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Date "HAMMERSMITH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
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Occupations | Repairs defects in silver hollowware, such as trays, creamers, teapots, and bowls, using hammers, dollies, and tracing punches: Examines article to determine nature of defect, such as dents, uneven bottom, scratches, or holes. Places article on anvil or dolly and pounds out dents or bulges, selecting hammer with head corresponding in curvature with surface of article. Straightens twisted articles by hand. Forms concavity in bottom of article to improve its stability, using tracing punches and hammer. Verifies levelness of bottom edges of article, using straightedge, or by rocking article back and forth on flat surface. Peens edges of scratches or holes to repair defect, using peening hammer. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The area is on the main A4 trunk road heading west from central London towards the M4 motorway. A busy commuter route, the A4 passes over the area's main road junction on a long viaduct, the Hammersmith Flyover.
Hammersmith has many shops and quite a famous theatre called the 'Hammersmith Apollo'. Hammersmith is the setting for the BBC comedy series 'Bottom'.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hammersmith."
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Movie/TV Titles | Hammersmith Is Out (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | VCS-7 pilots are briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beach heads, circa June-July 1944. The squadron had temporarily switched from its SOC floatplanes to British "Spitfire" fighters for this operation. Those present are (from left to right): Wing Commander Robert J. Hardiman, RAF, Commanding Allied Spotter Pilots; Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR; Major Noel East, British Army Intelligence; Lieutenant Harris Hammersmith, Jr., USNR; and Captain John Ruscoe, Royal Artillery, Gunnery Liaison Officer. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 17 February 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "HAMMERSMITH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HAMMERSMITH" is used about 347 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 347 | 15,353 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "HAMMERSMITH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hammersmith | Last name | 400 | 22,999 |
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Beginning with "HAMMERSMITH": hammersmith-born, Hammersmith-richmond. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "HAMMERSMITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Farkëtar (blacksmith, forger, Smith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ковач (Smith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hámorkovács. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammersmithhay Кузнец (Smith). (various references) kovač (blacksmith, farrier, forger, smith). (various references) Demirci (blacksmith, forger, ironsmith, Smith, smithy), Dövmeci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"HAMMERSMITH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hamermesh, Hammmersmith. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-i-m-m-m-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: hammiest, marmites, rammiest. | |
-4 letters: atheism, hammers, hammier, hamster, hastier, hearths, hermits, imarets, maestri, maihems, maimers, mammers, mammets, mammies, marmite, mishear, mismate, misrate, misterm, mithers, rammish, semimat, shammer, shimmer, smartie, stammer, tammies, thairms, thirams. | |
-5 letters: aimers, airest, airths, armets, armies, ashier, earths, hammer, harems, haters, hearth, hearts, heaths, hermai, hermit, hither, ihrams, imaret, immesh. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4D 4D 45 52 53 4D 49 54 48 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -- -- . .-. ... -- .. - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001101 01001001 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A M M E R S M I T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004D 004D 0045 0052 0053 004D 0049 0054 0048 |
| 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)4235474739525347435442 |
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