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Definition: Rachet |
RachetNoun1. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rachet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonyms: RachetSynonyms: ratch (n), ratchet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rachet |
| English words defined with "rachet": rachet up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rachet": BEVEL POLISHER. (references) |
Expression using "rachet": rachet up. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rachet": mont-rachet. | |
| 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 |
rachet clank | 128 |
cheat clank rachet | 55 |
rachet | 29 |
cheat clank code rachet | 13 |
clank code rachet | 11 |
2 clank rachet | 10 |
rachet strap | 9 |
noise rachet | 9 |
clank hint rachet | 7 |
cheat clank ps2 rachet | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rachet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Rachet's tegn (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
French | signe de Rachet (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
German | Rachet Zeichen (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
Greek | σημείο του Rachet (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ×—×'ר (friction drive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achetray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sinal de Rachet (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
Spanish | signo de Rachet (Rachet sign). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rachet": rachets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rachet": brachet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rachet": brachets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: caret, carte, cater, chare, chart, cheat, chert, crate, earth, hater, heart, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, retch, tache, teach, theca, trace. | |
-2 letters: ache, acre, arch, care, cart, cate, char, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, race, rate, rath, rhea, tace, tach, tahr, tare, tear, thae. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar, tea, the. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, ar, at, eh, er, et, ha, he, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: batcher, brachet, catcher, chanter, chapter, charted, charter, chaster, chatter, cheater, hatcher, hectare, matcher, patcher, rachets, ratches, ratchet, rechart, recheat, rematch, repatch, reteach, teacher, theriac, trachea, trachle, tranche, watcher, yachter. | |
+2 letters: aetheric, anchoret, attacher, batchers, brachets, catchers, catchier, cathedra, catheter, chanters, chapiter, chapters, chariest, charters, chatters, chattery, chattier, chaunter, cheaters, chelator, chlorate, chordate, chromate, cratches, detacher, ethnarch, hatchers, hatchery, hectares, heptarch, hetaeric, hieratic, matchers, merchant, outreach, patchers, patchier, pentarch, phreatic, ratchets, reattach, recharts, recheats, rhematic, snatcher, stancher, starched, starches, teachers, tetrarch, thatcher, thearchy, theatric, theocrat, theriaca, theriacs, thoraces, thwacker, tracheae, tracheal, tracheas, tracheid, trachled, trachles, trachyte, tranches, trauchle, trochlea, watchers, yachters. | |
+3 letters: anchorets, anchorite, antechoir, anthraces, archetype, architect, artichoke, athrocyte, attachers, brachiate, branchlet, cartouche, cartwheel, catharses, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, catheters, champerty, chantries, chapiters, chaptered, character, charioted, charities, charlotte, charriest, chartered, charterer, chastener, chastiser, chattered, chatterer, chaunters, chelators, chlorates, chordates, chromates, clathrate, detachers, enchanter, entrechat, ethnarchs, exarchate, heartache, heartsick, hectogram, heptarchs, heptarchy, heretical, lethargic, merchants, octahedra, orchestra, outcharge, outpreach, overmatch, parachute, parchment, pentarchs, pentarchy, ratcheted, recharted, recharter, rematched, rematches, repatched, repatches, reteaches, rheumatic, scratched, scratcher, scratches, shortcake, snatchers, snatchier, stanchers, starchier, stauncher, stomacher, teacherly, tetrarchs, tetrarchy, thatchers, thatchier, theatrics, theocracy, theocrats, theriacal, theriacas, thwackers, tracheary, tracheate, tracheids, tracheole, trachytes, trauchled, trauchles, treachery, trenchant, trichinae, trierarch, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, uncharted. | |
+4 letters: achondrite, aftershock, amphoteric, anchorites, antechoirs, anthracene, anthracite, antiheroic, aphaeretic, apothecary, archentera, archetypal, archetypes, architects, architrave, archpriest, arithmetic, artichokes, athrocytes, autarchies, beachfront, bichromate, birthplace, blackheart, brachiated, brachiates, branchiest, branchlets, camphorate, carritches, cartouches, cartwheels, catarrhine, catechizer, cathedrals, chaptering, characters, charactery, charioteer, charitable, charlottes, charterers, chartering, chartreuse, chasteners, chastisers, chatterbox, chatterers, chattering, chlorinate, clathrates, coauthored, cowcatcher, czarevitch, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichromate, dispatcher, dogcatcher, enchanters, entrechats, escharotic, eurybathic, exarchates, farfetched, flycatcher, grapholect, haircutter, hatcheries, heartaches, hectograms, hectograph, hematocrit, heptachlor, hermatypic, hermetical, hovercraft, hyperacute, hysterical, interchain, macrophyte, matchmaker, merchanted, metaphoric, octahedral, octahedron, octarchies, orchestral, orchestras, orthoclase, outcharged, outcharges, outcharmed, outmarched, outmarches, outreached, outreaches, packthread, parachuted, parachutes, parchments, parritches, pasticheur, perithecia, phylactery, preachiest, preachment, preethical, rachitides, ratcheting, raunchiest, reattached, reattaches, recharters, recharting, rematching, repatching, reteaching, revanchist, rheostatic, rhetorical, rheumatics, scratchers, scratchier, shortcakes, starchiest, stomachers, subchapter, tachometer, technocrat, tetrachord, tetrarchic, thearchies, theatrical, theocratic, theurgical, tovariches, tracheated, tracheitis, tracheolar, tracheoles, trenchancy, triarchies, trichiases, trierarchs, trierarchy, trochanter, trochlears, ultrafiche, watchcries, watchmaker, watchtower. | |
+5 letters: achondrites, achromatize, aftershocks, antechamber, anthracenes, anthracites, anthracnose, archenteron, architraves, archpriests, arithmetics, arthroscope, atherogenic, atmospheric, backstretch, bathymetric, beachfronts, bichromated, bichromates, birdwatcher, birthplaces, blackhearts, bleacherite, camphorated, camphorates, cantharides, cartwheeled, cartwheeler, catachreses, catachresis, catarrhines, catastrophe, catchphrase, catechizers, catheterize, champerties, champertous, chanterelle, chanticleer, charactered, charcuterie, charioteers, charmingest, chartreuses, chiralities, chiropteran, chlorinated, chlorinates, chocolatier, choirmaster, coldhearted, cowcatchers, crapshooter, cryotherapy, ctenophoran, diaphoretic, dichromates, dispatchers, dogcatchers, enchantress, escharotics, eucharistic, euchromatic, euchromatin, flycatchers, furtherance, gnatcatcher, grapholects, haircutters, handcrafted, hectographs, hematocrits, heptachlors, heptarchies, heretically, hovercrafts, hyperactive, hyperacuity, hyperstatic, hypocentral, inheritance, interbranch, interchains, interchange, intrathecal, kitchenware, leatherback, leatherneck, lycanthrope, macrophytes, matchmakers, merchanting, merchantman, merchantmen, metamorphic, metanephric, neuropathic, octahedrons, orchestrate, orthoclases, orthopaedic, outpreached, outpreaches, outreaching, overmatched, overmatches, packthreads, parenthetic, paresthetic, pasticheurs, pentarchies, perchlorate, perithecial, preachments, prophetical, prothoraces, reattaching, rechartered, researchist, revanchists, rhetorician, scattershot, schmaltzier, scratchiest, searchlight, shortchange, spermatheca, spirochaete, spirochetal, starchiness, stretchable, subchapters, tachometers, technocracy, technocrats, telegraphic, tetrachords, tetradrachm, tetrarchies, theatricals, theocracies, theorematic, theoretical, therapeutic, thermically, thunderclap, torchbearer, tracheotomy, treacheries, treacherous, trenchantly, trencherman, trochanters, ultrafiches, unchartered, urochordate, watchmakers, watchtowers, weathercast, weathercock. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 63 68 65 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.-. .... . - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a c h e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0063 0068 0065 0074 |
| 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)526769747186 |
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