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Definition: Ice Maker |
Ice MakerNoun1. An appliance included in some electric refrigerators for making ice cubes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Tends refrigerating equipment that freezes water into ice, performing any combination of following tasks: Opens valves to fill containers with specified amounts of water, and lowers containers into freezing tanks, using hoist. Inserts air bubbler into containers and starts agitator in freezing tank to ensure uniform freezing. Siphons or pumps water containing foreign matter from centers of partially frozen ice blocks, using suction pump, and refills container with fresh water. Flushes surfaces of ice blocks with hose. Removes container from tank, using hoist, and immerses it in warm water or places it in steam bath to free ice from container sides. Positions cans on $T3dumping pivot$T1 and pushes buttons to tilt pivot and dump ice onto conveyor or platform. Adds prescribed amounts of materials into mixing vats and starts agitator to mix brine solution for freezing tanks. May turn valves to regulate compressors and condensers. When performing specific duty, may be known as Can Filler (food prep., nec); Dumper (food prep., nec); Ice Puller (food prep., nec). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ice Maker |
| Specialty definitions using "ice maker": fountain dispenser, FOUNTAIN SERVER ♦ ice cream dispenser, ICE MAKER, SKATING RINK ♦ soda clerk, soda dispenser. (references) |
| 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 |
ice maker | 853 |
ice maker portable | 55 |
ice maker repair | 54 |
scotsman ice maker | 48 |
commercial ice maker | 45 |
home ice maker | 37 |
used ice maker | 30 |
u line ice maker | 26 |
whirlpool ice maker | 26 |
ice maker machine | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ice maker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | ijsmaker, ijsmachine. (various references) | |
Finnish | jäähilekone. (various references) | |
French | machine glace. (various references) | |
German | Eismaschine (ice-cream machine), Eisbereiter. (various references) | |
Greek | μηχανή πάγου. (various references) | |
Italian | macchina per ghiaccio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 製氷機 (ice machine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいひょうき (ice machine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iceay akermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | congelador (cold storage, freezer, freezer unit, freezing compartment, frozen food storage compartment, refrigerator). (various references) | |
Spanish | heladora. (various references) | |
Swedish | ismaskin (ice-maker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: icemaker. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-m-r" | |
-1 letter: keramic. | |
-2 letters: amerce, cakier, karmic, raceme, remake. | |
-3 letters: ackee, aerie, aimer, ameer, amice, areic, ceria, crake, creak, cream, creek, creme, crime, erica, icker, macer, maker, micra, mikra, rakee, ramee, ramie. | |
-4 letters: acme, acre, akee, amie, amir, cake, came, care, cark, cere, cire, cram, emic, emir, kame, kami, keir, kier, mace, mack, mair, make, marc, mare, mark, meek, mere, merk, mica, mice, mick, mike, mire, mirk, race, rack, rake, raki, rami, ream, reck, reek, rice, rick, rime. | |
-5 letters: ace, aim, air, ami, arc, are, ark, arm, cam, car, cee, ear, eke, eme, era, ere, ice, ick, ire, irk, kae, kea, kir, mac, mae, mar, mir, ram, rec, ree, rei, rem, ria, rim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-m-r" | |
+1 letter: icemakers. | |
+2 letters: dekametric. | |
+4 letters: cabinetmaker, greenbackism. | |
+5 letters: cabinetmakers, gimcrackeries, greenbackisms. | |
| 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)49 63 65 4D 61 6B 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c e   M a k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0065 004D 0061 006B 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43697124767777184 |
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