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MACDINK

Specialty Definition: MACDINK

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Macdink /mak'dink/ vt. [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. "When I left at 11 P.M. last night, he was still macdinking the slides for his presentation." See also fritterware, window shopping. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: MACDINK

Specialty definitions using "MACDINK": window shopping. (references)

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Anagrams: MACDINK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-k-m-n"

-2 letters: amnic, canid, manic, nicad.

-3 letters: acid, akin, amid, amin, cadi, caid, cain, damn, dank, dick, dink, kadi, kain, kami, kina, kind, mack, maid, main, mica, mick, mina, mind, mink, nick.

-4 letters: aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, cad, cam, can, dak, dam, dim, din, ick, ink, kid, kin, mac, mad, man, mid, nam.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-k-m-n"
 

+2 letters: nicknamed.

 

+4 letters: diamondback, medevacking.

 

+5 letters: diamondbacks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MACDINK


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

4D 41 43 44 49 4E 4B

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)

01001101 01000001 01000011 01000100 01001001 01001110 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#67 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0043 0044 0049 004E 004B

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

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

47353738434845

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