Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which reverberates; especially, that which reflects light; a reflecting lamp.
- noun A reverberating or reverberatory furnace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, produces reverberation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofreverberate ; one who reverberates.
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Examples
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Oops, I just saw yoo wuz saved below. *shayks hed* Well, mebbe I shuldint hav set teh reverberator on such a hi nomber.
mommie, i iz sory i wuz bad kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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President Roosevelt, that magnificent reverberator of ideas, that gleam of wilful humanity, that fantastic first interruption to the succession of machine-made politicians at the White House, has echoed clearly to this movement and made it an integral part of the general intellectual movement of America.
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He secured the services of a former assistant, and dispatched him to a high peak on the coast of Spain, where he had to superintend a reverberator, which, with the aid of a glass, could be seen from Formentera.
Off on a Comet 1877
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He secured the services of a former assistant, and dispatched him to a high peak on the coast of Spain, where he had to superintend a reverberator, which, with the aid of a glass, could be seen from Formentera.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866
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Whenever you come to Paris, and see, on the first story, a suite of rooms ostentatiously illuminated, and a blazing reverberator at the door, you may be certain that it is a house of this description.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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*fires up teh reverberator, turns it on hi, zaps DSH bak into life*
mommie, i iz sory i wuz bad kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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