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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Blue wire n. [IBM] Patch wires (esp. 30 AWG gauge) added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. Blue wire is not necessarily blue, the term describes function rather than color. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. In Great Britain this can be `bodge wire', after mainstream slang `bodge' for a clumsy improvisation or sloppy job of work. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire, pink wire. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLUE WIRE |
| Specialty definitions using "BLUE WIRE": pink wire, purple wire ♦ red wire ♦ yellow wire. (references) |
| 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 |
blue wire | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-l-r-u-w" | |
-2 letters: belier. | |
-3 letters: belie, birle, bluer, liber, rebel, ruble, weber. | |
-4 letters: beer, bier, bile, birl, blew, blue, blur, bree, brew, brie, burl, ewer, leer, lier, lieu, lire, lube, lure, lwei, reel, riel, rile, rube, rule, weel, weer, weir, were, wile, wire. | |
-5 letters: bee, bel, bur, eel, ere, ewe, ire, lee, lei, leu, lib, lie, reb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-l-r-u-w" | |
+4 letters: unreviewable. | |
+5 letters: unbowdlerized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 55 45      57 49 52 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00100000 01010111 01001001 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L U E   W I R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0055 0045      0057 0049 0052 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36465539257435239 |
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