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BALL BREAKER

Specialty Definition: BALL BREAKER

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A heavy iron or steel ball swung or dropped by a derrick to demolish old buildings or compact bulky scrap for shipment. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: BALL BREAKER

Language Translations for "BALL BREAKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

sloopkogel (skull cracker, wrecking ball). (various references)

   

French

  

boulet de démolition (wrecking ball), boule de démolition (wrecking ball), masse sphérique (wrecking ball). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allbay eakerbray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BALL BREAKER

Misspellings

"BALL BREAKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballbreaker. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BALL BREAKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-k-l-l-r-r"

-2 letters: breakable.

-3 letters: barrable, bearable.

-4 letters: barbell, bleaker, breaker, labeler, rabbler, relabel.

-5 letters: arable, balker, baller, barbal, barbel, barber, barker, barrel, beaker, bearer, berake, larker, leaker, rabble, realer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BALL BREAKER


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

42 41 4C 4C      42 52 45 41 4B 45 52

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

    

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

01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 004C 004C      0042 0052 0045 0041 004B 0045 0052

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

36354646236523935453952

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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