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Definition: Percolator |
PercolatorNoun1. A coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Percolator |
| English words defined with "percolator": percolate, percolation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "percolator": appliance-service representative ♦ CELL CHANGER ♦ ELECTRICAL-APPLIANCE REPAIRER ♦ PERCOLATOR OPERATOR ♦ small-appliance repairer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Percolator" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (percolator). |
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Screenplays | There is just something I'd like to pop into your percolator, see if it comes out brown. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) You'd never guess. There was a fish in the percolator! Sorry (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) | |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Percolator I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Percolator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Percolator" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "percolator": coffee percolator. 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 |
percolator | 63 |
coffee percolator | 42 |
electric percolator | 10 |
farberware percolator | 7 |
percolator coffee pot | 7 |
delonghi percolator | 4 |
its percolator time | 4 |
classic farberware percolator stainless steel yosemite | 4 |
percolator coffee maker | 3 |
stovetop percolator | 3 |
percolator stainless steel | 3 |
cordless percolator | 3 |
dance percolator | 2 |
coffee electric percolator | 2 |
stove top percolator | 2 |
percolator song | 2 |
camping coffee percolator | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "percolator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zierëse-filtruese kafeje, kafeterie me filtër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | راووق القهوة جهاز تصفية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съд за варене на кафе с цедка, цедка (filter, strainer), филтър (filter, sieve, trap), перколатор за кафе. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | filtr (filter, strainer), cedník (colander, cullender, strainer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perkolator, kaffefiltreringsapparat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | percolator, doorzijgapparaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قهوه جوش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kahvinkeitin (coffee percolator, coffee-maker), biologinen kalvo (biological percolator soil, biological slime, biological slime layer), biofilmi (biological percolator soil, biological slime, biological slime layer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | percolateur, cafetière pression. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kaffeemaschine (coffee machine, coffee maker, coffee percolator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καφετιέρα με φίλτρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מס ן קפ" (dripolator), פכפכת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kávéfõzõ gép, folyadékszûrõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filtro (canister, dust arrester, dust filter, filter, filter zone, output conditioner, philter, philtre, potion, rose, screen, snore piece, strainer, suction screen, suction strainer, surface structure constraint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purse, purser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パーコレーター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheelane (drainer board, refinery, strainer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercolatorpay máquina de fazer café, infiltração (bleed through, bleeding, infiltrate, infiltration, infinite, osmotic, percolation, permissible, pervasion, seepage), coador (colander, cullender, screen, strainer). (various references) percolator, strecurãtoare (colander, strainer), filtru (filter, philtre, strainer). (various references) экстрактор (exhauster, extractor), ситечко, фильтр (filter, strainer), процеживатель. (various references) cediljka (colander, cullender, strainer), aparat za pravljenje kafe s cedilom. (various references) percolador. (various references) filtreringsapparat. (various references) süzgeçli kahve ibriği, süzücü. (various references) фільтр (filter, strainer), перколятор. (various references) máy chiết ngâm, bình pha c phê, bình lọc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "percolator": percolators. (additional references) | |
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"Percolator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perculator, Pericoloso, perolator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "percolator" (pronounced per"kulā'ter) |
| 6 | -k u l ā' t er | escalator. |
| 5 | -u l ā' t er | accumulator, calculator, defibrillator, insulator, manipulator, modulator, oscillator, regulator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, ventilator, violator. |
| 4 | -l ā' t er | legislator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, liquidator, litigator, locator, mediator, Moderator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, renovator, respirator, syndicator, Terminator. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carpooler, corporate, corporeal. | |
-2 letters: corporal, operator, pectoral. | |
-3 letters: caltrop, caroler, carpool, carport, colorer, corpora, creator, locater, locator, peroral, plectra, polecat, porrect, praetor, precool, proctor, prolate, prorate, reactor, realtor, recolor, relator, trooper. | |
-4 letters: caplet, capote, captor, carpel, carper, carpet, carrel, carrot, cartel, carter, cartop, claret, coaler, coater, colter, cooler, cooper, cooter, coplot, copter, corral, crater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: corporately, percolators, predoctoral, protectoral. | |
+2 letters: corporeality, velociraptor. | |
+3 letters: corporalities, precopulatory, prosecutorial, velociraptors. | |
+4 letters: contemporarily, corporealities, extracorporeal. | |
+5 letters: counterproposal, electromyograph, ultramicroscope. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 6F 6C 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. --- .-.. .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c o l a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 006F 006C 0061 0074 006F 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)50718469817867868184 |
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