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WEENIX

Specialty Definition: WEENIX

DomainDefinition

Computing

Weenix /wee'niks/ n.1. [ITS] A derogatory term for {Unix, derived from Unix weenie. According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies: typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion, no file version numbers, case sensitivity everywhere, and users who believe that these are all advantages". (Some ITS fans behave as though they believe Unix stole a future that rightfully belonged to them. See {ITS, sense 2.) 2. [Brown University] A Unix-like OS developed for tutorial purposes at Brown University. See `http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/weenix.html'. Named independently of the ITS usage. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: WEENIX

Specialty definitions using "WEENIX": Unix weenie. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WEENIX

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

weenix

3
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Anagrams: WEENIX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-w-x"

-1 letter: exine, newie.

-2 letters: nixe, ween, wine.

-3 letters: ewe, nee, new, nix, wee, wen, win.

-4 letters: en, ex, in, ne, we, xi.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-w-x"
 

+4 letters: swinepoxes, waxinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WEENIX


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

57 45 45 4E 49 58

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#73 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0045 0045 004E 0049 0058

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

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

573939484358

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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