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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends multiple-needle machine that tufts material to be used for articles, such as rugs, robes, and bedspreads: Requests CREELER (any industry) to change yarn styles in creel or mounts supply packages on spindles and $T3pieces up$T1 ends to leaders in yarn guides (plastic tubes). Draws ends through guides leading to machine, using suction device, and threads ends through guides, tensions, $T3drop wires,$T1 and needle eyes. Places roll of backing material on brackets at entry end of machine, draws backing under machine needles, and attaches end to $T3takeup roll.$T1 Moves lever that engages or disengages cam wheel to adjust machine to insert tufts in straight or irregular design. Observes tufting to detect yarn breaks and machine malfunctions. Rethreads broken yarn ends and replaces bent or broken needles and hooks (loopers). Replaces dull knives on cut-pile tufting machines, using handtools. Unthreads needles and ties up extra drop wires to adjust machine to accommodate narrower material. Increases or decreases speed of cloth feed and inserts or removes shims between needle plate and machine bed to adjust space between tufts and length of tufts. Workers who operate tufting machines are classified under TUFT-MACHINE OPERATOR (carpet & rug; tex. prod., nec). (references) |
| Tends machine that button-tufts mattresses: Adjusts needle stroke and button tying mechanism to thickness of mattress. Fills machine hopper with tufting buttons. Places mattress on movable table of machine and turns wheel to adjust distance between mattress and machine head. Presses button to start machine and moves table laterally, forward, and backward to space tufts as machine head inserts tufts into both sides. May tend machine that automatically moves table and tufts mattress, or semiautomatic machine that requires lever operation for each stroke. May tend machine that tufts with knots. May tuft by hand [TUFTER, HAND (furniture)]. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-g-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-t-u" | |
-5 letters: antiferromagnetic. | |
| 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)54 55 46 54 49 4E 47 2D 4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010101 01000110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T U F T I N G - M A C H I N E   O P E R A T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0055 0046 0054 0049 004E 0047 002D 004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54554054434841154735374243483924950395235544952 |
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