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Date "OGG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
"OGG" is a common misspelling or typo for: egg, gang, god, going. |
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Computing | Ogg /og/ v. [CMU] 1. In the multi-player space combat game Netrek, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions. Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og". This trick has been roundly denounced by those who would return to the good old days when the tactic of dogfighting was dominant, but as Sun Tzu wrote, "What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy, not his tactics." However, the traditional answer to the newbie question "What does ogg mean?" is just "Pick up some armies and I'll show you." 2. In other games, to forcefully attack an opponent with the expectation that the resources expended will be renewed faster than the opponent will be able to regain his previous advantage. Taken more seriously as a tactic since it has gained a simple name. 3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and almost ogged that oncoming car.". Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Ogg bitstream format—spearheaded by the Xiph.org Foundation—has been created as the framework of a larger initiative aimed at developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which are both freely available and freely re-implementable in software. The Ogg bitstream is defined in RFC 3533 and its MIME transport type in RFC 3534.
Various components of the project are intended to stand as alternatives to proprietary codecs such as MP3 and MPEG, RealAudio and RealVideo, QuickTime, and Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video.
The principal Ogg component to date is Vorbis, for audio data. Other components include Theora, for video data; Speex, for voice data; and FLAC, for high-fidelity audio data.
It is often assumed that the name "Ogg" comes from the character of Nanny Ogg in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Rather, it is jargon that arose in the computer game Netrek, originally meaning a kamikaze attack, and later, more generally, to do something forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources—at its inception, the Ogg project was thought to be somewhat ambitious given the power of the PC hardware of the time.
OGG is also the abbreviated title on a British mockumentary Operation Good Guys, which is a spoof documentary about an incompetent Police Force.
The actors involved include:
David Gillespie as D.I. Beach, with D.S. Ash (Ray Burdis), Sgt Dominic de Sade (Dominic Anciano), Kim Finch (Kim Taylforth), Bones (Perry Benson), Gary Barwick (Gary Beadle), Strings (John Beckett), Roy Leyton (Roy Smiles) and Mark Kemp (Mark Burdis).
There have been three series' so far, which have featured guest stars, including Denise van Outen and Donna Air.
A CD has been released featuring music from the series, and also a book.
Ogg codecs
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ogg."
Crosswords: OGG |
| Specialty definitions using "OGG": games ♦ Ogg Vorbis. (references) |
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| "OGG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "OGG" is used about 6 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "OGG" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ogg | Last name | 1,000 | 11,009 |
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Expression using "OGG": Ogg Vorbis. Additional references. | |
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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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "OGG": glogg, golliwogg, hogg, nogg. (additional references) | |
Words containing "OGG": antifogging, appoggiatura, appoggiaturas, backlogged, backlogging, beclogged, beclogging, befogged, befogging, bogged, boggier, boggiest, bogging, boggish, boggle, boggled, boggler, bogglers, boggles, boggling, boggy, boondoggle, boondoggled, boondoggler, boondogglers, boondoggles, boondoggling, bulldogged, bulldogger, bulldoggers, bulldogging, bulldoggings, clogged, clogger, cloggers, cloggier, cloggiest, clogging, cloggy, cogged, cogging, defogged, defogger, defoggers, defogging, dogged, doggedly, doggedness, doggednesses, dogger, doggerel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-o" | |
-1 letter: go. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-o" | |
+1 letter: agog, gogo, gong, grog, hogg, nogg. | |
+2 letters: aggro, boggy, doggo, doggy, foggy, gigot, glogg, gogos, going, gongs, gorge, gouge, grego, grogs, hoggs, loggy, moggy, noggs, soggy. | |
+3 letters: aggros, bogged, boggle, cloggy, cogged, dogged, dogger, doggie, dogleg, dugong, eggnog, faggot, fogdog, fogged, fogger, froggy, galago, giglot, gigolo, gigots, gingko, ginkgo, gloggs, gobang, goggle, goggly, goglet, goings, gonged, googly, googol, gorged, gorger, gorges, gorget, gorgon, goring, gouged, gouger, gouges, gregos, gringo, groggy, gundog, hogged, hogger, hogget, jogged, jogger, joggle, legong, logged, logger, loggia, loggie, maggot, mogged, moggie, nogged, noggin, ogling, smoggy, sogged, togged, toggle, waggon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 47 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- --. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000111 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O G G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0047 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)494141 |
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