone. The material to be screened is delivered inside the trommel at one end. The fine material drops through the holes; the coarse material is delivered at the other end. Also called, according to its various uses, sizing trommel, washing drum, and washing trommel. Also spelled tromel. See also:revolving screen; rotary breaker; rotary screen; shaking screen. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TROMMEL |
| Specialty definitions using "TROMMEL": blade mill ♦ classifier dredge, clay cutter ♦ Maxton screen ♦ TROMMEL TENDER ♦ washing screen. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TROMMEL": Drum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TROMMEL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (drum), Dutch (can, drum, tin, tin can), French (trommel), German (barrel, drum, revolving breech). |
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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 |
trommel | 33 |
trommel screen | 27 |
mini trommel | 3 |
gold trommel | 2 |
used screen trommel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TROMMEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | daulle (drum, kettle drum, tambour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غربال للحجارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | триор, вибриращо решето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滚'筛. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tromlesigte (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum), polygonsigte (rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trommelzeel (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum), trommelzeef (revolving drum, rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen, tromel screen), trommel (can, drum, tin, tin can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seularumpu (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum), rumpuseula (rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trommel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trommelsieb (rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen), Siebbehälter (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιστρεφόμενο κόσκινο (revolving drum, rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen, tromel screen), περιστροφικό κόσκινο (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szitadob. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vaglio a tamburo (revolving drum, rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen, tromel screen), setaccio a tamburo (rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 回転篩 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいて"ぶるい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommeltray peneiro rotativo (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum), bumbum (ass, breech, butt, crash, roll). (various references) барабан (barrel, cylinder, drum, reel, revolver). (various references) rešeto za prečišćavanje ruda. (various references) tromel (riddle drum, rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen, separatory drum), tambor tamizador (rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen), criba giratoria (riddle drum, rotary screen, separatory drum). (various references) trumsikt (riddle drum, rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen, separatory drum). (various references) thùng s ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TROMMEL": trommels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-m-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: merlot, molter. | |
-2 letters: metro, morel, motel. | |
-3 letters: lore, melt, memo, merl, mole, molt, mome, more, mort, mote, omer, orle, role, rote, rotl, term, tole, tome, tore. | |
-4 letters: elm, let, lot, mel, mem, met, mol, mom, mor, mot, ole, ore, ort, rem, ret, roe, rom, rot, tel, toe, tom, tor. | |
-5 letters: el, em, er, et, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: trommels. | |
+2 letters: maelstrom. | |
+3 letters: dermatomal, immortelle, maelstroms. | |
+4 letters: embroilment, immortalise, immortalize, immortelles, implementor, memorialist, momentarily, recommittal. | |
+5 letters: embroilments, immoderately, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, implementors, melodramatic, memorability, memorialists, metronomical, microclimate, microelement, multiproblem, recommittals, reemployment, telecommuter. | |
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