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Synonym: Observation PostSynonym: lookout (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Observation Post |
| English words defined with "observation post": meteorological observation post. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "observation post": FLASH RANGING CREWMEMBER. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is a story of tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, when men have built a station in space, constructed in the form of a great wheel, and set a thousand miles out from the Earth, fixed by gravity, and turning about the world every two hours, serving a double purpose: an observation post in the heavens, and a place where a spaceship can be assembled, and then launched to explore other planets, and the vast universe itself, in the last and greatest adventure of mankind, the plunge toward the (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) | |
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 | Loading supplies ashore from NOAA Ship SURVEYOR at Seal Island Penguin Observation Post.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Seal Island Penguin Observation Post.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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Expressions using "observation post": air observation post ♦ meteorological observation post ♦ radiation and chemical observation post. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
air observation post | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "observation post"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | poste d'observation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beobachtungsposten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρατηρητήριο (obserbation post, observatory, watch tower, watchtower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfigyelőállás (spotting post), katonai megfigyelőállás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | observationay ostpay reparo (fix, heed, mending, notice, observation, remark, repair, shield). (various references) наблюдательный пункт (observation point, observation station, observatory, outlook). (various references) puesto de observación (look out). (various references) observationspunkt, observationspost. (various references) спостережний пункт (observatory, outlook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-o-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: observations, postabortion. | |
-4 letters: absorptions, observation. | |
-5 letters: absorption, absorptive, bootstraps, brattiness, observants, operations, ostensoria, patronises, pervasions, probations, protistans, protonates, sovranties, stationers, stoneboats, vaporettos. | |
| 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)4F 62 73 65 72 76 61 74 69 6F 6E 50 6F 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01100010 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O b s e r v a t i o n   P o s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0062 0073 0065 0072 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0050 006F 0073 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4968857184886786758180250818586 |
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