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Definition: Headstock |
HeadstockNoun1. The stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | A casting which is mounted so as to slide on the bed of a lathe or on the table of a miller or grinder, and which accommodates the tailstock spindle. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Assembly with spindle to produce rotary feed of workpiece in thread milling and grinding machines. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Machine component which receives and holds the main spindle. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Headstock |
| English words defined with "headstock": Head stock ♦ Live spindle ♦ tailstock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "headstock": BALANCE RECESSER, BARREL POLISHER, INSIDE ♦ CUP-TRIMMING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ ENGINE-LATHE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL ♦ GLASS GRINDER, LABORATORY APPARATUS ♦ inside polisher ♦ jaw chuck ♦ LATHE SANDER ♦ precision-lathe operator ♦ SETTER, AUTOMATIC-SPINNING LATHE, SPAR-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER, SPINNER, HAND, spinning-lathe operator ♦ tool-room-lathe operator, tracer-lathe set-up operator, TURNING LATHE TENDER ♦ work headstock. (references) |
| "Headstock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Headstock" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 116 | 29,969 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "headstock": work headstock. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "headstock": headstock-facing, headstock-grafting. | |
Ending with "headstock": neck-to-headstock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
guitar headstock | 5 |
decals fender headstock | 3 |
decal fender headstock | 2 |
decals headstock | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "headstock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 床头柜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hydraulisk oprulningsvalse, vendehoved (fore-carriage, plow head), spindeldok (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock, work headstock), pinoldok (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock), emnespindeldok, arbejdsdok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorkar (fore-carriage, plow head), vaste kop (work headstock), spilkast, rijstok (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock), losse kop (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hydraulinen rullauslaite, karapylkkä (work headstock), karalaatikko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tête porte broche, tête de retournement (plow head), tête de charrue (plow head), poupée fixe, poupée (gipsy head, warping head, winch head, work headstock), enrouleur hydraulique, contre-poupée, contre-pointe, avant-train (plow head). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Werkstückspindelstock (work headstock), Spindelstock (work headstock), Spindelkasten, Reitstock (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock), Pflugkopf (fore-carriage, plow head), Aufwickelvorrichtung (take-up, take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύλινδρος υδραυλικής περιέλιξης, κεφαλή περιστροφής (fore-carriage, plow head), κεφαλή αρότρου (fore-carriage, plow head), κουκουβάγια τόρνου (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock), εμπρόσθιο τμήμα αρότρου (fore-carriage, plow head), άτρακτος έδρασης κατεργαζομένου τεμαχίου (work headstock), διάταξη ατράκτου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | treno anteriore (fore-carriage, plow head), testa di rotazione (fore-carriage, plow head), testa (button, head, noddle, nut, pate, point, skull, top), portattrezzi (fore-carriage, plow head), contropunta (footstock, tail stock, tailstock, tail-stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadstockhay cabeceira de enrolamento com accionamento hidráulico, cabeça porta-brocas, cabeça de reversão (fore-carriage, plow head), bucha (Bush, bushing, cube, forming tube, insert, padding, plug, sleeve, stopgap, stopper, tampion, wad). (various references) tren anterior (fore-carriage, plow head), sección anterior (fore-carriage, plow head), cabezal de volteo (fore-carriage, plow head), cabezal (bolster, head, header, poppet, poppethead, probe). (various references) hydraulstyrd upprullningsmekanism. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "headstock": headstocks. (additional references) | |
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"Headstock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erdstock, Hadstock, hausstock, headstack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-k-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cathodes, hotcakes, kathodes, stockade. | |
-2 letters: cathode, coasted, coheads, dockets, hotcake, kathode, scathed, shocked, stacked, stocked, thacked. | |
-3 letters: cadets, cashed, casked, casket, chased, chaste, cheats, choked, chokes, coated, cohead, coshed, costae, costed, deaths, detach, docket, haceks, hacked, hasted, hocked, hosted, khedas, octads, sachet, sacked, scathe, shacko, skated, sketch, soaked, socked, socket, staked, stoked, taches, tacked, tasked, thacks. | |
-4 letters: ached, aches, acted, ascot, ashed, asked, cades, cadet, caked, cakes, cased, caste, cates, cesta, chads, chaos, chase, chats, cheat, chest, choke, chose, coast, coats, codas, codes, coeds, coked, cokes, coset, costa, coted, cotes, daces, dates, datos, deash, death, decks, decos, dhaks, doats, docks, doest, doeth, dotes, echos, escot, ethos, hacek, hacks, hades, hadst, haets, hakes, haste, hated, hates, heads, heats, hecks, hocks, hoked, hokes, hosed, hosta, ketch, khats, kheda, khets, oaths, octad, okehs, sadhe, sated, shack, shade, shake, shako, shoat, shock, shoed, shote, skate, stack, stade, stake, stead, steak, stoae, stock, stoke, taces, tache, tachs, tacks, tacos, takes, teach, teaks, thack, theca, those, toads, toeas, toked, tokes, tsade, tsked. | |
-5 letters: aced, aces, ache, acts, ados, ates, cade, cads, cake, case, cash, cask, cast, cate, cats, chad, chao, chat, coat, coda, code, cods, coed, coke, cosh, cost, cote, cots, dace, dahs, daks, dash, date, dato, deck, deco, desk, dhak, doat, dock, docs, does, dose, dost, dote, doth, dots, each, east, eath, eats, echo, edhs, etas, etch, eths, hack, hade, haed, haes, haet, hake, hast, hate, hats, head, heat, heck, hest, hets, hock, hods, hoed, hoes, hoke, hose, host, hots, kaes, kats, keas, keto, khat, khet, koas, oaks, oast, oath, oats, ocas, odea, odes, ohed, okas, okeh, okes, sack, sade, sake, sate, scad, scat, scot, seat, sect, seta, shad, shat, shea, shed, shod, shoe, shot, skat, soak, sock, soda, soke, soth, stoa, tace, tach, tack, taco, tads, take, taos, task, teak, teas, teds, thae, toad, tods, toea, toed, toes, toke, tosh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-k-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: headstocks. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 64 73 74 6F 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- -.. ... - --- -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 01110100 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a d s t o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 0074 006F 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167708586816977 |
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