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SNOWMAKER

Specialty Definition: SNOWMAKER

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Tends artificial snow making equipment of ski resort to produce artificial snow along ski trails: Rides chair lift or drives snow-terrain vehicle along ski trails to reach snow equipment. Attaches hoses from snow equipment to nozzles of above-ground outlets for underground compressed air and water pipelines, using wrenches. Turns outlet valves to adjust compressed air and water mixture to obtain desired snow spray. Returns defective or frozen snow equipment to ski lodge for repair, using snow vehicle. Repositions equipment periodically to direct snowfall to other sections of trail, or closes valves to shut off equipment when snow coverage is completed. Cleans dirt and frozen snow from equipment, using handtools. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SNOWMAKER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

machine snowmaker

3

snowmaker

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SNOWMAKER

Derivations

Words beginning with "SNOWMAKER": snowmakers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SNOWMAKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Somafer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SNOWMAKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-k-m-n-o-r-s-w"

-2 letters: enamors, knowers, moaners, oarsmen, sokeman, swanker, womeras, workman, workmen.

-3 letters: answer, arkose, arseno, awoken, enamor, knower, makers, manors, masker, moaner, mowers, namers, owners, ramens, ramose, ramson, ransom, reason, remans, resawn, resoak, resown, romans, rowans, rowens, senora, sermon, smoker, soaker, wakens, wakers, weason, womans, womera, worsen, wreaks.

-4 letters: aeons, amens, amoks, arose, arson, asker.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-m-n-o-r-s-w"
 

+1 letter: markswomen, snowmakers.

 

+2 letters: cankerworms.

 

+4 letters: metalworkings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SNOWMAKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4E 4F 57 4D 41 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.    ---    .--.    --    .-    -.-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001110 01001111 01010111 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#79 &#87 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 004F 0057 004D 0041 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534849574735453952

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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