SCARFING

  

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SCARFING

Definition: SCARFING

SCARFING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Scarf

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCARFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

"SCARFING" is a common misspelling or typo for: scaring, scarping, scarring.



Specialty Definitions: SCARFING

DomainDefinitions

Metallurgy

Cutting off surface projections such as gates and risers from castings by means of a gas torch. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Splicing timbers, so cut that when joined the resulting piece is not thicker at the joint than elsewhere b. Tapering the ends of two pieces to be joined to avoid an enlarged joint c. Cutting surface areas of metal objects, ordinarily by using a gas torch. The operation permits surface defects to be cut from ingots, billets, or the edges of plate that is to be beveled for butt weldin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCARFING

English words defined with "SCARFING": lap jointTo lap timbers. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SCARFING": SCARFING MACHINE OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, CONDITIONING YARD. (references)

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Photo Album: SCARFING

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Fig. 1. Boat spade to stop running whale. Fig. 2 Narrow cutting spade or thin boat spade. Fig. 3. Flat or round shank spade Fig. 4. Cutting spade for scarfing blubber. Fig. 5 Cutting spade for leaning up. Fig. 6. Half-round spade.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SCARFING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scarfing

3

plywood scarfing

2

jig scarfing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCARFING

Language Translations for "SCARFING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skærebrænding, maskinel flammehoevling. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

machinaal schoonbranden, machinaal autogeen schaven, afschuinen, afbramen met de brander. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viisteliitos, viiste (bevel, chamfering, facet, lead, mitre, starting taper, the ends of the cylindrical bodies are machined to conform to the bevelling of the circular welding seams), koneellinen kaasuhöyläys, kaasuhöyläys. (various references)

   

French

  

embavurage, décriquage la machine, ébarbage au chalumeau. (various references)

   

German

  

maschinelles Flaemmen, Brennschneiden (flame cut, gas cutting), Abschrägen (bevel, chamfering, pinching, pinchout, skew, slant, slope, to bevel, to slant, to slope). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μηχανική αφαίρεση υλικού με φλόγα, Σύνδεση με δόντια, αφαίρεση μετάλλου. (various references)

   

Italian

  

smussatura (bezel, wane), scriccatura a macchina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arfingscay

   

Portuguese

  

limpeza de defeitos máquina, entalhamento, ensamblagem, encaixe por sambladura, chanfradura (chamfer, Dent, indentation, Nick, notch). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escarpado mecánico, ensamblaje (assembling, assembly, docking, lasting, mounting), ensambladura (joinery, joint, scarph box, splice), desbarbado con soplete. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skärbränning, maskinell gashyvling, avfasning (bevel, border, chamfer, chamfering). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCARFING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-g-i-n-r-s"

-1 letter: facings, farcing, racings, sacring, scaring.

-2 letters: arcing, cairns, caring, casing, cigars, facing, fagins, faring, francs, grains, racing, rasing.

-3 letters: acing, airns, cains, cairn, carns, cigar, crags, fagin, fairs, fangs, farci, fiars, firns, frags, franc, frigs, gains, garni, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grins, infra, naifs, narcs, naric, naris, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, sarin, scarf, scrag.

-4 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs, anis, arcs, arfs, asci, cain, cans, carn, cars, cigs, crag, cris, fags, fain, fair, fang, fans, fiar, figs, fins, firn, firs, fisc, frag, frig, gain, gars, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, nags, naif, narc, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rias, rifs, rigs, ring, rins, sain, sang, sari, scag, scan, scar, sign, sing, snag.

-5 letters: ain, air, ais, ani, arc, arf, ars, can, car, cig, cis, fag, fan, far, fas, fig, fin, fir, gan, gar, gas, gin, ifs, ins, nag, rag, ran, ras, ria, rif, rig, rin, sac, sag, sic, sin, sir, sri.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-f-g-i-n-r-s"
 

+1 letter: surfacing.

 

+2 letters: kingcrafts, scarifying, surfacings.

 

+3 letters: crawfishing, flagrancies, forecasting, fragrancies, franchising, resurfacing, sacrificing.

 

+4 letters: centrifugals, cliffhangers, fricasseeing, interfacings, safecracking, scarifyingly, transfecting.

 

+5 letters: enfranchising, flowchartings, reclassifying, saccharifying, safecrackings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCARFING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 41 52 46 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-    .-.    ..-.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01000001 01010010 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#65 &#82 &#70 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0041 0052 0046 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5337355240434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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