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Definition: Carburetor |
CarburetorNoun1. Mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CarburetorSynonym: carburettor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carburetor |
| English words defined with "carburetor": air horn, automatic choke ♦ butterfly valve ♦ choke ♦ fuel injection, fuel injection system ♦ Gas generator ♦ inlet manifold ♦ vapor lock, vapour lock, Venturi. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carburetor": AUTOMOBILE-SERVICE-STATION MECHANIC ♦ CARBURETOR MECHANIC, carburetor repairer ♦ DIE-CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR I, DIE-CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR II, DIE-CASTING-MACHINE SETTER, DYNAMOMETER TESTER, ENGINE ♦ ENGINE REPAIRER, PRODUCTION, engine tester ♦ FINAL INSPECTOR, MOTORCYLES ♦ gravity feed ♦ MOTORCYCLE ASSEMBLER, motorcycle mechanic, MOTORCYCLE REPAIRER, MOTORCYCLE TESTER ♦ OUTBOARD-MOTOR MECHANIC, OUTBOARD-MOTOR TESTER ♦ SMALL-ENGINE MECHANIC ♦ TARGET AIRCRAFT TECHNICIAN, TRANSMISSION MECHANIC, TUNE-UP MECHANIC ♦ VEHICLE-FUEL-SYSTEMS CONVERTER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Rolls-Royce Phantom two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg downdraft carburetor, can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 12.5 seconds. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles) | |
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Expressions using "carburetor": carburetor gasket ♦ float carburetor ♦ spray carburetor ♦ surface carburetor. Additional references. | |
| 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 "carburetor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المكربن أداة لمزج الهواء, الهواء المكربن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | карбуратор (carburetter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 汽化器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | karburátor (carburetter, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karburator (carburator, carburettor, vaporizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carburator (carburator, carburettor), verstuiver (air blow-out, atomiser, atomizer, burner, carburator, carburettor, distributor, injector, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, spray nozzle, sprayer, vaporiser, vaporizer, vaporizing burner), vergasser (carburator, carburettor, vaporizing plate, vapourising plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کابوراتور(carburettor=). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carburateur (carburator, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vergaser (carburator, carbureter, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρμπιρατέρ (carburator, carburettor), διάταξη καύσης (carburator, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | porlasztó (atomizer, carburetter, carburettor, diffuser, nose, pulverizer, sprayer, vaporizer), karburátor (carburetter, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengabut (atomizer, sprayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carburatore (carburator, carburetter, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キャ"ネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キャブレター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arburetorcay carburador (carburator, carburettor). (various references) карбюратор (carburetter, carburettor). (various references) karburator (carburetter). (various references) carburador (carburator, carburettor). (various references) karburator (carburetter, carburettor), förgasare (carburetter, carburettor). (various references) karbüratör (carburetter, carburettor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "carburetor": carburetors. (additional references) | |
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"Carburetor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carbueretor, carburator, carbureator, carburettored, carburteor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carburetor" (pronounced kÄ"rberā'ter) |
| 5 | -b er ā' t er | collaborator. |
| 4 | -er ā' t er | accelerator, cogenerator, decorator, evaporator, generator, incinerator, Moderator, operator, refrigerator, respirator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, regulator, renovator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-o-r-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: barretor, carburet, tabourer, turbocar. | |
-3 letters: aborter, bracero, courter, creator, curator, outrace, reactor, taborer. | |
-4 letters: acuter, arbour, arbute, barret, barter, boater, borate, bracer, burrer, carrot, carter, coater, coteau, couter, crater, curare, curate, curber, curter, rebato, rector, roarer, router, rubace, rubato, tabour, terror, tourer, tracer, trocar, turaco. | |
-5 letters: abort, about, acerb, actor, acute, arbor, barer, barre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-o-r-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: carburetors, carburettor. | |
+2 letters: carburettors, turbocharger. | |
+3 letters: arboriculture, turbochargers. | |
+4 letters: arboricultures, uncorroborated. | |
| 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)43 61 72 62 75 72 65 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -... ..- .-. . - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100010 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r b u r e t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0062 0075 0072 0065 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678468878471868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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