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THUMB NUT


Specialty Definitions: THUMB NUT

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Mechanical Engineering

A nut winged or knurled in order to facilitate turning by thumb and fingers. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: THUMB NUT

English words defined with "THUMB NUT": Finger nut, Fly nutthumbnutwing nut, wing screw. (references)
Specialty definitions using "THUMB NUT": butterfly nutknurled nutmilled nut. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THUMB NUT

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.
 
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per Day

  thumb nut

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

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Modern Translations: THUMB NUT

Language Translations for "THUMB NUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vingemoetrik (wing nut), vingemøtrik (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut), rouletteret møtrik, floejmoetrik (butterfly nut, wing nut). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vleugelmoer (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, trunnion nut, wing nut). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siipimutteri (butterfly nut, fly nut, wing nut), pyälletty mutteri. (various references)

   

French

  

écrou-papillon, écrou papillon, écrou à serrage à main, écrou à oreilles, écrou à clé, écrou à ailettes. (various references)

   

German

  

Lappenschraube (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut), Knebelmutter (wing nut), Flügelmutter (butterfly nut, wing nut), Fingermutter. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περικόχλιο με αυτιά (butterfly nut, wing nut), περικόχλιο χειρός, περικόχλιο τύπου πεταλούδας (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut), περικόχλειο αντίχειρα, πεταλούδα (butterfly, wing nut), παξιμάδι με αυτιά (wing nut), παξιμάδι πεταλούδα (wing nut). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dado ad alette (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut), dado a chiave (wing nut). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umbthay utnay

   

Portuguese

  

porca de aperto manual, porca com orelhas (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut), porca borboleta (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tuerca de palomilla (fly nut), tuerca de mariposa (butterfly nut), tuerca de llave (wing nut), tuerca de aletas (butterfly nut, fly nut, hand nut, wing nut). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vingmutter (wing nut), lettrad mutter. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kelebek somun (butterfly nut). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THUMB NUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: thumbnut.

Words within the letters "b-h-m-n-t-t-u-u"

-3 letters: butut, thumb.

-4 letters: bhut, bunt, butt, hunt, mutt, numb, tutu.

-5 letters: bum, bun, but, hub, hum, hun, hut, mun, mut, nth, nub, nut, tub, tun, tut.

 Words containing the letters "b-h-m-n-t-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: thumbnuts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THUMB NUT


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

54 48 55 4D 42      4E 55 54

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

    

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

01010100 01001000 01010101 01001101 01000010 00100000 01001110 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#32 &#78 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0055 004D 0042      004E 0055 0054

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

54425547362485554

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