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Definition: Incinerator |
IncineratorNoun1. A furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | A furnace for burning waste under controlled conditions. (references) |
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Screenplays | Women. For a guy like me, it's always gonna end at some incinerator, holding a piece of footwear. (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) | |
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 | Incinerator in Building 5.Credit: CDC. |  | U.S. Army, Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Incinerator building.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.4, Liverpool, England. : Exterior view- Incinerator and sterilizing plant.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Construction of trench incinerator drill].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Sanitary engineering : Aerial view of incinerator.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sanitary engineering : Front view of Panama Canal garbage incinerator.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Treasury agents J.W. McDonald (l) and F.E. Walker shovel confiscated heroin blocks into incinerator.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. Incinerator.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. Incinerator, interior.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Furnace; heat; heater; boiler; calefactor; cinerator; cremator; forge; heating system; incinerator; kiln; oil burner; smithy; stove. |
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Business | Shanks & McEwen also owns Rechem Ltd., a specialist incinerator of the most dangerous categories of waste. (references) | |
Other than Lurgi, with the incinerator project mentioned above, there is no significant foreign or local presence in the sector. (references) | ||
Except for an incinerator in Izmit and a couple of small-scale incinerators at a few hospitals, there are currently no hazardous waste disposal facilities. (references) | ||
Economic History | Spain | The U.S. was the 4th largest waste incinerator exporter to Spain in 1999, after Italy, Germany and France. (references) |
Croatia | Zagreb is leading the way towards improving the current situation by initiating an engineering contract for the first waste incinerator project. (references) | |
Kuwait | A future BOT is planned for a central incinerator in the Shuaiba Industrial Area, a project which stipulates foreign participation with at least 25 percent equity. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Incinerator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incinerator" is used about 134 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% | 134 | 27,488 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incinerator": garbage incinerator ♦ grease incinerator ♦ incinerator furnace ♦ incinerator plant ♦ multiple hearth incinerator ♦ plasma incinerator ♦ refuse incinerator plant ♦ waterwall incinerator. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "incinerator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kremetor, furrë djegjeje plehrash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حارق (burner, burning, fiery, incendiary, incinerating, scorching, searing), الموقد, المحرقة (crematory, holocaust), المرمد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крематориум (crematorium, crematory), пещ за горене на смет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 焚秽炉. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spalovna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | incinerator for opløsningsmidler (incinerator for solvents), installeret affaldsbrænder (on-board incinerator), incinerator for organisk flydende affald (incinerator for organic liquids), affaldsforbrændingsskib (incinerator ship), etageovn (multiple hearth incinerator), fedtbrænder (grease incinerator), fluid-bed ovn (fluidized-bed incinerator), forbrændingsanlæg (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator plant), forbrændingsanstalt for husholdningsaffald (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator plant), forbrændingsskib (incinerator ship), affaldsforbrændingsenhed (refuse incinerator), hvirvellagsovn (fluidized-bed incinerator), termisk forbrænder (thermal incinerator), katalytisk forbrænder (catalytic incinerator), kommunalt forbrændingsanlæg (municipal waste incinerator), lavtemperaturincinerator (low-temperature incinerator), slaggesmelteovn (slag incinerator), slamforbrændingsanlæg (sludge incinerator), forbraendingsovn (incinerator furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gemeentelijke vuilverbrandingsinstallatie (municipal waste incinerator), eigen verbrandingsinstallatie aan boord (on-board incinerator), lage-temperatuur-verbrander (low-temperature incinerator), katalytische verbrandingsoven (catalytic incinerator), huisvuilverbrandingsoven (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator, refuse incinerator plant), huisvuilverbrandingsinstallatie (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator, refuse incinerator plant), scheepsafvalverbrander (shipboard incinerator), gemeentelijke vuilverbrandingsoven (municipal waste incinerator), slibverbrander (sludge incinerator), gemeentelijke vuilverbranding (municipal waste incinerator), gemeentelijke vuilverbrander (municipal waste incinerator), gemeentelijke verbrandingsinstallatie voor stadsvuil (municipal waste incinerator), gemeentelijke afvalverbrandingsoven (municipal waste incinerator), gemeentelijke afvalverbrander (municipal waste incinerator), etage-oven (multiple hearth incinerator), huisvuilincinerator (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator plant), verbrandingsoven voor oplosmiddelen (incinerator for solvents), vuilverbrandingsoven (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator, refuse incinerator plant), vuilverbrandingsinstallatie (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator, refuse incinerator plant), vuilverbrandingsinrichting (refuse incinerator), vuilverbrandingseenheid (refuse incinerator), vuilverbrander (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator, refuse incinerator plant), oven (blast furnace, coke oven chamber, coking chamber, domestic oven, fire basket, fire devil, furnace, hearth, incinerator furnace, kiln, oven, stove), verbrandingsschip (incinerator ship), wervelbed-oven (fluidized-bed incinerator), verbrandingsoven met een gefluidiseerd bed (fluidized-bed incinerator), verbrandingskamer (incinerator room), verbrandingsinstallatie (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator plant), verbrander voor organische vloeistoffen (incinerator for organic liquids), thermische verbrandingsoven (thermal incinerator), stofverbrandingsinstallatie (slag incinerator), vetverbrander (grease incinerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | roskanpolttouuni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incinérateur (incinerator room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verbrennungsofen (combustion furnace, furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλίβανοσ δι' αποτέφρωσιν, κλίβανοσ (furnace, oast, oven), αποτεφρωτήριο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משרפ" (burning, cremation, crematorium, kiln), כבשן (furnace, kiln, oven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | krematórium (crematoria, crematorium, crematory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inceneritore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 焼却炉 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうきゃくろ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소각로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | losteyder (arsonist, burner, firer, fire-raiser, igniter, incendiarist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forbrenningsovn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incineratoray incinerador (destructor), cremação (cremation, increment). (various references) crematoriu (cinerator, crematorium, crematory, refuse destructor). (various references) мусоросжигательная печь (destructor), печь для кремации. (various references) peć (furnace, oven, stove). (various references) incinerador. (various references) förbränningsanläggning (garbage incinerator, incineration plant, incinerator plant, refuse incineration plant, refuse incinerator plant). (various references) yakma fırını, çöp yakma fırını (destructor). (various references) смітт"спалювач, крематорій (crematorium, crematory). (various references) người hoả táng, lò hoả táng người thiêu, lò đốt rác lò thiêu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "incinerator": incinerators. (additional references) | |
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"Incinerator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incenerator, incinderator, incinorator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incinerator" (pronounced i'nsi"nerā'ter) |
| 5 | -n er ā' t er | cogenerator, generator. |
| 4 | -er ā' t er | accelerator, carburetor, collaborator, decorator, evaporator, Moderator, operator, refrigerator, respirator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, regulator, renovator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: carnitine, container, crenation, criterion. | |
-3 letters: anointer, anoretic, anterior, carrotin, creation, criteria, inaction, inerrant, interior, nicotine, reaction, reanoint, tricorne, triennia. | |
-4 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, anionic, cannier, carotin, carrion, ceratin, certain, cinerin, cirrate, citrine, cointer, coniine, connate, contain, cornier, creatin, creator, crinite, enactor, enation, entrain, erotica, erratic, inciter, inertia, intoner, narcein, neritic, nicotin, noritic, noticer, oneiric, rainier, reactor, retrain, tacrine, ternion, terrain, tinnier, trainer, tricorn. | |
-5 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, airier, ancone, anoint, aortic, aroint, artier, atoner, atonic, canine, canner, cannie, cannot, canter, canton, cantor, carnet, carnie, carrot, carter, carton, cation, centai, centra, citrin, citron, coater, coiner, conine, conner, contra, cornea, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, crater, craton, cretin, enatic, encina, eonian, erotic, errant, iatric, inaner, incant, incite, innate, intern, intine, intone, intron, irater, irenic, ironer, ironic, narine, nation, natron, nectar, niacin, nitric, nocent, noetic, nonart, norite, notice, octane, orcein, orient, ornate, orrice, racier, rancor, ranter, ratine, ration, recant, recoin, rector, retain, retina, retorn, rioter, tanner, tannic, tanrec, tinier, tinner, tonier, tonner, tracer, trance, trocar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: incinerators. | |
+2 letters: incarceration, recrimination, reincarnation, undoctrinaire. | |
+3 letters: counterraiding, incarcerations, insurrectional, intercomparing, nondoctrinaire, reconfirmation, recriminations, reincarnations. | |
+4 letters: confraternities, counterirritant, insurrectionary, intercomparison, interprovincial, reconfiguration, reconfirmations, reconsideration, reincorporating, reincorporation. | |
+5 letters: antirecessionary, counterirritants, countertradition, intercalibration, intercomparisons, intercorrelating, intercorrelation, nondiscretionary, overcentralizing, preincorporation, recentralization, reconfigurations, reconsiderations, reincorporations. | |
| 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 6E 63 69 6E 65 72 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .. -. . .-. .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c i n e r a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0069 006E 0065 0072 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380697580718467868184 |
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