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Vapour Lock

Definition: Vapour Lock

Vapour 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.
 

"Vapour Lock" is a common misspelling or typo for: vapor lock.

Synonym: Vapour Lock

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

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Modern Translations: Vapour Lock

Language Translations for "vapour lock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

apourvay ocklay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vapour Lock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-l-o-o-p-r-u-v"

-3 letters: carpool, copular, lavrock, oarlock.

-4 letters: colour, copula, cupola, lockup, lookup, ocular, ovular, valour, vapour.

-5 letters: carol, caulk, claro, cloak, clour, color, copal, copra, coral, croak, crook, croup, culpa, karoo, orlop, parol, parvo, plack, pluck, polar, polka, pooka, pucka, valor, vapor, vocal, volar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vapour Lock


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

56 61 70 6F 75 72      4C 6F 63 6B

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

    

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

01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01001100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#112 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#32 &#76 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0070 006F 0075 0072      004C 006F 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

566782818784246816977

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INDEX

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


  

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