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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Smooths and polishes jewelry, such as charms, earrings, pins, rings, and bracelets, using polishing wheel: Selects polishing wheel and dressing compound according to type of metal to be polished and type of finish desired. Applies dressing compound or rouge to rotating wheel and moves article against wheel to remove surface blemishes and produce luster. May apply dressing compound and rub articles with cloth to remove discoloration and produce luster. May immerse jewelry in plating solution for specified time to coat jewelry with gold, silver, or other material. May polish areas of rings that are inaccessible to polishing wheel, using strip of abrasive polishing fabric. May buff jewelry findings with abrasive to produce grain effect (dull, granulated surface) and be designated Grainer (jewelry-silver.). When holding jewelry against lapping disk to smooth soldered joints, rough edges, and file marks, may be designated Lapper (jewelry-silver.). When holding jewelry against wire-brush wheel to remove stains, oxide coatings, solder flux, and to produce satin-finished surfaces, may be designated Scratch Brusher (jewelry-silver.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-f-f-o-r-r-u" | |
-3 letters: bouffe, buffer, furore, rebuff, robber, rubber, ruboff. | |
-4 letters: borer, buffo, burro, frore, furor, offer, ruffe. | |
-5 letters: boff, bore, bubo, buff, burr, euro, forb, fore, four, froe, robe, roue, rube, ruer, ruff. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-f-f-o-r-r-u" | |
+3 letters: buffaloberry. | |
+5 letters: buffaloberries. | |
| 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)52 55 42 42 45 52 2D 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01010101 01000010 01000010 01000101 01010010 00101101 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R U B B E R - O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0055 0042 0042 0045 0052 002D 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52553636395215494040 |
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