pulverizer
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈpʌlvəˌraɪzər/
- US
:
pulverizador
- Food residuals collected from college cafeterias are put through a pulverizer before they reach the compost site.
- Sonic pulverizer
Examples
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New equipment includes a cardboard star screen separator, automated news sorter, and a glass pulverizer.
Academic text (1998) -
They replaced a number of belt feeders carrying coal to pulverizers.
Academic text (2001) -
Then he turned his attention back to the pulverizer to see how much time was left on the current run.
Fiction book (1999) -
When he turned the pulverizer on, he was thankful for the sound of the compressed air inside his hood.
Fiction book (1999) -
The construction team used a pulverizer to reduce the concrete debris into smaller pieces for easier disposal.
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Before making the spice blend, she passed the dried herbs through a pulverizer to achieve a fine powder.
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The factory's pulverizer efficiently crushed the incoming raw material into the consistency needed for production.
Synonyms
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3.9
A machine that breaks large objects into smaller pieces, like rocks or cans
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2.5
A machine that crushes materials, for example coffee beans
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6.0
A machine that crushes and compacts large items like cans or boxes
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7.7
A machine that breaks materials into small pieces or dust
Machines that grind or crush materials like grain into smaller pieces
A machine that breaks things like food and tissue into small pieces for disposal and processing
A machine that cuts plastic or organic waste into small pieces
A machine that breaks materials like plastic or organic waste into small pieces
How Fine
Surface Forms
Morphology
pulverizer = pulverize (transparent) = pulver + ize + er
The noun is a straightforward agent/instrument nominalization formed from the verb 'pulverize' with the productive suffix '-er'.
Etymology
Pulverizer comes from the Latin root pulvis, which means 'dust', and it shares the same source as the English word powder. A pulverizer is a machine that crushes or grinds things into dust or powder, so the origin helps explain its modern meaning.