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BABBITTER

Specialty Definition: BABBITTER

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Occupations

Lines bearing surfaces of metal workpieces with babbitt (tin alloy) to reduce friction and wear: Melts metal in pot or ladle. Positions workpiece in fixture, and heats with torch. Pours molten metal from ladle or pot into fixture. Smooths and shapes bearing surfaces to match contours, using hand scraper. May apply acid to workpiece and dip it in molten tin to coat surface preparatory to babbitting. (references)

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

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Anagrams: BABBITTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-b-e-i-r-t-t"

-2 letters: babbitt, battier, biretta.

-3 letters: attire, baiter, barbet, barite, batter, bibber, bitter, rabbet, rabbit, ratite, rebait, terbia.

-4 letters: barbe, betta, biter, bribe, britt, irate, rabbi, retia, taber, tater, terai, tetra, titer, titre, trait, treat, tribe, trite.

-5 letters: abbe, abet, abri, airt, babe, bait, barb, bare, bate, batt, bear, beat, beta, bibb, bier, bite, bitt, brae.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BABBITTER


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

42 41 42 42 49 54 54 45 52

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)

01000010 01000001 01000010 01000010 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0042 0042 0049 0054 0054 0045 0052

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

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

363536364354543952

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