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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Fits and assembles components according to assembly blueprints, manuals, engineering memos, sketches, and knowledge of machine construction to construct, rebuild, and repair machines and equipment, using handtools and power tools: Analyzes assembly blueprint and specifications manual, and plans machine building operations. Verifies conformance of parts to stock list and blueprints, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, gauges, and micrometers. Lays out hole locations and drills and taps holes on parts for assembly. Aligns components for assembly, manually or with hoist, and bolts, screws, dowels, welds, or rivets parts together, using handtools, rivet gun, and welding equipment, or arranges for assembly by welder and electrician. Brushes blue pigment on parts and mates them to detect high spots on surfaces. Removes high spots, and smooths surfaces, using chisels, scrapers, files, and powered hand grinder [SCRAPER, HAND (machine shop)]. Verifies alignment and tolerances of moving parts, using measuring instruments, such as dial indicators and thickness gauges. Tests operation of assembly by hand. Assembles, sets up, and operates machine to verify functioning, machine capabilities, and conformance to customer's specifications. May form and fasten piping, fixtures, and attachments required to service machine with air, water, and oil. May install wiring and electrical components to specifications. May work as member of team on limited part of fabrication process. May set up and operate metalworking machines to shape parts [TOOL-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR (machine shop)]. May be designated according to type of machine or machine component as Fixture Builder (machinery mfg.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
machine builder | 19 |
custom machine builder | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-i-i-l-m-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: medicinable, unreclaimed. | |
-4 letters: brainchild, chandelier, herbicidal, incredible, incumbered, ineducable, minaudiere, relaunched, unbleached, unlimbered. | |
-5 letters: becharmed, breadline, chambered, clambered, debaucher, declaimer, diablerie, endurable, euclidean, euclidian, headliner, herbicide, herculean, inaudible, incurable, inducible, luminaire, madrilene, manicured, medicable, medicinal, numerable, numerical, reclaimed, reducible, relumined, unclaimed, unreached, unridable, uredinial. | |
| 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)4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45      42 55 49 4C 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01000010 01010101 01001001 01001100 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A C H I N E   B U I L D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045      0042 0055 0049 004C 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47353742434839236554346383952 |
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