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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Designs, lays out, and paints letters and designs to create signs, using measuring and drawing instruments, brushes, and handtools: Reads work orders to determine type of sign specified, work procedures, and materials required. Sketches design on paper, using drawing instruments, such as angles, rulers, and shading pencils. Lays out design on plastic, silk, or tin to prepare stencil, or on paper to draw pounce pattern, using measuring and drawing instruments. Sketches or follows pattern to draw design or lettering onto objects, such as billboards and trucks, using stencils and measuring and drawing instruments. Brushes paint, lacquer, enamel, or japan over stencil, or paints details, background, and shading to fill in outline or sketch of sign, using paintbrush or airbrush. When painting window signs, draws outline of sign on outside window, using chalk, or dusts pounce pattern to mark outline and paints inside of window following drawing or outline, using brush. When making gold or silver leaf signs, forms sign by either of following methods: (1) Paints sign, positions leaf over fresh paint, and removes excess leaf after sign has dried, using cotton swab and knife blade. (2) Paints inside of window with watersize (glue), applies leaf, and paints sign in reverse on back of leaf, using paintbrush or airbrush. May cut out letters and apply background coating to construct and prepare signs, using tinning shears. May project layout image on paper and trace outline of design, using projector and electric needle. May specialize in maintenance of signs along railroad right-of-way and be designated Painter, Sign, Maintenance (r.r. trans.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artist | Historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PAINTER, SIGN |
| Specialty definitions using "PAINTER, SIGN": PAINTER HELPER, SIGN. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ",-a-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: parentings, pertaining, repainting, resinating. | |
-3 letters: arginines, gannister, grainiest, inserting, paintings, parenting, priesting, printings, repasting, respiting, retaining, seriating, sintering, spraining, sprinting, straining, trainings, traipsing, trapesing. | |
-4 letters: aginners, angriest, antigens, arginine, aspiring, astringe, earnings, engrains, entrains, ganister, gantries, gentians, ginniest, granites, grannies, grapiest, gripiest, igniters, inertias, ingrains, ingrates, painters, paintier, painting, pairings, panniers, pantries, parities. | |
| 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)50 41 49 4E 54 45 52 2C 53 49 47 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A I N T E R ,   S I G N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 002C 0053 0049 0047 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5035434854395214253434148 |
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