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Definitions: Remover |
RemoverNoun1. A solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface); "paint remover" or "rust remover" but also "hair remover". 2. (British) someone who works for a moving company. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "remover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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Chemistry | A solution used to remove oxides or other compounds from the surface of a metal by chemical action. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine that smooths or roughens shoe parts by either of following methods: (1) Holds and presses part against abrasive cylinder that polishes and sands part or against wire roughing wheel to clean and prepare part for cementing. (2) Feeds sole between rubber presser roller and abrasive-covered roller that roughens part for cementing. May feed part into trimming cutter to trim part. May tape parts to protect masked areas during buffing or inking. May grind off rough surfaces from hair side of hides and be designated Hide Buffer (boot & shoe). May be designated according to part buffed, roughened, or sanded as Box-Toe Buffer (boot & shoe). May be designated according to type of material brushed or sanded as Crepe-Sole Scourer (boot & shoe); Crepe-Sole Wire Brusher (boot & shoe). May be designated according to purpose for which part is roughened as Rougher For Cement (boot & shoe). May be designated: Bottom Buffer (boot & shoe); Breast Buffer (boot & shoe); Channel Rougher (boot & shoe); Counter Buffer (boot & shoe); Heel Buffer (boot & shoe); Heel-Emery Buffer (boot & shoe); Heel Sander, Rubber (boot & shoe); Heel-Seat Sander (boot & shoe); Heel Slicker (boot & shoe); Insole Buffer (boot & shoe); Insole Sander (boot & shoe); Joint Sander (boot & shoe); Shank Sander (boot & shoe); Sole Buffer (boot & shoe); Sole Rougher (boot & shoe); Top-Lift Scourer (boot & shoe); Welt Rougher (boot & shoe). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Screenplays | I was able to pull a few strings and managed to get you you're very own staple remover. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hare Remover (1946) | |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Chemist Harold Griffin extracts an enzyme from a bacterium found in shipworms that is a powerful new stain remover for laundry detergents. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
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Steven Wright | I put spot remover on my dog and now he's gone. |
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| "Remover" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Remover" is used about 72 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% | 72 | 39,377 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "remover": cartridge remover ♦ furniture remover ♦ hair remover ♦ motor bark remover ♦ nail polish remover ♦ nail remover ♦ nail varnish remover ♦ paint remover ♦ spot remover ♦ stain remover ♦ varnish remover. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "remover": cuticle-remover, paint-remover, rust-remover, stain-remover, varnish-remover. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
trojan remover | 856 | blackhead remover | 59 |
spyware remover | 680 | facial hair remover | 58 |
hair remover | 306 | odor remover | 56 |
stain remover | 235 | bug remover | 51 |
vocal and remover | 189 | make up remover | 50 |
adware remover | 169 | 6.0.1 remover trojan | 50 |
free remover spyware | 141 | free remover trojan | 49 |
paint remover | 129 | adware remover spyware | 48 |
rust remover | 111 | adhesive remover | 47 |
pop up remover | 103 | trojan horse remover | 45 |
ad remover | 94 | wallpaper remover | 45 |
remover | 83 | duplicate email list remover | 44 |
wart remover | 77 | stretch mark remover | 42 |
scratch remover | 77 | duplicate remover | 41 |
remover spy | 74 | permanent hair remover | 40 |
popup remover | 71 | ink remover | 40 |
virus remover | 67 | hair color remover | 40 |
scar remover | 66 | stump remover | 39 |
spot remover | 65 | nail polish remover | 38 |
dent remover | 65 | wrinkle remover | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "remover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tretës (dissolvent, resolvent, solvent, thinner), shpërngulës, mbartës, heqës (collarbone, ejector, extractor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزيل البقع, سائل لتنظيف الأظافر (nail remover), الراحل (departed, mover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | депилатор (hair remover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 去膜剂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stìhovák, speditér (furniture remover, haulage contractor, haulier), odstraòovaè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rensemiddel (cleaner, detergent, pickle, stripping compound), bejdse (pickle, stain, staining, stripping compound, to dress), afbejdsemiddel (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bijtmiddel (caustics, etching materials, pickle, stripping compound), beits (mordant, pickle, stain, staining, stripping compound, wood-dye, wood-stain), afbijtmiddel (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | peittauskylpy (pickle, stripping compound), peittausaine (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dissolvant (nail polish remover), détachant (stain remover), dérochant, déménageur (removal man), décapant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spediteur (carrier, forwarder, forwarding agent, freight forwarder, furniture remover, haulier, road haulier, shipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαριστικό υγρό για την επιφάνεια των μετάλλων (pickle, stripping compound), μετακινητήσ, μεταφορέασ (carrier, conveyer, courier, transporter), υγρό καθαρισμού μεταλλικών επιφανειών (pickle, stripping compound), διάλυμα αποξείδωσης (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szállító (carrier, caterer, chandler, contractor, dealer, deliverer, hauler, haulier, purveyor, shipper, supplier), eltávolító (ablative), bútorszállító. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sverniciatore (pickle, stripper, stripping compound), decapare (pickle, stripping compound), bagno di decapaggio (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ポリシーに固執 (adherence to a policy, police, police academy, police court, polish remover, political apathy, political fiction, politician, politics, pollution, polycentrism, polyethylene bathtub, polyethylene bucket, polymer, polymorphism, Polynesia, polypharmacy, polyphony, polypropylene, polystyrene, polystyrol, township), キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, Cupid, curacao, curator, cure, curie, curiosity, curium, cute, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk, queue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ポリッシュリ ーバー (polish remover), キューティクルリ ーバー (cuticle remover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scugheyder (dislodger, evictor, mover, shifter), arragher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emoverray removedor, decapante (pickle, stripping compound), decapagem (engrave, etching, floor robbing, pickle, regulating, shaping, stripping compound, stripping of overburden). (various references) firmã de mobilã (furniture remover). (various references) пятновыводитель, перевозчик мебели. (various references) uklonilac, sprej za skidanje mrlja, sklanjač. (various references) mozo de mudanzas, decapante (flux, pickle, stripping compound), agente de mudanzas (mover). (various references) remover, betvätska (pickle, stripping compound). (various references) nakliyeci (Carman, carrier, carrying agent, goods agent, haulier, mover, shipper, transporter), ev taşıyıcı. (various references) розчинник (diluent, dissolvent, menstruum, resolvent, solvent), перевізник меблів. (various references) đ" m. (various references) mudwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "remover": removers. (additional references) | |
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"Remover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rejove. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "remover" (pronounced rumuw"ver) |
| 4 | -m uw" v er | mover. |
| 3 | -uw" v er | groover, maneuver, outmaneuver. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-o-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: remove. | |
-2 letters: merer, mover, ormer, rover, vomer. | |
-3 letters: ever, mere, more, move, omer, over, rove, veer. | |
-4 letters: eme, ere, err, eve, mor, ore, ree, rem, rev, roe, rom, vee, voe. | |
-5 letters: em, er, me, mo, oe, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-o-r-r-v" | |
+1 letter: evermore, moreover, removers. | |
+2 letters: nevermore, overcomer. | |
+3 letters: earthmover, overcomers, overmaster, overmature, overwarmed, variometer. | |
+4 letters: earthmovers, forevermore, irremovable, overcrammed, overgarment, overimpress, overmasters, overpromise, overpromote, overtrimmed, overtrumped, reformative, variometers. | |
+5 letters: impoverisher, overcompress, overenamored, overgarments, overinformed, overmannered, overmastered, overornament, overpromised, overpromises, overpromoted, overpromotes, performative. | |
| 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)52 65 6D 6F 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -- --- ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e m o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006D 006F 0076 0065 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)52717981887184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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