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Definition: Easter Egg |
Easter EggNoun1. A colored hard-boiled egg or egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Easter egg n. [from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and many parts of Europe] 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command `make love' with `not war?'. Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team. Source: Jargon File. |
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Easter eggs can be:
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Crosswords: Easter Egg |
| English words defined with "Easter egg": Paas egg, Pasch egg. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Easter egg": Easter egging ♦ Pasch Eggs. (references) |
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Books | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
easter egg | 3,639 |
dvd easter egg | 219 |
easter egg old school | 21 |
animatrix easter egg | 18 |
easter egg archive | 14 |
easter egg excel | 13 |
costume easter egg | 13 |
easter egg movie | 11 |
easter egg hunt | 9 |
easter egg lord ring | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "Easter egg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | velikonoèní vajíèko. (various references) | |
Finnish | pääsiäismuna. (various references) | |
German | osterei. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easteray eggay.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uskršnje jaje. (various references) | |
Spanish | huevo de pascua. (various references) | |
Turkish | paskalya yumurtası. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dominica Resurrectionis Domini Nostri, ootheca. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: segregate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: eagerest, etageres, steerage. | |
-2 letters: ergates, etagere, gagster, gargets, raggees, reggaes, restage, stagger, taggers. | |
-3 letters: aggers, agrees, aretes, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, egesta, eggars, eggers, egrets, ergate, gagers, garget, gaster, grates, grease, greats, greets, ragees, raggee, reggae, reseat, retags, sagger, seater, seggar, stager, tagger, targes, teaser. | |
-4 letters: agers, agger, agree, arete, aster, eager, eagre, eater, egers, egest, eggar, egger, egret, erase, ester, gager, gages, gates, gears, geese, geest, geste, getas, grate, great, grees, greet, ragee, rages, rates, reest, reges, resee, reset, retag, sager, saree, sarge, serge, setae, stage, stare, steer, stere, tares, targe, tears, tease, terga, terse, trees. | |
-5 letters: agee, ager, ages, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eger, eggs, eras, ergs, erst, etas, gaes, gage, gags, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gees, gest, geta, gets, grat, gree, rage, rags, rase, rate, rats, rees, regs, rest, rete, rets, sage, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, stag, star, tags, tare, tars, tear, teas, tees, tegs, tree, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: eggbeaters, gadgeteers, segregated, segregates. | |
+2 letters: desegregate, exaggerates, resegregate, segregative. | |
+3 letters: desegregated, desegregates, reaggregates, resegregated, resegregates, secretagogue, unsegregated. | |
+4 letters: aggregateness, aggrievements, desegregating, desegregation, geostrategies, nonsegregated, reengagements, resegregating, resegregation, secretagogues. | |
+5 letters: desegregations, resegregations. | |
| 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)45 61 73 74 65 72 45 67 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000101 01100111 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a s t e r   E g g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 0045 0067 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3967858671842397373 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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