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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Laps valves against valve seats to produce gastight fit, using powered tools: Applies lapping compound to bearing surfaces of valve and seat. Inserts valve stem into valve guide and positions valve against seat. Engages holes or slot in top of valve with projections in powered rotary tool (valve grinder). Presses and rotates valve against seat, using powered tool. May test valve by connecting chamber to hydraulic or pneumatic pressure and observing leaks. May rotate valve against seat, using handtool. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: VALVE GRINDER |
| Specialty definitions using "VALVE GRINDER": valve lapper. (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 |
valve grinder | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-r-v-v" | |
-2 letters: ringleader. | |
-3 letters: deleaving, engrailed, grenadier, laveering, realigned, rereading, revealing, vinegared. | |
-4 letters: algerine, averring, deringer, develing, dragline, driveler, engirdle, engraved, engraver, enlarged, enlarger, gardener, garnered, gnarlier, graveled, lavender, levering, lingered, lingerer, nearlier, raveling, redriven, reedling, regained, regainer, reinvade, renailed, reveling, revering. | |
-5 letters: aliened, aliener, aligned, aligner, angeled, angered, angrier, anviled, arrived, avenged, avenger, averred, dangler. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 4C 56 45      47 52 49 4E 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000001 01001100 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A L V E   G R I N D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 004C 0056 0045      0047 0052 0049 004E 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5635465639241524348383952 |
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