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  2. Enshittification - Wikipedia

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    The American Dialect Society selected enshittification as its 2023 word of the year. [8] [14] The Macquarie Dictionary named enshittification as its 2024 word of the year, selected by both the committee's and people's choice votes for only the third time since the inaugural event in 2006. [15]

  3. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Wikipedia

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    The website includes verbal entries in the style of a conventional dictionary, and the YouTube channel picks some of those words and tries to express their meaning more thoroughly in the form of video essays. The book takes from those previous places, so it has both dictionary style entries and some longer essays on specific words. [3]

  4. Stop word - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "stop word", which is not in Luhn's 1959 presentation, and the associated terms "stop list" and "stoplist" appear in the literature shortly afterward. [ 5 ] Although it is commonly assumed that stoplists include only the most frequent words in a language, it was C.J. Van Rijsbergen who proposed the first standardized list which was ...

  5. Glossary of broadcasting terms - Wikipedia

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    Also Dolby D. The standard for 5.1 channel (surround sound) audio. Six discrete channels are used (Left, Center, Right, Left Rear Surround, Right Rear Surround, and Subwoofer). double pumping Putting out two episodes of a show back-to-back, either to boost ratings in a given slot or to burn off episodes of a cancelled show. drive time

  6. List of CB slang - Wikipedia

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    27.555 MHz is well above the 40 channel CB standard allowing for a more private conversation and enhanced radio communications. Modified equipment is usually required to access this frequency. Turn and burn To return from a destination back to the original starting point of a trip, especially in a hurry and/or non-stop so as not to lose time.

  7. Media control symbols - Wikipedia

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    Stop U+23F9 ⏹ #5110B Stop: To identify the control or the indicator to stop the active function. Rewind, fast backwards U+23EA ⏪ — To identify the switch or switch position by which a faster than normal run (e.g. of tape) is started in the indicated direction. Fast forward: U+23E9 ⏩ #5108B Fast run; fast speed

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...