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Definition: Diskette |
DisketteNoun1. A small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Diskette floppy disk. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: DisketteSynonyms: floppy (n), floppy disk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Record | Compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Diskette |
| Specialty definitions using "diskette": Expanded Memory Specification ♦ gronk ♦ power-on self-test. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Diskette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (diskette), Frisian (diskette), German (discette, disk, diskette, floppy disk, floppy-disk, media). |
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Clever | You work for a defense contractor if your resume is on a diskette in your back pocket. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Business | A frequent justification of dealers is that they have paid duty on the diskette, even though they have not paid royalties for the program itself that has been copied onto the diskette. (references) | |
An import-turnover tax of 16 percent is applied on the value of the object on which the software is recorded, either a tape, diskette or laser disk. The tax is later passed on to the end-user as value-added tax. There are no additional German import restrictions or trade barriers concerning exports of U.S. or other third-country suppliers of U.S.-developed software to Germany. (references) | ||
Trade | Indonesia | According to the Indonesian Customs Law that came into effect in April 1997, importers are now required to notify the Customs Office in the first stage by submitting the import documents on a standard form computer diskette. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Diskette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Diskette" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "diskette": blank diskette ♦ diskette drive ♦ double density diskette ♦ high density diskette. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
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Asturian | discu de computadora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cebuano | disket. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 磁盘. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | diskette (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk), minidiskette (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk, mini-disk, minidiskette, mini-floppy), floppy disk (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | diskette (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | disketo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | diskil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | disquette (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk), disque souple (discette, disk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | diskette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | diskette (discette, disk, floppy disk, floppy-disk, media). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δισκέτα (floppy disc, floppy disk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תקליטון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dischetto (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ディスケット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ""스". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Macedonian | disketa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isketteday disco flexível (dislike, Flora), porta-discos, minidisquete (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk, mini-floppy). (various references) disqueta. (various references) инф)дискета дискетный, дискета (floppy disk). (various references) disketa. (various references) disquete (flexible disk, floppy disc, floppy disk, minidisk), disco flexible (floppy disk). (various references) diskett (disk, disquette, floppy, floppy disc). (various references) дискета. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "diskette": diskettes. (additional references) | |
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"Diskette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dickite, diketene, Diktene, discett, diseet, diske, disket, diskett, diskret, dustette, Fischetti, Lisette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diskette" (pronounced di'ske"t) |
| 3 | -k e" t | sobriquet. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: detest, kitted, skited, tested. | |
-3 letters: deets, deist, dekes, diets, dikes, dites, edits, keets, kited, kites, sited, skeed, skeet, skied, skite, steed, steek, stied, tides, tikes, tsked. | |
-4 letters: dees, deet, deke, desk, dies, diet, dike, disk, dite, dits, edit, eide, eked, ekes, ides, keet, kids, kist, kite, kits, seed, seek, sett, side, sike, site. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-k-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: diskettes, skittered. | |
+3 letters: keratitides, ketosteroid. | |
+4 letters: ketosteroids. | |
+5 letters: thunderstrike. | |
| 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)44 69 73 6B 65 74 74 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.- . - - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101011 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s k e t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006B 0065 0074 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875857771868671 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Asturian | diccionariu | asturiano |
Cebuano | diksyonario | |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | Chinu, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, chinés, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | Daniko, 丹麦语, danskur, danskt, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollendskt, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, neerlandés, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | Esperantu, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto |
Faeroese | orðabók, orðbók | 费罗族, føroyskur, färöisk, färöbo |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, franskur, franskt, français, Frânsk, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
Frisian | wurdboek, oersetting | Frison, Frysk, friese, frisone, frisão, фриз, фризский, frizijac, frizijski, frisio, fris, фризька мова, фризький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | Aleman, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, týskt, týskari, týskur, allemand, Dútsk, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, alemand, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | Griegu, Griyego, 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, grikst, grec, Gryksk, Gryks, Gryk, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, grèc, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | Hebréu, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , joods, Hebreeuws, hebraiskt, hébreu, hebrieusk, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, ebreo, ebraico, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", hebreu, hebraico, ebrèu, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | Italianu, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italienskt, italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | Xaponés, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanskt, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | Xaponés, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanskt, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | Coreanu, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Macedonian | recnik | 马其顿语, Macedonisch, macédonien, Mazedonier, Mazedonisch, όακεδόνασ, όακεδονικόσ, Macedone, 마케도니아, macedónio, Македонский, makedonski jezik, makedonski, makedonac, Macedónico, Macedonisk, Macedonier, Македонський, Македонець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | Potuges, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Provencal | provenzale, provençal, прованский, provansalski, provansalski jezik, provenzal, provensalsk, прованський, провансальська мова, провансалець, провансальський | |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Rusu, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, russur, russiskt, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, spanskt, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, espanhòl, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Suecu, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, svenskt, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | Ucranianu, Ukrenyano, 乌克兰, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainien, Oekraynsk, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ucraino, ucraniano, ucrainian, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | Ingles, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglan, enskt, anglais, Ingelsk, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, inglese, 영국, inglês, anglés, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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