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Drafting Board

Definition: Drafting Board

Drafting Board

Noun

1. A smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Drafting Board

Synonym: drawing board (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Drafting Board

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Drafting board. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drafting Board

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

drafting board

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drafting Board

Language Translations for "drafting board"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

"板 (drawing board). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がば" (drawing board). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aftingdray oardbay

   

Turkish

  

teknik çizim masası, çizim masası (drawing board, sliding table). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drafting Board

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-f-g-i-n-o-r-r-t"

-3 letters: ritardando.

-4 letters: dartboard, gradation, indagator.

-5 letters: aborting, abrading, antidora, arrogant, boarding, borating, bradding, drafting, fragrant, garboard, radiator, taboring, tagboard, tarragon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Drafting Board


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

44 72 61 66 74 69 6E 67      42 6F 61 72 64

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

    

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

01000100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0066 0074 0069 006E 0067      0042 006F 0061 0072 0064

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

388467728675807323681678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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