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SKEIN INSPECTOR

Specialty Definition: SKEIN INSPECTOR

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Occupations

Examines skeins of yarn to detect flaws, such as soils, slubs, breaks, and uneven dyeing or twisting: Shakes skeins to straighten yarn, hangs skeins on rod and spreads and pulls yarn around rod to locate imperfections. Cuts out slubs and ties yarn ends together. Examines winding and tying of skein to determine if skein has been made according to job order. Weighs skein from each lot and records weight. Records number and type of flaws found in each lot of yarn. Knots hank of yarn around several skeins to form bundle and packs bundles into boxes for shipment. May remove soils with cleaning fluid. (references)

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

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Anagrams: SKEIN INSPECTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-k-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: reinspections.

-2 letters: intercession, reinspection.

-3 letters: inspections, nonreceipts, pretensions.

-4 letters: consenters, copresents, inceptions, insertions, insistence, inspection, inspectors, interposes, isentropic, kinescopes, necropsies, nitpickers, nonreceipt, pensioners, precession, precisions, pretension, recensions, receptions, recipients, reinspects, resections, secretions, spinnerets, spinneries, tensioners, trickiness.

-5 letters: consenter, conspires, copresent, corkiness, corniness, cretonnes, crispiest, einsteins, entropies, erections, incenters, inception, inceptors, incorpses, ineptness, inertness, inkstones, insertion.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SKEIN INSPECTOR


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

53 4B 45 49 4E      49 4E 53 50 45 43 54 4F 52

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

    

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

01010011 01001011 01000101 01001001 01001110 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#75 &#69 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004B 0045 0049 004E      0049 004E 0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052

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

53453943482434853503937544952

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