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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. The breaking and loosening of rock as a preparatory step to its loading and removal. See also:excavation b. Attrition of an ore deposit by hand, explosive, or mechanical breaking methods to reduce it to pieces of ore suitable for transport andtreatment. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Breaking Ground (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Breaking ground at the dam removal site to test soil for contaminants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | President Taft breaking ground at San Francisco on October 14, 1911, for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Breaking ground for Detroit General Hospital. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Breaking ground for Hamline M.E. Church. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
breaking ground | 12 |
breaking ground new | 2 |
breaking ground tour | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: groundbreaking. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-g-i-k-n-n-o-r-r-u" | |
-4 letters: begroaning, broadening, budgerigar, burgeoning, guerdoning, readorning, reboarding, rebounding, redarguing, ringbarked, undergoing. | |
-5 letters: abounding, badgering, bordering, brokering, bunkering, burdening, dangering, darkening, debarking, debarring, debunking, deranging, dogearing, gandering, gardening, garnering, grounding, rearguing, regarding, regrading, unbarring, unbearing, unbraking. | |
| 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)42 52 45 41 4B 49 4E 47 47 52 4F 55 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R E A K I N G   G R O U N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0045 0041 004B 0049 004E 0047 0047 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36523935454348412415249554838 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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