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HEADWORKS

Specialty Definition: HEADWORKS

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A collective term for all works(weirs or diversion dams, head regulators, upstream and downstream river training works and their appurtenant structures)required at intakes of main or principal canals to divert and control river flows and to regulate water supplies into the main canal or canals. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: HEADWORKS

Synonyms by domain: headwork (building & civil engineering).

Crosswords: HEADWORKS

Specialty definitions using "HEADWORKS": diversion structures ♦ Hydraulic Head ♦ intake structures. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: HEADWORKS

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
headworks	22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: HEADWORKS

Language		Translations for "HEADWORKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		reguleringsanlaeg ved kanaler (diversion structure, diversion work). (various references)

Dutch		stuw (dam), reguleringswerk (diversion structure, diversion work), aflaatwerk (diversion structure, diversion work, spillway). (various references)

Finnish		ohjausrakenne (control strategy, control structure, diversion structure, diversion work, reasoning strategy). (various references)

French		ouvrages de dérivation, dérivation. (various references)

German		Stauanlage (barrage, diversion structure, diversion work), Stau (barrier effect, build up, congestion, jam, pile-up, pond, stagnation, stoppage, traffic congestion, traffic jam), Regulierungsbauwerk (diversion structure, diversion work), Leitwerk (control unit, diversion structure, diversion work, empennage, empennage assembly, instruction control unit, jetty, piled fendering, staging, tail unit, timber staging, wing), Ableitungsbauwerk (diversion structure, diversion weir, diversion work, diversion works). (various references)

Greek		έργα υδροληψίας (diversion structure, diversion structures, diversion work, intake structures), έργα εκτροπής (diversion structure, diversion work). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadworkshay

Portuguese		estruturas de tomada de água (diversion structure, diversion structures, diversion work, intake structures), estruturas de derivação (diversion structure, diversion work). (various references)

Swedish		vattenregleringsanläggning (diversion structure, diversion work). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: HEADWORKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-k-o-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: dorhawks, headwork, shadower.
	-2 letters: dorhawk, hawkers, redowas, sharked.
	-3 letters: adores, ahorse, arkose, ashore, dasher, dewars, dowers, dowser, drakes, drowse, harked, hawked, hawker, hawser, hoards, hoarse, hordes, horsed, howked, kasher, khedas, kosher, oreads, redowa, reshod, reshow, resoak, rewash, sarode, shader, shadow, shaker, shared, shawed, shored, showed, shower, shrewd, soaked, soaker, soared, waders, wakers, warked.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-k-o-r-s-w"
	+2 letters: handworkers.
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Alternative Orthography: HEADWORKS

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

48 45 41 44 57 4F 52 4B 53

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044 0057 004F 0052 004B 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

423935385749524553

INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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