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Definition: Needleworker |
NeedleworkerNoun1. Someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Joins and reinforces parts of articles, such as garments, curtains, parachutes, stuffed toys, or sews buttonholes and attaches fasteners to articles, or sews decorative trimmings to articles, using needle and thread: Selects thread according to specifications or color of parts. Aligns parts, fasteners, or trimmings, following seams, edges, or markings on parts. Sews parts with various types of stitches, such as felling tacking, stitch and basting. Trims excess threads, using scissors or knife. May trim edges of parts, using scissors. When sewing fasteners or trimmings to articles, may be designated Finisher, Hand (garment). May be designated according to stitch sewn as Baster, Hand (garment); Feller, Hand (garment). May be designated according to article or part sewn as Armhole Baster, Hand (garment); Bow Attacher (garment); Bow Tacker (hat & cap) I; Buttonhole Maker, Hand (garment); Buttonhole Tacker (garment); Button Sewer, Hand (garment); Collar Feller (garment). May be designated: Collar Tacker (garment); Drapery Sewer, Hand (tex. prod., nec); Dressmaker (garment); Edge Maker (garment); Hook-And-Eye Attacher (garment); Label Sewer, Hand (any industry); Lapel Baster (garment); Lapel Padder (garment); Lining Finisher (garment); Neck Feller (garment); Sleeve Baster (garment); Sleeve-Bottom Feller (garment); Tacker (garment); Top-Collar Baster (garment); Trimming Finisher (garment). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "needleworker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | eedleworkernay.(various references) | |
Russian | рукодельница (needlewoman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "needleworker": needleworkers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-k-l-n-o-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: needlework. | |
-3 letters: weekender. | |
-4 letters: kerneled, reworked, wonderer. | |
-5 letters: drowner, endower, kneeled, kneeler, lowered, needler, reendow, renewed, renewer, rewoken, roweled, weekend. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-e-k-l-n-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: needleworkers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 65 64 6C 65 77 6F 72 6B 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . . -.. .-.. . .--. --- .-. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101100 01100101 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e e d l e w o r k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0065 0064 006C 0065 0077 006F 0072 006B 0065 0072 |
| 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)487171707871898184777184 |
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