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Satirical dictionary of computer industry terms
The Computer Contradictionary is a non-fiction book by Stan Kelly-Bootle that compiles a satirical list of definitions of computer industry terms. It is
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American hacker and computer programmer (born 1954)
DECUS, and others (see The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder for a human history of this period). "The computer contradictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle
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List of fears of different things or objects
PMC 7474809. PMID 33271693. Kelly-Bootle S (May 1995). "Aibohphobia". The Computer Contradictionary. MIT Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-262-61112-1. Jenkins J (10 June
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1983 humorous dictionary by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
forms in British place names Phono-semantic matching Sniglet The Computer Contradictionary The Devil's Dictionary Uxbridge English Dictionary Flood, Alison
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1906 satirical dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's DP dictionary. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070340220., republished as Kelly-Bootle, Stan (1995). The Computer Contradictionary. The MIT
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Humour about computers and their users
published by computer scientist Donald Knuth in 1977 as an in-joke about computational complexity theory The Computer Contradictionary, a non-fiction
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English archivist, computer scientist, and folk musician (1929–2014)
programmer. He was known in the computer community for The Devil's DP Dictionary and its second edition, The Computer Contradictionary (1995), which he authored
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Humorous fictional type of computer memory
adamant that Farnsfarfle was a very small man. The editors won. The 1995 Computer Contradictionary book discusses EWOM, or Erasable Write-Only Memory (an analogy
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Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THI means "poem."
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Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Compiler of the Vedas
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English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English word tye, TYE means "pasture."
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Native American
Native American Navajo name TSE means "rock."
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Compiler of Hadith
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German
Pet form of German Kätharina, KÄTHE means "pure."
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Short form of English Theodore, THEO means "gift of God," and other names beginning with Theo-.
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Goddess; godly. Also as abbreviation of names like Althea and Dorothea. The mythological Thea was...
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Compiler of Hadith
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God given.
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 Short form of Greek and Latin Dorothea, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
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Rock.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Tye.
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Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THU means "autumn."
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Computer
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Computer
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : topographic name for someone who lived by a common pasture, Middle English tye (Old English tēag).North German : from a short form, Tide, of the personal name Dietrich.
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From the enclosure.
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English : status name from Middle English thewe ‘thrall’, ‘slave’ (Old English þēow).
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English
 Pet form of English Theodora, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
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A perfect charming girl
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Determine
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Life of Lord
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Victory
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Brilliant, Shining, Splendid
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Australian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese
White; From the City Alba
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
One Adorned with Knowledge of the Vedas
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Arabic
Joy
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Muslim
Old Arabic name
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Remembering the Guru
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v. i.
To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
v. i.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
n.
A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.
n.
One who computes.
v. t.
To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
v. t.
To compute; to count.
v. i.
See Thee.
n.
One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
n.
A computer.
n.
A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
v. i.
To calculate; to compute.
imp. & p. p.
of Compete
imp. & p. p.
of Compute
n.
Compiler.
n.
One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
adv.
By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.
v. t.
To compute erroneously.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Compute
imp. & p. p.
of Commute
n.
The result of computation; the amount computed.