"spark plug" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. The part of an internal combustion engine which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. Synonyms: sparkplug, sparking plug [dated] Derived forms: sparkplug [verb] Translations (part of an internal combustion engine): vonkprop (Afrikaans), վառոցքի մոմ (vaṙocʻkʻi mom) (Armenian), alışdırma şamları (Azerbaijani), buxia (Basque), запалителна свещ (zapalitelna svešt) [feminine] (Bulgarian), စပါ့ခ် ပလပ်ဂ် (ca.pahk. pa.lapg) (Burmese), bugia d'encesa [feminine] (Catalan), bugia [feminine] (Catalan), 火花塞 (huǒhuāsāi) (Chinese Mandarin), svíčka [feminine] (Czech), tændrør [neuter] (Danish), bougie [common-gender] (Dutch), sparkilo (Esperanto), süüteküünal (Estonian), sytytystulppa (Finnish), bougie d’allumage [feminine] (French), bougie [feminine] (French), buxía [feminine] (Galician), Zündkerze [feminine] (German), μπουζί (bouzí) [neuter] (Greek), αναφλεκτήρας (anaflektíras) [masculine] (Greek), σπινθηριστής (spinthiristís) (Greek), bouji (Haitian Creole), מצת (matsát) [masculine] (Hebrew), स्पार्क प्लग (spārk plag) (Hindi), gyújtógyertya (Hungarian), kveikikerti [neuter] (Icelandic), kerti [neuter] (Icelandic), busi (Indonesian), spréachphlocóid [feminine] (Irish), candela di accensione [feminine] (Italian), 点火プラグ (denka puragu) (Japanese), スパークプラグ (supāku puragu) (Japanese), busi (Javanese), ឆ្នុកផ្លេក (chnokphleek) (Khmer), ប៊ូស៊ី (buusii) (Khmer), palam pencucuh (Malay), bela [feminine] (Mirandese), tennplugg [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tennplugg [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), شمع (šam') (Persian), Sparkplogg [feminine] (Plautdietsch), Fiastopsel [neuter] (Plautdietsch), świeca zapłonowa [feminine] (Polish), vela de ignição [feminine] (Portuguese), bujie [feminine] (Romanian), свеча́ зажига́ния (svečá zažigánija) [feminine] (Russian), свѐћица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), svjèćica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zapaľovacia sviečka [feminine] (Slovak), vžigalna svečka [feminine] (Slovene), bujía [feminine] (Spanish), tändstift [neuter] (Swedish), buhiya (Tagalog), pasak-panduop (Tagalog), หัวเทียน (hǔua-tiian) (Thai), buji (Turkish), запа́лювальна сві́чка (zapáljuvalʹna svíčka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), сві́чка запа́лювання (svíčka zapáljuvannja) (Ukrainian), сві́чка (svíčka) [feminine, informal] (Ukrainian), bu-gi (Vietnamese), bougie (Vietnamese), bujid (Volapük), filidakandel (Volapük), plwg tanio [masculine] (Welsh), espaak (Yup'ik)
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  2. (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Automotive Synonyms: straw that stirs the drink, catalyst, instigator, mover and shaker, stimulus
    Sense id: en-spark_plug-en-noun-VgbTmk-Y Disambiguation of Automotive: 25 53 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 27 32 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 35 27 38
  3. (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel. Categories (topical): Military
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          "word": "świeca zapłonowa"
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          "word": "свеча́ зажига́ния"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.