Definitions for Crater
Crater
cra·ter
Spelling: [krey-ter]
IPA: /ˈkreɪ tər/
Crater is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 105 anagrams from letters in Crater (acerrt).
Definitions for Crater
noun
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the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
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Also called impact crater, meteorite crater. (on the surface of the earth, moon, etc.) a bowl-shaped depression with a raised rim, formed by the impact of a meteoroid.
Compare astrobleme.
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Astronomy. (on the surface of the moon) a circular or almost circular area having a depressed floor, almost always containing a central mountain and usually completely enclosed by walls that are often higher than those of a walled plain; ring formation; ring.
Compare walled plain.
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the bowllike orifice of a geyser.
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the hole or pit in the ground where a bomb, shell, or military mine has exploded.
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Electricity. the cavity formed in a positive carbon electrode by an electric arc.
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Greek and Roman Antiquity. krater.
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Metalworking. a depression at the end of a bead produced by welding.
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genitive Crateris [krey-teer-is] /kreɪˈtɪər ɪs/ (Show IPA). (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Cup, a small southern constellation west of Corvus and north of Hydra.
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Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
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a mixing bowl characterized by a wide mouth and body with two handles projecting vertically from the juncture of the neck and body, used to mix wine and water.
verb (used with object)
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to make craters in:
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Slang.
to cancel, abandon, or cast aside:
to destroy or ruin:
verb (used without object)
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to form a crater or craters:
Origin of Crater
1605-15; Latin Greek krātḗr mixing bowl, literally, mixer, equivalent to krā- (base of kerannýnai to mix) + -tēr agentive suffix; cf. crasis
Examples for Crater
He pressed on up to the rim of the crater and lost no time in the descent on the other side.
We stood now on the rim of the crater, looking straight into the inferno.
Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
The crater was one hundred and fifty feet wide and fifty feet deep.
In this crater, frail silhouettes, women for the most part, bend to dig with their bare hands in the rubble.
In another moment they were riding rapidly toward the rim of the crater.
He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
But the empty silence of the desert was misleading, as the men in the crater knew.
Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.
The letter to Clinton quotes one source who described the crater as “big enough for forty men to go through.”