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| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A slide provided with a rotary joint linking it to a connecting rod or a crank; especially, a slide moving on guide bars-then often called "crosshead"-or in the slide way of a slotted link. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRIVING BLOCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | krydshoved (crank block, fulcrum slide, quadrant, slider, sliding block, Stephenson link motion). (various references) | |
Dutch | kruiskopslede (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block). (various references) | |
Finnish | luisti (crank block, fulcrum slide, slide, slider, sliding block), liukukenkä (crank block, fulcrum slide, shoe, slider, sliding block), liukukappale (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block, slipper), kulissikivi (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block). (various references) | |
French | crosse, coulisseau articulation, coulisseau. (various references) | |
German | Stein (block, brick, calculus, Flint, jewel, man, piece, pit, rock, shale, stone), Schieber (bedpan, black marketeer, damper, fixer, grafter, gun runner, pusher, racketeer, shuffle, slider, sliders, wangler, wanglers), Gleitstein (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block), Gleitklotz,Gleitstück mit Drehgelenk (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block). (various references) | |
Greek | στοιχείο ολίσθησης (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block), ολισθητήρας (crank block, fulcrum slide, guide track, guide way, rolling guide, slide, slide way, slide ways, slider, slideway, sliding block, sliding guide, way, ways). (various references) | |
Italian | pattino (runner, skater). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivingdray ockblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dado da corrediça (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block), cruzeta (coat hanger, cross let). (various references) | |
Spanish | corredera con articulación (crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block). (various references) | |
Swedish | gejdsko (car shoe, car slipper, crank block, fulcrum slide, slider, sliding block). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-g-i-i-k-l-n-o-r-v" | |
-3 letters: codriving, divorcing, goldbrick. | |
-4 letters: blocking, bricking, bridling, broiling, gridlock, kingbird, rockling, vibronic. | |
-5 letters: bilking, birding, birling, boiling, broking, codling, coiling, cording, corking, crinoid, dirking, dirling, docking, dornick, driving, droving, gonidic, licking, ligroin, lingcod, locking, lording, niblick, oilbird, ricking, rocking, roiling, vibrion, vidicon, voicing, voiding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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