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Definition: Defroster |
DefrosterNoun1. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DefrosterSynonym: deicer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Defroster |
| Specialty definitions using "defroster": FOAM DISPENSER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Defroster" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (de-icer, heated windscreen), Swedish (defroster). |
| 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 |
defroster | 10 |
rear window defroster | 6 |
windshield defroster | 4 |
defroster meat | 4 |
window defroster | 2 |
defroster food | 2 |
defroster refrigerator | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "defroster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkrirës (founder), pajisje shkrirëse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزال عنه الثليج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 除霜器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | olieopvarmet brændeovn (oil-burning defroster, oil-fired burner, vaporizing burner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oliebrander (atomizer, oil burner, oil-burning defroster, oil-fired burner, vaporizing burner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dégivreur (de-icer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Entfroster (defrosters, demister), Enteisungsanlage (deicer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποψύκτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפשיר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jeget leolvasztó berendezés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sbrinatore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | デフォルト値 (chubby, debris, default value, defense condition, deflation, deflationary gap, depression, depth interview, developer, development, distortion, fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | デフロスター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 서리 거장치. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efrosterday descongelador, degelador. (various references) антиобледенитель (anti-icer, de-icer). (various references) uređaj za odleđivanje. (various references) dispositivo antihielo. (various references) defroster, avfrostare. (various references) антиобліднювач, дефростер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defroster": defrosters. (additional references) | |
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"Defroster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desfoutre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deforest, forested, forester, fostered, fosterer, reforest, resorted, restored. | |
-2 letters: defrost, ferrets, frosted, oersted, reredos, restore, teredos. | |
-3 letters: defers, defter, desert, deters, dorser, doters, erodes, ferret, fester, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, freers, freest, freres, orders, redoes, refers, rerose, resort, rested, rester, retore, retros, roster, softer, sorted, sorter, stereo, stored, strode, teredo, terser. | |
-4 letters: deers, deets, defer, deter, doers, doest, dorrs, doser, doter, dotes, drees, drest, erode, erose, erred, ester, feeds, feods, feres, feted, fetes, fetor, fords, fores, forte, forts, freed, freer, frees, frere, frets, froes, frore, frost, ofter, order, redes, redos, reeds, reefs, reest, refed, refer, reset, resod, retro, rosed, roset, rotes, seder, sered, serer, sorer, steed, steer, stere, store, terse, tores, torse, treed, trees, trode. | |
-5 letters: deer, dees, deet, deft, dere, doer, does, dore, dorr, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, dree, efts, eros, errs, erst, feds, feed, fees, feet, feod, fere, fete, fets, foes, ford, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, odes, ores, orts, rede, redo, reds, reed, reef, rees, refs, reft, rest, rete, rets, rode, rods, roes, rose, rote, rots, seed, seer, sere, serf, soft, sord, sore, sort, teds, teed, tees, tods, toed, toes, tore, torr, tors, tree, tref, trod. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: defrosters, fortressed, reforested. | |
+3 letters: reafforested. | |
+4 letters: cotransferred, foreshortened, retransformed. | |
+5 letters: tetrafluorides, thenceforwards. | |
| 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)44 65 66 72 6F 73 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. .-. --- ... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100110 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f r o s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 0072 006F 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387172848185867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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