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Date "LAYER-UP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends machine that smooths and folds knitted tubing as tubing unwinds from rolls: Puts roll of tubing on turning rod of machine. Threads end of tubing over supporting rolls of machine, through steam rolls, and through feed rolls which pull tubing over spreader and through steam rolls. Turns crank to adjust height of folding table located under rolls. Starts machine and observes as tubing travels through rolls which move back and forth on carriage and deposit tubing in folds onto table. Removes folded tubing from table and places tubing in boxes. May weigh tubing and record weight. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: parley, pearly, player, pleura, purely, replay, yauper. | |
-2 letters: apery, early, layer, layup, leary, paler, pareu, parle, payer, pearl, plyer, puler, relay, repay, reply, ureal. | |
-3 letters: aery, aper, aryl, earl, eyra, leap, lear, lure, lyre, pale, paly, pare, peal, pear, play, plea, prau, pray, prey, pula, pule, pure, purl, pyre, rale, rape, real, reap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: superlay. | |
+2 letters: prayerful, reputably, superably, underplay. | |
+3 letters: peculiarly, pelycosaur, perdurably, prequalify, presumably, propylaeum, specularly, superalloy, supernally, underplays. | |
+4 letters: counterplay, exculpatory, hypersexual, insuperably, multiplayer, peculiarity, pecuniarily, pelycosaurs, perpetually, pleasurably, polynuclear, prayerfully, prematurely, repugnantly, specularity, superalloys, superfamily, superlawyer, superlunary, superplayer, underplayed. | |
+5 letters: counterplays, disreputably, euphorically, hyperarousal, hypermutable, perceptually, persuasively, polyurethane, precariously, preovulatory, procedurally, prudentially, rampageously, reputability, sepulchrally, superciliary, superhumanly, superlawyers, superplayers, superquality, underplaying. | |
| 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)4C 41 59 45 52 2D 55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01011001 01000101 01010010 00101101 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A Y E R - U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0059 0045 0052 002D 0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4635593952155550 |
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