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Definition: Sterilizer |
SterilizerNoun1. A tank-like device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or sterilize surgical instruments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | One of three groups of anti-microbials registered by EPA for public health uses. EPA considers an antimicrobial to be a sterilizer when it destroys or eliminates all forms of bacteria, viruses, and fungi and their spores. Because spores are considered the most difficult form of microorganism to destroy, EPA considers the term sporicide to be synonymous with sterilizer. (references) |
Medicine | A mechanism used in sterilizing substances. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | In mine warfare, a device included in mines to render the mine permanently inoperative on expiration of a pre-determined time after laying. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends autoclave that sterilizes drug products, containers, supplies, instruments, and equipment: Places articles in autoclave manually or by use of electric hoist. Secures door or lid, turns dials to adjust temperature and pressure, and opens steam valve. Shuts off steam and removes sterilized articles after specified time. Records time and temperature setting and gauge readings. May wrap supplies and instruments in paper or cloth preparatory to sterilizing. (references) |
| Sterilizes wine containers, such as barrels or metal tanks: Hammers and pulls bungs from barrels or unscrews cap from tank, using handtools, such as mallet and wrench. Inserts nozzle of steam pipe through vent and flushes steamed container with water, to clean container. Ignites and inserts sulfur stick (candle) into container to kill bacteria. Repaints barrelheads, using brush, lacquer, or paint. Removes sulfur fumes from container, using compressed air. (references) | |
| Tends automatic machine that cleans, sterilizes, and dries feathers used to stuff cushions, and pillows: Dumps sacks of feathers on floor and removes foreign matter. Starts machine and loads feathers to be cleaned and sterilized with steam and dried with hot air into hopper of machine. Opens air valve to blow feathers into storage bins. May weigh specified amount of feathers prior to loading machine. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SterilizerSynonyms: autoclave (n), steriliser (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: steriliser (medicine). |
Crosswords: Sterilizer |
| Specialty definitions using "sterilizer": BRUSH MATERIAL PREPARER ♦ central-service technician, CENTRAL-SUPPLY WORKER ♦ NURSE, LICENSED PRACTICAL, NURSE, PRACTICAL ♦ TATTOO ARTIST, tattooer, tattooist. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Sterilizer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Base Hospital No. 2. Etretat, France : Sterilizer for dressings, instruments and water used for 24,000 surgical cases. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 17, Dijon, France. : Sterilizer room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. : Steam sterilizer at work. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 9, Paris, France. : Interior of sterilizer for clothing and bedding. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Don't Destroy Parental Powers By Neglect : Gonorrhea The Great Sterilizer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sterilizing transfusion bottles containing intravenous solution, are given another inspection after being taken from the sterilizer. Women workers are taking over important jobs at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illi. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Abbott Laboratories, 1350 Cote de Liesse, Montreal, Canada. Girl at sterilizer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sterilizer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sterilizer" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sterilizer": surgical sterilizer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sterilizer": bowl-sterilizer. | |
| 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 "sterilizer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sterilizator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مطهر (abluent, abstergent, antiseptic, circumcised, cleaner, decontaminator, detergent, disinfectant, disinfected, purifier), المعقم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стерилизатор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | statisk sterilisator uden gennemstroemning af vand (positively ducted sterilizer), dampsteriliseringsapparat (mobile outfit for steam soil sterilizing, steam soil sterilizer), autoklave (autoclave, chamber, digester, digestion chamber, digestion tank, digestor, methane digester, sludge digestion chamber, sludge digestion compartment, sludge digestion tank, sludge-digestion compartment, steam-driven sterilizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vaste sterilisator voor droge sterilisatie (positively ducted sterilizer), papiniaanse pot (autoclave, digester, digestion chamber, digestion tank, digestor, methane digester, sludge digestion chamber, sludge digestion compartment, sludge digestion tank, sludge-digestion compartment, steam-driven sterilizer), bodemstoomsterilisatietoestel (mobile outfit for steam soil sterilizing, steam soil sterilizer), autoclaaf (autoclave, chamber, digester, digestion chamber, digestion tank, digestor, methane digester, sludge digestion chamber, sludge digestion compartment, sludge digestion tank, sludge-digestion compartment, steam-driven sterilizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stérilisateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sterilisator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποστειρώτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעקר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sterilizátor, sterilizáló készülék, idõzített mûködõképtelenséget biztosító szerkezet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sterilizzatore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 消'器 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうどくき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 살 (fungicide, steriliser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erilizerstay estufa de esterilização, esterilizador, autoclave (autoclave, pan). (various references) sterilizator. (various references) стерилизатор. (various references) sterilizator. (various references) esterilizador quirúrgico (surgical sterilizer), esterilizador estatico sin flujo continuo de agua (positively ducted sterilizer), esterilizador del suelo a vapor (mobile outfit for steam soil sterilizing, steam soil sterilizer), autoclave (autoclave). (various references) sterilizatör (autoclave). (various references) стерилізатор. (various references) máy khử trùng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sterilizer": sterilizers. (additional references) | |
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"Sterilizer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Serrailier, sterelize, sterilise. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sterilizer" (pronounced ste"rulī'zer) |
| 5 | -u l ī' z er | analyzer, equalizer, fertilizer, stabilizer, tranquilizer. |
| 3 | -ī' z er | advertiser, appetizer, atomizer, colonizer, compromiser, energizer, exerciser, franchiser, ionizer, itemizer, merchandiser, moisturizer, organizer, oxidizer, plasticizer, polarizer, popularizer, supervisor, sympathizer, synthesizer, womanizer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: sterilize. | |
-3 letters: leister, reliers, retiles, retires, retries, ritzier, seltzer, siltier, sterile, terries, zestier. | |
-4 letters: elites, listee, lister, liters, litres, relets, relier, relies, relist, rerise, resile, resite, resize, rester, reties, retile, retire, ritzes, seizer, sirree, sizier, streel, terser, tilers, triers, zester. | |
-5 letters: elite, ester, islet, istle, leers, leets, liers, liter, litre, reels, reest, relet, relit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: fertilizers, sterilizers. | |
+2 letters: presterilize. | |
+3 letters: materializers, presterilized, presterilizes, remilitarizes. | |
+4 letters: editorializers, overfertilizes, presterilizing, rematerializes, respiritualize. | |
+5 letters: proletarianizes, reindustrialize, respiritualized, respiritualizes, revolutionizers, territorializes. | |
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