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Date "SPOOFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Spoofing A technique used to reduce network overhead, especially in wide area networks (WAN). Some network protocols send frequent packets for management purposes. These can be routing updates or keep-alive messages. In a WAN this can introduce significant overhead, due to the typically smaller bandwidth of WAN connections. Spoofing reduces the required bandwidth by having devices, such as bridges or routers, answer for the remote devices. This fools (spoofs) the LAN device into thinking the remote LAN is still connected, even though it's not. The spoofing saves the WAN bandwidth, because no packet is ever sent out on the WAN. LAN protocols today do not yet accommodate spoofing easily. ["Network Spoofing" by Jeffrey Fritz, BYTE, December 1994, pages 221 - 224]. (1995-01-13). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Post & Telecom | A method of fooling network end stations into believing that keep-alive signals have come from and return to the host. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Action of deceiving or misleading the enemy by electronic operations(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPOOFING |
| Non-English Usage: "SPOOFING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (spoofing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spook Spoofing (1928) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "SPOOFING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPOOFING" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SPOOFING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spoofing, udsendelse af falske signaler, manipulation med data (deception of data, deliberate data modification), forfalskning af data (deception of data, deliberate data modification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spoofing, misleiding (swindle), manipulatie van gegevens (deception of data, deliberate data modification), mailstortvloed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huijaus (cheating, swindle, swindling), harkittu datamanipulointi (deception of data, deliberate data modification), harhautus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spoofing, usurpation, modification apportée délibérément aux données, manipulation de données, falsification des données, duperie, déception électronique, déception. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verschleierung (blur, blurring, cover up, covering up, deception, disguising, veiling), reinlegend, Manipulation (fiddle, maneuver, manipulation, rigging, treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραπλάνηση (misguidance), παραποίηση δεδομένων (deception of data, deliberate data modification), εκπομπή παραπλανητικών σημάτων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | modifica dolosa (deception of data, deliberate data modification), falsificazione di dati (deception of data, deliberate data modification), alterazione segnali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oofingspay spoofing, tácticas dispersoras, manipulação dos dados (deception of data, deliberate data modification), falsificação dos dados (deception of data, deliberate data modification). (various references) simulación (affectation, dummy, pretence, pretense, simulation), señales equívocas, modificación premeditada de los datos (deception of data, deliberate data modification), falsificación de los datos (deception of data, deliberate data modification). (various references) manipulering av data (deception of data, deliberate data modification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SPOOFING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spoofen, sppofing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPOOFING" (pronounced spuw"fing) |
| 4 | -uw" f i ng | goofing, proofing, roofing, rustproofing. |
| 3 | -f i ng | beefing, bluffing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, debriefing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, huffing, knifing, laughing, leafing, morphing, offing, photographing, puffing, rebuffing, roughing, ruffing, sniffing, snuffing, spiffing, staffing, strafing, stuffing, surfing, waterproofing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-o-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: foison, gipons, gonifs, gonofs, isogon, pingos, poison, posing. | |
-3 letters: finos, foins, gipon, gonif, gonof, goofs, goons, goops, infos, oping, opsin, pingo, pings, pions, pongs, poofs, poons, snoop, spoof, spoon. | |
-4 letters: figs, fino, fins, fogs, foin, fons, fops, gins, gips, goof, goon, goop, goos, info, ions, nips, nogs, oops, pigs, ping, pins, pion, piso. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-n-o-o-p-s" | |
+3 letters: opsonifying, postforming. | |
+4 letters: pussyfooting, rustproofing. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscoping, soundproofing. | |
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