Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A phase modulator
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of PHASR.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To shoot with a phaser weapon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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History
* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons). * (phase modulation): phase + -er
Across languages
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