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Occupations | Fabricates artificial plastic eyes according to specifications and fits eyes into customer's eye sockets, using precision handtools, measuring instruments, molding devices, and bench fabricating machines: Measures customer's eye socket, using calipers, and measures natural eye to determine size and location of pupil and iris, using scale. Records data on examination card. Selects stock artificial eye approximating size and shape of customer's socket and inserts eye into socket. Fills eye area and questions customer to ascertain that eye fit is comfortable. Applies plastic as required to build up and shape stock eye to conform to customer's eye socket. Examines customer's natural eye to determine iris coloring, eye white shading, and number of eye white veins and records information on examination card. Selects samples of iris, pupil, and white to match eye. Positions artificial eye stock in plaster of paris to prepare mold for casting plastic eye. Pours plastic into mold to form artificial eye. Measures molded eye to determine position for pupil and iris, using rule. Positions and presses pupil and iris into place. Immerses eye in boiling water to set plastic. Paints iris and white of artificial eye to produce color of customer's natural eye according to information recorded on examination card. Draws veins on white of eye, using colored pencil or scratches grooves into eye to represent veins and fills grooves with pigment. Immerses eye in clear plastic solution to produce glassy finish. Examines eye for irregularities in shape and removes irregularities, using dental grinding machine. Polishes eye, using pumice and electric buffing wheel. Fits customer with artificial eye and compares artificial eye with natural eye to ensure centering of iris and pupils and matching of colors. May fit patients with ready-to-wear plastic eyes of standard sizes and colors. May fabricate implants (plastic and mesh devices fitted in eye socket for retention of eye muscles) and conformers (plastic disks placed in eye socket to maintain socket shape prior to fitting of artificial eye), using standard molds and grinding and polishing machines. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ocularist (2003) | |
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 |
ocularist | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OCULARIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukrainian | майстер, що виготовля" очні протези. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người l m mắt giả. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words beginning with "OCULARIST": ocularists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: suctorial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: curtails, rustical. | |
-2 letters: carious, carolus, citolas, citrals, citrous, crustal, curiosa, curtail, curtals, lictors, locusta, oculars, oculist, oralist, oscular, outsail, rialtos, rituals, sautoir, scrotal, stoical, surcoat, tailors, talcous, torulas, troilus, turacos, uracils. | |
-3 letters: actors, aorist, aortic, aristo, aurist, caroli, carols, castor, caulis, citola, citral, citrus, claros, clours, clouts, coatis, coital, coitus, corals, costal, costar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: alacritous, ocularists, ultrasonic. | |
+2 letters: atrociously, circulators, cultivators, customarily, duplicators, elucidators, fractiously, inculcators, inoculators, lactiferous, lubricators, staurolitic, subcortical, subtropical, thiouracils, ulcerations, ultrasonics. | |
+3 letters: articulators, calumniators, circulations, countervails, crenulations, gesticulator, jocularities, journalistic, lubrications, lucubrations, plutocracies, postsurgical, reinoculates, reluctations, stratocumuli, supplicatory, unhistorical. | |
+4 letters: articulations, astronautical, cartilaginous, counterclaims, elucubrations, gesticulators, gesticulatory, hallucinators, inoperculates, instructional, multiorgasmic, oracularities, prosecutorial, reticulations, sociocultural, touristically, ultracautious, uncustomarily, voluntaristic. | |
| 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 43 55 4C 41 52 49 53 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01001111 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O C U L A R I S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0043 0055 004C 0041 0052 0049 0053 0054 |
| 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)493755463552435354 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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