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Definition: Rube Goldberg |
Rube GoldbergNoun1. United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Rube GoldbergSynonyms: Goldberg (n), Reuben Lucius Goldberg (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rube Goldberg |
| Specialty definitions using "Rube Goldberg": Cinderella Book. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rube Goldberg views the news for his latest invention. How to crack a walnut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
rube goldberg | 325 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-e-g-g-l-o-r-r-u" | |
-4 letters: begrudge, berouged, buggered, debugger, doggerel, redouble, regorged, rubbered, ruggeder. | |
-5 letters: berobed, bludger, blurbed, blurred, boggled, boggler, bordure, boulder, bourree, burbled, burbler, burgled, doggrel, doubler, drubber, gobbled, gobbler, goldbug, grubbed, grubber, grudger, grueled, grueler, gurgled, rebored, reglued, regorge, rubbled, urodele. | |
| 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)52 75 62 65 47 6F 6C 64 62 65 72 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01110101 01100010 01100101 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101100 01100100 01100010 01100101 01110010 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R u b e   G o l d b e r g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0075 0062 0065 0047 006F 006C 0064 0062 0065 0072 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5287687124181787068718473 |
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