Assayer

Definition: Assayer

Assayer

Noun

1. An analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals.

Date "assayer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references)

Specialty Definition: Assayer

Domain	Definition
Mining	Person who analyzes ores and alloys, esp. bullion, to determine the valueand properties of their precious metals. (references)
Occupations	Tests ores and minerals and analyzes results to determine value and properties of components, using spectrographic analysis, chemical solutions, and chemical or laboratory equipment, such as furnaces, beakers, graduates, pipettes, and crucibles: Separates metals or other components from dross materials by solution, flotation, or other liquid processes, or by dry methods, such as application of heat to form slags of lead, borax, and other impurities. Weighs residues on balance scale to determine proportion of pure gold, silver, platinum, or other metals or components. May specialize in testing and analyzing precious metals and be designated Gold-And-Silver Assayer (profess. & kin.). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Assayer

Specialty definitions using "assayer": sample grinder. (references)

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Modern Usage: Assayer

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Assayer of Lone Gap (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Assayer

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Delegate Wickersham on the left and the assayer on the right. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Assayer

"Assayer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assayer" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Assayer

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
assayer	25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Assayer

Language		Translations for "assayer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		probermester. (various references)

Dutch		essaaikantoor. (various references)

Finnish		tarkastuslaitos. (various references)

French		essayeur. (various references)

German		Prüfer (assayers, checker, checkers, examiner, inspector, taster, trier, triers, verifier, verifiers). (various references)

Greek		δοκιμαστήσ (sampler, tester, trier), δοκιμαστής πολύτιμων μετάλλων. (various references)

Italian		assaggiatore (taster), saggiatore (assay balance). (various references)

Pig Latin		assayeray

Portuguese		contrastaria. (various references)

Russian		оценщик (appraiser, apraiser, estimator, rater, valuator, valuer). (various references)

Spanish		verificador (checker). (various references)

Swedish		analytiker (analyser, analyst, analyzer), provare (taster, tester). (various references)

Turkish		ayarcı (gauger), tahlilci (analyst). (various references)

Vietnamese		người xét nghiệm, người thử (experimenter, tester, trier), người thí nghiệm (experimenter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Assayer

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assayer": assayers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assayer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asabere, Ashayer, asoya, Assane, Assaye, Assface, Bashayer, Hasbaya, Masayrek, Nassauer, Passauer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Assayer"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "assayer" (pronounced asā"er)
3	-s ā" er	doomsayer, naysayer, Sayer, soothsayer.
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Anagrams: Assayer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-r-s-s-y"
	-1 letter: resays, sayers.
	-2 letters: areas, arses, assay, essay, eyras, rases, rayas, resay, sayer, sears, years.
	-3 letters: aery, area, ares, arse, asea, ayes, ears, easy, eras, eyas, eyra, rase, raya, rays, ryas, ryes, says, sear, seas, sera, sers, yare, year, yeas.
	-4 letters: aas, are, ars, ass, aye, ays, ear, era, ers, ess, ras, ray, res, rya.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-r-s-s-y"
	+1 letter: apyrases, assayers, hearsays.
	+2 letters: accessary, analysers, naysayers, paralyses, yeasayers.
	+3 letters: gainsayers, jackassery, manslayers, paraphyses, paymasters, raygrasses, reanalyses, reanalysis, satyriases.
	+4 letters: amaryllises, syllabaries, waywardness, yardmasters.
	+5 letters: carboxylases, forestaysail, hyperplasias, overanalyses, overanalysis, steerageways.
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