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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Performs one or more of following duties to deblock and clean precision ophthalmic or optical elements, such as lenses, flats, prisms: Chills blocked element to crystallize pitch or other block adhesive and strikes block with mallet to separate element from block, or heats block to soften adhesive and removes element with fingers. Places lenses and elements in basket and immerses basket in degreasing tank or automatic cleaning machine. Places elements in tray of solvent. Cleans finished surfaces of element with pad and brush and rubs unfinished surfaces on board dusted with abrasive to remove foreign substances. Inspects lens to ensure cleanliness and freedom from defects. Sprays or brushes protective coating on element, allows coating to dry, and places in element tray or wraps in tissue. Replenishes solvents in trays and tanks. Drains molten metal block adhesive from machine or tank for reuse. May clean pitch from surface of block, using hammer, knife, and wire wheel. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-k-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: corbeled, relocked. | |
-2 letters: bedrock, blocked, blocker, clerked. | |
-3 letters: becked, bedeck, bolder, bordel, colder, corbel, corked, creole, deckel, decker, deckle, docker, kerbed, locked, locker, rebeck, recked, recode, redock, relock, rocked. | |
-4 letters: bedel, bleed, block, bloke, bored, brede, breed, brock, broke, ceder, celeb, ceorl, cered, cleek, clerk, coble, coder, coked, coled, cored, credo, creed, creek, creel. | |
| 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)44 45 42 4C 4F 43 4B 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -... .-.. --- -.-. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000010 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E B L O C K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0042 004C 004F 0043 004B 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383936464937453952 |
| 1. Anagrams 2. Orthography 3. Bibliography |
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