different between reactor vs sarcophagus

English

Etymology

react +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i?ækt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i??ækt?/
• Rhymes: -ækt?(?)
• Homophone: reacter

Noun

reactor (plural reactors)

1. A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.

   Synonym: reacter

   Hyponym: respondent

2. (industrial) A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
3. (nuclear physics) A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
4. (chemistry) A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.

Derived terms

• fast reactor
• nuclear reactor

Translations

Anagrams

• Carreto, Cerrato, Creator, acroter, creator

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English reactor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re???k.t?r/
• Hyphenation: re?ac?tor

Noun

reactor m (plural reactoren or reactors)

1. atomic reactor
2. chemical reactor

Derived terms

• kernreactor
• reactorvat

Portuguese

Noun

reactor m (plural reactores)

1. Superseded spelling of reator. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Etymology

From French réacteur.

Noun

reactor n (plural reactoare)

1. reactor

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

reactor m (plural reactores)

1. jet engine
2. rocket engine
3. atomic reactor
4. chemical reactor

Derived terms

• reactor nuclear

Related terms

• reacción

English

Etymology

From French sarcophage, from Latin sarcophagus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sarkophágos, “coffin of limestone”, noun), so named from a supposed property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, from ?????????? (sarkophágos, “flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from genitive ?????? (sarkós) of ???? (sárx, “flesh, meat”) + -????? (-phágos) (from ?????? (éphagon), past of ???? (phág?, “eat”))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)?k?f???s/

Noun

sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses)

1. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
2. (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
3. (historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
4. (historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

Related terms

• sarcophagy
• autosarcophagy

Translations

Further reading

• sarcophagus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sarcophagus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sarcophagus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sarkophágos, “coffin of limestone”), ?????????? (sarkophágos, “flesh-eating, carnivorous”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sar?ko.p?a.?us/, [s?är?k?p?ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sar?ko.fa.?us/, [s?r?k??f??us]

Noun

sarcophagus m (genitive sarcophag?); second declension

1. a grave, sepulchre

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Old High German: saruh
  • Middle High German: sarc
    • German: Sarg
• Vulgar Latin: *sarcus
  • Middle Dutch: sarc, serc
    • Dutch: zerk
  • Old Frisian: serk
• Vulgar Latin: *sarcovagum, *sarcovum
  • Old French: sarcou, sarqueu
    • French: cercueil
      • Esperanto: ?erko
    • Norman: cerqueu
  • >? Galician: sartego, sarteo
• ? English: sarcophagus
• ? French: sarcophage

Adjective

sarcophagus (feminine sarcophaga, neuter sarcophagum); first/second-declension adjective

1. flesh-devouring, carnivorous
2. a kind of limestone used for coffins

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

• sarcophagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sarcophagus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sarcophagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sarcophagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette