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Definition: LET-OFF |
LET-OFFNoun1. A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | A device used to suspend a coil or reel from which the material is to be fed under controlled tension to a machine such as for a coating operation by calendering or extrusion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LET-OFF |
| Specialty definitions using "LET-OFF": braid maker, BRAID-PATTERN SETTER ♦ COMB-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| "LET-OFF" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LET-OFF" is used about 8 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "LET-OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 让 (let, letting, Let-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indspoleapparat (pay-off, pay-off stand), afviklingsapparat (let-off device, pay-off, pay-off device), afspoleapparat (pay-off, pay-off stand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afrolinrichting (let-off device, pay-off, pay-off device), afrolapparaat (let-off device, pay-off, pay-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kelapurkuri (let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, unroll, unwinder, winding-off device), aukikelauskone (let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, unroll, unwinder, winding-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dispositif de déroulement (let-off device, let-off unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abwickelvorrichtung (handler, let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, winding-off device), Ablaufvorrichtung (emptying, let-off device, outflow, pay-off, pay-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσκευή εκτυλίξεως (let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, winding-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Dispositivo di svolgimento (let-off device, let-off unit, pay-off, pay-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시키ì‹ì‹œìš" ë–¨ì–´ì ¸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | et-offlay desenrolador (jug hustler, lathe, let-off gear, let-off unit, roller device, unwinding, winding-off device). (various references) dispositivo de desenrollado (let-off device, let-off unit, pay-off, pay-off device). (various references) avrullningsbock (let-off device, pay-off, pay-off device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-l-o-t" | |
-2 letters: felt, floe, left, loft, teff, toff, tole. | |
-3 letters: eff, eft, elf, fet, foe, let, lot, off, oft, ole, tel, toe. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, et, lo, oe, of, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-l-o-t" | |
+2 letters: forefelt. | |
+3 letters: effortful, forgetful. | |
+4 letters: effortless, flatfooted, forklifted, outbluffed. | |
+5 letters: affectional, effortfully, footfaulted, forfeitable, forgetfully, nonaffluent. | |
| 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)4C 45 54 2D 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01010100 00101101 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E T - O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0054 002D 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46395415494040 |
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