Burning

Question 0

Transmission

Answer 0

An automotive assembly of gears and associated parts by which power is transmitted from the engine to a driving axle. Also called gearbox.

Question 1

Carburetor

Answer 1

n.

A device used in internal-combustion engines to produce an explosive mixture of vaporized fuel and air.

Question 2

(Rubber) Gasket

Answer 2

1. Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
2. Nautical A cord or canvas strap used to secure a furled sail to a yard boom or gaff.

Question 3

Throttle

Answer 3

n.
1. A valve that regulates the flow of a fluid, such as the valve in an internal-combustion engine that controls the amount of vaporized fuel entering the cylinders.
2. A lever or pedal controlling such a valve.
❖ tr.v. throt•tled, throt•tling, throt•tles
1.
a. To regulate the flow of (fuel) in an engine.
b. To regulate the speed of (an engine) with a throttle.
2. To suppress: tried to throttle the press.
3. To strangle; choke.
Short for throttle valve, from throttle, to strangle, choke, from Middle English throtelen, probably from throte, throat; see throat.
throt′tler n.

Question 4

Bog

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n.
1.
a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.
2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
❖ v. bogged, bog•ging, bogs
v. tr.
To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don’t bog me down in this mass of detail.
❖ v.intr.
To be hindered and slowed.
Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.
bog′gi•ness n.
bog′gy adj.

Question 5

Starter switch

Answer 5

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Question 6

Fuel switch

Answer 6

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Question 7

Acre

Answer 7

n.
1. Abbr. a. or ac. A unit of area in the U.S. Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.
2. acres Property in the form of land; estate.
3. A wide expanse, as of land or other matter. Often used in the plural: “Everything was streaky pink marble and acres of textureless carpeting” (Anne Tyler).
4. Archaic A field or plot of arable land.
Middle English aker, field, acre, from Old English æcer; see agro- in Indo-European roots.

Question 8

The choke

Answer 8

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Question 9

Kick-start peg

Answer 9

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Question 10

Clutch lever

Answer 10

a. Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.
b. The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.

Question 11

Shift lever

Answer 11

To change (gears), as in an automobile.

Question 12

Gear

Answer 12

c. A transmission configuration for a specific ratio of engine to axle torque in a motor vehicle.

Question 13

substrate

Answer 13

sub•strate (sŭb′strāt′)
n.
1. The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
2. Biology A surface on which an organism grows or is attached.
3. An underlying layer; a substratum.
4. Linguistics An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population.
From substratum.