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carburet

noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A carbide.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To react with carbon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Examples

  • 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

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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5

verb

Meaning 5

To equip with a carburetor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.

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6

verb

Meaning 6

combine with carbon

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: compound, combine

History

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.