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carburetor

[ kahr-buh-rey-ter, -byuh- ]

noun

  1. a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of carburetor1

First recorded in 1860–65; carburet + -or 2

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Example Sentences

Let the machine run for about five minutes to make sure the stabilizer gets to the carburetor.

You don’t need to know how to rebuild a carburetor to drive your car.

Somebody could be giving us a drink instead of a sticky carburetor.

Tea Partiers are “the four-barrel carburetor,” Bill Bennett says.

The leading carburetors of today are said to be based upon the principles of the first Hedstrom carburetor.

He changed the carburetor adjustment, and Foster got a weary chug-chug that ceased almost as soon as it had begun.

I am sure that the trifling disorder in the carburetor may be corrected.

You do not refuse to engage in the automobile business because the carburetor and the differential are words of four syllables.

The first type is known as the surface carburetor and is now practically obsolete.

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