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| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | A heavy weight, usually ball or pear shaped, dropped from a height in order to break large pieces of metal scrap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A method of breaking oversize stones left after quarry blasting. The balls weigh from 30 hundredweight (1,360 kg) to 2 st (1.8 t) (many use old cones from gyratory breakers) and are dropped from a crane on to the oversize stone. The drop height varies from about 20 to 33 ft (6.1 to 10.1 m). Themethod is economical and avoids secondary blasting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DROP BALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | faldkugle (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | valblok (skull cracker), beulijzer (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pudotuskuula (skull cracker), pudotusjärkäle (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | poire de casse-fonte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fallkugel (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφαιρικός σπαστήρας (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pera per berta spezzarottami (skull cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opdray allbay pera rompedora (skull cracker). (various references) hejarkula (skull cracker). (various references) hava atışı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DROP BALL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dropball. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-l-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: bollard, pollard. | |
-2 letters: dollar, pallor. | |
-3 letters: aldol, allod, board, bolar, boral, broad, dobla, dobra, droll, labor, lobar, loral, parol, polar. | |
-4 letters: apod, bald, ball, bard, boar, bola, bold, boll, bora, brad, darb, doll, dopa, dorp, drab, drop, lard, load, lord, olla, opal, orad, oral, pall, pard, plod, poll, prao, proa, prod, road, roll. | |
-5 letters: abo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-l-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: deplorable, deplorably. | |
+4 letters: paraboloidal. | |
+5 letters: hyperboloidal. | |
| 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. | |
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