COFFER DAM

  

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COFFER DAM

Definition: COFFER DAM

COFFER DAM

1. (Engin.) See Cofferdam , in the Vocabulary.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Photo Album: COFFER DAM

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East wall and dry area of coffer dam, Livingstone Channel, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steam shovel removing a section of coffer dam, Livingstone Channel, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coulee Dam, Wash., Coffer Dam. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COFFER DAM

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

the coffer dam

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COFFER DAM

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

Arabic 

  

‏خزينة (treasury). (various references)

   

Danish

  

afstivet fangedaemning med 1 vaeg (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yksiseinäinen jäykistetty työpato (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

French

  

coffre (coffer, luggage compartment). (various references)

   

German

  

einwandiger (single-wall braced coffer dam), abgesteifter Fangedamm (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρεάτιο (manhole, small well). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tura a parete semplice puntellata (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

Manx

  

doouyr runt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offercay amday

   

Portuguese

  

ensecadeira com parede simples reforçada (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ataguía simple atirantada (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

enkelspontad avstyvad fångdamm (single-wall braced coffer dam). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COFFER DAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cofferdam.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-f-m-o-r"

-2 letters: caromed, comrade.

-3 letters: afford, coffer, comade, defoam, deform, doffer, farced, farmed, fedora, femora, foamed, foamer, forced, formed, framed, radome, roamed.

-4 letters: acred, adore, afore, arced, armed, cadre, cameo, cared, carom, cedar, coder, comae, comer, cored, cream, credo, decaf, decor, derma, draff, dream, faced, facer, fader, famed, farce, fared, foram, force, forme, frame, fremd.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-f-m-o-r"
 

+1 letter: cofferdams.

 

+5 letters: diffractometer, diffractometry.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COFFER DAM


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

43 4F 46 46 45 52      44 41 4D

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

    

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

01000011 01001111 01000110 01000110 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000100 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#70 &#70 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0046 0046 0045 0052      0044 0041 004D

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

3749404039522383547

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INDEX

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


  

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