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DRY BLOCK

Specialty Definition: DRY BLOCK

DomainDefinition

Mining

The intentional act or process of running a core bit without circulating a drill fluid until the cuttings at and inside the bit wedge the coresolidly inside the bit. Also called dry blocking. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRY BLOCK

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

dry block

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DRY BLOCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-k-l-o-r-y"

-2 letters: blocky.

-3 letters: block, brock, corby, corky, dorky, rocky.

-4 letters: bloc, bock, body, bold, byrl, clod, cloy, cold, coly, cord, cork, cory, doby, dock, dork, dory, lock, lord, lory, odyl, oldy, orby, rock, yock, yolk.

-5 letters: bod, boy, bro, cob, cod, col, cor, coy, cry, doc, dol, dor, dry, kob, kor, lob, old, orb, orc.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRY BLOCK


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

44 52 59      42 4C 4F 43 4B

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

    

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

01000100 01010010 01011001 00100000 01000010 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0059      0042 004C 004F 0043 004B

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

38525923646493745

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