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WFL

Specialty Definition: WFL

DomainDefinition

Computing

WFL Work Flow Language. Burroughs, ca 1973. A job control language for the B6700/B7700 under MCP. WFL was a compiled block-structured language similar to ALGOL 60, with subroutines and nested begin-end's. ["Work Flow Management User's Guide", Burroughs Manual 5000714, 1973]. ["Burroughs B6700/B7700 Work Flow Language", R.M. Cowan in "Command Languages", C. Unger ed, N-H 1975]. (1996-01-18). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: WFL

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

WFL

EnglishWomen's Freedom LeaguePolitics & International Affaires, Social Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: WFL

Specialty definitions using "WFL": TLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WFL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Beginners Guide to Wfl Primer (A Series) (reference)

  • The Beginner's Guide to Wfl (A-Series Wfl Primer) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: WFL

"WFL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WFL" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WFL

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

wfl

31

ga.com wfl

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: WFL

Derivations

Words containing "WFL": blowflies, blowfly, cowflap, cowflaps, cowflop, cowflops, glowflies, glowfly, sawflies, sawfly, snowflake, snowflakes, strawflower, strawflowers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WFL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "f-l-w"
 

+1 letter: flaw, flew, flow, fowl, wolf.

 

+2 letters: awful, flaws, flawy, flews, flown, flows, fowls, woful, wolfs.

 

+3 letters: fallow, fellow, flawed, flowed, flower, flyway, follow, fowled, fowler, inflow, lawful, reflew, reflow, sawfly, upflow, waeful, waffle, wifely, wilful, woeful, wolfed, wolfer.

 

+4 letters: airflow, alewife, awfully, batfowl, blowfly, blowoff, bowlful, cowflap, cowflop, dewfall, fallows, fellows, felwort, flawier, flawing, flowage, flowers, flowery, flowing, flyaway, flyblew, flyblow, flyways, folkway, follows, fowlers, fowling, fowlpox, glowfly, halfway, inflows, lifeway, lowlife, mudflow, oldwife, outflew, outflow, peafowl, reflown, reflows, seafowl, swayful, swiftly, twelfth, twofold, upflows, waffled, waffler, waffles, wailful, wakeful, wameful, welfare, werwolf, whiffle, willful, wishful, wistful, witloof, wofully, wolfers, wolfing, wolfish, wolfram.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WFL


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

57 46 4C

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

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

=

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)

01010111 01000110 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#70 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0046 004C

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

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

574046

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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