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Definitions: Thruster |
ThrusterNoun1. One who intrudes or pushes himself forward. 2. A small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ThrusterSynonym: pusher (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thruster."
Crosswords: Thruster |
| Specialty definitions using "thruster": arc jet. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Come at it from this angle and locate the automatic flip-flop override device here, which in turn will diffuse the antigyroscopic preinterface thruster chamber, and the pneaumatic centripetal antigravity shield deflectors, then you simply deactivate the axial gyro-presubinertia-photomegatronic oscillator that you see here. (Hardware Wars; writing credit: Ernie Fosselius) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Thruster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thruster" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 "thruster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | далавераджия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 起飞加速器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | propel (airscrew, engine, jet, motor, propeller), fremdrivningsmiddel (engine, jet, motor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thruster (engine, jet, motor), stuwstraalpijp (engine, jet, motor), stuwraket (engine, jet, motor), straalpijp (air nozzle, engine, jet, motor, nozzle, spray nozzle), straalmotor (engine, jet, jet engine, motor, reaction engine, rection engine, turbojet, turbo-jet, turboprop, turbo-reactor), raketmotor (engine, jet, motor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | propulseur de correction, propulseur électrique, propulseur, impulseur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Triebwerk (driving mechanism, engine, mechanism, mover, power plant, power unit), Motor (driving force, engine, motor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητήρας (electric motor, electromotor, engine, jet, motor), προωστικός κινητήρας (engine, jet, motor), προωθητικός κινητήρας (engine, jet, motor), ωθών (pusher), εμπήγων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרפקן (pusher), בעל מרפקים (elbower, gate crasher, pusher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törtető (eager beaver, go-getter, pushing, pushy), manőverező rakéta, karrierista (career man, careerist, climber), jó vívó, helyzetbeállító rakéta, gyakorlott vívó, előresiető falkavadász, akarnok (eager beaver, go getter, go-getter, pushing fellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | thruster, propulsore (propeller), motore (driving, engine, motor, mover, propelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seiyder (agitator, mixer, pusher, shover, sticker, stirrer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usterthray propulsor (impunity, propellent, propeller, propelling, propylene). (various references) arivist (careerist, climber, go getter). (various references) двигатель (engine, motor, mover, train engine). (various references) propulsor (propellant, propellent, propeller, propelling). (various references) girişken kimse (live wire), agresif kimse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thruster": thrusters. (additional references) | |
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"Thruster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trister, trustor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thruster" (pronounced thru"ster) |
| 4 | -u" s t er | adjuster, bluster, Buster, cluster, duster, fluster, juster, Luster, lustre, muster. |
| 3 | -s t er | administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, Easter, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: hurters, shutter, truster, turrets. | |
-2 letters: hurter, rusher, thrust, truest, truths, turret, utters. | |
-3 letters: hurst, hurts, ruers, ruths, shute, strut, sturt, surer, teths, trets, truer, trues, trust, truth, usher, utter. | |
-4 letters: errs, erst, eths, hers, hest, hets, hues, hurt, huts, resh, rest, rets, rhus, ruer, rues, ruse, rush, rust, ruth, ruts, sett, shut, stet, suer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: thrusters. | |
+2 letters: urethritis. | |
+3 letters: bitterbrush, furthermost, haircutters, underthrust, waterthrush. | |
+4 letters: thunderstorm, underthrusts, urethritises. | |
+5 letters: architectures, bitterbrushes, counterthrust, heteropterous, horticultures, merrythoughts, photocurrents, superstrength, thunderstorms, thunderstrike, thunderstroke, thunderstruck, understrength, waterthrushes. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 72 75 73 74 65 72 |
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