Carburetor vs. Deuce

Carburetornoun

A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition.

Carburetornoun

A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine.

Carburetornoun

An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.

Carburetornoun

One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or alternatively a float carburetor (called also float-feed carburetor, or spray carburetor). In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasoline. In the latter a fine spray of gasoline is drawn from an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.

Carburetornoun

mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion

Carburetor

A carburetor (American English) or carburettor (British English) is a device that mixes air and fuel for internal combustion engines in an appropriate air–fuel ratio for combustion. The term is sometimes colloquially shortened to carb in the UK and North America or to carby in Australia.

Deucenoun

(cards) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Deucenoun

(dice) A side of a die with two spots.

Deucenoun

(dice) A cast of dice totalling two.

Deucenoun

The number two.

Deucenoun

(tennis) A tie in which one player can win by scoring two consecutive points.

Deucenoun

(baseball) A curveball.

Deucenoun

A '32 Ford.

Deucenoun

(in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold.

Deucenoun

A table seating two diners.

Deucenoun

A piece of excrement.

Deucenoun

(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

Deucenoun

Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

Deucenoun

A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.

Deucenoun

The devil; a demon.

Deucenoun

a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game

Deucenoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

Deucenoun

a word used in exclamations of confusion;

Deucenoun

one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots

Deucenoun

the two on dice or playing cards

Deucenoun

a throw of two at dice.

Deucenoun

a two-dollar bill

Deucenoun

the score of 40 all in a game, at which each player needs two consecutive points to win the game

Deucenoun

used as a euphemism for ‘devil’ in expressions of annoyance, impatience, surprise, etc.