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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Qbasic |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
QBasic was produced by Microsoft and bundled in MS DOS 3.3 (and possibly other versions as well). Microsoft stopped shipping QBasic with later versions of Windows (Windows_98 users for example will find it in the tools/oldmsdos/ directory of the Windows_98 CD-ROM) and it is no longer available. QBasic provided a state-of-the-art IDE (for its time), including a debugger with features such as on-the-fly expression evaluation and code modification that were still relatively unusual in 2003, more than ten years later.
QBasic was based on Microsoft's Professional Development System Basic, also known as PDS Basic or simply PDS. PDS Basic was followed by Visual Basic for DOS and its language engine was likely the foundation for Microsoft's market-leading Visual Basic for Windows.
QBasic has also made its way into several third-party tools, such as the XBasic compiler and PowerBasic series of compilers. QBasic was also the subject of Beginning Programming For Dummies.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "QBasic."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
QBASIC | English | Quick Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | Computer - (BASIC, DOS) |
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Crosswords: QBASIC |
| Specialty definitions using "QBASIC": Microsoft Basic. (references) |
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| "QBASIC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "QBASIC" is used about 9 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 (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-q-s" | |
-1 letter: basic. | |
-2 letters: asci, bias, cabs, isba, scab. | |
-3 letters: abs, ais, bas, bis, cab, cis, sab, sac, sib, sic. | |
-4 letters: ab, ai, as, ba, bi, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-q-s" | |
+4 letters: quillbacks, subaquatic. | |
| 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)51 42 41 53 49 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--.- -... .- ... .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010001 01000010 01000001 01010011 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Q B A S I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0051 0042 0041 0053 0049 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)513635534337 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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