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Date "CRUSOE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | CRUSOE, Robinson, F. R. G. S., traveller and autobiographer. Visited a sparsely-settled island in the Pacific Ocean; talked to parrots; found some footprints; rescued Friday, and returned to England to become an author. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Crusoe (A). A solitary man; the only inhabitant of a place. The tale of Defoe is well known, which describes Robinson Crusoe as cast on a desert island, where he employs the most admirable ingenuity in providing for his daily wants. "Whence creeping forth, to Duty's call he yields, And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields." Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Crusoe is a family of x86-compatible microprocessors from Transmeta. They use a software abstraction layer, or virtual machine, known as the Code Morphing Software (CMS), running on a VLIW hardware "core". CMS is the only application written for the native VLIW architecture, and translates the incoming x86 instruction stream into VLIW instructions.In theory, it's possible for CMS to be modified to handle other instruction streams (i.e. to emulate other microprocessors) but this is not likely to happen anytime soon, since it's probable that the current hardware has been optimized for x86.
The addition of an abstraction layer between the x86 instruction stream and the hardware means that the hardware architecture can change without breaking x86-compatability, just by modifying CMS. For example, the second-generation Crusoe has a 256-bit wide VLIW core versus 128-bit in the first generation.
Crusoe performs in software some of the functionality traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. instruction re-ordering), resulting in simpler hardware with fewer transistors. The relative simplicity of the hardware means that Crusoe consumes less power (and therefore generates less heat) than other x86-compatible microprocessors running at the same frequency.
There is some controversy over the performance of Crusoe relative to other x86-compatible microprocessors. The overhead associated with the software abstraction layer is supposed to be absorbed by run-time optimisations that CMS is able to make to the x86 instruction stream, but this is only true for code sequences which are repeated many times (and maybe not even then). Benchmark scores for Crusoe are generally lower than for comparable AMD or Intel processors, but it may that the subjective user experience of Crusoe performance is 'good enough', particularly in the small mobile computers aka. Subnotebooks in which Crusoe has been most widely used.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crusoe."
Crosswords: CRUSOE |
| English words defined with "CRUSOE": Alexander Selcraig, Alexander Selkirk ♦ Daniel Defoe, Defoe ♦ Selcraig, Selkirk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRUSOE": Juan Fernandez ♦ Philip Quarl ♦ Quarll ♦ Xury. (references) |
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Screenplays | I used to live like Robinson and Crusoe, shipwrecked among 8 million people but one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond) Crusoe was afraid he'd be stuck on the island with nothing but calluses (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) | |
Clever | Notice: The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Robinson Crusoe (1974) Een Nederlandse Robinson Crusoe (1969) Robinson Crusoe (1969) Robin Crusoe (1968) U.S.N. Lt. Robin Crusoe (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Robinson Crusoe and dog looking at skeleton in sand. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Neat crusoe chip device 1" by Balázs Kovács Commentary: "The new technology from cebit." |
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| "CRUSOE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CRUSOE" is used about 52 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 (proper) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "CRUSOE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crusoe | Last name | 400 | 22,361 |
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Expression using "CRUSOE": Robinson Crusoe. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "CRUSOE": crusoe-like. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CRUSOE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | โรบินสัน ครูโซ ตัวละครเอกในนวนิยายของ Daniel Defoe (Rinbinson Crusoe). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"CRUSOE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cracoe, Croesor, Crosotel, Crusoes, Cruze, Hrusov, Krutov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cerous, course, crouse, source. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, euros, roues, rouse, score, scour, sucre. | |
-2 letters: cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curs, ecru, ecus, eros, euro, orcs, ores, ours, recs, rocs, roes, rose, roue, rues, ruse, sore, sour, suer, sure, user. | |
-3 letters: cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, our. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: acerous, bescour, carouse, chouser, closure, colures, coursed, courser, courses, couters, croupes, focuser, obscure, recoups, refocus, rouches, scoured, scourer, scourge, scouter, scrouge, sourced, sources, sucrose. | |
+2 letters: araceous, bescours, bouncers, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, cernuous, choregus, chorused, choruses, chousers, citreous, closured, closures, clotures, clouters, cocksure, coenures, coenurus, coinsure, conjures, conquers, construe, consumer, corneous, cornuses, corpuses, corulers, costumer, couchers, coughers, coulters, counters, couplers, courages, couriers, coursers, courters, courtesy, coutures, coverups, crocuses, croquets, crouches, crousely, crunodes, crustose, cupreous, customer, cutovers, cynosure, decorous, decorums, douceurs, eductors, focusers, frounces, fructose, grouches, mucrones, nacreous, obscured, obscurer, obscures, ocherous, ochreous, outcries, outcurse, outraces, outscore, overcuts, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procures, produces, racemous, recounts, recourse, reoccurs, resource, roebucks, sclerous, scourers, scourged, scourger, scourges, scouters, scouther, scrouged, scrouges, scrounge, sloucher, stuccoer, succored, succorer, sucroses, supercop, touchers, trounces, ulcerous, uncovers, vouchers. | |
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