Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In electricity, a device for bringing alternating generators or motors into the same phase.
Wiktionary
- n. music An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
Examples
“This remark was immediately rendered in the Mercan language by his Translator, except for the word "phaser," for which there was no Mercan equivalent.”
“The National Post has a fun article about William Shatner, called His phaser is set to fun.”
“The phaser was a flashlight, with silouette disks of a Klingon ship and other such stuff.”
“Because a phaser is a pinpoint blast of concentrated light," explained Soleta.”
“The cerebral shock from the phaser was our biggest concern, but you responded well to treatment.”
““It looks like you are threatening your captain with a phaser, which is a court-martial offense, Commander.””
“I'm guessing the phaser was the Playmates toy version.”
“The phaser is a ranged weapon -- works better for us geek weaklings who don't want to get our hands dirty.”
“Maybe tagging all the individual frames with characters or events "phaser", "transporter", "klingon", "Neelix" and then being able to pull them up by entering keywords.”
“So soon it was "phaser" and "plasma rifle" and "hypervelocity rail gun," as everyone took a quick swing back into fantasy land, which is what Space Opera is all about anyway.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phaser’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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Super Geeky Word List
as a techie, I run across nerd words.
brane, polyamide, phb, PHB, BOFH, redditor, grammar nazi, phaser, trending, SPOILER ALERT, surface mount, FMEA and 70 more...
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Star Trek and Star Wars
Ridiculous American cheese, but entertaining all the same.
navigational shields, antiprotons, deflector, superluminal, spock, vulcan, warp speed, warp, captain, united earth, lieutenant, commander and 51 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
dictionaries,these are from Macquarie
Dictionary and not playable in
scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Science Fiction Double Feature
cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, sci-fi, steampunk, techsploitation, dystopia, transhumanism, posthuman, future, skiffy, comlink, transmogrifier and 38 more...
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Technobabble
Frequently used Star Trek terminology
wormhole, turbolift, tricorder, warp, transporter, replicator, sensor, photon, phaser, holodeck, dilithium, combadge and 70 more...
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rqparks's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for phaser.
bilby Oooh, we have a list for this. Dec 31, 2012
alexz In Star-Trek, it's the handheld ray gun which operates like a laser, disintegrates objects, and has a stun setting. Dec 31, 2012