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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Virtual beer n. Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux community. Originally this term signified cash, after a famous incident in which some Britishers who wanted to buy Linus a beer sent him money to Finland to do so. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
virtual beer | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-l-r-r-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: retrieval, veritable, vertebral. | |
-3 letters: blearier, eluviate, evitable, levirate, liberate, reburial, relative, retailer, ruralite, terrible, traveler, ureteral, vaultier, vertebra. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, arbiter, atelier, bleater, blurter, bravure, brevier, bruiter, burlier, earlier, elative, learier, leavier, librate, rarebit, raveler, realter, rebater, rebuilt, relater, retable, retrial, revalue, reviler, riveter, rivulet, tearier, trailer, triable, uralite, vaulter, vealier, verbile. | |
| 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)56 49 52 54 55 41 4C      42 45 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V I R T U A L   B E E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0049 0052 0054 0055 0041 004C      0042 0045 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56435254553546236393952 |
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