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DROP-INS

Specialty Definition: DROP-INS

DomainDefinition

Computing

Drop-ins n. [prob. by analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input. Compare drop-outs, sense 2. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Synonyms: DROP-INS

Synonyms by domain: abandon (law), border (fine arts, sports & leisure), cancel (fine arts, publishing & graphic arts), crown drop (industry, metallurgy), drop (computing, post & telecompublic administrationpolitics & international affairespersonal care & hotels, physicslawenvironment, meteorology & standardsmilitary & defensebuilding & civil engineeringbuilding & civil engineering, mechanical engineeringfine arts, sports & leisurefine arts, publishing & graphic artsindustryindustry, metallurgy), drop structure (building & civil engineering), drop-in (computingcomputing, meteorology & standards), fall (building & civil engineeringbuilding & civil engineering, mechanical engineering), fall structure (building & civil engineering), gather (industry, metallurgy), gob, IR drop (chemistry), to drop (public administration, post & telecom), vesicle (environment, meteorology & standards), withdraw (law).

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Usage Frequency: DROP-INS

"DROP-INS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DROP-INS" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: DROP-INS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: orpins, poinds, prions, prison, spinor.

-2 letters: dipso, dorps, drips, drops, irons, noirs, noris, opsin, ornis, orpin, pions, pirns, poind, ponds, porns, prion, prods, rinds, rosin.

-3 letters: dins, dips, dons, dorp, dors, drip, drop, inro, ions, iron, nips, nodi, nods, noir, nori, pins, pion, pirn, piso, pods, pois, pond, pons, porn, prod, pros, rids.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: poniards, prisoned.

 

+2 letters: conspired, disproven, dripstone, droppings, drypoints, incorpsed, paranoids, phoronids, pinedrops, pyrenoids, raindrops, rhodopsin.

 

+3 letters: adsorption, depression, desorption, dispersion, disporting, disproving, disruption, dripstones, endorphins, imprisoned, interposed, isoprenoid, necropsied, patronised, perditions, predations, prednisone, preordains, princedoms, properdins, pyranoside, responding, rhodopsins, scorpaenid, springwood, terpenoids.

 

+4 letters: adsorptions, anthropoids, caparisoned, conscripted, copresident, decryptions, depressions, description, desorptions, desperation, dispersions, disportment, disruptions, hydroponics, iproniazids, nondescript, ornithopods, outsprinted, palindromes, personified, polyandries, predictions, prednisones, prehominids, premonished, previsioned, probenecids, proceedings, productions, providences, provisioned, pyranosides, pyridoxines, pyroxenoids, radiophones, redemptions, redisposing, scorpaenids, springboard, springwoods, topdressing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROP-INS


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

44 52 4F 50 2D 49 4E 53

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

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 00101101 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#45 &#73 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050 002D 0049 004E 0053

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

3852495015434853

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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