Crater - English meaning

ˈkreɪ.tər

Crater – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite.
Usage examples:
The blast left a crater in the car park
Synonims:
HollowBowlBasinPanHoleCavityPocketShell holeCalderaMaarSolfatara
noun
A large bowl used in ancient greece for mixing wine.
Usage examples:
There were marble craters (mixing bowls) and candelabra, statuary, busts, reliefs, column capitals …

verb
Form a crater in (the ground or a planet).
Usage examples:
Pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways

proper noun
A small and faint southern constellation (the cup), between hydra and leo, said to represent the goblet of apollo.

adjective
Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation crater.
Usage examples:
The star delta crateris

noun
A large hole in the top of a volcano (= mountain made from liquid rock)
Usage examples:
The meteorite left a crater six feet deep.

noun
The round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this
Usage examples:
The huge crater of vesuvius, a bomb crater, with a good telescope, you can see craters on the moon.

verb
To make one or more round holes in the surface of something
Usage examples:
They bombed the runway in order to crater it and make it unusable., the surface has been cratered b…

verb
To develop one or more round holes in the surface
Usage examples:
The streets had started to crack and crater.

verb
(of a price, market, business, etc.) to fall or fail suddenly
Usage examples:
If people grew too much corn, the surplus would cause the price to crater., the financial crisis ci…

verb
To cause a price, market, business, etc. to fall or fail suddenly
Usage examples:
How are they going to afford the interest payments without cratering the economy?

Crater translation into English

Crater: translate from English into Chinese

陨石坑, 弹坑, 喷火口

Crater: translate from English into Dutch

Krater, Trechter, Mijntrechter

Crater: translate from English into French

Cratère, Entonnoir, Tasse, Baril

Crater: translate from English into German

Krater, Trichter

Crater: translate from English into Hindi

गड्ढा, ज्वालामुखी पहाड का मुख

Crater: translate from English into Italian

Cratere

Crater: translate from English into Korean

분화구, 구멍

Crater: translate from English into Russian

Кратер, Воронка, Воронка от снаряда, Образовывать кратер

Crater: translate from English into Spanish

Cráter, Hoyo, Hoyo de monte

Word origin

early 17th century (denoting the hollow forming the mouth of a volcano): via Latin from Greek kratēr ‘mixing-bowl’, from krasis ‘mixture’.

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Crater – similar words

cratered

ˈkreɪ.təd

adjective
(of the ground or a planet) having large bowl-shaped cavities in the surface.
Usage examples:
The cratered surface of the moon shows it has a history of violent collisions with asteroids

verb
Form a crater in (the ground or a planet).
Usage examples:
Pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways

adjective
Having one or more round holes in the surface
Usage examples:
A cratered surface, the road was cratered with potholes.

Cratered - all meanings in English

Crater synonims

basin

ˈbeɪ.sən

noun
A bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin.
Usage examples:
‘i liked the traditional idea of washing with a basin and ewer,’ he reflects.

noun
An open, round container shaped like a bowl with sloping sides, used for holding food or liquid
Usage examples:
A pudding basin

noun
The amount of something that a basin can hold
Usage examples:
A basin of water

Basin - all meanings in English

bowl

bəʊl

noun
A round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid.
Usage examples:
A mixing bowl

verb
Roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground.
Usage examples:
She snatched her hat off and bowled it ahead of her

noun
A round vessel that is open at the top

Bowl - all meanings in English

caldera

kælˈdeə.rə

noun
A large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
Usage examples:
Instead, io's surface is dominated by volcanic features, notably gentle shield volcanoes with summi…

noun
A very large, circular hollow that remains when the central part of a volcano falls in after an eruption

Caldera - all meanings in English

cavity

ˈkæv.ə.ti

noun
An empty space within a solid object.
Usage examples:
The abdominal cavity

noun
A hole in a surface or a hollow inside something
Usage examples:
The abdominal/chest cavity

noun
A hole, or an empty space between two surfaces
Usage examples:
The gold was hidden in a secret cavity.

Cavity - all meanings in English

hole

həʊl

noun
A hollow place in a solid body or surface.
Usage examples:
The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb
Make a hole or holes in.
Usage examples:
A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

noun
An empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through an object
Usage examples:
Dig a hole we dug a hole and planted the tree., hole in my jumper's got a hole in it., drill a hole…

Hole - all meanings in English

hollow

ˈhɒl.əʊ

adjective
Having a hole or empty space inside.
Usage examples:
A hollow metal tube

noun
A hole or depression in something.
Usage examples:
A hollow at the base of a large tree

verb
Form by making a hole.
Usage examples:
A tunnel was hollowed out in a mountain range

Hollow - all meanings in English

maar

noun
A broad, shallow crater, typically filled by a lake, formed by a volcanic eruption with little lava.
Usage examples:
Monogenetic volcanoes are small and occur as scoria cones, tuff cones and rings, and maars; they fo…

Maar - all meanings in English

pan

noun
A metal container used for cooking food in.
Usage examples:
Heat the olive oil in a heavy pan

verb
Criticize severely.
Usage examples:
The movie was panned by the critics

noun
A panning movement.
Usage examples:
That slow pan over london

Pan - all meanings in English

pocket

noun
A small bag sewn into or on clothing so as to form part of it, used for carrying small articles.
Usage examples:
She fished for her door key in her coat pocket

adjective
Of a suitable size for carrying in a pocket.
Usage examples:
A pocket german dictionary

verb
Put into one's pocket.
Usage examples:
She watched him lock up and pocket the key

Pocket - all meanings in English

solfatara

noun
A volcanic crater emitting sulphurous and other gases.
Usage examples:
Most of the mountains are clastic stratovolcanic sediments (ashes and tuff), and the abundant solfa…

Solfatara - all meanings in English

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