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carburet en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A carbide.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
carburate alternative lexicographic
carburets Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

hydrocarburet · percarburet

carburet en · VERB

Etymology

Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To react with carbon.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
    • Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon. William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent
  3. (transitive) To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
  4. (transitive) To equip with a carburetor.
    • Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.

Forms

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carbureting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
carburetting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
carburate alternative lexicographic
carburetted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
carburetted Tense=Past UK lexicographic
carbureted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
carbureted Tense=Past US lexicographic
carburets Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

carburetion · supercarburetted · uncarburetted · carburetant · supercarbureted · carbureted · bicarbureted · uncarbureted · hydrocarburetted · carburetor · percarburetted