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Definition: DASHPOT |
DASHPOTNoun1. A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | Hydraulic damping device in which movement of a piston forces oil through a small orifice, thus restricting movement. Often used as a speed control device for pneumatic cylinders. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Small cylinder containing a piston, used to damp the movement of a part. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. An appliance for damping out vibration. It consists of a piston attached to the object to be damped and fitting loosely in a cylinder of oil. See also:hydrabrake retarder b. A similar device for closing the valves in a Corliss engine, actuatedby atmospheric pressure or by a contained spring. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: dash-pot (engineering & technologymechanical engineeringmechanical engineering, meteorology & standardsnuclear energy & physics). |
Crosswords: DASHPOT |
| Specialty definitions using "DASHPOT": hydrabrake retarder. (references) |
| "DASHPOT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "DASHPOT" 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) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dashpot | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DASHPOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "冲'. (various references) | |
Danish | daemper (damper), dæmperanordning i karburator, dæmper (damper, dash-pot, dimmer, light regulator, rheostat), oliestøddæmper (dash-pot), oliedæmper (dash-pot), hydraulisk bremsecylinder (dash-pot). (various references) | |
Dutch | demper (damper, dash-pot, theatre dimmer), olieremcilinder (dash-pot), oliedemper, hydraulische snelheidsbegrenzer (dash-pot), gasklepdemper. (various references) | |
Finnish | nestevaimennin (dash-pot). (various references) | |
French | dashpot, régulateur de vitesse (dash-pot), frein de ralenti, amortisseur hydraulique (dashing vessel, dash-pot, liquid damper), amortisseur fluide (dashing vessel, dash-pot, liquid damper), amortisseur (damper, dash pot, dash-pot, oscillation damper). (various references) | |
German | Drosselklappenschließdämpfer, Dämpfer (attenuator, damper, dampers, dash-pot, muffle, muffler, mute, muting, steamer), Oelbremse, Hydrostoßdämpfer (dashing vessel, hydraulic shock absorber, liquid damper), Hydrodämpfer (dashing vessel, hydraulic shock absorber, liquid damper), hydraulischer Stoßdämpfer (dashing vessel, hydraulic shock absorber, liquid damper), hydraulischer Bremszylinder (dash-pot). (various references) | |
Greek | μεμβράνη απόσβεσης καρμπιρατέρ, υδραυλική πέδη (dash-pot), φούσκα καρμπιρατέρ, αποσβεστήρας με ρευστά (dash-pot), αποσβεστήρ ταλαντώσεων. (various references) | |
Italian | amortizzatore a fluido (dash-pot), ammortizzatore (absorber, buffer, damper, dash-pot, oscillation damper, shock absorber). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashpotday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regulador de velocidade hidropneumático (dash-pot), amortecedor de fluido (dash-pot), amortecedor (absorber, bearer, bolster, buffer, bumper, cushion, damper, dash-pot, mufti, oscillation damper, pad, shock absorber, shock absorbing). (various references) | |
Spanish | dashpot, amortiguador hidráulico (dash-pot), amortiguador (absorber, air cushion, buffer, cushioning, damper, dash pot, dash-pot, muffler, oscillation damper, shock absorber, shock absorbing, shock-absorber, stop). (various references) | |
Swedish | hydraulisk bromscylinder (dash-pot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DASHPOT": dashpots. (additional references) | |
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"DASHPOT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dasho, Deshnok, Diaphot, Docshop, fashport. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adopts, pathos, potash. | |
-2 letters: adopt, apods, datos, doats, dopas, hadst, hosta, oaths, opahs, paths, phots, shoat, spado, staph, toads, tophs. | |
-3 letters: ados, apod, atop, dahs, daps, dash, dato, doat, dopa, dost, doth, dots, haps, hasp, hast, hats, hods, hops, host, hots, oast, oath, oats, opah, opts, pads, pash, past, path, pats, phat, phot, pods, posh, post, pots, shad, shat, shod, shop, shot, soap, soda, soph, soth, spat, spot, stoa, stop, tads, taos, taps, toad, tods, toph, tops, tosh. | |
-4 letters: ado, ads, apt, ash, asp, dah, dap, dos, dot, had, hao, hap, has, hat, hod, hop, hot, oat, ods, ohs, ops, opt, pad, pah, pas, pat, pht, pod, poh, pot, sad, sap, sat, sha, sod, sop, sot, spa, tad, tao, tap, tas, tho, tod, top. | |
-5 letters: ad, ah, as, at, do, ha, ho, od, oh, op, os, pa, sh, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dashpots, hardtops, hoptoads, potheads, potshard. | |
+2 letters: potshards. | |
+3 letters: arthropods, rhapsodist. | |
+4 letters: anthropoids, atmosphered, diastrophic, diphosphate, methyldopas, parenthoods, patchboards, phosphatide, photostated, postholiday, radiophotos, rhapsodists, snapshotted. | |
+5 letters: apotheosized, cycadophytes, diaphoretics, diastrophism, dictatorship, diphosphates, hospitalised, hospitalized, hydropathies, hypostatized, orthopaedics, parathyroids, paratyphoids, pentahedrons, phagocytosed, phosphatides, phosphatidic, phosphatidyl, phosphatized, photostatted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 53 48 50 4F 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- ... .... .--. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01010011 01001000 01010000 01001111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A S H P O T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0053 0048 0050 004F 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38355342504954 |
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