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Definition: Damage Control |
Damage ControlNoun1. An effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Military | In naval usage, measures necessary aboard ship to preserve and reestablish watertight integrity, stability, maneuverability, and offensive power; to control list and trim; to effect rapid repairs of materiel; to limit the spread of, and provide adequate protection from, fire; to limit the spread of, remove the contamination by, and provide adequate protection from, toxic agents; and to provide for care of wounded personnel. See also area damage control; disaster control. (references) |
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Crosswords: Damage Control |
| English words defined with "damage control": cerebral palsy ♦ spastic paralysis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "damage control": ADC, AIRPLANE PILOT, COMMERCIAL, Animal Damage Control Program, aqueduct-and-reservoir keeper ♦ canal tender, commercial pilot ♦ dam tender, DERRICK WORKER, WELL SERVICE, DITCH RIDER, ditch tender, dry-kiln operator ♦ FALLER II ♦ Invasive species ♦ KILN OPERATOR ♦ laboratory technician, LABORATORY TESTER, LOT ATTENDANT ♦ needle-valve operator, Noxious weeds ♦ QUALITY TECHNICIAN, FIBERGLASS ♦ RANGE MANAGER, range-management specialis, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, reservoir caretaker, RESTORER, CERAMIC, ROOFING-MACHINE TENDER ♦ SATURATOR TENDER, SCREEN OPERATOR, SEWER-LINE REPAIRER, TELE-GROUT, shaker-screen operator, SKI PATROLLER, stumper-feller ♦ vibrating-screen operator ♦ WATER REGULATOR AND VALVE REPAIRER, water tender, WATERSHED TENDER, WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT, Wildlife Services Program ♦ zanjero. (references) |
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Economic History | Serbia and Montenegro | As 1999 began, the damage control operation had succeeded in returning the rate to 8.5 dinars per DM, but no later data regarding its value has been available. (references) |
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Expression using "damage control": area damage control. Additional references. | |
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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 |
damage control | 23 |
damage control master formula | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "damage control"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | kárelhárítás. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amageday ontrolcay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-g-l-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: carmagnole, coromandel. | |
-4 letters: anecdotal, cartooned, cataloged, cataloger, cladogram, clangored, coelomata, comanaged, comanager, coronated, creodonta, declarant, decontrol, ealdorman, montadale, motorcade, octagonal. | |
-5 letters: acrodont, alderman, amelcorn, anecdota, anteroom, argental, calendar, canoodle, cardamon, cartload, cartoned, celomata, clamored, coenamor, colander, cologned, colorant, colorman, colormen, comanage, condoler, conelrad, cornmeal, coronate, creodont, decagram, democrat, doctoral, dragoman, dragomen, dragonet, ecotonal, emanator, golconda, grandame, largando, lodgment, macaroon, magdalen, manacled, mandator, marooned, martagon, maternal, matronal, moderato, monocled, monocrat, montaged, moorland, octangle, ondogram, ratooned, romanced. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6D 61 67 65 43 6F 6E 74 72 6F 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a m a g e   C o n t r o l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006D 0061 0067 0065 0043 006F 006E 0074 0072 006F 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386779677371237818086848178 |
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