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FDISK

Specialty Definition: FDISK

DomainDefinition

Computing

FDISK (Fixed disk utility) An MS-DOS utility program which prepares a hard disk so that it can be used as a boot disk and file systems can be created on it. OS/2, NT, Windows 95, Linux, and other Unix versions all have this command or something similar. (1996-12-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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"FDISK" is a common misspelling or typo for: disc, disk, frisk, frisky.


Commercial Usage: FDISK

DomainTitle

High Tech

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FDISK

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fdisk

1,084

window 98 fdisk

7

fdisk mbr

78

fdisk switch

7

fdisk download

65

fdisk winxp

7

fdisk xp

36

boot disk fdisk

6

fdisk window xp

32

fdisk instructions

6

2000 fdisk window

25

data fdisk recovery

5

fdisk command

16

2000 fdisk win

5

fdisk utility

14

fdisk problem

5

fdisk ntfs

13

fdisk a computer

4

fdisk format

12

undo fdisk

4

use fdisk

12

drive fdisk large

4

fdisk free

11

fdisk new

4

fdisk linux

11

fdisk option

4

fdisk help

11

fdisk win xp

4

drive fdisk hard

10

download fdisk xp

3

using fdisk

10

fdisk program

3

dos fdisk

10

download fdisk format

3

fdisk window

8

fdisk partitioning

3

fdisk partition

7

create fdisk

3

fdisk recovery

7

fdisk parameter

3

fdisk win98

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FDISK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-i-k-s"

-1 letter: disk, fids, kids, kifs, skid.

-2 letters: dis, fid, ids, ifs, kid, kif, ski.

-3 letters: id, if, is, si.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-i-k-s"
 

+2 letters: frisked.

 

+3 letters: disfrock, skiffled.

 

+4 letters: disfrocks, fossicked, skidproof.

 

+5 letters: backfields, disfrocked, distelfink, fieldworks, firedrakes, friedcakes.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: FDISK


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

46 44 49 53 4B

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    -..    ..    ...    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000110 01000100 01001001 01010011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#68 &#73 &#83 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0044 0049 0053 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4038435345

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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