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Definition: Soaker |
SoakerNoun1. A heavy rain. 2. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soaker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | A deep chamber, or furnace, of square, rectangular or circular shape, into which steel ingots are placed in an upright position through an opening at the top. A removable cover closes the pit opening. Soeaking pits serve the dual function of providing uniform heating of ingots and acting as a reservoir in the flow of ingots from the steel melting shop and the primary rolling mills. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SoakerSynonyms: alcoholic (n), boozer (n), cloudburst (n), deluge (n), dipsomaniac (n), downpour (n), lush (n), pelter (n), souse (n), torrent (n), waterspout (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum, guzzler, tavern haunter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soaker |
| Specialty definitions using "soaker": cloth shrinker, cloth sponger, CLOTH-SHRINKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, cold-water machine operator ♦ padding-machine operator, presetter operator ♦ TOPER ♦ water sponger, woolen-suiting shrinker. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "soaker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shi i fortë, pijanec (bibber, boozer, drinker, drunkard, drunken, guzzler, habitual drunkard, malt-worm, sot, tippler, toper, winebag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | проливен дъжд (cataract, drench, drencher, pelt, pour), пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soak, sot, souse, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chlastoun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opretstående glødeovn (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | putoven (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | soaking-säiliö (digester, reaction chamber, soaker drum, soaking chamber, soaking drum), reaktori (digester, nuclear power station, reaction chamber, reactor, soaker drum, soaking chamber, soaking drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pit (soaking pit, soaking pit furnace), four pit (soaking pit, soaking pit furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Säufer (boozer, drinker, drunkard, guzzler, lush, soak, soakers, sot, tippler, tipplers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκάμμα βαθμιαίας αποψύξεως 2)κλίβανος διατήρησης θερμοκρασίας (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace), εμποτίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | borissza (bibber, soak, tosspot, wine-bidder, wino). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | forno a pozzo (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 래. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sooder (absorber, aspirator, exhaust, sipper, sucker, tippler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oakersay forno de poço (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace), esponja (sponge), chuvarada (flood, rain), carga de água (splurge), beberrão (bacchant, bum, carouser, drunkard, rummy, sot, winebag), aguaceiro (downpour, flurry, rainfall, shower, spill, squall), ébrio (bacchanal, beery, boozy, crapulent, dram-drinker, drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, pissed, plastered, screwed, sot, sottish, sozzled, stewed, tippler, toper, vinous), "pit". (various references) sugativã (bibber, blotter, blotting paper, boozer, sponge, writing pad), beţivan (drunkard, sot, swipe). (various references) пьяница (bibber, bloat, boozer, dram-drinker, drunkard, guzzler, half seas over, inebriate, malt-worm, sot, swiller, tippler, toper, tosspot, winebag, winebibber, wino), проливной дождь (driving rain, pelting rain). (various references) provala oblaka (downpour, drencher), pljusak (downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, rain, rainstorm, shower), okorela pijanica, natapač. (various references) horno de foso (pit, soaking pit, soaking pit furnace), diluvio (deluge, diluvium, downpour, flood, shower, soaking). (various references) reaktor (pile, reactor). (various references) คนเมา (drunk, drunkard). (various references) sağanak (down pour, downpour, drench, flurry, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, shower, soak, spate, spatter, squall, torrent, waterspout). (various references) злива (cannonade, cloud-burst, deluge, downfall, drench, drencher, floodwaters, gush, hail, pour, scat, shower, spate), п'яниця (barley-cap, bender, bibber, boozer, dram-drinker, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, roisterer, tippler, toper). (various references) người say be bét, người chè chén lu bù cơn mưa to. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soaker": soakers. (additional references) | |
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"Soaker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moaker, Sakir, saower, Siaka, sifaka, slaker, smaker, soaken, soaper, Somafer, sonker, toaker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "soaker" (pronounced 'Soak"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arkose, resoak. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arose, asker, eskar, okras, rakes, saker. | |
-2 letters: aero, ares, arks, arse, ears, eras, eros, kaes, keas, koas, kore, kors, oaks, oars, okas, okes, okra, ores, osar, rake, rase, roes, rose, sake, sark, sear, sera, soak, soar, soke, sora, sore. | |
-3 letters: are, ark, ars, ask, ear, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, koa, kor, kos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arkoses, forsake, presoak, resoaks, soakers. | |
+2 letters: brokages, casework, comakers, corkages, croakers, darksome, earlocks, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, grosbeak, karaokes, karosses, keratose, larksome, oversoak, overtask, presoaks, rakeoffs, resoaked, seatwork. | |
+3 letters: beadworks, breakouts, brockages, cankerous, capeworks, caseworks, cookwares, corncakes, croakiest, ecofreaks, falsework, forepeaks, foreranks, foreshank, forespeak, forsakers, freakouts, grosbeaks, havockers, headworks, horseback, jackeroos, kaiserdom, karyosome, keratomas, keratoses, keratosis, keyboards, laceworks, lakeports, lakeshore, laverocks, leadworks, makeovers, nonskater, oddsmaker, outbreaks, overbakes, oversoaks, overtakes, overtalks, overtasks, packhorse, parrokets, presoaked, reaphooks, resoaking, rockabies, rockabyes, ropewalks, seatworks, shoemaker, shortcake, snakeroot, snowmaker, spadework, takeovers, teamworks, urokinase, walkovers, workfares, workmates, yearbooks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 61 6B 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .- -.- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o a k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0061 006B 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)538167777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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