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Definition: SLUBBER |
SLUBBERNoun1. A slubbing machine. Transitive verb1. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. 2. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. |
Date "SLUBBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The first fly frame used for drawing and twisting cotton slivers to form roving. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends $T3slubber$T1 machines that draw out and loosely twist sliver into roving to strengthen sliver for subsequent drawing and twisting operations: Fastens ends of sliver from full cans to preceding ends by overlapping and twisting ends with fingers, or threads sliver over guide, through rolls and flyers, and onto bobbins. Patrols machines to detect exhausted ends and to observe signal lights indicating machine stoppage caused by sliver breaks. $T3Pieces up$T1 broken ends by threading sliver through rollers and flyer and twisting sliver to end on bobbin. Doffs bobbin of roving, placing flyers on top of frame and roving in box truck. Sets empty bobbins on spindles, winds end of roving around bobbins, and replaces flyers. Brushes lint and dust from rollers and oils machine. May mark spools of roving with colored chalk to denote weight and texture. (references) |
| The first fly frame for drawing and twisting slivers to form roving. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SLUBBER |
| English words defined with "SLUBBER": Slubbered, Slubbering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLUBBER": FRAME CHANGER ♦ roving changer ♦ SLUBBER DE GULLION, slubber-frame changer, speeder-frame changer, spinning-frame changer ♦ twisting-frame changer. (references) |
Expression using "SLUBBER": slubber machine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SLUBBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оцапвам (dirty, muddy, smear, soil, splotch, stain), омърсявам (befoul, besmirch, dirty, muck, smirch, soil), претупвам (scamp, shuffle, shuffle through, slur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | být nedbalý (be negligent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | banc broches (slubber machine, slubbing machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összepiszkít (to slubber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubberslay sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, grime, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), remendar (botch, bushel, clout, darn, fudge, mend, patch, patch up, piece, revamp, run up, vamp), fazer sem cuidado, borrar (bedaub, blob, blot, blue-pencil, botch, bungle, daub, ink, smudge, spoil). (various references) делать небрежно. (various references) smandrljati (scamp), prljati (dirty, soil, sully). (various references) hacer con negligencia. (various references) покривати мулом (silt over, silt up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SLUBBER": slubbered, slubbering, slubbers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: burbles, lubbers, rubbles. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-l-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: blurbs, burble, lubber, rubble, rubles. | |
-2 letters: blebs, blubs, bluer, blues, blurb, blurs, bulbs, burbs, burls, burse, lubes, lures, rebus, rubes, ruble, rules, slurb, suber. | |
-3 letters: bels, bleb, blub, blue, blur, bubs, bulb, burl, burs, ebbs, lube, lues, lure, rebs, rube, rubs, rues, rule, ruse, slub, slue, slur, suer, sure, urbs, user. | |
-4 letters: bel, bub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-l-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: barbules, blubbers, bubblers, bumblers, burblers, clubbers, flubbers, slubbers. | |
+2 letters: belabours, bluebirds, burbliest, burnables, quibblers, rubbliest, slubbered, squabbler, stubblier. | |
+3 letters: bluebeards, scrubbable, slubbering, squabblers, subproblem. | |
+4 letters: blockbuster, blueberries, blunderbuss, bottlebrush, butterballs, landlubbers, submergible, submersible, subproblems, subumbrella. | |
+5 letters: blockbusters, boatbuilders, bodybuilders, lubberliness, reimbursable, submersibles, subumbrellas, unobservable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 55 42 42 45 52 |
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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)01010011 01001100 01010101 01000010 01000010 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L U B B E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0055 0042 0042 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)53465536363952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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