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Definition: Wish List |
Wish ListNoun1. A list of events that you wish would occur. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Wish list n. A list of desired features or bug fixes that probably won't get done for a long time, usually because the person responsible for the code is too busy or can't think of a clean way to do it. "OK, I'll add automatic filename completion to the wish list for the new interface." Compare tick-list features. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Wish List |
| Specialty definitions using "wish list": want list. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Italians place the automobile at the top of their wish list and consider it a "status symbol", but strangely enough spend less compared to other European car owners in car-care, maintenance and comfort -- approximately $500 a year. However, Italian legislation is also compelling car owners to consider safety and the adoption of quality components in order to pass the biennial car inspections. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | Vietnam's enormous needs have largely been financed by multilateral and bilateral ODA up until now, but the project wish list threatens to overwhelm donors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
wish list | 90 |
birthday wish list | 6 |
wedding wish list | 4 |
online wish list | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-i-l-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: whilst, whists. | |
-3 letters: hilts, hists, lists, shist, silts, slits, swish, swith, whist, whits, wilts, wists. | |
-4 letters: hili, hilt, hiss, hist, hits, iwis, list, lits, silt, sith, sits, slit, this, tils, whit, wilt, wish, wiss, wist, with, wits. | |
-5 letters: his, hit, its, lis, lit, sis, sit, til, tis, wis, wit. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-i-l-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: whistlings. | |
+5 letters: washabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 73 68 4C 69 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01001100 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i s h   L i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 0073 0068 004C 0069 0073 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57758574246758586 |
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