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Definition: TENSION ROD |
TENSION ROD1. (Engin.), an iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen timber or metal framework, roofs, or the like. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | (tension rods): the rods supporting the jib of a crane. . . . . Jib: the inclined or horizontal boom (strut member) of a crane or derrick. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TENSION ROD |
| English words defined with "TENSION ROD": Truss rod. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TENSION ROD": CONTINUOUS-TOWEL ROLLER, CUTTER, BARREL DRUM ♦ drum-reel cutter ♦ FRETTED-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER ♦ GRIP ASSEMBLER, guide winder, GUIDE-BASE WINDER, MACHINE ♦ HYDRAULIC-JACK ADJUSTER ♦ PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER ♦ QUILTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ reel slitter ♦ SECTIONAL-BELT-MOLD ASSEMBLER, STENCIL-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ towel-rolling-machine operator ♦ v-belt mold assembler and curer. (references) |
| 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 |
tension rod | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TENSION ROD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | trækstang (draft arm, draught arm, lower arm, lower lift, lower link, neckyoke, pole, shaft, stay, tie, tie rod, tie-rod, tongue, tongue truck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trekband (tie, tie rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vetotanko (tie, tie rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tringlerie, tirant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Zugstange (neckyoke, pole, pull rod, shaft, stay, tie, tie rod, tongue, tongue truck), Zugband (tie, tie rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελκυστήρας (tie, tie rod, tractor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirante (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage, buckle guy, dead man, drag, fall, guy wire, post, stay, through bolt, tie, tie beam, tie rod, tie-rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensiontay odray tirante (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage, binder, brace, bridle, collar beam, dead man, fall, gunning, guy wire, nail biting, shoulder strap, stay, stay rope, stay wire, steel wire stay, straining, straining beam, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tie beam, tie rod, tie-rod, tight, tighten, trace, wind beam, windbrace, wire back-tie). (various references) dragstag (tie, tie rod), dragband (tie, tie rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nonsteroid. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: indentors, ironstone, noontides, serotonin. | |
-2 letters: indentor, intoners, noontide, notornes, notornis, snootier, ternions. | |
-3 letters: dentins, dineros, dinners, disroot, donnert, editors, endrins, enroots, erosion, indents, indoors, indorse, intends, interns, intoned, intoner, intones, introns, ionones, isotone, nitroso, norites, notions, oestrin, ordines, orients, oroides, osteoid, rodents, ronions, roosted, rosined, snooted, snorted, sootier, sordine, sordino, sortied, steroid, stonier, storied, tendons, tension, ternion, tinders, tinners, tonners, toroids, torsion, triodes. | |
-4 letters: dentin, dinero, diners, dinner, direst, donors, donsie, dories, doters, dotier, driest, droits, drones, editor, endrin, enroot, estrin, indent, indoor, inerts, inners, insert, intend, intern, inters, intone, intron, intros, ionone, ironed, irones, nestor, niters, nitons, nitres, nitros, nodose, noised, nonets, noosed, nooser, norite, nosier, noters, notion, odeons, onions, onside, ootids, orient, orison, oroide, otiose, redons, renins, rident, rinsed, rioted, rodent, rodeos, rondos, ronion, roosed, rooted, senior, sennit, sinned, sinner, sinter, snider, snored, sonder, sonnet, sooner, sooted, sorned, sorted, sortie, stoned, stoner, stored, stride, strode, teinds, tendon, tennis, tenons, tenors, tensor, tinder, tinned, tinner, todies, tondos, toners, tonier, tonner, tonnes, tories, toroid, torose, trends, triens, trined, trines, triode, triose, trones. | |
-5 letters: deist, dents, diets, diner, dines, dints, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, donne, donor, doors, doser, doter, dotes, drest, dries, droit, drone, edits, eidos, eosin, inert, inned, inner, inset, inter, intro, irone, irons, neist, neons, nerds, nerts, nides, nines, niter, nites, niton, nitre, nitro, nodes, noirs, noise, nones, nonet, noons, noose, noris, nosed, noted, noter, notes, odeon, odist, odors, onion, onset, oorie, ootid, ordos, ornis, osier, redon, redos, reins, rends, renin, rents, resid, resin, resod, rides, rinds, rinse, riots, risen, rites, rodeo, rondo, roods, roose, roost, roots, rosed, roset, rosin, rotes, rotis, rotos, senor, senti, serin, seton, sired, siren, sited, snide, snood, snoot, snore, snort, sonde, stein, steno, stern, stied, stone, stood, store, teind, tends, tenon, tenor, terns, tides, tiers, tined, tines, tired, tires, tiros, tondi, tondo, toned, toner, tones, tonne, toons, tores, toros, torse, torsi, torso, trend, tried, tries, trine, trios, trode, trois, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nonsteroids. | |
+2 letters: conditioners, denominators, nonsteroidal, reconditions. | |
+3 letters: consideration, demonstration, midafternoons, modernisation, preconditions, refoundations, undershooting. | |
+4 letters: confederations, considerations, coordinateness, decarbonations, deconsecration, deconstruction, demonstrations, dinitrophenols, disorientation, hydrogenations, modernisations, modernizations, norethindrones, predominations, preordinations. | |
+5 letters: containerboards, dechlorinations, deconsecrations, deconstructions, decontaminators, demonstrational, disorientations, endocrinologist, foreordinations, inconsideration, overdiscounting, preponderations, recommendations, reconsideration, reconsolidating, reintroductions. | |
| 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 45 4E 53 49 4F 4E      52 4F 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E N S I O N   R O D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 004E 0053 0049 004F 004E      0052 004F 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)543948534349482524938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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