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Inflator

Definition: Inflator

Inflator

Noun

1. An air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire).

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


Synonym: Inflator

Synonym: inflater (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Inflator

"Inflator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inflator" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Inflator

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

  inflator

29

  tire inflator

24

  12v air inflator

18

  air inflator rapid

17

  12v air dc inflator

12

  balloon inflator

10

  fix flat inflator tire

6

  air inflator

6

  helium inflator

5

  inflator jumpstart tire

4

  flat inflator tire

3

  inflator kit tire

3

  automatic car inflator tyre

3

  air bag inflator

3

  tire inflator with gauge

3

  deflator inflator

2

  air inflator repair system

2

  air inflator montana pontiac

2

  best inflator tire

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

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Modern Translations: Inflator

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

Chinese 

  

"风器. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pompa (pump). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inflatoray

   

Vietnamese 

  

người thổi ph"ng (exaggerator), cái bơm người bơm ph"ng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inflator

Derivations

Words beginning with "inflator": inflators. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Inflator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inflatory. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Inflator"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "inflator" (pronounced i'nflā"ter)
5-f l ā" t erdeflator.
4-l ā" t erlater, Plater, Slater, translator.
3-ā" t ercater, crater, creator, curator, debater, dictator, equator, Frater, freighter, gaiter, gator, grater, greater, hater, Pater, Prater, rater, skater, stater, straighter, traitor, Viator, vindicator, waiter.

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

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Anagrams: Inflator

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: flatiron.

Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-n-o-r-t"

-1 letter: frontal.

-2 letters: aroint, florin, foliar, fontal, forint, latino, ration, ratlin, rialto, tailor, talion, trinal.

-3 letters: afrit, aloft, aloin, faint, filar, final, flair, flint, flirt, float, flora, flota, folia, frail, front, infra, intro, lirot, loran, nitro, noria, notal, ratio, riant, talon, tolan, tolar, tonal, trail, train, trial, triol, trona.

-4 letters: airn, airt, alif, alit, alto.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: flatirons, inflators, reflation.

 

+2 letters: filtration, flirtation, floriation, fluorinate, fractional, frictional, frontality, reflations, refloating.

 

+3 letters: defloration, filtrations, flirtations, floriations, fluorinated, fluorinates, formulating, formulation, fulguration, infiltrator, informality, insufflator, overinflate, reinflation.

 

+4 letters: allografting, conferential, deflagration, deflationary, deflorations, fibrillation, flavoprotein, flowcharting, fluoridating, fluoridation, fluorinating, fluorination, forestalling, formulations, fractionally, frictionally, frontalities, fulgurations, infiltration, infiltrators, inflammatory, inflationary, insufflators, malformation, overinflated, overinflates, reflationary, reflectional, reinflations, unprofitable, unprofitably, waterfowling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Inflator


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

49 6E 66 6C 61 74 6F 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)

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

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

01001001 01101110 01100110 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#102 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0066 006C 0061 0074 006F 0072

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

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

4380727867868184

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INDEX

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


  

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