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Definition: Vapor Lock |
Vapor LockNoun1. A stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Vapor LockSynonym: vapour lock (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "vapor lock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | gõzzár. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aporvay ocklay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Vapor Lock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vapour lock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-k-l-o-o-p-r-v" | |
-2 letters: carpool, lavrock, oarlock. | |
-4 letters: carol, claro, cloak, color, copal, copra, coral, croak, crook, karoo, orlop, parol, parvo, plack, polar, polka, pooka, valor, vapor, vocal, volar. | |
-5 letters: arco, arvo, calk, calo, capo, cark, carl, carp, clap, clop, coal, cola, cook, cool, coop, cork, crap, crop, kola, kolo, lack, lark, loca, lock, loco, look, loop, okra, opal, oral, orca, oval, pack, park, pock, poco, polo, pool, poor, pork, prao, proa, rack, rock, rook. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 70 6F 72      4C 6F 63 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01001100 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a p o r   L o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0070 006F 0072      004C 006F 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667828184246816977 |
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