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Rachet

Definition: Rachet

Rachet

Noun

1. 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: Rachet

Synonyms: ratch (n), ratchet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rachet

English words defined with "rachet": rachet up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rachet": BEVEL POLISHER. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Rachet

Computer Images:
Rachet

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Expression: Rachet

Expression using "rachet": rachet up. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "rachet": mont-rachet.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rachet

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

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.

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Modern Translations: Rachet

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.

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Derivations: Rachet

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).

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Anagrams: Rachet

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rachet


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

52 61 63 68 65 74

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)

.-.    .-    -.-.    ....    .    -

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

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

01010010 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#116

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)

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

526769747186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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