Carburetor vs. Carburettor — What's the Difference?

A carburetor (American English) or carburettor (British English) is a device that mixes air and fuel for internal combustion engines in an appropriate air–fuel ratio for combustion. The term is sometimes colloquially shortened to carb in the UK and North America or to carby in Australia.

A device in an internal combustion engine for mixing air with a fine spray of liquid fuel.

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

Alternative spelling of carburetor

A small hole in the side of a bong or similar device that is stopped with a finger and then quickly unstopped as a person is inhaling to force smoke out of the drawing end of the pipe.

Mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion

A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition.

A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine.

An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.

One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or alternatively a float carburetor (called also float-feed carburetor, or spray carburetor). In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasoline. In the latter a fine spray of gasoline is drawn from an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.

Mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion