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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes. This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I spent the afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window borders -- now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background." Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also: `window dressing', the act of applying new fonts, colors, etc. See fritterware, compare macdink. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: WINDOW SHOPPINGSynonym: Shopping. (additional references) |
Crosswords: WINDOW SHOPPING |
| Specialty definitions using "WINDOW SHOPPING": macdink. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Window Shopping (1938) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Farm family window shopping, Williston, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Los Angeles, California. Window shopping. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
window shopping | 63 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WINDOW SHOPPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | разглеждане на витрините. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | χαζεύω τισ βιτρίνεσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ウイルス病 (jacket, Vienna coffee, Vienna sausage, Viennese, Viennese waltz, viral disease, virus disease, wait, waiter, waitress, Weber, Wiener, Wimbledon, winch, wind, windbreaker, windfall, windjacket, window, window display, window dressing, Windsor char, windsurfer, windsurfing, wing, wing collar, wink, Winker, winter resort, winter sports), ウィンザー家 (House of Windsor, liqueur candy, weak point, week, weekday, weekend, weekend carpenter, weekend father, weekend painter, weekly, whisker, whisky, whisky bonbon, whisky sour, window, winter, wizard, yes). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ウインドーショッ"ング , ウィンドウショッ"ング . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | indowway oppingshay vitrinlere bakma. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-p-s-w-w" | |
-4 letters: shopwindow. | |
-5 letters: disowning, downswing, poisoning, siphoning, whippings, windowing. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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