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teleporter

TEH-lih-paw-tuh
noun
1
A device (or, in fiction, a person) that teleports things from place to place.
"The crew stepped onto the teleporter and vanished in a flash of light."
2
A large mobile lift used to raise workers or loads to height, also called a cherry picker.
"The builders used a teleporter to lift roof tiles to the top of the scaffold."

How to Use Teleporter

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA sci-fi machine that instantly moves people/things, or (in real life, unrelated meaning) a construction lift.

Common mistake

In UK building and farming contexts, "teleporter" almost always means the telescopic-boom lift, not a sci-fi device.

Word Forms

teleporters plural, teleporters plural

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Etymology

Formed from teleport plus the agent ending -er.

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