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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A mine foreman who is in direct charge of workers in a specific portion of a pit or mine. Also called shift boss. See also:pit foreman. (references) |
Occupations | Directs activities at automobile or motorcycle racetrack: Determines qualifying order of vehicles for each race based on trial event results or by drawing numbers. Assigns STARTERS (amuse. & rec.) to position on track. Controls traffic to ensure only authorized number of vehicles are in pit. Directs vehicles to assigned places in pit. Ascertains legality of pit stops according to rules set by sanctioning body authorizing race. Consults with SCORERS (amuse. & rec.) to resolve scoring disputes. Determines penalties to be assessed for rules violation. May inspect vehicles and drivers for safety equipment, such as seat belts, harnesses, and helmets. (references) |
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 |
pit boss | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-o-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: posits, ptosis. | |
-2 letters: obits, pisos, posit, posts, spits, spots, stobs, stops, topis. | |
-3 letters: bios, bits, bops, boss, bots, obis, obit, opts, piso, piss, pits, pois, post, pots, psis, psst, sibs, sips, sits, sobs, sops, sots, spit, spot, stob, stop, tips, topi, tops, toss. | |
-4 letters: bio, bis, bit, bop, bos, bot, its, obi, ops, opt. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-o-p-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: bowsprits, subtopias, subtopics. | |
+3 letters: possiblest, subtropics. | |
+4 letters: absorptions, possibility, subreptions, subsumption. | |
+5 letters: biophysicist, hyperbolists, probabilists, stroboscopic, suboptimizes, subpotencies, subscription, subsumptions. | |
| 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)50 49 54 42 4F 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001001 01010100 00100000 01000010 01001111 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P I T   B O S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0049 0054 0042 004F 0053 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504354236495353 |
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