excavator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/
- Hyphenation: ex‧ca‧vat‧or
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]excavator (plural excavators)
- A person who excavates.
- A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
- Synonyms: digger, excavating machine
- A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person
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vehicle
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curette used to scrape out pathological material — see curette
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Category:excavators on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
[edit]- “excavator”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “excavator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “excavator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “excavator”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]excavātor
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French excavateur. Equivalent to excava + -tor.
Noun
[edit]excavator n (plural excavatoare)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | excavator | excavatorul | excavatoare | excavatoarele | |
genitive-dative | excavator | excavatorului | excavatoare | excavatoarelor | |
vocative | excavatorule | excavatoarelor |
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -or
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Tools
- en:Construction vehicles
- en:People
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms suffixed with -tor
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns