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Definition: Kludge |
KludgeNoun1. A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US). These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II. 2. [TMRC] A crock that works. (A long-ago "Datamation" article by Jackson Granholme similarly said: "An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.") 3. v. To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later." This word appears to have derived from Scots `kludge' or `kludgie' for a common toilet, via British military slang. It apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but kluge is now uncommon in Great Britain. `Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from `kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is something no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with. Also, `kludge' is more widely known in British mainstream slang than `kluge' is in the U.S. Source: Jargon File. |
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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 |
kludge | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "kludge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | вариантная запись. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kludge": kludges. (additional references) | |
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"Kludge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bludge, cludge, Kaloude, kludgey, kludgie, kludgy, klug, klugen, klugey, klugie, klugy, klute, knudge, krudge, kude, kudge, Kulungu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-k-l-u" | |
-1 letter: glued, kluge, kugel, luged. | |
-2 letters: duel, duke, geld, gled, glue, gude, leku, leud, lude, luge. | |
-3 letters: del, due, dug, eld, elk, ged, gel, gul, keg, kue, led, leg, lek, leu, lug, uke. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-k-l-u" | |
+1 letter: kludges. | |
+3 letters: doughlike, gunkholed. | |
+5 letters: skulduggery. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6C 75 64 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .-.. ..- -.. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101100 01110101 01100100 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K l u d g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006C 0075 0064 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)457887707371 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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