RED WIRE

  

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RED WIRE

Specialty Definition: RED WIRE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Red wire n. [IBM] Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron.... Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: RED WIRE

Specialty definitions using "RED WIRE": blue wirepurple wireyellow wire. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RED WIRE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

big red wire

11

red wire

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: RED WIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rewired, weirder.

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

-1 letter: dewier, redrew, rewire.

-2 letters: direr, drier, eider, erred, rewed, rider, weird, wider, wired, wirer, wried, wrier.

-3 letters: deer, dere, dire, dree, drew, eide, ewer, ired, rede, reed, ride, weed, weer, weir, were, wide, wire.

-4 letters: dee, dew, die, ere, err, ewe, ire, red, ree, rei, rid, wed, wee.

-5 letters: de, ed, er, id, re, we.

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

+1 letter: rewinder, wherried, wiredrew.

 

+2 letters: beworried, rewinders, underwire.

 

+3 letters: dewberries, dinnerware, rereviewed, underwires, underwrite, wardenries, weaverbird, wiredrawer, wirehaired.

 

+4 letters: bowdlerizer, breadwinner, dinnerwares, interworked, screwdriver, underwriter, underwrites, weaverbirds, windbreaker, wiredrawers.

 

+5 letters: bowdlerizers, breadwinners, overwintered, screwdrivers, underwriters, underwritten, windbreakers, wunderkinder.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RED WIRE


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

52 45 44      57 49 52 45

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

    

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

01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#73 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044      0057 0049 0052 0045

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

523938257435239

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1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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