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SETTER-UP

Date "SETTER-UP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Specialty Definition: SETTER-UP

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Occupations

Assembles and sets off fireworks displays at fairs, expositions, or celebrations, according to picture programs or diagrams: Advises committee as to distance audience should be from setoff site of display, according to wind direction and velocity, considering fallout of sparks and acid, and types of fireworks used. Lays out setoff arrangement. Directs workers to set mortars (pipes used to fire aerial shells) apart from ground display, and places barrier of sandbags, railroad ties, or boxes of gravel between mortars to avoid detonating shells from sparks. Assembles framework and affixes display to framework, using hammer, saw, nails, scissors, and twine. Ties fuses of components to lead fuse to create simultaneous fireworks display. Determines appropriate time for setting off of display, according to environmental conditions. (references)
 Assembles wooden barrel shells in raising stand. Places staves inside truss hoop and forming rings to form barrel shell. Loops cable of windlass around top of barrel and moves leg control to draw staves together. Slips truss ring on top of barrel shell and presses pedal to release cable. Removes shell from raising stand. May insert truss and forming rings in raising stand. May place barrels on heat tunnel conveyor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SETTER-UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upsetter.

Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: pertest, petters, pretest, puttees, putters, reputes, sputter, trustee.

-2 letters: erupts, peruse, pester, peters, petter, preset, purees, purest, puttee, putter, repute, retest, retuse, rupees, septet, setter, street, suttee, tester, truest, tutees, utters.

-3 letters: erupt, ester, peers, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, puree, purse, putts, reest, reset, reuse, rupee, setup, speer, spree, sprue, spurt, steep.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: putterers, sputtered, sputterer, superette, upsetters.

 

+2 letters: pirouettes, putrescent, spluttered, splutterer, sputterers, superettes, superstate, trumpeters.

 

+3 letters: counterstep, guttersnipe, perpetuates, pretentious, repetitious, splutterers, superfatted, superstates, trusteeship, turpentines, vituperates.

 

+4 letters: countersteps, guttersnipes, interrupters, perpetuators, perpetuities, posteruptive, prestructure, stepdaughter, subtemperate, superathlete, teleutospore, temperatures, therapeutics, trusteeships.

 

+5 letters: heteropterous, perpetuations, prematurities, prestructured, prestructures, pretentiously, recapitulates, repetitiously, stepdaughters, subdepartment, superathletes, superfetation, supersaturate, superstrength, supersubtlety, teleutospores, unpretentious.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SETTER-UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 54 54 45 52 2D 55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052 002D 0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533954543952155550

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1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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