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Definition: GETTER |
GETTERNoun1. One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates. |
Date "GETTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.2. To remove gas by sorption. Also called get. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A substance, within an electronic tube, that decreases or stabilises the residual gas pressure by chemical or physical action. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A substance introduced into a lamp in order to improve the vacuum or the purity of the enclosed gas or gases by physico-chemical action. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | Substance used to combine with the residual oxygen in an electric bulb ortube. Its use is called gettering. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GETTER |
| Specialty definitions using "GETTER": getter operator, getterer, GETTERING-FILAMENT-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GETTER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (getter). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Go Getter (1937) Goat Getter (1925) Felix the Goat Getter (1923) The Man Getter (1923) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GETTER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GETTER" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GETTER" 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 |
| Getter | Last name | 300 | 24,643 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "GETTER": attention getter ♦ getter ion pump ♦ getter pump ♦ go getter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GETTER": getter-up. | |
Ending with "GETTER": go-getter, run-getter, stock-getter, vote-getter. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
getter | 44 | getter ion pump | 4 |
getter robo | 22 | getter gopher | 4 |
shin getter robo | 10 | shin getter | 4 |
critter getter | 9 | fujitsubo getter power | 4 |
getter robot | 8 | getter worm | 4 |
getter ip | 8 | getter password yahoo | 3 |
getter password | 7 | aim getter password | 3 |
getter go | 7 | aol getter password | 3 |
attention getter | 6 | getter saes | 2 |
getter neo robo | 5 | shin getter robot | 2 |
game getter | 5 | getter neo robot | 2 |
getter grass | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "GETTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | marrës (addressee, indorsee, receiver, receiving set, recipient), lëndë aktive. (various references) | |
Arabic | الفائز ب, النائل, الرابح (winner). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разплодник, копач (digger, excavator, groundman, mandrel, shoveller). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吸"斯剂. (various references) | |
Czech | snaživec (an eager beaver, eager beaver, go getter, hard worker), podnikavec (go getter, hustler), kariérista (careerist, go getter, pusher). (various references) | |
Danish | glødetråd (filament), getters, getter. (various references) | |
Dutch | getter, gasbinder, vangstof. (various references) | |
Finnish | getteri, sitoja. (various references) | |
French | getters, getter, gagneur, piqueur, piège, absorbeur. (various references) | |
German | Getter. (various references) | |
Greek | getter, βελτιωτικό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יזמן (go getter, initiator, man of initiative), תוקפן (aggressor, go getter, tearaway), איש מעש" (go getter, man of action, practical man), בצועיסט (doer, go getter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerző (author, originator, present writer, winner), rendező (director, stage-manager). (various references) | |
Italian | getter, assorbitore (absorber). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ポイントゲッター (point getter), ゴールゲッター (goal getter). (various references) | |
Manx | fowder (finder, recipient). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ettergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | getter, procriador (generator), pai (dad, father, old man, parent). (various references) | |
Romanian | reproducãtor (bull, reproducing, reproductive). (various references) | |
Russian | забойщик (cutter, holer, miner), приобретатель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čovek koji stvara. (various references) | |
Spanish | getters, getter, adqueridor. (various references) | |
Swedish | getter (goats). (various references) | |
Turkish | gaz giderici. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вибійник (calico-printer), здобувач. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người mua được, người lấy được, người kiếm được. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GETTER": gettered, gettering, getters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GETTER": begetter, forgetter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GETTER": begetters, forgetters. (additional references) | |
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"GETTER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gadter, gater, gatter, Geater, Geeter, Genter, Gerter, gester, gete, get'em, gethe, gether, getta, gette, getten, getthe, getto, gettum, getty, Gibtner, gitte, gitter, Gittler, Goettel, Goter, Gottberg, gotter, grette, guetter, Guetteur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GETTER" (pronounced ge"ter) |
| 3 | -e" t er | better, bettor, debtor, fetter, Fretter, letter, Netter, Petter, setter, sweater, wetter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: egret, greet. | |
-2 letters: eger, gree, rete, tree, tret. | |
-3 letters: ere, erg, gee, get, ree, reg, ret, tee, teg, tet. | |
-4 letters: er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: getters, tergite. | |
+2 letters: aigrette, begetter, gettered, greatest, grisette, guttered, retarget, targeted, tergites, together. | |
+3 letters: aigrettes, argentite, begetters, bettering, cigarette, courgette, curettage, detergent, fettering, forgetter, gazetteer, georgette, gettering, glittered, grisettes, integrate, lettering, lorgnette, pargetted, regretted, regretter, reletting, resetting, retargets, retesting, retighten, revetting, rewetting, teetering, tentering, teratogen, tethering, tightener, vignetter. | |
+4 letters: allegretto, altogether, argentites, befretting, brevetting, cigarettes, courgettes, curettages, detergents, entreating, estreating, forgetters, gazetteers, georgettes, gillnetter, integrated, integrates, interstage, letterings, lorgnettes, presetting, pretesting, pretexting, reemitting, regretters, regretting, resettling, retargeted, retightens, retreating, reuttering, revegetate, strategies, strategize, strengthen, targetable, teethridge, teratogens, tighteners, trusteeing, turgescent, untogether, vignetters. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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