Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.
- n. A cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a series of projections in a grooved recess round the lower part of a ship's capstan, by which the chain-cable is grasped while heaving up anchor.
- n. One of the projections on a sprocket-wheel which engage the chain.
Wiktionary
- n. A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- n. usually plural The tooth of such a wheel.
- n. architecture A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- n. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.
- n. A sprocket wheel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- n. thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel
Etymologies
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- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There is a drop down menu from the top middle bar of your working window (with a little 'sprocket' symbol).”
“Why, coming home on my bicycle the other day there was an awful row between some infernal 'sprocket' and the 'ball bearings' of the machine, and I never knew before there were such things in the whole concern. ”
“All you have to do is back off the holding nuts, then use a screwdriver to turn a sprocket in the bar to loosen or tighten the chain as much as you want.”
“Meanwhile Julie Lewis continues to change the world, one film sprocket at a time.”
“The sprocket appears to make a complete rotation for every hour, which would mean that its the minute drive being used.”
“The clutter of existence falls away pretty easily when you need all your energy just to turn the pedal sprocket one more revolution.”
“With the creaking sound of a tired sprocket, I looked up to see Larry Beecher ride by on his ten speed bike for the third time in five minutes; head bent in a slow, yet purposeful pace, pedaled by fifteen dollar tennis shoes, shock white socks stretched with perfection to the knee caps, 70s-style brown sport shorts, yellow mesh tank top, low-worn baseball cap and a pair of mirrored aviator sunglasses.”
“As the socks and sprocket and all that came with them disappeared in earnest down the block, I flipped the plunger in the air, allowing exactly one revolution, grabbed it by its wooden handle and went inside to get dressed for the day in store.”
“Avoid diphthongs, the Guggenheim Museum, and the words “sprocket,” “croque-monsieur,” and “pants” when writing an advice column.”
“Ides of March -- which stars both Clooney and Gosling and is directed by Clooney -- bowed for the press yesterday at the jewel-like TIFF Bell Lighbtbox, the theater complex that anchors Toronto's famed sprocket opera.”
The Huffington Post: Erica Abeel: Clooney and Gosling Take Toronto
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sprocket’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Mountain Biking
Words that relate to bicycling or mountain biking
crank, podium, attack position, bonk, rock garden, babyheads, bunny hop, chain, chainring, clipless, freeride, slicks and 204 more...
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CycList
Anything related to cycling; no motorcycling, please.
frame, pedal, crank arm, top tube, down tube, seat tube, seat stay, chain stay, saddle, fork, hub, rim and 97 more...
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Bracket and such
bracket, bucket, cricket, docket, jacket, locket, packet, picket, racket, rocket, socket, sprocket and 17 more...
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effemera's list
words that feel nice in the mouth (mostly)
prestidigitation, flange, ephemeral, smooth, abracadabra, buzz, click, crisp, widget, sprocket, magic, serendipity
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essbunny@gmail.com's list
Intrigued by these words...
sphincter, blush, flume, shingle, spurt, pulp, precious, squeal, zest, zeal, cherish, fervor and 35 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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•Open List: I Wonder What Reesetee's ...
macaw, mudhen, squop, flammulated, obsidian, squarehead, parsnip, sprocket, bloviate, fantods
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Flanges &c
Amusingly-named mechanical and electrical parts to be found in a particular warehouse in Newfoundland
nut, relief valve, cotter, shaft, bushing (inner bo..., sleeve, bushing (link), thrust washer, slip yoke, bushing (swing post), half pump coupling, main teledyne spool and 344 more...
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