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| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Crosswords: THUMB NUT |
| English words defined with "THUMB NUT": Finger nut, Fly nut ♦ thumbnut ♦ wing nut, wing screw. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THUMB NUT": butterfly nut ♦ knurled nut ♦ milled nut. (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 |
thumb nut | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) 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) vingmutter (wing nut), lettrad mutter. (various references) kelebek somun (butterfly nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. 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 48 55 4D 42      4E 55 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01010101 01001101 01000010 00100000 01001110 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H U M B   N U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0055 004D 0042      004E 0055 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54425547362485554 |
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