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Definitions: Igniter |
IgniterNoun1. A substance used to ignite or kindle a fire. 2. A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A device used to begin combustion, such as a spark plug in the combustion chamber of a jet engine, or a squib used to ignite the fuel in a rocket. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Devices of two basic types:a)the type using contact points to close and open the coil primary circuit; b)the type using a magnetic pick-up and a transistor control unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A blasting fuse or other contrivance used to fire an explosive charge. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A blasting fuse or other contrivance used to fire an explosive charge b. In mining, a metal cylinder that connects a main fuse with separate fuses that are only limited by the number of blasts to be fired c. A device to relight safety lamps internally by friction. One type uses a waxed strip with igniting matches at intervals, while another type has a small burred wheel operating against a piece of cerium or something of a similar nature. Electrical devices are sometimes employed d. One that ignites as (1) a charge, usually of black gunpowder, used to facilitate the ignition of a propelling charge and sometimes of a bursting charge; (2) a device for igniting fuel mixture (as in an internal combustion engine, a jet engine, or a rocket engine); (3) a separately energized electrode used for restriking the arc in an ignitro. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: IgniterSynonyms: ignitor (n), light (n), lighter (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Igniter |
| English words defined with "igniter": fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee ♦ primer, priming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "igniter": ASSEMBLER, IGNITER ♦ cap crimper ♦ electric master fuse ♦ fast cord, FIREWORKS ASSEMBLER, fuse lighter ♦ IGNITER CAPPER, igniter cord, igniter plug ♦ multifuse igniter ♦ nonelectric blasting ♦ pyrotechnic assembler ♦ slow igniter cord, spark igniter ♦ TRACER-BULLET-CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR, two-stage igniter. (references) |
| "Igniter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Igniter" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "igniter": igniter plug ♦ spark igniter. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
igniter | 25 |
brain igniter | 10 |
aurora igniter | 7 |
igniter toyota | 4 |
igniter kawasaki | 4 |
burner flame igniter | 4 |
honda igniter | 3 |
barbecue igniter | 3 |
glow igniter | 2 |
grill igniter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "igniter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndezës (incendiary, lighter, primer). (various references) | |
Arabic | أنبوب (channel, conduit, duct, hosepipe, pipe, poop, streamer, tube, tubing, tunnel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | запалител (ignition, primer), подпалвач (fire raiser, firebug, incendiary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发火器. (various references) | |
Czech | roznìtka (percussion cap). (various references) | |
Danish | taender (lighter, teeth), strømfordeler (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), starter (automatic thermoelectric switch, car starter, ignition tablet, ignitor, starter, starter motors), sprængkapsel (blasting cap, cap, detonator, fuse cap, percussion cap, primer), detonator (blasting cap, booster, cap, detonator, fuse, fuse cap, percussion cap, primer). (various references) | |
Dutch | verdeler (coil distributor, current distributor, delivery manifold, dispenser, distribution block, distribution frame, distributor, distributor manifold, ignition distributor, manifold, sprue pin, timer), starter (automatic thermoelectric switch, car starter, discharge starter, ignition tablet, ignitor, nutritive salt for early growth, nutritive salt for starter, starter, starter motors), ontstekingsverdeler (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), ontsteker (blasting cap, detonator, initiator, sismograph electric blasting cap), aansteker (cigarette lighter, lighter). (various references) | |
Finnish | sytytystulppa (spark igniter, spark plug, sparking plug), kaksivaiheinen sytytin (two-stage igniter). (various references) | |
French | inflammateur, ignitron, distributeur d'allumage (ignition distributor), Delco (ignition distributor), declencheur (ignition tablet, ignitor), amorceur (ignition tablet, ignitor), allumeur (ignition distributor). (various references) | |
German | Zuender (detonator, primer, primer cartridge), Zündverteiler (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), Zündpille (ignition tablet, ignitor), zünder (detonator, discharge starter, exploder, fuse, fuze, fuzeUS, sparker, starter, trigger), Verteiler (allocator, coil distributor, contributor, current distributor, dealer, delivery manifold, dispatcher, dispenser, distributaries, distributing board, distribution box, distribution chamber, distribution list, distributor, distributors, divider, ignition distributor, manifold, mechanical feeder, secondary canals, spinner, spreader, terminal block, timer), Anzuender (lighter). (various references) | |
Greek | έναυσμα (fusse, motivation, priming, tinder), ντιστριμπιτέρ (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), μέσον πυροδότησης, μέσον ανάφλεξης, αναπτών, αναπτήρ (cigarette lighter), διανομέας (coil distributor, current distributor, deflector, delivery manifold, dispenser, dispensing machine, distribution box, distribution chamber, distributor, feed, ignition distributor, manifold, outlet, postman, seed metering device, sprue pin, timer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצת (lighter, spark plug). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyutacs (cartridge fuse, detonator, fuse, fuze, ignition device, ignition fuze, percussion cap, percussion fuse, primer), gyújtószerkezet (delay-action fuse, detonator, firing mechanism, ignition, ignition device), gyújtó (detonator, fuse, ignition fuze, incendiary, inflammatory, primer). (various references) | |
Italian | spinterogeno (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), distributore d'accensione (coil distributor, current distributor, distributor, ignition distributor, timer), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attachment, attack, base, binding, bonding, bout, branching off, cap, connection, connexion, etching, fastening, fit, halter, hitch, hitching, ignition tablet, ignitor, junction, linkage, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, periodic onset, seizure, spasm, team, tether, thrust, tie, turn, tying), accenditore (cigarette lighter, lighter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 点火器 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | て"かき. (various references) | |
Korean | "기. (various references) | |
Manx | losteyder (arsonist, burner, firer, fire-raiser, incendiarist, incinerator). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igniteray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | isca (bait, cast, decoy, decoy duck, lure, punk, spunk, tinder, troll), inflamar (bag, disgruntle, enkindle, excite, fire, heat circulation, incense, inflame, light, rouse, stir up, thurify, to ignite, to inflame), vela de ignição (igniter plug, spark igniter, spark plug, sparking plug), escorva (abc book, detonator, initiation charge, primer, priming charge), distribuidor (assigner, assignor, coil distributor, current distributor, deflector, delivery manifold, dispenser, dispensing machine, distribution, distribution undertaking, distributor, distributor valve, feed, ignition distributor, mechanical feeder, outlet, seed metering device, slidevalve, spreader, supplier, supply undertaking, timer, triple valve), dispositivo de ignição. (various references) | |
Russian | воспламенитель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upaljač (cigarette lighter, fuse, lighter, portfire, safety fuse), palilac. (various references) | |
Spanish | encendedor (cigarette lighter, ignitor, lighter). (various references) | |
Swedish | tändare (automatic thermoelectric switch, lighten, lighter, portfire, starter). (various references) | |
Turkish | ateşeleme mekanizması. (various references) | |
Ukranian | запальник, підривна машинка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người nhóm lửa, người đốt cháy m"i lửa, kíp nổ (percussion cap). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "igniter": igniters. (additional references) | |
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"Igniter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ignatov, ignita, ignitor, ignotum, Pignataro. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tiering. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: engirt, ignite, tieing, tinier, tiring. | |
-2 letters: genii, inert, inter, iring, niter, nitre, reign, renig, tiger, tinge, trine. | |
-3 letters: gent, gien, girn, girt, grin, grit, inti, nite, rein, rent, ring, rite, tern, tier, tine, ting, tire, trig. | |
-4 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ire, net, nit, reg, rei, ret, rig, rin, teg, ten, tie, tin. | |
-5 letters: en, er, et, in, it, ne, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: igniters, intrigue, meriting, mitering, reciting, reignite, resiting, retiling, retiming, retiring, riveting, stingier, tinglier. | |
+2 letters: bittering, crediting, directing, dithering, diverting, erotizing, filtering, fingertip, fringiest, grainiest, infighter, inserting, integrity, interning, interring, intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, inverting, iterating, jittering, littering, loitering, orienting, originate, priesting, rebaiting, reediting, refitting, reignited, reignites, relisting, reminting, remitting, requiting, resifting, resisting, resitting, respiting, retailing, retaining, retinting, retitling, reuniting, rewriting, rivetting, seriating, sintering, sistering, sortieing, stringier, tillering, timbering, tinkering, tittering, wintering, withering. | |
+3 letters: acierating, bedirtying, bestirring, bestriding, blistering, blithering, brigantine, certifying, chittering, cricketing, demeriting, deorbiting, detraining, disserting, emigrating, emigration, entraining, eradiating, eternising, eternizing, etherizing, fingertips, flittering, forfeiting, freighting, frittering, garnierite, gentrified, gentrifier, gentrifies, glistering, glittering, grittiness, gyniatries, herniating, iatrogenic, ignimbrite, inearthing, infighters, ingratiate, ingredient, inheriting, intragenic, intreating, intriguers, invigorate, laterizing, leistering, liberating, lightering, metrifying, misterming, originated, originates, overtiming, overtiring, permitting, persisting, pertaining, petrifying, philtering, predicting, preediting, prenticing, presifting, preuniting, prewriting, receipting, recruiting, rectifying, redbaiting, reemitting, refighting, reigniting, reignition, reinciting, reinviting, reknitting, relighting, repainting, repositing, reprinting, resighting, resinating, resittings, restriking, restriving, retailings, rethinking, retiringly, retraining, retrieving, retrimming, retwisting, revisiting, rivetingly, roistering, skittering, slithering, springiest, springtide, springtime, stringiest, surfeiting, swithering, terrifying, theorising, theorizing, timberings, trailering, trellising, trephining, trigeminal, triggering, trinketing, trisecting, twittering, unmitering, vertigines. | |
+4 letters: accrediting, advertising, advertizing, antiforeign, asterisking, bacterizing, bearbaiting, brecciating, brigantines, brightening, briquetting, cartelising, cartelizing, cauterizing, christening, cloistering, codirecting, cointerring, congruities, crepitating, denigrating, denigration, denigrative, determining, dignitaries, disheriting, distressing, egalitarian, elutriating, embittering, embrittling, emigrations, eradicating, eroticizing, esterifying, etherifying, excoriating, expertizing, extermining, extirpating, extraditing, extricating, fertilizing, fingerprint, flichtering, freewriting, frightening, garnierites, gentrifiers, gentrifying, germinating, germination, germinative, goitrogenic, goniometric, granitelike, gratineeing, gristliness, hibernating, ignimbrites, imbittering, impetrating, imprecating, inbreathing, indenturing, inebriating, ingathering, ingratiated, ingratiates, ingratitude, ingredients, ingurgitate, innervating, integrality, integrating, integration, integrative, integrities, interacting, interceding, interesting, interfacing, interfering, interfiling, interfusing, interlacing, interlaying, interlining, interloping, intermingle, intermixing, interposing, intervening, intrenching, invigorated, invigorates, itinerating, libertinage, meliorating, metricizing, ministering, misaltering, miscreating, misentering, misrelating, missteering, mistreating, mutineering, necrotizing, newswriting, orientating, originative, outintrigue, overediting, overtipping, overtoiling, overwriting, pirouetting, plaistering, predicating, preexisting, preignition, prelimiting, preprinting, pretraining, pretrimming, prettifying, prewritings, readdicting, readmitting, reanimating, reanointing, reattaining, rebaptizing, recognition, redigesting, redigestion, redirecting, redshirting, reenlisting, refiltering, regimenting, regionalist, registering, reignitions, reimporting, reindicting, reinducting, reinfecting, reinflating, reinjecting, reinserting, reinstating, reinterring, reinventing, reinvesting, reiterating, religionist, remediating, remigration, renotifying, reobtaining, reorienting, replicating, repudiating, reradiating, resignation, resplitting, restitching, restituting, restraining, restricting, restringing, retailoring, retaliating, retrofiring, reutilizing, ricocheting, signatories, splintering, springtides, springtimes, sterilizing, straitening, stringiness, stringpiece, synergistic, temporising, temporizing, tenderizing, terminating, terrorising, terrorizing, texturizing, tiebreaking, timeserving, trailerings, trigeminals, tumorigenic, typewriting, unirrigated, unremitting, unresisting, unsightlier, variegating, variegation, vertiginous, vinaigrette, virginities, waitressing, waterskiing, winterizing, wiretapping, witheringly. | |
| 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 67 6E 69 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. --. -. .. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100111 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I g n i t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0067 006E 0069 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43738075867184 |
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