carburetor

Noun

Meaning

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.

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My wife told me the car wasn't running well. There was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was, and she told me it was in the lake. Henny Youngman

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. Mike Huckabee

This would again be like saying that the carburetor had won the race, instead of the car of the driver. Carburators do not even know how to enter races, let alone win them. Mary Midgley

A carburetor was invented by an Italian, Luigi De Cristoforis, in 1876. Source: Internet

A carburetor was among the early patents by Karl Benz (1888) https://www. Source: Internet

Alternative to employing a power valve, the carburetor may utilize a metering rod or step-up rod system to enrich the fuel mixture under high-demand conditions. Source: Internet

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