teleporter
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- noun
- /ˈtɛləˌpɔrtər/
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teletransportador
- The scientist demonstrated how the teleporter could move objects across vast distances in seconds.
- build a teleporter
Examples
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We must find one of Drek's teleporters!
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Still waiting for the teleporter and tricorder, and I wonder if we'll ever find a Tribble?
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When combined, the time travel device is a teleporter as well as a time machine.
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So you're telling me these guys have got a teleporter?
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Enter the connector in the teleporter.
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To access the first one, once you get the connector key, go back outside to the rusty teleporter on the outer cliffs and insert the key.
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- Listen, doctor, if it wasn't for you and your handy dandy teleporter, we wouldn't be in need of anything, and Cliff would still be alive.
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In the movie, the alien used a teleporter to escape to another planet instantly.
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During our adventure, we discovered an ancient teleporter that transported us to a lost civilization.
Synonyms
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A device in stories that opens a doorway for instant travel between far places
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Morphology
Etymology
Teleporter comes from two parts: tele- meaning 'far' and porter meaning 'to carry'. You see tele- in telephone, which sends sound far, and porter in a person who carries bags, so a teleporter is something that 'carries' people or things instantly to a far place.