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DEAD LINK

Specialty Definition: DEAD LINK

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Dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach. Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted. Lots of dead links make a WWW page frustrating and useless and are the #1 sign of poor page maintainance. Compare dangling pointer, link rot. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEAD LINK

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

dead link

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DEAD LINK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-k-l-n"

-1 letter: kindled.

-2 letters: alined, alkine, ankled, dandle, denial, dialed, dindle, dinked, kilned, kindle, laddie, landed, linked, nailed.

-3 letters: addle, aided, ailed, alien, alike, aline, anile, ankle, dedal, diked, dined, elain, eland, ideal, idled, inked, inkle, knead, laded, laden, laked, liane, liked, liken, lined, naked, naled, nidal, nided.

-4 letters: aide, akin, anil, dale, dank, dead, deal.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-k-l-n"
 

+3 letters: backslidden, deadlocking, skedaddling.

 

+4 letters: stickhandled.

 

+5 letters: kindheartedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEAD LINK


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

44 45 41 44      4C 49 4E 4B

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

    

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

01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0044      004C 0049 004E 004B

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

38393538246434845

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INDEX

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


  

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