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WIREHEAD

Specialty Definition: WIREHEAD

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Computing

Wirehead /wi:r'hed/ n. [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1. A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware. 2. An expert in local-area networks. A wirehead can be a network software wizard too, but will always have the ability to deal with network hardware, down to the smallest component. Wireheads are known for their ability to lash up an Ethernet terminator from spare resistors, for example. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: WIREHEAD

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Movie/TV Titles

Wirehead (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WIREHEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-w"

-1 letter: headier, rawhide, wearied.

-2 letters: adhere, aeried, dearie, dewier, drawee, haired, header, heired, rediae, waired.

-3 letters: aerie, aider, aired, deair, dewar, eared, eider, hared, hawed, heard, heder, hewed, hewer, hider, hired, irade, redia, rewed, wader, wared, weird, where, wider, wired, wried.

-4 letters: aide, arid, awed, awee, dare, dear, deer, dere, dire, draw, dree, drew, eide.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-w"
 

+2 letters: headwaiter, whitebeard, wirehaired.

 

+3 letters: breadthwise, headwaiters, weatherized, whitebeards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WIREHEAD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 49 52 45 48 45 41 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01001001 01010010 01000101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0052 0045 0048 0045 0041 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5743523942393538

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1. Usage: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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