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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Restores and preserves historical furniture in collection of museum or similar institution, using variety of handtools and power tools and applying knowledge of antique fabrics and wood furniture: Examines furnishings to determine type of material, extent of deterioration or damage, or date of construction to verify authenticity and plan restoration. Sets up and operates variety of woodworking machines to fabricate, repair, reinforce, and replace parts of furniture. Cuts, shapes, and attaches parts according to blueprints or drawings, using handtools. Matches materials for color, grain, and texture. Strips old finish from furnishings, using solvents and abrasives. Fills cracks, depressions, and other blemishes, using plastic wood or lacquer stick. Treats warped or stained surfaces to restore original contour and color. Glues or replaces veneer sections. Smooths surfaces, using power sander or abrasive material. Washes or bleaches furniture surfaces to prepare surface for application of finish. Selects coatings, such as stain, lacquer, or varnish according to type wood, and brushes or sprays material onto surface to protect surface and produce desired appearance. Polishes, sprays, or waxes finished pieces. Removes damaged or deteriorated coverings from upholstered furniture. Repairs, reinforces, or replaces components, such as springs, webbing, and padding. Selects fabric for new covering, using knowledge of period and style of furniture or following instructions of CURATOR (museums) 102.017-010. Tacks, sews, glues, or staples covering to furniture frame to attach upholstery. Refurbishes leather coverings of furnishings, using softeners, solvents, adhesives, stains, or polishes. Replaces damaged coverings with leather pieces of appropriate color, grain, and weight. Stencils, gilds, embosses, or paints designs or borders on restored pieces to reproduce original appearance. May advise curatorial staff on environmental conditions necessary for preservation of furnishings in exhibit and storage areas. May fabricate replicas of period furniture for use in exhibits. May be designated according to specialty as Finish Specialist (museums); Upholstery Restorer (museums). (references) |
| Operates $T3range$T1 consisting of units, such as troughs, pickup roller, $T3curing oven, and tenter frame,$T1 to apply coatings, such as rubber, pyroxylin, or foam to fabrics, such as carpeting or upholstery material, and to dry coating: Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine, or threads end of fabric through rolls of machine. Starts pump to admit solution into trough. Observes operation to detect skewed cloth and pushes buttons to control speed of rollers that hold back or advance selvages to straighten cloth. Measures cloth emerging from tenter frame to determine if cloth has been stretched and dried to specified width. Turns handwheel to adjust distance between tenter chains. Turns switches to regulate speed of machine and temperature of drying cabinet, and turns setscrew to set doctor blade for various cloth styles. Tests viscosity of coating solution with viscosimeter and adds solvent or coating ingredients to bring solution to specified viscosity. Doffs trucks of dry cloth at $T3swing-folding attachment.$T1 May operate machine equipped with condenser to recover evaporated solvent. May operate range to apply backing to carpeting. May tend beamer that winds packages of fabric onto beams of continuous length to facilitate further processing. (references) | |
| Operates machine to coat items, such as candy, nuts, and chewing gum tablets, with syrup, wax coloring matter, or other material to provide specified finish or polish: Dumps product into pan and starts pan revolving. Pours specified quantity of syrup over whirling candy or other product, and passes hands through batch to spread syrup uniformly. Turns steam valve and observes thermometer to regulate pan temperature, according to changes in atmospheric conditions, or when hard coatings have been specified. Examines and feels product to determine adequacy of coating, and applies successive charges of syrup until specified coating thickness is attained. Adds flavoring and coloring ingredients in final coating, as specified. May mix together and apply emulsified or dry ingredients, such as gum solution, cornstarch, and powdered sugar to product. May transfer contents to polishing pans and add specified ingredients to polish coating. May set temperature controls and start blower to dry syrup. May be designated according to product coated or polished as Almond-Pan Finisher (sugar & conf.); Chocolate-Peanut Coating-Machine Operator (sugar & conf.); Gum Coater (sugar & conf.). (references) | |
| Controls battery of coating machines that apply coatings to pharmaceutical tablets to flavor, color, preserve, add medication, or control disintegration time: Dumps uncoated tablets into rotary pans of machines and starts machine. Pours measured amounts of liquid coatings, such as medicated syrup, dye, and gelatin, onto tablets to form base or successive coats according to formula or production order. When applying enteric coating to control disintegration, pours enteric solution over tablets prior to subcoating. Sprinkles dusting powder onto tablets and stirs them to prevent tablets from sticking together and to produce uniform coating. Examines tablets for defects, such as chips and discoloration, and scrapes coating with fingernail to ascertain dryness. Measures sample tablets, using caliper or micrometer, and weighs them on balance scale to determine adherence to weight and coating-thickness specifications. Dumps coated tablets and measured amount of liquid wax into canvas-lined pan and starts pan revolving to give tablets final glossy coating. (references) | |
| Tends equipment that cleans, coats, and dries baking pans: Mixes cleaning and glazing solutions according to formula or uses premixed solutions. Places pans in baskets and immerses baskets in stripping and soaking tanks to remove glaze and corrosion. Fills spray reservoirs with cleaning and glazing solutions. Removes pans from tanks and places pans on conveyor that carries pans through sprays that wash and coat surfaces with glazing solution to reduce need for greasing and to protect them against rust. Turns nozzles to adjust direction and pressure of sprays. Transfers pans to ovens that dry coating. Turns knobs to adjust oven temperature according to chart. Removes pans from oven and examines surfaces to detect defects, such as warpage and uneven coating. Tends hydraulic press to straighten warped pans. May tend overhead hoist to immerse and transfer pans to and from tanks, conveyors, and ovens. May load and unload pans from trucks, using handtruck. (references) | |
| Operates machine to coat paper with chemical solution or emulsion to produce paper for graphic duplicating or photographic printmaking: Fills coating troughs with specified chemicals. Mounts paper roll on machine spindle, using hoist or lift truck. Threads paper through coating rollers and drying chamber. Adjusts screws on roller shaft to regulate machine speed and paper tension, using handtools. Adjusts temperature in drying chamber to regulate drying of paper. Examines and feels surface of coated paper emerging from machine for streaks, discoloration, and adequate moisture content. Cuts paper with knife to obtain sample for laboratory testing. Records gauge and graph readings and production data. May be designated according to type of coating applied as Blueprint-Paper-Coating-Machine Operator (photo. appar.); Photographic-Paper-Coating-Machine Operator (photo. appar.). (references) | |
| Tends machine that coats asphalt-impregnated felt paper with paint to seal in asphalt and prevent discoloration of light-colored enamels used for finishing: Mounts roll of paper on machine spindle and feeds end of roll through machine or splices end to roll in machine. Fills hoppers with paint. Starts machine that coats paper with paint and observes operation and rewinding of paper in $T3festoon$T1 ovens for drying. Adjusts oven controls to maintain specified temperature for drying coated paper. Removes paper rewound on rolls from oven when dried. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COATER |
| Specialty definitions using "COATER": COATER HELPER ♦ OPTICAL-INSTRUMENT ASSEMBLER ♦ PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSOR, SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS ♦ resist coater-developer. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
coater | 10 |
roll coater | 7 |
spin coater | 5 |
carbon coater | 4 |
2 coater roller tycoon | 4 |
lab coater | 3 |
curtain coater | 3 |
sputter coater | 3 |
coater powder | 3 |
tablet coater | 2 |
coater roller uv | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | paafoeringsanlaeg (roll-coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opdraagmachine (roll-coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sivelykone (doctor kiss coater), Massey-päällystyslaite (Massey coater), Massey-päällystin (Massey coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vernisseuse, enduit de remplissage, enducteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Beschichtungsmaschine (roll-coater), Auftragsmaschine (roll-coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηχανή επιστρώσεως βερνικιού (roll-coater), επιστρωτήρας (roll-coater), επιχριστής (roll-coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mázológép. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | impianto di rivestimento (roll-coater), impianto di applicazione della vernice (roll-coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oatercay envernizadora de três rolos (roll-coater). (various references) máquina aplicadora de pintura (roll-coater). (various references) stavbestrykare (doctor kiss coater), Masseybestrykare (Massey coater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COATER": coaters. (additional references) | |
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"COATER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coalter, coate, coatee, coaten, coatex, codate, coite, coiter, coteer, coter, couter, coutre, Croetzer, Ecowater, ocaer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: actor, caret, carte, cater, crate, oater, ocrea, orate, react, recta, recto, taroc, trace. | |
-2 letters: acre, aero, arco, care, cart, cate, cero, coat, core, cote, orca, race, rate, rato, rota, rote, tace, taco, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, torc, tore. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cor, cot, ear, eat, era. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: coaster, coaters, cordate, creator, enactor, erotica, exactor, locater, ocreate, outrace, overact, reactor, redcoat. | |
+2 letters: accentor, acceptor, accouter, accoutre, acrolect, aeroduct, ancestor, anchoret, anoretic, boracite, brocatel, cabestro, cabresto, caretook, carotene, cartoned, category, caveator, cavorted, cavorter, ceratoid, chelator, chlorate, chordate, chromate, coarsest, coasters, cocreate, collaret, combater, cometary, coparent, corelate, coronate, corotate, cottager, courante, creation, creators, cremator, decorate, democrat, ectosarc, educator, enactors, enactory, erotical, escargot, evocator, exactors, factored, footrace, forecast, locaters, loricate, mercapto, operatic, outcaper, outraced, outraces, outrance, outreach, overacts, overcast, overcoat, pectoral, portance, postrace, reaction, reactors, redactor, redcoats, relocate, retroact, sectoral, theocrat, thoraces, trochlea. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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