vibrator

From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate +‎ -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈbɹeɪtə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪbɹeɪtɚ/, [ˈvaɪ̯bɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]
• Hyphenation: vi‧bra‧tor
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

vibrator (plural vibrators)

1. A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
   1. A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.

      They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.

      • 1988, Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll, Casual Sex?, spoken by Stacy (Lea Thompson):

        Mmm. I'm sick of my ‘Mighty Intruder’ vibrator with the flexible shaft and the textured head.

      • 1998 August 2, Nicole Avril, Susan Kolinsky, “The Turtle and the Hare”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Charlotte:

        A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.

   2. (historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
   3. A trembler, as of an electric bell.
   4. A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
   5. A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
   6. An oscillator.
   7. An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
   8. A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
   9. (weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
   10. An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.

• stick shaker
• cat

• master vibrator

• vibrate
• vibrant
• vibration

• “vibrator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “vibrator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin vibrator. The sense for the sex toy probably derives from English vibrator.

• IPA^(key): /ˌviˈbraː.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: vi‧bra‧tor

vibrator m (plural vibrators, diminutive vibratortje n)

1. vibrator (vibrating sex toy)
2. vibrator (any vibrating device)

• vibratie
• vibreren

vibrātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vibrō

From vibra +‎ -tor.

vibrator n (plural vibratori)

1. dildo

vibrator c

1. vibrator (something that vibrates)
2. vibrator (sex toy)

   Synonym: massagestav

• sexleksak (“sex toy”)

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