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BROCHUREWARE

Specialty Definition: BROCHUREWARE

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Brochureware n. Planned but non-existent product like vaporware, but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed as a strategic weapon; the idea is to con customers into not committing to an existing product of the competition's. It is a safe bet that when a brochureware product finally becomes real, it will be more expensive than and inferior to the alternatives that had been available for years. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: BROCHUREWARE

Specialty definitions using "BROCHUREWARE": vaporware. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BROCHUREWARE

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

brochureware

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

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Anagrams: BROCHUREWARE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-o-r-r-r-u-w"

-4 letters: abhorrer, barouche, breacher, broacher, brochure, burrower, harborer, harrower.

-5 letters: acerber, bouchee, bourree, bracero, cerebra, coherer, cowherb, crowbar, harbour, ochreae, reacher.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BROCHUREWARE


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

42 52 4F 43 48 55 52 45 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)

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

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

01000010 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001000 01010101 01010010 01000101 01010111 01000001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 004F 0043 0048 0055 0052 0045 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)

365249374255523957355239

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INDEX

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


  

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