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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Slender areas of permanent vegetation, often planted along the edge or the contour of a field, usually to slow the flow of water or the velocity of wind, in order to capture sediment and other materials before they leave the farm and become pollutants. Types of buffers include filter strips, field borders, grassed waterways, field windbreaks, shelterbelts, contour grass strips, and riparian buffers. (references) |
Environment | Strips of grass or other erosion-resisting vegetation between or below cultivated strips or fields. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | An upstream small dam, terraces, buffer strips, grass plantings and other conservation measures are part of a project designed to improve the quality of water entering Union Grove Lake in Tama County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Buffer strips in the foreground and grassed waterway in the distance protect the natural resources on this farm northwest of Peoria, Illinois. The buffer strip reduces soil erosion and keeps the nearby Illinois River flowing with cleaner water. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | The water in this Peoria County, Illinois creek runs clear thanks the landowner who planted vegetation along the edges. These riparian buffer strips filter water runoff from the fields. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Aerial view of contour buffer strips on highly erodible cropland in Winneshiek County in northeast Iowa. Strips of green alfalfa help curb erosion by providing breaks from the more erodible corn fields. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Grass and legume conservation buffer strips help protect this highly erodible field in western Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Contour buffer strips in Tama County changed the row pattern of the farming operation considerably, as the new contour pattern for the buffers contrasted with previous straighter farming lines. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Grass helps protect this western Iowa cropland with practices including contour buffer strips, field borders, grassed waterways, and grass on terraces. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Grassed contour buffer strips cover an entire field in Tama County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Buffer Strips. Credit: USDA. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-f-i-p-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-4 letters: bruisers, bruiters, buffiest, burriest, bursters, bustiers, friseurs, fruiters, fubsiest, furriest, perturbs, presifts, puffiest, pursiest, restuffs, spurries, stirrups, stripers, stuffers, stuffier, surfeits, surfiest, surprise, uprisers. | |
-5 letters: bestirs, bisters, bistres, bruiser, bruises, bruiter, buffers, buffets, buffier, buriers, burster, busiest, busters, bustier, esprits, fissure, friseur, fruiter, fubsier, fussier, fustier, irrupts, persist, perturb, presift, priests, puffers. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 46 46 45 52 53 54 52 49 50 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01000110 01000110 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U F F E R   S T R I P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0046 0046 0045 0052 0053 0054 0052 0049 0050 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3655404039522535452435053 |
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