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THREAD CUTTER

Specialty Definition: THREAD CUTTER

DomainDefinition

Mining

A name sometimes applied to a diamond crystal having the shape of anoctahedron. (references)

Occupations

Trims loose threads from edges or seams of articles, such as garments, hats, linens, and surgical appliances, using either of following methods: (1) Moves edges or seams of article over stationary cutting head equipped with vacuum attachment that draws threads between reciprocal blades to cut threads. (2) Spreads article on table or pulls article over form and guides electric hand clippers equipped with vacuum hose along edges or seams of article to cut threads. When trimming knitted garments, pulls loose threads through several stitches with latch needle or ties threads from converging seams to secure stitching. May cut short or thick threads unsuitable for machine cutting, using scissors. (references)
 Removes damaged parts of completed garments, following information on repair tags or markings on parts: Cuts and pulls threads to remove damaged parts, using scissors or knife. Obtains replacement parts from cutting department and routes garments and replacement parts to sewing department. May be designated according to type of garment repaired as Corset Repairer (garment). (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THREAD CUTTER

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

thread cutter

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: THREAD CUTTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-r-r-t-t-t-u"

-3 letters: chartered, chattered, chatterer, eructated, ratcheted, recharted, retracted.

-4 letters: catheter, cratered, creature, curetted, detacher, eructate, recrated, rethread, retraced, tattered, terraced, tetrarch, threader, threated, traducer, turreted, urethrae.

-5 letters: adherer, catered, caterer, cerated, charred, charted, charter, chatted, chatter, cheated, cheater, churred, created, curated, curette, curtate, detract, earthed, educate, eructed, euchred, hearted, hectare, ratchet, reached, reacher, reacted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THREAD CUTTER


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

54 48 52 45 41 44      43 55 54 54 45 52

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

    

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

01010100 01001000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01000011 01010101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#85 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0052 0045 0041 0044      0043 0055 0054 0054 0045 0052

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

5442523935382375554543952

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INDEX

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


  

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