carburetor
pronunciation
How to pronounce carburetor in British English:
UK ['kɑ:bjʊretə]
How to pronounce carburetor in American English:
US ['kɑbəˌreɪtə]
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- Noun:
- mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion
Word Origin
- carburetor (n.)
- device to enhance a gas flame, 1866, from carburet "compound of carbon and another substance" (1795, now displaced by carbide), also used as a verb, "to combine with carbon" (1802); from carb-, comb. form of carbon, + -uret, an archaic suffix formed from Modern Latin -uretum to parallel French words in -ure. Motor vehicle sense is from 1896.
Example
- 1. Did you ever have any trouble with the carburetor ?
- 2. When he turned off the engine , gas began pouring out of the carburetor .
- 3. How do you know the carburetor 's flooded ?
- 4. How to get selected me tecumseh carburetor ?
- 5. " No , there 's definitely water in the carburetor , " she insisted .