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Computing | Bells and whistles n. [common] Features added to a program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function. Distinguished from chrome, which is intended to attract users. "Now that we've got the basic program working, let's go back and add some bells and whistles." No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistle. The recognized emphatic form is "bells, whistles, and gongs". It used to be thought that this term derived from the toyboxes on theater organs. However, the "and gongs" strongly suggests a different origin, at sea. Before powered horns, ships routinely used bells, whistles, and gongs to signal each other over longer distances than voice can carry. Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: BELLS AND WHISTLES |
| Specialty definitions using "BELLS AND WHISTLES": Commodore 65. (references) |
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Music |
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| Language | Translations for "BELLS AND WHISTLES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | излишество (abuse, excess, luxury, surfeit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-h-i-l-l-l-n-s-s-s-t-w" | |
-5 letters: bawdinesses, beastliness, deshabilles, established, establishes, wealthiness, whistleable. | |
| 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)42 45 4C 4C 53 41 4E 44 57 48 49 53 54 4C 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01010011 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001000 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E L L S   A N D   W H I S T L E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 004C 004C 0053 0041 004E 0044 0057 0048 0049 0053 0054 004C 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639464653235483825742435354463953 |
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