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Definition: Real World |
Real WorldNoun1. The practical world as opposed to the academic world; "a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Real World n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices. 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see code grinder). 4. Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. It is also noteworthy that on the campus of Cambridge University in England, there is a gaily-painted lamp-post which bears the label `REALITY CHECKPOINT'. It marks the boundary between university and the Real World; check your notions of reality before passing. This joke is funnier because the Cambridge `campus' is actually coextensive with the center of Cambridge town. See also fear and loathing, mundane, and uninteresting. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. Anywhere outside an educational institution. "John graduated; he's in the Real World now."
2. A TV show on MTV where seven strangers are picked to live in a house for a season and have their lives photographed. See The Real World.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real World."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| REWARD | English | Real world applications of robust dialogue | Computing, Language |
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Synonym: Real WorldSynonym: real life (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Real World |
| English words defined with "real world": computer simulation ♦ historical ♦ real, real life ♦ simulation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "real world": angle brackets ♦ cargo cult programming, computer vision, COOK, creeping elegance ♦ hierarchical database ♦ Kvikkalkul ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Z3. (references) |
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Screenplays | Welcome to the real world. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) We live in a real world, Annie. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) Sometimes there's a moment as you're waking and you become aware of the real world around you, but you are still dreaming. (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) The origin of everything we see about us. The finality of death; how almost magical it seems in the real world, as opposed to the world of celluloid and flickering shadows. (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.) It's only out there in the real world that it gets tough! (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan) | |
Lyrics | I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me ("Real world"; performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
Clever | In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. (references; author: Mark Twain) Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Song Titles | Real World (performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
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Oscar Wilde | Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. |
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Dennis Miller | Sure, we pay lip service to cooperation and altruism, but in the real world, those values are ignored like crunchy peanut butter at a nursing home. |
Rush Limbaugh | Yet while the Daschles and Robert Byrds of the world look for political advantage in the blood of our soldiers, the real world goes on. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | But the budget I will submit represents the necessity of American strength for the real world in which we live. |
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Expression using "real world": real world knowledge. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
real world | 2,566 |
paris real world | 1,129 |
mtv real world | 872 |
blog real world | 192 |
chicago real world | 187 |
real world nude | 165 |
mtv paris real world | 159 |
mallory real world | 138 |
mtvs the real world | 104 |
ace real world | 92 |
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| Language | Translations for "real world"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | viden om verden (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), viden om den virkelige verden (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Dutch | reële-wereldkennis (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Finnish | tosielämän tietämys (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), tosiasiat (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
French | profil de trajet en situation réelle (real world path profile), logiciel "monde réel", connaissance sur le monde réel (real world knowledge), connaissance du monde réel (real world knowledge), connaissance du monde (real world knowledge). (various references) | |
German | Realwelt-Software (Real World Computing programme), Weltwissen (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), in der Wirklichkeit vorkommendes Streckenprofil (real world path profile). (various references) | |
Greek | γνώση πραγματικού κόσμου (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), γνώση του κόσμου (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), γεγονός (event, fact, object, occurrence, real world knowledge, world knowledge), λογισμικό του "πραγματικού κόσμου", αντικείμενο (abstract object, article, fact, item, object, object of interest, objective, real world knowledge, subject, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Italian | software "mondo reale", conoscenza del mondo reale (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 実社会 (society). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じっしゃかい (society). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ealray orldway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suporte lógico "mundo real", conhecimento do mundo real (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge), conhecimento do mundo (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Spanish | programa informático "Mundo real", objeto (abstract object, aim, end, exhibit, fact, goal, object, object of interest, objet, purpose, real world knowledge, single, target, thing, world knowledge), hecho (complete, concoction, creation, deed, deposition, done, dossier, effect, encumbrance, fact, factor, finished, furrow, inveterate, issue, landed, looped, made, made up, mature, object, point of fact, ready made, ready to wear, real world knowledge, taken, thing, tied, total, world knowledge), conocimiento del mundo real (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
Swedish | kunskap om verkligheten (fact, object, real world knowledge, world knowledge). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-l-o-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: allowed, arrowed, drawler, droller, warlord. | |
-3 letters: adorer, dollar, drawer, ladler, larder, loader, loreal, ordeal, redowa, redraw, reload, reroll, reward, reword, roared, rolled, roller, walled, warder, warred, weldor. | |
-4 letters: adore, alder, aldol, allod, allow, ardor, arrow, darer, dewar, dowel, dower, drawl, drear, droll, dwell, lader, ladle, lawed, loral, lowed, lower, oared, older, order, oread, rared, rawer, rowed, rowel, rower, wader, waldo, waled, waler, wared, weald, woald, world. | |
-5 letters: aero, aloe, alow, awed, awol, dale, dare, deal, dear, dell, doer, dole, doll, dore, dorr, draw, drew, earl, lade, lard, lead, leal, lear, lewd, load, lode, lord, lore, lowe, odea, olea, olla, orad, oral, orle, orra, owed, rale, rare, read, real, rear, redo, road, roar, rode, role, roll, wade, wale, wall, ward, ware, weal, wear, weld, well, woad, wold, word, wore. | |
| 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)52 65 61 6C 57 6F 72 6C 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a l   W o r l d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 006C 0057 006F 0072 006C 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271677825781847870 |
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