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BLOATWARE

Specialty Definition: BLOATWARE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Bloatware n. [common] Software that provides minimal functionality while requiring a disproportionate amount of diskspace and memory. Especially used for application and OS upgrades. This term is very common in the Windows/NT world. So is its cause. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLOATWARE

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

bloatware microsoft

3

bloatware

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BLOATWARE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: bloater, ratable, rowable, teabowl.

-3 letters: abater, abator, ablate, aboral, aortae, aortal, arable, areola, barlow, bawler, blower, boatel, boater, bolter, borate, boreal, bowler, labret, lobate, oblate, rabato, rebato, trowel, warble.

-4 letters: abate, abler, abort, alate, alert, altar, alter, aorta, areal, artal, artel, aware, baler, below, blare, blate, blear, bleat, bloat, boart, bolar, boral, botel.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BLOATWARE


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

42 4C 4F 41 54 57 41 52 45

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)

01000010 01001100 01001111 01000001 01010100 01010111 01000001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#79 &#65 &#84 &#87 &#65 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 004F 0041 0054 0057 0041 0052 0045

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

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

364649355457355239

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INDEX

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


  

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