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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Operates pantograph machine to transfer design in reduced form from zinc plate to varnished printing rollers: Moves stylus on tracing carriage through series of reference points on zinc plate, depresses pedal to lower diamond points to surface of roller, and observes alignment of diamond points with marks on roller to verify machine setup. Sets ground point into slot on ground wheel according to instructions on design sheet. Moves lever to lock tracing carriage in position for inscribing ground lines on surface of varnished roller. Rotates ground wheel to advance tracing carriage specified distance, depresses pedal to lower diamond points to roller surface, and moves stylus back and forth within outline on zinc plate to inscribe oblique ground lines on roller. Releases tracing carriage and guides stylus around outline on zinc plate to transfer outline to roller. Engages register point in appropriate slot on $T3register wheel$T1 and adjusts dimension levers, using handtools to set up machine for inscribing subsequent repeats of pattern around circumference of roller. Transfers portions of design represented by different colors onto separate rollers. Paints over pinholes, scratches, and reference points left on roller by PANTOGRAPH SETTER (print. & pub.), using brush and acid resistant paint. Marks register point on end of roller, using hammer and punch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PANTOGRAPHER |
| Specialty definitions using "PANTOGRAPHER": PAINTER, PLATE, plate colorer. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-n-o-p-p-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: pantograph. | |
-3 letters: orphanage, patronage, pronephra, propagate. | |
-4 letters: apparent, arrogant, arrogate, heptagon, parergon, pathogen, prophage, tarpaper, tarragon, tragopan, trappean. | |
-5 letters: aerator, anaphor, another, apogean, arrange, garrote, granter, grantor, groaner, hanaper, horrent, narrate, negator, norther, operant, pageant, panther, paragon, parapet, parerga, partner, phaeton, phonate, phorate, portage, praetor, pronate, propane, prophet, prorate, protean, rapport, regrant, tanager, thanage. | |
| 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 4E 54 4F 47 52 41 50 48 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. - --- --. .-. .- .--. .... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A N T O G R A P H E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 004E 0054 004F 0047 0052 0041 0050 0048 0045 0052 |
| 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)503548544941523550423952 |
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