STENCIL CUTTER

  

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STENCIL CUTTER

Specialty Definition: STENCIL CUTTER

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Occupations

Designs, lays out, and cuts letters for stenciling railroad cars, according to specifications, using precision measuring and drawing instruments and handtools: Draws letter designs on stencil paper, using rule, triangle, T-square and pen or pencil. Brushes shellac and linseed oil on both sides of stencil paper to stiffen and preserve stencil. Cuts out letters, using knife or stencil-cutting machine. Constructs wood stencil frame, using miter box, saw, and hammer. Tacks stencil onto frame, using hammer or staple gun. May apply protective coating to exterior surfaces of locomotives, fixtures, and buildings, using brush, spray gun, or paint rollers. May stencil letters on cars, using brush or spray gun and be designated Car Letterer (railroad equip.). (references)
 Lays out inscriptions and decorative designs on stenciling material applied to stone and cuts out stencil preparatory to sandblasting: Applies stenciling material to stone surface by spreading cement over surface of stone and positioning material on stone, stripping cloth from adhesive surface of material and positioning adhesive surface on stone. Aligns pattern on stencil, using rule and square, and marks over pattern with straightedge to transfer carbon lettering and design to stenciling material. Cuts out lettering and designs along marks to expose stone surface for sandblasting, using stencil knife. Trims and smooths edges of stencil to ensure detailed reproduction of intricate designs. (references)
 Cuts stencils by hand for use in silk screen printing: Superimposes transparent gelatinous film or shellacked onionskin paper on design or lettering to be reproduced, and cuts outline of design, using knife. Irons stencil on silk or fine copper mesh screen to transfer film or shellac onto screen. Cuts additional stencils for each color to be printed in design. May draw design directly on screen and fill in surfaces around design with glue, lacquer, or paper. May print designs [SCREEN PRINTER (any industry)]. May cut stencils for use in making computer circuit plug boards and be designated Silk-Screen-Layout Drafter (any industry). (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STENCIL CUTTER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stencil cutter

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: STENCIL CUTTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-s-t-t-t-u"

-4 letters: ceintures, centuries, cinctures, cruelties, cutleries, electrics, encircles, enuretics, eutectics, intercuts, intersect, licencers, licensure, lucencies, nettliest, restitute, reticules, stenciler, tectrices, tinctures, turnstile, unsterile.

-5 letters: ceinture, centiles, centrist, cerusite, cincture, circlets, citterns, clutters, crescent, cruelest, cuittles, curettes, curliest, cutesier, cuticles, cutlines, electric, elenctic, encircle, enlister, enticers, entitles, enuretic, esculent, esurient, eucrites, eutectic, insecure, insetter.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STENCIL CUTTER


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

53 54 45 4E 43 49 4C      43 55 54 54 45 52

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

    

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

01010011 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01001001 01001100 00100000 01000011 01010101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#76 &#32 &#67 &#85 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0045 004E 0043 0049 004C      0043 0055 0054 0054 0045 0052

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

535439483743462375554543952

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