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Definition: Temporizer |
TemporizerNoun1. Someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "temporizer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Synonym: TemporizerSynonym: temporiser (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Temporizer |
| English words defined with "temporizer": Temporist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "temporizer": Temporist. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "temporizer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нагаждач (adjuster, trimmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sekvenstimer (temporiser, weld-sequence timer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vertrager (antifoggant, anti-fogging agent, fog-inhibiting agent, moderator, restrainer, temporiser, weld-sequence timer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hitsausajan säädin (temporiser, weld-sequence timer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | temporisateur (temporiser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Opportunist (opportunist, timeserver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | temporizzatore (clock, clock register, temporiser, time register, timer, weld-sequence timer), temporeggiatore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cosneyder traa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporizertay приспособленец;конъюктурщик. (various references) temporizador (clock, clock register, temporiser, time register, timer, weld-sequence timer). (various references) tidur för svetssekvenser (temporiser, weld-sequence timer). (various references) zamana uyan kimse, uygun zamanı kollayan kimse, fırsatçı (opportunist, profiteer, pusher, temporizing, time server, timeserving). (various references) người trì hoãn (procrastinator), người chờ thời người biết thích ứng với ho n cảnh, người biết tuỳ cơ ứng biến. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "temporizer": temporizers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "temporizer": extemporizer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "temporizer": extemporizers. (additional references) | |
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"Temporizer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temporis, temporise, temporiser, temporiz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "temporizer" (pronounced 'Tem"po*ri`zer'): Aggrandizer, Allegorizer, Analyzer, Anathematizer, Anatomizer, Apologizer, Appetizer, Aromatizer, Atmolyzer, Atomizer, Attitudinizer, Authorizer, Botanizer, Bulldozer, Colonizer, Decarbonizer, Deodorizer, Deoxidizer, Depolarizer, Dialyzer, Disorganizer, Dogmatizer, Economizer, Electrizer, Energizer, Epigrammatizer, Epistolizer, Epitomizer, Extemporizer, Fraternizer, galvanizer, Generalizer, Gormandizer, harmonizer, Humanizer, Hybridizer, hypnotizer, Idealizer, idolizer, Individualizer, Iodizer, Judaizer, Liberalizer, Literalizer, Magnetizer, Memorializer, Mesmerizer, Methodizer, Mineralizer, Modernizer, Monarchizer, monopolizer, Moralizer, Mythologizer, Nebulizer, Neutralizer, Organizer, Oxidizer, Ozonizer, Patronizer, Philosophizer, Platonizer, Pluralizer, Polarizer, Popularizer, Prologizer, Proselytizer, Pulverizer, Realizer, Reconizer, Romanizer, scrutinizer, sensitizer, sermonizer, Skeletonizer, Solemnizer, Spiritualizer, sterilizer, Subtilizer, syllogizer, symbolizer, sympathizer, systematizer, systemizer, tantalizer, theologizer, theorizer, Vaporizer, Villanizer, Vulcanizer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-t-z" | |
-1 letter: temporize. | |
-2 letters: importer, poetizer, portiere, reimport. | |
-3 letters: emperor, emprize, emptier, epitome, erotize, miterer, pierrot, poetize, premier, preriot, preterm, pretrim, primero, remoter, trireme. | |
-4 letters: emoter, empire, epimer, import, meteor, metier, metope, mopier, optime, permit, perter, porter, potzer, premie, pretor, primer, prizer, protei, reemit, remote, report, retime, retire, retore, retrim, rioter, romper, ropier, temper, termer, termor, tremor, trimer, trompe. | |
-5 letters: emote, merer, merit, meter, metre, metro, miter, mitre, moire, moper, ormer, peter, prier, prime, primo, prior, prize, proem, remet, remit, repot, repro, retem, retie, retro, rimer, riper, roper, tempi, tempo, timer, topee, toper, trier, tripe, tromp, trope. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-t-z" | |
+1 letter: temporizers. | |
+2 letters: extemporizer. | |
+3 letters: extemporizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 6F 72 69 7A 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. --- .-. .. --.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p o r i z e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0069 007A 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)54717982818475927184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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