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Vapor Lock

Definition: Vapor Lock

Vapor Lock

Noun

1. 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 Lock

Synonym: vapour lock (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Vapor Lock

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.

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Misspellings: Vapor Lock

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).

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Anagrams: Vapor Lock

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vapor Lock


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 70 6F 72      4C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01001100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#112 &#111 &#114 &#32 &#76 &#111 &#99 &#107

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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