DORITO SYNDROME

  

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DORITO SYNDROME

Specialty Definition: DORITO SYNDROME

DomainDefinition

Computing

Dorito Syndrome Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome." (1997-03-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Slang

Phrase. Source: Derives from the fact that once you start eating things like chips or candy you usually can't stop because although you know it's bad for you it just tastes too good. Definition: It means that someone feels bad that they have been spending too much time doing something that they know they shouldn't be doing. Context: This will usually be said when someone has been spending a lot of time on the computer playing video games or something similiar. Social Source: Online Computer Game Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DORITO SYNDROME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-m-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-t-y"

-5 letters: demotions, disrooted, dormitory, dosimetry, ideomotor, modernist, modernity, monitored, motioners, motorised, odontoids, remotions, storeroom.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DORITO SYNDROME


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

44 4F 52 49 54 4F      53 59 4E 44 52 4F 4D 45

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

    

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

01000100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001110 01000100 01010010 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#78 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0052 0049 0054 004F      0053 0059 004E 0044 0052 004F 004D 0045

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

38495243544925359483852494739

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2. Orthography
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