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Definition: Conditioner |
ConditionerNoun1. Exercise that conditions the body; "farmwork can be a good conditioner". 2. A trainer of athletes. 3. A substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Industry | In a glass furnace for flat glass, part of the furnace in which the glass finishes its conditioning before passing to the fore-hearth or drawing chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An apparatus in which conditioning takes place. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refrigeration | Air conditioning, central air conditioning; air conditioner; fan, attic fan; dehumidifier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conditioner |
| English words defined with "conditioner": condition ♦ dehumidify ♦ electrical system. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conditioner": Air Conditioner ♦ caser helper, Composting, CONCENTRATOR OPERATOR, Condenser Coil, Condensing Unit, CONDITIONER TENDER, CONDITIONER-TUMBLER OPERATOR, conditioning-room worker, COOLING CAPACITY, TOTAL ♦ FILLER ROOM ATTENDANT ♦ LEAF-CONDITIONER HELPER ♦ Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, steam conditioner, filling, steam-pressure-chamber operator ♦ total cooling effect, tumbler operator ♦ Unitary Air Conditioner ♦ VACUUM-CONDITIONER OPERATOR ♦ yarn conditioner. (references) |
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Screenplays | Olsen activated my lighting conditioner, automatically locking the door (The New Adventures of Superman; writing credit: Joe Shuster; Jerry Siegel) No astronaut would enter the capsule carrying his air conditioner. (You Only Live Twice; writing credit: Roald Dahl) Conditioner is better (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Model house, Orange, New Jersey. View to Carrier air conditioner. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. Brookland dial center air conditioner blowers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Knob on air conditioner 2" by Marcus Buckner Commentary: "Knob on air conditioner." | "Grate" by Eric Schlange Commentary: "An air conditioner grate." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Air conditioner being turned on and motorized fan begins to blow cool air. |
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Business | Round ball presses also experienced a decline in demand, which is expected to continue into 2000. Big baler presses registered an increase in demand in 1999, which should remain stable in 2000. In the hay handling equipment category, sales increased by 26.2% for transported conditioner mowers and 3.5% for towed mowers. (references) | |
Economic History | Hong Kong | These components are used by OEM air conditioner manufacturers as well as by engineering companies that provide maintenance services in China. (references) |
Vietnam | General Electric (GE) Company's Appliance Division and Lighting Division have launched chains of retail outlets in the past year, and industrial equipment manufacturer Parker-Hanafin and air conditioner giant Carrier have opened similar outlets in HCMC. All of this is changing the way the wealthier and more cosmopolitan segment of urban Vietnam shops. (references) | |
Ecuador | Transmission belts, rubber pneumatic tires, replacement gasoline engines, replacement diesel engines, engine blocks and piston heads, piston rods, carburetors, and valves, spark plugs, fuel injection pumps, air conditioner compressors, ball bearings, parts for trailers and semi-trailers and electric lighting equipment are considered best prospect products in this sector. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Conditioner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Conditioner" is used about 200 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) | 85% | 170 | 23,898 |
| Noun (proper) | 15% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 200 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conditioner": air conditioner ♦ hay conditioner ♦ output conditioner ♦ packaged air conditioner ♦ soil conditioner. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "conditioner": air-conditioner, mower-conditioner, pre-conditioner. | |
| 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 "conditioner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | krem shpleksës, krem qetësues. (various references) | |
Arabic | مكيف الهواء (air conditioned, air conditioner). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | климатична инсталация (air conditioner). (various references) | |
Chinese | 调节剂. (various references) | |
Czech | kondicionér, avivážní prostředek. (various references) | |
Danish | homogeniseringszone (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
Dutch | conditioneerzone (conditioning zone), conditioneerkast (humidity cabinet), conditioneerinrichting, klimatiseerinrichting. (various references) | |
Finnish | homogenisoitumisvyöhyke (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
French | conditionneuse, conditionneur (air conditioner, air conditioning unit), zone de braise (conditioning zone), installation de conditionnement, armoire pour essais climatiques, appareil de conditionnement. (various references) | |
German | weichspüler (softener), Klimatisierungsanlage, Klimapruefschrank (humidity cabinet), Klimaanlage (air condition, air conditioner, air conditioning, air-conditioning system), haarkur, Bewetterungsanlage, Abstehzone (conditioning zone), Abstehwanne (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
Greek | ζώνη επιθυμητής ρύθμισης (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזגן אויר (air conditioner). (various references) | |
Hungarian | légnedvesítő (humidor). (various references) | |
Italian | condizionatore (air conditioner, air conditioning unit, humidifier). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リンク装置 (abuse, beating, bullying, linear, linkage, lymph, lynch, ring, ring binder, ring name, ring out, Ringer, ringside, rinse), コンテナ船 (condense, condensed milk, condenser, condition, conditioning, container ship, contemporary, contents, contra, contrabass, contract, contraction, contralto, contrast, control, control amp, control program, control tower, controller, tale). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リンス (rinse), コンディショナー . (various references) | |
Korean | 조절기 (Adjuster, adjustor). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onditionercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | zona de repouso (conditioning zone), zona de condicionamento (conditioning zone), zona de brasa (conditioning zone), bacia de repouso (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
Russian | формирователь (reshaper, shaper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omekšivač (softener). (various references) | |
Spanish | zona de brasa (conditioning zone), zona de acondicionamiento (conditioning zone), acondicionador (air conditioner, air cooler, cooler). (various references) | |
Swedish | temperaturutjämningszon (conditioning zone). (various references) | |
Turkish | klima (air conditioner), havalandırma tesisatı (air conditioner). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кондиціонер. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conditioner": conditioners. (additional references) | |
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"Conditioner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: condicionem, condictioner, conditione. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conditioner" (pronounced kundi"shuner) |
| 5 | -i" sh u n er | Commissioner, parishioner, petitioner, practitioner. |
| 4 | -sh u n er | confectioner, executioner, freshener, pensioner, probationer, stationer, vacationer. |
| 3 | -u n er | bargainer, commoner, coroner, examiner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, gardener, hardener, laminar, listener, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, prisoner, questioner, reasoner, softener, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, Waggoner, Wagoner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: recondition. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: condition, direction, incondite, noncredit, nonerotic, rendition. | |
-3 letters: centroid, coeditor, condoner, connoted, creodont, doctrine, incident, indentor, indicter, indictor, indirect, nicotine, noontide, reindict, retinoid. | |
-4 letters: cinerin, citrine, cointer, coition, condone, coniine, connote, contend, coontie, cordite, coronet, crinite, crinoid, crooned, ctenoid, deontic, dictier, diction, dineric, dinitro, diorite, donnert, edition, ericoid, identic, incited, inciter, inditer, intoned, intoner. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: conditioners, precondition, reconditions. | |
+2 letters: consideration, preconditions, reconditioned. | |
+3 letters: considerations, dechlorination, nondirectional, nondoctrinaire, nonradioactive, preconditioned, reconditioning, reintroduction. | |
+4 letters: codetermination, dechlorinations, endocrinologist, inconsideration, omnidirectional, overdiscounting, preconditioning, reconsideration, reconsolidating, reintroductions. | |
+5 letters: codeterminations, countertradition, endocrinologists, inconsiderations, nondiscretionary, reconsiderations. | |
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