UTSL

Domain	Definition
Computing	UTSL // n. [Unix] On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in "Star Wars") -- analogous to RTFS (sense 1), but more polite. This is a common way of suggesting that someone would be better off reading the source code that supports whatever feature is causing confusion, rather than making yet another futile pass through the manuals, or broadcasting questions on Usenet that haven't attracted wizards to answer them. Once upon a time in elder days, everyone running Unix had source. After 1978, AT&T's policy tightened up, so this objurgation was in theory appropriately directed only at associates of some outfit with a Unix source license. In practice, bootlegs of Unix source code (made precisely for reference purposes) were so ubiquitous that one could utter it at almost anyone on the network without concern. Nowadays, free Unix clones have become widely enough distributed that anyone can read source legally. The most widely distributed is certainly Linux, with variants of the NET/2 and 4.4BSD distributions running second. Cheap commercial Unixes with source such as BSD/OS are accelerating this trend. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations: UTSL

Anagrams: UTSL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lust.
	Words within the letters "l-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: uts.
	-2 letters: us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "l-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: cults, gluts, lotus, louts, lunts, lusts, lusty, lutes, sault, sluts, stull, talus, tolus, tules.
	+2 letters: adults, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, bustle, butles, butyls, clouts, culets, cultus, cutlas, elutes, exults, faults, flatus, flouts, flutes, fluyts, gaults, glouts, guilts, hustle, insult, justle, justly, letups, litmus, locust, lunets, lusted, luster, lustra, lustre, lutist, lutzes, moults, mulcts, poults, quilts, result, rustle, salute, saults, sculpt, sleuth, slutty, solute, studly, stulls, stylus, sublet, sublot, subtle, subtly, sultan, sultry, sunlit, sutler, taluks, thurls, thusly, tousle, trulls, tulips, tulles, tussal, tussle, ulster, ultras, vaults.
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Alternative Orthography: UTSL

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

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)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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

Specialty Definition: UTSL

Derivations
	Words containing "UTSL": outsleep, outsleeping, outsleeps, outslept, outslick, outslicked, outslicking, outslicks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).