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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends various machines and equipment and performs any combination of following tasks involved in binding books, periodicals, and pamphlets, and assembling related printed materials in accordance with work order specifications: Punches holes in paper sheets, manually or by machine. Creases and compresses signatures prior to affixing covers, using press or by hand. Fastens sheets, signatures, or other printed materials together, using hand or machine stapler, or adjusts or tends machine that inserts wire or plastic binding strips into punched holes to fasten pages and covers together. Feeds covers, signatures, and sheets into various machines for collating, stitching, trimming, folding, ruling, stapling, roughing, $T3indexing,$T1 gluing, and perforating operations. Removes, stacks, and packs printed material in various stages of completion on pallets as it accumulates on delivery table of machines. Examines stitched, collated, bound, and unbound publications to ascertain that pages are bound in numerical or folio order according to sample copy, and for such defects as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn, loose, and uneven pages, and loose and uncut threads. Inserts illustrated pages, extra sheets, and collated sets into catalogs, periodicals, directories, pocket portfolios, or looseleaf binders, and inserts sheets and applies labels to envelopes or periodicals by hand or machine. Places paper jackets on acceptable books. Applies gold leaf, silver leaf, or metallic foil lettering or designs on covers, using stamping machine. Applies adhesive tape, mylar strips, and index tabs to sheets by machine. Wraps product in plastic, using shrink-wrapping machine, packs products in boxes, and tapes lids of boxes shut. Records daily production. Cleans work area around machine. May make ready bindery equipment and work stations. May lead, train, and monitor work of less experienced workers. (references) |
| Assembles fabric badges from such materials as metal bars, ribbon, and metal buttons, using any of following methods: (1) Slides hanger on back of metal bar through hemmed edge of ribbon. (2) Brushes cement onto back of metal or plastic bar and presses edge of ribbon onto bar. (3) Positions ribbon over back of metal button and presses circular wire pin against ribbon and under back edge of button. (4) Brushes cement onto buckram backing of rosette and presses edge of ribbon onto rosette. (5) Pushes pin on back of metal button through center of rosette and bends prongs of pin back to hold rosette in place. May trim and clean fabric badge, using scissors and cleaning cloth. May cement labels onto back of badges, using brush and cement. (references) | |
| Folds, gums, and finishes by hand die-cut blanks to make envelopes: Scores blank, using spatula or scoring tool. Folds envelope blanks according to pattern and creases folds by hand or with spatula. Applies gum to edges of flaps with brush or stick and seals flaps before gum dries. Applies gum to open flap with stick and allows it to dry. Folds down open flaps and packs completed envelopes in specified boxes. May attach cellophane strips or other decorations to envelopes by hand. (references) | |
| Performs any combination of following tasks in stitching room, using handtools: Cements doubles (cloth backing) together. Brushes cement on shoe parts. Counts number of parts and verifies total against work ticket. Sorts parts. Cuts and ties threads. (references) | |
| Inserts sheets of waxed paper between precemented parts of small leather articles to prevent parts from sticking together. Places stacks of parts in boxes and carries boxes to next work station for further processing. (references) | |
| Examines squares (tiles) of felt-based linoleum material passing along on conveyor and replaces missing and substandard tiles. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-k-l-o-r-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: worktable. | |
-3 letters: keelboat, troweler, workable. | |
-4 letters: aborter, alerter, alterer, artwork, bleaker, bleater, bloater, brawler, breaker, earlobe, laborer, realter, realtor, reawoke, rebater, relater, relator, retable, retaker, rewrote, rowable, taborer, teabowl, trawler, warbler, waterer, wreaker. | |
-5 letters: aerobe, areole, balker, barker, barlow, barrel, barret, barrow, barter, bawler, beaker, bearer, beater, belter, berake, berate, betake, beware, blower, boatel. | |
| 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)54 41 42 4C 45 57 4F 52 4B 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A B L E   W O R K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 0042 004C 0045 0057 004F 0052 004B 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54353646392574952453952 |
| 1. Anagrams 2. Orthography 3. Bibliography |
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