Crossword clues for carburettor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carburetor \Car"bu*ret`or\, Carburettor \Car"bu*ret`tor\, n.
(Chem.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. [Written also carburettor.]
One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or alternatively a float carburetor (called also float-feed carburetor, or spray carburetor). In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasoline. In the latter a fine spray of gasoline is drawn from an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.
Wiktionary
alt. (context AU NZ UK English) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporised and mixed with air prior to ignition. n. (context AU NZ UK English) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporised and mixed with air prior to ignition.
WordNet
n. mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion [syn: carburetor]
Usage examples of "carburettor".
Two of them had the entire carburettor assemblies missing, but he could cannibalize from the wreck.
That left him short of one carburettor and he felt only gloom at his chances of finding another in Dares Salaam.
He worked swiftly, his lips pursed but the tune stealthily muted, and his brow creased with concentration as the carburettor jumped and heaved unpredictably under his hands and the whinnies of passion and the high-pitched exhortations to greater effort and speed rang louder.
As Jake lifted the entire carburettor assembly off the engine block and stowed it into the carpet-bag, there was one last piercing shriek and the Bentley came to an abrupt rest while a ringing silence fell over the palm grove.
She had to beat them back and shoo them away before she could begin work, but then she was completely absorbed in her task, and in half an hour had checked an tested the fuel system, making sure that gasoline was travelling freely from the tank along the lines to carburettor and cylinders, and that the pump was functioning smoothly.
This had been a year ago, not long after I got my first clunker and had invested twenty dollars in renting one of Darnell's Do-It-Yourself Garage bays to try and replace the carburettor, an experiment that had ended in dismal failure.
This close to Christmas, all your regulars are buying toys for the kiddies instead of spark plugs and carburettor kits.
The carburettor float sticks, a tyre blows, there's an electrical short, the upholstery starts getting ratty.
We kept the blow-torches burning, returned the battery to the stove, removed and cleaned the plugs, eased the frozen brushes in the generator, stripped and removed the petrol lines, thawed them and sucked out the frozen condensation by mouth, scraped away the ice from the carburettor intake and returned everything in place.
The behaviour of a motor car is explained in terms of cylinders, carburettors and sparking plugs.
This was the point of explaining cars in terms of carburettors rather than quarks.
But the hierarchical reductionist believes that carburettors are explained in terms of smaller units .
The motor-room is well ventilated and there are trays to catch any drops from the carburettors, so you see I am careful.
The flames, igniting the petrol in the carburettors, had melted the unions of the petrol-pipes.
He found an oily cloth and used it to rub clean part of the right suspension, a fuel line, the steering linkage and one of the carburettors in the engine compartment.