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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Usenet /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ n. [from `Users' Network'; the original spelling was USENET, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred] A distributed bboard (bulletin board) system supported mainly by Unix machines. Originally implemented in 1979-1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, it has swiftly grown to become international in scope and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in existence. As of early 1996, it hosts over 10,000 newsgroups and an average of over 500 megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and flamage every day (and that leaves out the graphics...). By the year the Internet hit the mainstream (1994) the original UUCP transport for Usenet was fading out of use (see UUCPNET) - almost all Usenet connections were over Internet links. A lot of newbies and journalists began to refer to "Internet newsgroups" as though Usenet was and always had been just another Internet service. This ignorance greatly annoys experienced Usenetters. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
USENET | English | USErs' NETwork | Computer - (Internet) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: USENET |
| Specialty definitions using "USENET": Usenet Death Penalty, Usenet news. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "USENET" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "USENET" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "USENET": usenet Death Penalty ♦ usenet news. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "USENET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | ç"¨æˆ·ç½‘. (various references) | ||||
Korean | ìœ ìŠ¤ë„·. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enetusay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"USENET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hussenot, Hussenott, Oseney, Ufegeat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tenues. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ensue, sente, teens, tense, tunes, unset. | |
-2 letters: nest, nets, nuts, seen, sene, sent, stun, suet, teen, tees, tens, tune, tuns. | |
-3 letters: ens, nee, net, nus, nut, see, sen, set, sue, sun, tee, ten, tun, uns, use, uts. | |
-4 letters: en, es, et, ne, nu, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: butenes, eluents, enthuse, netsuke, neuters, outseen, retunes, sequent, subteen, tenures, tureens, unsteel. | |
+2 letters: chutnees, cuteness, dentures, detinues, entellus, enthused, enthuses, esculent, esurient, eugenist, lunettes, muenster, muteness, nauseate, netsukes, nutsedge, petuntse, quietens, retinues, reunites, sauterne, sederunt, sequents, subteens, tenesmus, toluenes, trueness, tubenose, tuneless, underset, unrested, unseated, unsettle, unsteels, untested, ventures. | |
+3 letters: acuteness, amusement, atheneums, austenite, beechnuts, betelnuts, bluestone, brunettes, butylenes, ceintures, cementums, centuples, centuries, chanteuse, denatures, denudates, deuterons, duecentos, durnedest, duvetines, duvetynes, ecumenist, effluents, encrusted, endosteum, entrusted, enuretics, esculents, estuarine, eugenists, euthenics, euthenist, euxenites, fourteens, frequents, genitures, inductees, interfuse, junketers, muensters, mutineers, nauseated, nauseates, nucleates, numerates, nutsedges, outpreens, outseeing, penthouse, petuntses, petuntzes, plenteous, preunites, pubescent, quiescent, quietness, renatures, resentful, resurgent, returnees, returners, reuniters, rousement, rufescent, sauntered, saunterer, sauternes, sederunts, stoutened, subcenter, subtended, succedent, sullenest, teguments, tenebrous, tenuities, tetanuses, tubenoses, tumescent, tunnelers, tuppences, turneries, uncreates, undereats, underlets, undersets, uneasiest, unevenest, unfetters, unscented, unsettled, unsettles, unsheathe, unsteeled, unstepped, unsterile, unteaches, untethers, urethanes, veinulets, venturers. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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