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Definition: Crater |
CraterNoun1. A bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano. 2. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus. 3. A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crater" was first used: 1613. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. = lunar crater.2. The depression resulting from high speed solid particle impacts on a rigid material as a meteoroid impact on the skin of a spacecraft. (references) |
| See constellation.Abbreviation Crt, Crat. (references) | |
Building & Civil Engineering | Cavity or hollow formed on the bottom of wells in which water collects. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | A surface defect in a plastic material or protective coating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A cavity which, in a direct current arc lamp, is produced at the end of the positive carbon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Is the vent through which cinders, ash, lava and other ejecta are erupted to form cones. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Bowl-shaped cavity at the summit, or on the side of a volcano. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | The circular depression containing a volcanic vent. (Teacher's Packet)* A steep-sided, usually circular depression formed by either explosion or collapse at a volcanic vent. (references) |
| The depression produced by a meteorite impact or at the summit of a volcano. (references) | |
Mining | In blasting, the funnel of rupture, which in bad rock may have very steep sides and a relatively small volume of broken rock. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A typically bowl-shaped or saucer-shaped pit or depression, generally of considerable size and with steep inner slopes, formed on a surface or in the ground by the explosive release of chemical or kinetic energy; e.g., an impact crater or an explosion crater b. A basinlike, rimmed structure that is usually at the summit of a volcanic cone. It may be formed by collapse, by an explosive eruption, or by the gradual accumulation of pyroclastic material into a surrounding rim. CF:caldera c. The formation of a large funnel-shaped cavity at the top of a well, resulting from a blowout or occasionally from caving d. In blasting, the funnel of rupture, which in bad rock may have very steep sides and a relatively small volume of broken rock.Syn:lunar crater e.g., an impact crater or an explosion crater. (references) | |
Occupations | Fabricates wooden crates or boxes, using woodworking handtools and powered tools, and packs such items as machinery, vehicles, or other large or odd-shaped products: Reads blueprints, shipping notices, and other specifications, and inspects product to determine size and shape of container, materials to be used, and types of supports and braces to be used. Lays out dimensions on materials with ruler, measuring tape, and pencil. Saws materials to size, using handsaws and powered saws. Assembles materials, using nailing or stapling machine, screws, bolts, glue, and handtools. Places product in container, manually or using hoist. Bolts heavy pieces to bottom of container or skid. Wraps and pads product with excelsior, paper or other packing material. Builds crate around large or odd-shaped articles. Nails cover on crate. Wraps and tightens metal bands around crate, using banding equipment. Attaches identification labels or stencils containing such information as shipping destination, weight, and type of product contained on crate. Repairs broken crates. May cover military tanks and other equipment with neoprene or other protective covering to protect them during shipment. May count items to be packed to ensure compliance with shipping orders. May weigh loaded crate. May move container to shipping area, and move lumber, paper, and other wrapping supplies to crating area, using hand or industrial truck. May sharpen saw blades, using file. May be designated according to item crated as Machinery Crater (machinery mfg.); Refrigerator Crater (svc. ind. mach.), or specific duty performed as Crate Repairer (any industry). (references) |
Public Administration | The cone-shaped cavity due to an eruption of a volcano; Usually the mouth of a volcano; Bowl-shaped cavity especially that made by a bomb or shell. Source: European Union. (references) |
Space | (impact crater). A generally round depression created by the impact of a large compact mass on a planet or moon. Impact craters mark the Moon, also Mercury and Mars, and many satellites in the solar system. Notable ones on Earth include Meteor Crater in Arizona and Manicougan lake in Canada. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See Crater for an article on the constellation of this name
A crater (basin or impact crater) is a circular depression on the surface of a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body. Craters are typically caused by meteorite impacts, although some are caused by volcanic activity (see volcano for more on these). In the center of craters on Earth a crater lake often accumulates, and in craters formed by meteorites a central island (caused by rebounding crustal rock after the impact) is usually a prominent feature in the lake.
Ancient craters whose relief has disappeared leaving only a "ghost" of a crater are known as palimpsests. Although it might be assumed that a major impact on the Earth would leave behind absolutely unmistakeable evidence, in fact the gradual processes that change the surface of the Earth tend to cover the effects of impacts. Erosion by wind and water, deposits of wind-blown sand and water-carried sediment, and lava flows in due time tend to obscure or bury the craters left by impacts. Simple slumping of weak crustal material can also play a role, especially on outer solar system bodies such as Callisto which are covered in a crust of ice.
However, some evidence remains, and over 150 major craters have been identified on the Earth. Studies of these craters have allowed geologists to find the remaining traces of other craters that have mostly been obliterated.
History
Daniel Barringer was one of the first to identify a geological structure as an impact crater, but at the time his ideas were not widely accepted, and when they were, there was no recognition of the fact that Earth impacts are common in geological terms.
In the 1920s, the American geologist Walter H. Bucher studied a number of craters in the US. He concluded they had been created by some great explosive event, but believed they were the result of some massive volcanic eruption. However, in 1936, the geologists John D. Boon and Claude C. Albritton Jr revisited Bucher's studies and concluded the craters he studied were probably formed by impacts.
The issue remained more or less speculative until the 1960s. A number of researchers, most notably Gene Shoemaker, conducted detailed studies of the craters that provided clear evidence that they had been created by impacts, identifying the shock-metamorphic effects uniquely associated with impacts.
Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Canada, and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tuebingen in West Germany began a methodical search for "impact structures". By 1970, they had tentatively identified more than 50.
Their work remained controversial, but the American Apollo Moon landings, which were in progress at the time, provided evidence of the rate of impact cratering on the Moon. Processes of erosion on the Moon are minimal and so craters persist almost indefinitely. Since the Earth could be expected to have roughly the same cratering rate as the Moon, it became clear that the Earth had suffered far more impacts than could be seen by counting evident craters.
The age of known impact craters on the Earth ranges from a few thousand to almost two billion years, though few older than 200 million years have been found as geological processes tend to obliterate older ones. They are also selectively found in the stable interior regions of continents. Few underwater craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor; the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom; and the "subduction" of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of continental drift.
Current estimates of the rate of cratering on the Earth suggest that from one to three craters with a width greater than 20 kilometers are created every million years. This indicates that there are far more relatively young craters on the planet than have been discovered so far.
Formation and structure
An asteroid falls onto the Earth at a speed of about 40,000 to 60,000 km/h. If the object weighs more than 1,000 tonnes, the atmosphere does not do much to slow it down, though smaller bodies can be substantially slowed by atmospheric drag, as they have a higher ratio of surface area to mass. In any case, the temperatures and pressures on the object are extremely high. They can destroy chondritic or carbonaceous chondritic bodies before they ever reach ground, but iron-metallic asteroids have more structural integrity and can strike the surface of the Earth in a violent explosion.
The result is a crater. There are two forms, "simple" and "complex". The Barringer crater in Arizona is a perfect example of a simple crater, a straightforward bowl in the ground. Simple craters are generally less than four kilometers across.
Complex craters are larger, and have uplifted centers that are surrounded by a trough, plus broken rims. The uplifted center is due to the "rebound" of the earth after the impact. It is something like the ripple pattern created by a drop of water into a pool, frozen into the Earth when the melted rock cooled and solidified.
In either case, the size of the crater depends on the material in the impact regions. Relatively soft materials yield smaller craters than brittle materials. Erosion and other geological activities quickly hide impact craters on the Earth. The Barringer Crater is in superlative shape, but it is only about 50,000 years old.
Some volcanic features can resemble impact craters, and brecciated rocks are associated with other geological formations besides impact craters. The distinctive mark of an impact crater is the presence of rock that has undergone shock-metamorphic effects, such as shatter cones, melted rocks, and crystal deformations. The problem is that these materials tend to be deeply buried, at least for simple craters. They tend to be revealed in the uplifted center of a complex crater, however.
Impacts produce distinctive "shock-metamorphic" effects that allow impact sites to be distinctively identified. Such shock-metamorphic effects can include:
- A layer of shattered or "brecciated" rock under the floor of the crater. This layer is called a "breccia lens".
- Shatter cones, which are chevron-shaped impressions in rocks. Such cones are formed most easily in fine-grained rocks.
- High-temperature rock types, including laminated and welded blocks of sand, and "tektites", or glassy spatters of molten rock. While rocks melted by the impact do resemble volcanic rocks, they incorporate unmelted fragments of bedrock, form unusually large and unbroken fields, and have a much more mixed chemical composition than volcanic materials spewed up from within the Earth. They also may have relatively large amounts of trace elements that are associated with meteorites, such as nickel, platinum, iridium, and cobalt.
- Microscopic pressure deformations of minerals. These include fracture patterns in crystals of quartz and feldspar, and formation of high-pressure materials such as diamond, derived from graphite or other carbon compounds, or "shistovite", derived from quartz.
List of Craters
See:
- List of Lunar craters
- List of craters on Mars
- List of craters on Europa
- List of craters on Mercury
Earth
- Barringer Crater (US)
- Chicxulub Crater (Mexico)
- Rio Cuarto craters (Argentina)
- Nördlinger Ries (Germany)
Notable extraterrestrial craters
- Caloris Basin (Mercury)
- Mare Orientale (Moon)
- South Pole-Aitken basin (Moon)
- Petrach Crater (Mercury)
- Hellas Basin (Mars)
External links
- Possible impact craters
- Photographs of terrestrial impact craters.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crater."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Crater (the cup) is one of the 88 modern constellations and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy. It is said to represent the goblet of Apollo. It has no star brighter than fourth magnitude.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crater (constellation)."
Synonym: CraterSynonym: volcanic crater (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell; (receptacle); socket. |
Depth | Hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crater |
| English words defined with "crater": Aristarchus ♦ caldera, collector, Copernicus, Crater Lake National Park, Craterous ♦ dead ♦ Globe of compression ♦ lunar crater ♦ maar ♦ Quaquaversal ♦ Undercharged mine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crater": bocc, breached cone ♦ Crat, crater cuts, crater theory, craterlets, Crt, Crat ♦ elastic zone ♦ Hawaiian eruption ♦ lava-lake ♦ Pelean eruption, potential crater zone ♦ radius of rupture, ringwall, rupture zone ♦ sensitive receptor indicator, Strombolian eruption ♦ vertical crater retreat ♦ walled plain. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crater" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (basin, bowl, chasm, grail, gulf, precipice, ravine, reservoir), Romanian (chimney, crater), Spanish (caldera). |
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Screenplays | But I want a crater! I want wreckage, twisted metal (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Frank Waldman) There shall be no crater. (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Frank Waldman) What do you suppose they will call the crater, huh (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Frank Waldman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hell's Crater (1918) The Crater Lake Monster (1977) | |
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 | Crater lesion of leishmaniasis, skin. Credit: CDC. |  | Formed by crater of extinct volcano. Credit: CDC. |
 | Crater Tsiolkovsky. Credit: NASA. |  | Conrad and Surveyor on the Slope of a Crater. Credit: NASA. |
 | Astronomers have used the Hubble Space telescope to discover a giant impact crater on the ... Credit: NASA. |  | Newly-discovered impact crater on Europa. Credit: NASA. |
 | Pwyll Crater on Europa. Credit: NASA. |  | The so-called Richat Structure is a geological formation in the Maur Adrar Desert in the African country of Mauritania. Although it resembles an impact crater, the Richat Structure formed when a volcanic dome hardened and gradually eroded, exposing the onion-like layers of rock. Credit: NASA. |
 | Beginning a spur line into Mokuaweoweo Crater Leveling in support of gravity operations on Mauna Loa Party of Lansing Simmons. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Looking into the crater of Mt. Erebus The view from a helicopter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Volcano crater" by Janina Riske Commentary: "Its a detail of a volcano crater in new zealand." | "Green lake" by Gavin Whitmore Commentary: "Quilatoa crater lake, Ecuador." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Whereas the anatomic location of the ulcer crater often is cited as a prognostic factor, the panel members do not agree that site is clearly predictive. (references) | |
In addition, the finding of a pigmented protuberance ("visible vessel" or "sentinel clot") in the ulcer crater is an indication for endoscopic hemostatic therapy. (references) | ||
People who have cutaneous leishmaniasis have one or more sores on their skin. The sores can change in size and appearance over time. They often end up looking somewhat like a volcano, with a raised edge and central crater. (references) | ||
Economic History | Tanzania | Other tourist attractions include the deepest lake in Africa with its assortment of marine life (Lake Tanganyika), the continent's largest lake (Lake Victoria), the world famous Ngorongoro Crater and probably the largest breeding ground for Flamingos (Lake Natron). (references) |
Tanzania | Tanzania enjoys an abundance of natural wealth; arable land; excellent tourist attractions (Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti, Kilimanjaro and the spice Islands of Zanzibar); a sizeable domestic market and sub-regional market; a wide local raw material supply base; inexpensive labor; political stability and a suitable market policy orientation. (references) | |
Tanzania | A number of well-known internationally acclaimed hotels (including Holiday Inn), are under construction and are expected to be completed and operational during FY 2001. While most of Tanzania's tourism sector investment remains in the northern part of the country in what is known as the Northern Safari Circuit (Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti Plains, Lake Manyara), a number of governmental initiatives are trying to open up the Southern Circuit (Selous Game Reserve, Mikumi and Ruaha National Parks) to both small and large scale investors. (references) | |
Human Rights | Algeria | Police officers beat many of the detainees and threw them into the crater made by the terrorist bomb. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | In the event of a full-scale eruption, geological experts conclude that the city of Quito is protected from possible lava flows, avalanches, and lateral explosions by the bulk of Pichincha Mountain, which stands between the city and the volcano crater. (references) |
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| "Crater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.58% of the time. "Crater" is used about 283 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) | 92.58% | 262 | 18,239 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.42% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 283 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crater" 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 |
| Crater | Last name | 300 | 25,716 |
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Expressions using "crater": bomb crater ♦ crater Lake National Park ♦ lunar crater ♦ vertical crater retreat ♦ volcanic crater. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crater": crater-free, crater-like, crater-production, crater-saturated, crater-strewn. | |
Ending with "crater": bomb-crater, shell-crater, shell-pit-crater, thought-crater. | |
| 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 "crater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | krater, gufër, gropë predhe. (various references) | |
Arabic | فوهة البركان, كأس الباطية, حفرة اللغم, الباطية وعاء لمزج الخمر (jug). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яма (excavation, hole, pit), кратер (neck). (various references) | |
Chinese | 火山口. (various references) | |
Czech | trychtýř (funnel), kráter. (various references) | |
Danish | offene Blase, krater (dimple). (various references) | |
Dutch | trechter (funnel), springkrater, krater (coring, piping defect). (various references) | |
Farsi | دهانه یاحفره حاصله دراثربمب وغیره , دهانه کوه های ماه , دهانه اتش فشان . (various references) | |
Finnish | kraatteri. (various references) | |
French | cratere, cratère. (various references) | |
German | trichter (bell, cone, filler, funnel, funnels, hopper, sinkhole), krater (caldera, calderas, sinkhole). (various references) | |
Greek | κρατήρας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכתש (cavity, hollow, mortar), לוע הר הגעש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kráter. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kawah (caldron, cauldron, causal). (various references) | |
Italian | cratere (pit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 噴火口. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふんかこう, かこう (aged 61, chemical engineering, delicacy, descending, descent, downward, drop, estuary, fall, firelight, flower stalk, fragrance of flowers, good-eating fish, manufacturing, manuscript of poem, mouth of river, peduncle, processing, rare treat, river port, subsidence, to enclose, treatment), クレーター . (various references) | |
Korean | 대화구. (various references) | |
Manx | towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), beeal (approach, cone, flue, mouth, muzzle, orifice, outlet, passage, rictus, rim). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atercray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cratera (notch). (various references) | |
Romanian | crater (chimney), pâlnie (cone, funnel, tun dish). (various references) | |
Russian | кратер (hollow), воронка;кратер, воронка от снаряда (shell crater, shell-hole, shell-pit-crater). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krater. (various references) | |
Spanish | cráter. (various references) | |
Swedish | krater. (various references) | |
Turkish | krater (chimney), bombanın açtığı çukur. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кратер (chimney), воронка, жерло. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | krater. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ti wraiwqhsan diabhmata sou en upodhmasin qugater nadab ruqmoi mhrwn sou omoioi ormiskoiV ergw ceirwn tecnitou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis numquam indigens poculis venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thi nauele a turned cuppe, neuere nedende drinkes; thi wombe as an hep of whete, set aboute with lilies. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine. |
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| Language | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ang imong lawas sama sa usa ka malingin nga copa, Diin wala makulang ang vino nga sinaktan: Ang imong hawak sama sa usa ka pundok nga trigo. Nga binaliksan ug mga lirio |
| Chinese | 你 的 肚 臍 如 圓 杯 不 缺 調 和 的 酒 ． 你 的 腰 如 一 堆 麥 子 、 周 圍 有 百 合 花 。 |
| Croatian | Kako su krasni koraci tvoji u sandalama, kæeri kneževska! Pregibi su bokova tvojih kao grivne stvorene rukom umjetnika. |
| Danish | dit Skød som det runde Bæger, ej savne det Vin, dit Liv som en Hvededynge, hegnet af Liljer; |
| Dutch | Uw navel is als een ronde beker, dien geen drank ontbreekt; uw buik is als een hoop tarwe, rondom bezet met lelien. |
| German | Dein Schoß ist wie ein runder Becher, dem nimmer Getränk mangelt. Dein Leib ist wie ein Weizenhaufen, umsteckt mit Rosen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pusarmu seperti cawan bulat yang tak pernah kekurangan anggur campur. Perutmu bagaikan timbunan gandum, dikelilingi bunga-bunga bakung. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pinggangmu bagaikan piala bulat, jangan kurang minuman dalamnya. Ribaanmu seperti suatu timbunan gandum yang berpagarkan bunga bakung. |
| Italian | «Come son belli i tuoi piedi nei sandali, figlia di principe! Le curve dei tuoi fianchi sono come monili, opera di mani d'artista. |
| Maori | Ko tou pito, koia ano kei te oko porotaka, kihai i hapa i te waina whakaranu; ko tou kopu, ano he puranga witi kua oti te karapoti ki nga rengarenga. |
| Norwegian | Ditt liv er som et rundt beger; gid det aldri må være uten vin! Din midje er som en hvetedynge, omhegnet av liljer. |
| Portuguese | O teu umbigo como uma taça redonda, a que não falta bebida; o teu ventre como montão de trigo, cercado de lírios. |
| Rumanian | Pkntecele tqu este un pahar rotund, de unde nu lipsewte vinul mirositor; trupul tqu este un snop de grku, kncins cu crini. |
| Swedish | Ditt sköte är en rundad skål, må vinet aldrig fattas däri. Din midja är en vetehög, omhägnad av liljor. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crater": cratered, cratering, craterlet, craterlets, craterlike, craters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crater": desecrater, intercrater. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crater": desecraters. (additional references) | |
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"Crater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: careter, cartera, cartier, Cartieri, craite, cramer, craper, Craster, craten, cratera, crateral, crator, crazer, creater, Creber, creta, Creter, cripter, crite, criter, critera, critier, Croetzer, crote, crta, curater, erater, Keraterm, krate, krater, Kratzer, Kratzert, Krauter, scratter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crater" (pronounced krā"ter) |
| 4 | -r ā" t er | curator, Frater, freighter, grater, greater, Prater, rater, straighter, traitor. |
| 3 | -ā" t er | cater, creator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, gaiter, gator, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, skater, Slater, stater, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carter, tracer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, racer, rater, react, recta, tarre, terra, trace. | |
-2 letters: acre, care, carr, cart, cate, race, rare, rate, rear, tace, tare, tear. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, err, eta, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar, tea. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: carters, caterer, charter, cirrate, craters, creator, erratic, reactor, rechart, recrate, refract, retrace, retrack, retract, terrace, tracers, tracery, tracker. | |
+2 letters: arcature, capturer, carburet, catbrier, caterers, cavorter, charters, craftier, cratered, creators, creature, cremator, criteria, erratics, fracture, reactors, recanter, recarpet, recharts, recrated, recrates, recreant, recreate, redactor, refracts, retraced, retraces, retracks, retracts, retroact, terraced, terraces, tetrarch, trackers, traducer. | |
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