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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | LAN party /lan par'tee/ An event to which several users bring their boxes and hook them up to a common LAN (Local Area Network), often for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games, especially action games such as Quake or Unreal Tournament. This is also a good venue for people to show-off their fancy new hardware. Such events can get pretty large, several hundred people attend the annual QuakeCon in Texas. The theoretical rationale behind LAN parties is that playing over the Internet often introduces too much lag in the playing experience - but just as important is the special quality of trash-talking each other across the room while playing, and the instinctive social ritual of consuming vast amounts of food and drink together. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
lan party | 188 |
club lan party | 14 |
box lan party x | 8 |
dfi lan party | 7 |
halo lan party | 5 |
lan party setup | 5 |
computer lan party | 4 |
lan party software | 4 |
game lan party | 3 |
dallas lan party | 3 |
dfi kt400a lan party | 2 |
lan party party | 2 |
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lan party tool | 2 |
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counter lan party strike | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: plantar. | |
-2 letters: antral, paltry, pantry, parlay, partan, partly, planar, platan, raptly, ratany, tarnal, tarpan, trapan, yantra. | |
-3 letters: alant, alary, altar, antra, apart, aptly, artal, lyart, natal, nyala, panty, party, patly, plant, platy, playa, pyran, ratal, ratan, talar, typal. | |
-4 letters: alan, alar, anal, anta, arty, aryl, atap, nary, paly, pant, para, part, paty, plan, plat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: planarity, planetary, rampantly. | |
+2 letters: apparently, parentally, partisanly, paternally, pleasantry, prenatally. | |
+3 letters: coplanarity, explanatory, paramountly, perinatally, phalanstery, plantocracy. | |
+4 letters: biparentally, cryptanalyst, inapparently, manipulatory, paralyzation, parenterally. | |
+5 letters: cryptanalyses, cryptanalysis, cryptanalysts, cryptanalytic, explanatorily, hyperrational, operationally, paralyzations, paranormality, parliamentary, polycarbonate, postcranially, probationally, puritanically, transparently, uniparentally. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 4E 50 41 52 54 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01001110 00100000 01010000 01000001 01010010 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A N   P A R T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 004E 0050 0041 0052 0054 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46354825035525459 |
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