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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Big iron n. [common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare heavy metal, oppose dinosaur. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BIG IRON |
| English words defined with "BIG IRON": cook. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BIG IRON": Job Entry System. (references) |
| 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 |
big iron | 11 |
big iron lyrics | 4 |
big iron lyrics marty robbins | 2 |
big iron prop | 2 |
big iron software.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: boring, orbing, origin, robing. | |
-2 letters: bingo, boing, bring, giron, groin, iring, oribi, robin. | |
-3 letters: bong, born, brig, brin, brio, girn, giro, grin, inro, iron, noir, nori, ring. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, bro, gib, gin, gob, gor, ion, nib, nob, nog, nor, obi, orb, rib, rig, rin, rob. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, go, in, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: broiling, orbiting. | |
+2 letters: aborigine, bioregion, bromizing, disrobing, reboiling, ribboning. | |
+3 letters: aboriginal, aborigines, arborizing, bioregions, broidering, deorbiting, embroiling, fibrinogen, forbidding, imbowering, imbrowning, outbribing, parboiling, preboiling, robotizing, soberizing. | |
+4 letters: aboriginals, beliquoring, bioengineer, bioregional, broadsiding, brominating, carbonizing, conscribing, fibrinogens, firebombing, frostbiting, mislaboring, mockingbird, motorbiking, neighboring, overbidding, overbilling, overboiling, panbroiling, prohibiting, proscribing, recombining, reobtaining. | |
+5 letters: aboriginally, aerobicizing, barricadoing, billboarding, biodegrading, bioenergetic, bioengineers, bipolarizing, boardsailing, bowdlerising, bowdlerizing, charbroiling, chemisorbing, contributing, embroidering, forbiddingly, frostbitings, goldbricking, incorrigible, incorrigibly, microbrewing, mockingbirds, neighbouring, obliterating, overbuilding, remobilizing, sailboarding. | |
| 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)42 49 47 49 52 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01000111 00100000 01001001 01010010 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I G   I R O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0047 0049 0052 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364341243524948 |
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