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Dissolver

Definition: Dissolver

Dissolver

Noun

1. A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dissolver

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

A type of pigment dispersing equipment. The shearing action is achieved by high peripheral speed of the agitator. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

A substance capable of dissolving other substances. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Dissolver

Synonyms: dissolvent (n), dissolving agent (n), resolvent (n), solvent (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: dissolvent (mechanical engineering, physics), solvent, thinner.

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Crosswords: Dissolver

Specialty definitions using "dissolver": DISSOLVER OPERATOR. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Dissolver" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (break, dilute, disinfect, dissolve, fade away, liquescent, melt, solve).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dissolver

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dawn dissolver power

14

fat dissolver

2

dissolver

2

cowles dissolver

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dissolver

Language Translations for "dissolver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

oploesningsmiddel (co-solvent, coupling agent, dissolvent, solvent, thinner). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oplosmiddel (co-solvent, coupling agent, dissolvent, solubilizer, solubilizing agent, solvent, thinner). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

liuotin (emulgator, solvent), liuote (dissolvent, solvent, thinner). (various references)

   

French

  

solvant (dissolvent). (various references)

   

German

  

Lösungsmittel (solvent, vehicle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διαλύτησ (solver), διαλύτης (base, base of active ingredient, dissolvent, solvent, thinner), διαλυτική ουσία (dissolvent, solvent, thinner). (various references)

   

Italian

  

solvente (solvent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

issolverday

   

Portuguese

  

dissolvente (dissonance, mensurable, solvent), solvente (responsible, solvent). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

disolvente (dissolve, dissolvent, menstruum, resolvent, thinner), solvente (afloat, solvent, sound, thinner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lösningsmedel (dissolvent, solvent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dissolver

Derivations

Words beginning with "dissolver": dissolvers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dissolver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desolder. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dissolver"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dissolver" (pronounced di'zÄ"lver)
4-Ä" l v errevolver, solver.
3-l v erCulver, quicksilver, silver.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dissolver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-o-r-s-s-v"

-1 letter: devisors, dissolve, soldiers.

-2 letters: devisor, devoirs, dorsels, dossier, drivels, lorises, rissole, rodless, sidlers, silvers, sliders, slivers, solders, soldier, solider, solvers, viroses, visored, voiders.

-3 letters: devils, devoir, divers, dories, dorsel, dosers, dossel, dosser, dossil, drivel, drives, droves, ervils, idlers, lessor, livers, livres, lories, losers, lovers, oilers, oldies, olives, oriels, osiers, reoils, resids, resods, resold.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-o-r-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: dissolvers, redissolve.

 

+2 letters: redissolved, redissolves.

 

+3 letters: dichlorvoses, redissolving.

 

+4 letters: overlordships.

 

+5 letters: diverticuloses, diverticulosis, overclassified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dissolver


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 73 6F 6C 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    ...    ---    .-..    ...-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0073 006F 006C 0076 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387585858178887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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