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HARDCOPY

Specialty Definition: HARDCOPY

DomainDefinition

Computing

Hardcopy A paper printout of data displayed on a screen. Contrast softcopy. (1995-08-31). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Crosswords: HARDCOPY

Specialty definitions using "HARDCOPY": CAM position, configuration,administration and maintenance position, control,administration and maintenance positionDATA USER GUIDENESTING OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROLsoftcopy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "HARDCOPY" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (hardcopy).

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Commercial Usage: HARDCOPY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Crash: Computer Assisted Hardcopy (reference)

  • Document Solutions for Hardcopy Peripherals News Summary: Period Ending August 24, 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • EBPP: The Opportunity for Hardcopy Peripherals Vendors in the Nascent Electronic Bill Market [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: HARDCOPY

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

China

Most government ministries have taken to publishing digests of their regulations, both in hardcopy and on their websites. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HARDCOPY

"HARDCOPY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HARDCOPY" is used about 15 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 (singular)100%1590,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HARDCOPY

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

hardcopy

74

hardcopy pro

10

hardcopy jamaica

6

hardcopy sweepstake

5

2.1 hardcopy pro

4

2.2 hardcopy pro

2

girl hardcopy

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

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Modern Translation: HARDCOPY

Language Translations for "HARDCOPY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

硬拷贝. (various references)

   

French

  

fonction d'impression (hardcopy capability). (various references)

   

German

  

der Ausdruck. (various references)

   

Italian

  

possibilita'di copia su carta (hardcopy capability), funzione di stampa (hardcopy capability). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

인쇄 출 (printout). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardcopyhay

   

Russian 

  

твердая копия (hard-copy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hårdkopia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: HARDCOPY

Misspellings

"HARDCOPY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harddcopy, Hradcany. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HARDCOPY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-o-p-r-y"

-1 letter: charpoy, pochard.

-2 letters: carhop, chador, coprah, parody, poachy.

-3 letters: chard, chary, chord, copra, hardy, harpy, hoard, hoary, hydra, hydro, ochry, orach, parch, pardy, payor, poach, porch, roach.

-4 letters: achy, ahoy, apod, arch, arco, caph, capo, card, carp, chad, chao, chap, char, chay, chop, coda, copy, cord, cory, crap, crop, dopa, dopy, dorp, dory, dray.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-o-p-r-y"
 

+2 letters: hydrospace.

 

+3 letters: cardiopathy, discography, hydropathic, hydrospaces, psychodrama.

 

+4 letters: cardiography, hydrocephaly, hydrographic, hypochondria, psychodramas.

 

+5 letters: chlamydospore, hydrocephalic, hydrocephalus, hypochondriac, hypochondrias, rhapsodically.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: HARDCOPY


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

48 41 52 44 43 4F 50 59

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)

....    .-    .-.    -..    -.-.    ---    .--.    -.--.

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

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

01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000011 01001111 01010000 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#67 &#79 &#80 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 0044 0043 004F 0050 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4235523837495059

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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