HEADS DOWN

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HEADS DOWN

Crosswords: HEADS DOWN

Specialty definitions using "HEADS DOWN": demo mode. (references)

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Specialty Definition: HEADS DOWN

Domain	Definition
Computing	Heads down [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers. Source: Jargon File.
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Modern Usage: HEADS DOWN

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Anyway, heads down, chins up, chests out, terrific, well played team. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)
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Commercial Usage: HEADS DOWN

Domain	Title
Books	Telemedicine on the Move: Health Care Heads Down the Information Highway (reference) (more book examples)
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Use in Literature: HEADS DOWN

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	They walked back to the farms, hands in pockets and heads down, shoes kicking the red dust up.
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Anagrams: HEADS DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-o-s-w"
	-1 letter: shadowed.
	-2 letters: hoddens, shodden.
	-3 letters: anodes, dadoes, dashed, dawned, dedans, desand, dewans, downed, dowsed, endows, handed, hodads, hodden, hondas, noshed, sadden, sanded, shaded, shadow, shawed, showed, snawed, snowed, sodden, washed, weason, whenas, woaded.
	-4 letters: adown, aeons, anode, ashed, ashen, awned, dados, dawed, dawen, dawns, deads, deans, deash, dewan, dhows, donas, dosed, dowed, downs, dowse.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-o-s-w"
	+2 letters: woodenheads.
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Alternative Orthography: HEADS DOWN

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

48 45 41 44 53 44 4F 57 4E

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

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 01010011 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044 0053 0044 004F 0057 004E

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

4239353853238495748

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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