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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Machine in which the sugar cane is passed between toothed rollers revolving at different speeds and is thereby torn to shreds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A machine for the dry shredding of pulp. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends picking machine that opens or shreds and fluffs raw or used materials, such as wool, kapok, foam rubber, or hair to facilitate further processing: Cuts open bales of raw materials. Starts machine and deposits handfuls of raw material on feeding apron that conveys material into picking or shredding rollers. Observes machine to detect clogged rollers. Stops machine, and strips fiber from rollers, using knife, scissors, or hands. May spray raw material with oil emulsion. May be designated according to material processed as Hair-Picking-Machine Operator (furniture; tex. prod., nec); Tow-Picker Operator (furniture); Wool-Picker Operator (textile). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SHREDDER |
| Specialty definitions using "SHREDDER": caustic-room attendant ♦ FILLER-SHREDDER HELPER, filler-shredding-machine loader, filler-sifter helper ♦ PUMP-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ SHREDDER TENDER, PEAT, SHREDDING-FLOOR-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, STEEPING-PRESS TENDER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My daddy put mine in a paper shredder. (The Proud Family; writing credit: Joy Augustine) We took out the Shredder, who why is everyone so worried? (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) You should never have tried to face The Shredder alone. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg) Woa, I have a idea, shredding the instruction book for the shredder, talk about your mind blowing irony. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shredder Orpheus (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | American Enka Corp., Morristown, Tennessee. Man at shredder. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "SHREDDER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "SHREDDER" is used about 24 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) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SHREDDER": paper shredder ♦ virtual shredder. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SHREDDER": cane-shredder, nerve-shredder. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SHREDDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sønderdeler (kneader, slasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kneusmachine (kneader, slasher), defibrator (grinder, kneader, mill disintegrator, slasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déchiqueteur couteaux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aktenvernichter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τεμαχιστής (kneader, slasher), τεμαχίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zúzógép (bruiser, cracker mill, crusher, disintegrator, pulper, stamp engine), zöldségszeletelő, tépőgép, szártépő gép, rongyválogató és simító munkás, reszelő (file, grater, rasp), morzsológép, foszlatógép (hollander, pulper), farkasoló (teaseler, willy), fafoszlató gép kezelője, aprítógép (disintegrator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imbozzimatrice (kneader, slasher), distruttore di documenti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シュタイナー学 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シュレッダー , シュレッダ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mynyiarreyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eddershray rachador (cleaver, froe, froe-knife, frow, kneader, slasher). (various references) канцелярская бумагорезательная машина, измельчитель. (various references) desmenuzadora (husker shredder, kneader, slasher, slicer), desfibradora (cutter, defibrator). (various references) massaupplösare (kneader, slasher), dokumentförstörare (paper shredder), defibrator (kneader, slasher). (various references) rende (grater, plane, shave), parçalayıcı (disruptive), dilimleme makinesi (slicer). (various references) тертушка (grater, rasp), дезінтегратор (disintegrator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SHREDDER": shredders. (additional references) | |
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"SHREDDER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schredder, scredder, shrader, shreadder, shreader, shredde, shreddie, Shreddrr, shreder, Shroeder, Shruder, Strodder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHREDDER" (pronounced shre"der) |
| 4 | -r e" d er | redder, spreader. |
| 3 | -e" d er | Cheddar, deader, header, Tedder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: herders, redders, shedder. | |
-2 letters: heders, herded, herder, redder. | |
-3 letters: deeds, deers, dreed, drees, erred, heder, heeds, herds, heres, redds, reded, redes, reeds, seder, sered, serer, sheer, sherd, shred. | |
-4 letters: deed, deer, dees, dere, dree, edhs, errs, heed, herd, here, hers, redd, rede, reds, reed, rees, resh, seed, seer, sere, shed. | |
-5 letters: dee, edh, eds, ere. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-h-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: shredders. | |
+2 letters: redshirted. | |
+4 letters: undershirted. | |
+5 letters: predischarged, superhardened. | |
| 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. | |
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