FGREP

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FGREP

Specialty Definition: FGREP

Domain	Definition
Computing	Fgrep A variant of the Unix grep command which searches for fixed (uninterpreted) strings rather than regular expressions. Surprisingly, this is not always faster. (1996-10-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: FGREP

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
FGREP	English	Fixed Global Regular Expression Print	Computer - (Unix, GREP)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: FGREP

Specialty definitions using "FGREP": grep. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: FGREP

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
fgrep	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: FGREP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-g-p-r"
	-2 letters: erg, fer, peg, per, ref, reg, rep.
	-3 letters: ef, er, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-g-p-r"
	+3 letters: fireplug, leapfrog, prefight.
	+4 letters: fingertip, fireplugs, germproof, leapfrogs, perfuming, perfusing, pilferage, pilfering, prefacing, prefading, prefigure, prefiling, prefiring, prefixing, preflight.
	+5 letters: fingerpick, fingerpost, fingertips, frangipane, froghopper, grapefruit, perfecting, performing, persiflage, petrifying, pilferages, prefabbing, preferring, prefigured, prefigures, preforming, presageful, presifting, presignify, prizefight, professing, proffering, profligate, putrefying.
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.

Alternative Orthography: FGREP

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

46 47 52 45 50

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

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

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-. --. .-. . .--.

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

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

01000110 01000111 01010010 01000101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#71 &#82 &#69 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0047 0052 0045 0050

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

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

4041523950

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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