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Definition: Wringer |
WringerNoun1. A clothes dryer consisting of two roles between which the wet clothes are squeezed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wringer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends centrifugal extractor that removes surplus moisture or dye from materials, such as wet cloth, garments, knit goods, linens, raw fibers, or yarn: Pushes loaded handtrucks or portable extractor baskets into position at machine or under hoist. Lifts material from handtruck, or raises baskets, using chain or electric hoist to load extractor. Distributes material uniformly in extractor baskets to balance load and reduce vibration. Observes tilt of portable baskets to verify balance when using hoist. Closes cover and starts machine. Unloads materials into handtruck for transfer to subsequent work station. May unload washing machines. May work with raw cotton and be designated Extractor Tender, Raw Stock (textile). May tend drying machine [TUMBLER OPERATOR (laundry & rel.) 369.685-034]. May tend machine that extracts moisture from cakes of rayon or other synthetic yarn and be designated Cake Wringer (plastic-synth.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Wringer |
| English words defined with "wringer": Wringing machine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wringer": carpet cleaner, casing-wringer operator, centrifugal-extractor operator, clothes wringer, cotton cleaner, COTTON WASHER ♦ drying-machine tender ♦ EXTRACTOR OPERATOR ♦ in a tight spot, INSPECTOR, GOLF BALL ♦ OPEN-DEVELOPER OPERATOR ♦ patch developer, PATCH WASHER, PRINT WASHER ♦ rapid-extractor operator, RUG CLEANER, HAND, rug renovator, rug scrubber, rug shampooer, rug washer ♦ sample steamer ♦ tetryl-wringer operator ♦ WASHER, HAND, wrapper dipper, WRINGER OPERATOR. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Home washing machine & wringer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Wringer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wringer" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "wringer": go through the wringer. Additional references. | |
| 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 "wringer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | العصارة آلة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | преса за изцеждане на пране. (various references) | |
Chinese | 绞扭机. (various references) | |
Danish | vridemaskine (mangle), strygerulle (mangle). (various references) | |
Dutch | wringer (mangle), mangel (absence, absentness). (various references) | |
Finnish | vääntöpuserrin. (various references) | |
French | essoreuse. (various references) | |
German | Wringmaschine. (various references) | |
Greek | στραγγιστήσ, σουρώστρα με κυλίνδρους (mangle), εργαλείο για στράγγισμα υγρών ρούχων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסחט". (various references) | |
Hungarian | facsarógép. (various references) | |
Italian | strizzatoio, idroestrattore a cilindri (mangle). (various references) | |
Korean | 착취자. (various references) | |
Manx | faasteyder (squeezer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingerwray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | secador de rolos (mangle), máquina de espremer (buzzer, centrifugal drying machine, centrifugal hydro-extractor, centrifuge, drying machine, hydroextractor, shwisser, whuzzer, wusser), espremedor (masher, squeezer). (various references) | |
Russian | пресс (masher, mill, press, squeezer). (various references) | |
Spanish | exprimidor (mangle, squeezer), escurridora de rodillos (mangle), escurridor (colander). (various references) | |
Swedish | pärs. (various references) | |
Turkish | merdane (platen, roller, rolling pin, rolling press). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кровопивця (caterpillar, leech, spider), вимагач (exactor, extortioner, vampire). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wringer": wringers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wringer": handwringer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wringer": handwringers. (additional references) | |
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"Wringer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wrange, wranger, wrige. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wringer" (pronounced ri"nger) |
| 4 | r i" ng er | ringer, springer, Stringer. |
| 3 | -i" ng er | binger, Clinger, dinger, singer, Slinger, stinger, swinger, winger, zinger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: erring, ringer, winger. | |
-2 letters: reign, renig, rerig, rewin, wirer, wrier, wring. | |
-3 letters: gien, girn, grew, grin, rein, ring, weir, wine, wing, wire, wren. | |
-4 letters: eng, erg, ern, err, gen, gie, gin, ire, new, reg, rei, rig, rin, wen, wig, win. | |
-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: rewiring, wringers. | |
+2 letters: redrawing, regrowing, rewarding, rewarming, rewording, reworking, rewriting, wherrying. | |
+3 letters: beworrying, prewarming, prewarning, prewriting, recrowning, repowering, rewrapping, songwriter, wharfinger, winegrower. | |
+4 letters: forewarning, forswearing, freewriting, graniteware, handwringer, intergrowth, overdrawing, overgrowing, overwarming, overwearing, overworking, overwriting, prewrapping, prewritings, reflowering, rereviewing, rewardingly, songwriters, springwater, unrewarding, wharfingers, winegrowers, wintergreen, wiredrawing. | |
+5 letters: corkscrewing, foreswearing, freewritings, granitewares, handwringers, heartwarming, intergrowths, interworking, interwrought, microbrewing, overbrowsing, overcrowding, overpowering, overstrewing, overthrowing, overwatering, springwaters, underwriting, warmongering, watermarking, wintergreens. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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