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FOURDRINIER

Definition: FOURDRINIER

FOURDRINIER

Noun

1. A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: FOURDRINIER

DomainDefinitions

Industry

Apaper machine in which the web of paper is fomed on an endless traveling wire screen that passes under a dandy roll, over suction boxes, through presses and over dryers. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: FOURDRINIER

Specialty definitions using "FOURDRINIER": deckle boards, drainage foilfourdrinier machine, FOURDRINIER-MACHINE OPERATORLOOM SETTER, WIRE WEAVINGpaper-machine operator. (references)

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Photo Album: FOURDRINIER

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A view of Savanah [sic] as it stood the 29th of March, 1734 / P. Gordon inv. ; P. Fourdrinier sculp. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: FOURDRINIER

"FOURDRINIER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FOURDRINIER" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (comparative)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FOURDRINIER

Expression using "FOURDRINIER": fourdrinier machine. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FOURDRINIER

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

fourdrinier

5

fourdrinier machine paper

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FOURDRINIER

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

Chinese 

  

纸机. (various references)

   

French

  

machine fourdrinier (fourdrinier machine), machine papier fourdrinier (fourdrinier machine). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourdrinierfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FOURDRINIER

Derivations

Words beginning with "FOURDRINIER": fourdriniers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FOURDRINIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-n-o-r-r-r-u"

-3 letters: frondeur, furriner, inferior.

-4 letters: dourine, forerun, founder, furrier, neuroid, refound, rondure, rounder, unfired, unified, unifier, uridine.

-5 letters: dinero, diuron, dourer, droner, durion, durrie, enduro, finder, foined, fonder, fondue, friend, furore, furred, inured, iodine, ironed, ironer, ordure, redfin, refind, refund, ruined, ruiner, undoer.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-n-o-r-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: fourdriniers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FOURDRINIER


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

46 4F 55 52 44 52 49 4E 49 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)

01000110 01001111 01010101 01010010 01000100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#68 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 0055 0052 0044 0052 0049 004E 0049 0045 0052

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

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

4049555238524348433952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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