Vikipedio

Blend of vikio (“wiki”) + enciklopedio (“encyclopedia”), a calque of English Wikipedia.


current events

en-noun

current events pl (normally plural, singular current event)

Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.


watchlist

watchlists (plural)
watch list (alternative)

The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.

The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.

2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11:

A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.


robot

desc

→ Arabic: رُوبُوت (rūbūt), رُوبُوط (rūbūṭ)

→ Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ)

→ Japanese: ロボット (robotto)

→ Korean: 로봇 (robot)

→ Persian: رُبات (robât), روبات (rôbât)

→ Swahili: roboti

→ Welsh: robot

Etymology tree
Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas
Proto-Slavic *orbъ
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éiˀtei
Proto-Slavic *-iti
Proto-Slavic *orbiti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ
Proto-Slavic *-ota
Proto-Slavic *orbota
Old Czech robota
Czech robota
Czech robotbor.
English robot
Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef.

etymon

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).


accessibility

en-noun

accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)

From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.

The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 4:

(computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

無障礙 /无障碍

feature that increases software usability


avatar

→ Japanese: アバター

/ˈəʋ(ə)t̪ɑːɾ/

Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper

First use appears c. 1784, in The Hindu Wife; or, The Enchanted Fruit, by William Jones. Borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”). In the computing sense, some use appeared in video games in the 1980s, such as the online roleplaying game Habitat (1985) by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)), and the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989). Also popularized by the novel Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

أَفَاتَار

The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.

1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry:

Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.

2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times:

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulation

(Internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

Coordinate term: icon

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulacrum

(Internet, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones.


de

From the common pronunciation of this word.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(colloquial, text messaging, Internet) Pronunciation spelling of det.


google

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:

An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.

գուգլ

Internet search performed on the Google search engine

搜索

Internet search performed on any search engine

The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

(dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.


google

en-verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

googles (present singular third-person)
googling (participle present)
googled (participle past)
googled (past)
Google (alternative)

Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Have fun and keep googling!

1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 1999-10-09:

Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.

2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):

Google it.

2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):

Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-23, page A-19:

To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

googloj

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine

I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.

(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.

hakea

to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine

His name googles.

(intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

löytyä netistä

to be locatable in a search of the Internet


google

googler (active present)
googles (passive present)
googlede (active past)
googledes (passive past)
google (active infinitive)
googles (infinitive passive)
googl (active imperative)
googlende (participle present)
googlet (participle past)
auxiliary verb have (participle past)
googlen (gerund participle)

From Google, from English google (the verb).

to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google


bureaucrat

/ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/

/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/

From French bureaucrate, equivalent to bureau + -crat.

One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.

2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 18:

(wiki jargon) A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.


FAQ

Abbreviation of frequently asked questions.

abbrev

This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.

(Internet) A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.


FAQ

(Internet) FAQ (webpage containing questions and answers about the website)


FTP

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet)


FTP

FTP (indefinite nominative singular)
FTP:s (genitive indefinite singular)
FTP:n (definite nominative singular)
FTP:en (definite nominative singular)
FTP:ns (definite genitive singular)
FTP:ens (definite genitive singular)
FTP:er (indefinite nominative plural)
FTP:ers (genitive indefinite plural)
FTP:erna (definite nominative plural)
FTP:ernas (definite genitive plural)
ftp (alternative)

Enligt Techspot utgjorde Archie halva Kanadas internettrafik under en period i början av 1990-talet, men i takt med att webbens popularitet ökade minskade användningen av FTP och den sista versionen av Archie, 3.5, släpptes 1996.

2024 May 19, Anders Lundberg, “Internets första sökmotor återuppstår [The Internet's First Search Engine Resurrects]”, in Sweclockers:

According to Techspot, Archie accounted for half of Canada's internet traffic during a period in the early 1990s. However, as the web's popularity increased, the use of FTP declined, and the last version of Archie, 3.5, was released in 1996.

Ett annat alternativ för att ladda ner data från FTP:n är att kopiera länkadressen och sedan klistra in den i Utforskaren.

2024 August 3 (last accessed), “FTP för öppna data [FTP for Open Data]”, in Lantmäteriet:

Another option for downloading data from the FTP is to copy the link address and then paste it into the File Explorer.

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol

(Internet) An FTP, a File Transfer Protocol.


PM

en-noun

PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)

PMs (plural)
P.M. (alternative)
p.m. (alternative)

Send me a PM if interested.

personal message
personal message#English

(Internet) Initialism of personal message.


PM

en-verb

PM (third-person singular simple present PMs, present participle PMing, simple past and past participle PMed)

PMs (present singular third-person)
PMing (participle present)
PMed (participle past)
PMed (past)
P.M. (alternative)
p.m. (alternative)

Coordinate term: IM (“instant message”)

PM me if you want more information.

(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (someone).


AD

en-noun

AD (countable and uncountable, plural ADs)

ADs (plural)
A.D. (alternative)
A. D. (alternative)


IRC

Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Relay Chat.


IRC

en-verb

IRC (third-person singular simple present IRCs, present participle IRCing, simple past and past participle IRCed)

IRCs (present singular third-person)
IRCing (participle present)
IRCed (participle past)
IRCed (past)

<Xantha> <- irced 2 yrs without aliases […]

1995, Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide:

[…] IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.

2002, James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market:

[…] not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net […]

2004, Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails:

en:to participate in Internet Relay Chat

(intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in Internet Relay Chat.


pseudo

From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).

der

Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake[…]

2011, Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society", page 299:

(Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.


point

en-verb

point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)

points (present singular third-person)
pointing (participle present)
pointed (participle past)
pointed (past)
p'int (alternative)

From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.

(transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.


собака

ru-noun+

соба́ка • (sobáka) f anim (genitive соба́ки, nominative plural соба́ки, genitive plural соба́к, masculine соба́кен, relational adjective соба́чий, diminutive соба́чка or собачу́шка, augmentative собача́ра or соба́чище)

соба́ка (canonical)
sobáka (romanization)
соба́ки (genitive)
соба́ки (nominative plural)
соба́к (genitive plural)
соба́кен (masculine)
соба́чий (adjective relational)
соба́чка (diminutive)
собачу́шка (diminutive)
собача́ра (augmentative)
соба́чище (augmentative)
соба́ка (nominative singular)
соба́ки (nominative plural)
соба́ки (genitive singular)
соба́к (genitive plural)
соба́ке (dative singular)
соба́кам (dative plural)
соба́ку (accusative singular)
соба́к (accusative plural)
соба́кой (instrumental singular)
соба́кою (instrumental singular)
соба́ками (instrumental plural)
соба́ке (prepositional singular)
соба́ках (plural prepositional)
соба́ка (dated nominative singular)
соба́ки (dated nominative plural)
соба́ки (dated genitive singular)
соба́къ (dated genitive plural)
соба́кѣ (dated dative singular)
соба́камъ (dated dative plural)
соба́ку (accusative dated singular)
соба́къ (accusative dated plural)
соба́кой (dated instrumental singular)
соба́кою (dated instrumental singular)
соба́ками (dated instrumental plural)
соба́кѣ (dated prepositional singular)
соба́кахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Aleut: sabaakax

→ Southern Yukaghir: тоуко (towko)

Inherited from Old East Slavic собака (sobaka), from Proto-Slavic *sobaka, derived from Middle Iranian *sabāka-, from West Iranian *spaka, from Proto-Iranian *cwā́, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ; compare Zoroastrian Dari [script needed] (sabah), Old Median σπάκα (spáka) [the source of Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”)], Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬐𐬀 (spaka, “dog-like”). Cognates include Ukrainian соба́ка (sobáka), Belarusian саба́ка (sabáka), Polish sobaka (dialectal), Kashubian sobaka (“bitch (female dog); dissolute man”), Sanskrit शुनक (śunaka).

cog

как на охо́ту е́хать, так соба́к корми́ть


BTW

Borrowed from English BTW (“by the way”).

bor+

(Internet, text) Initialism of by the way.


war

en-noun

war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)

wars (plural)
warre (alternative)
warr (alternative)

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

cog

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)

we have always been at war with Eastasia

flame war... edit war...

(countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.


DOS

Alternative form: DoS

denial of service
denial of service#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.


HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.


webmaster

webmasters (plural)
Web master (alternative)
web master (alternative)
Webmaster (alternative)

A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.

gwiasvester

the person responsible for maintaining a website


webmaster

webmaster (nominative singular)
webmasterit (nominative plural)
webmaster (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterit (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterin (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterit (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterin (genitive singular)
webmasterien (genitive plural)
webmastereiden (genitive plural)
webmastereitten (genitive plural)
webmasteria (partitive singular)
webmastereita (partitive plural)
webmastereja (partitive plural)
webmasterissa (inessive singular)
webmastereissa (inessive plural)
webmasterista (elative singular)
webmastereista (elative plural)
webmasteriin (illative singular)
webmastereihin (illative plural)
webmasterilla (adessive singular)
webmastereilla (adessive plural)
webmasterilta (ablative singular)
webmastereilta (ablative plural)
webmasterille (allative singular)
webmastereille (allative plural)
webmasterina (essive singular)
webmastereina (essive plural)
webmasteriksi (singular translative)
webmastereiksi (plural translative)
webmasteritta (abessive singular)
webmastereitta (abessive plural)
webmasterein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
webmasterini (nominative singular)
webmasterini (nominative plural)
webmasterini (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterini (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterini (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterini (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterini (genitive singular)
webmasterieni (genitive plural)
webmastereideni (genitive plural)
webmastereitteni (genitive plural)
webmasteriani (partitive singular)
webmastereitani (partitive plural)
webmasterejani (partitive plural)
webmasterissani (inessive singular)
webmastereissani (inessive plural)
webmasteristani (elative singular)
webmastereistani (elative plural)
webmasteriini (illative singular)
webmastereihini (illative plural)
webmasterillani (adessive singular)
webmastereillani (adessive plural)
webmasteriltani (ablative singular)
webmastereiltani (ablative plural)
webmasterilleni (allative singular)
webmastereilleni (allative plural)
webmasterinani (essive singular)
webmastereinani (essive plural)
webmasterikseni (singular translative)
webmastereikseni (plural translative)
webmasterittani (abessive singular)
webmastereittani (abessive plural)
webmastereineni (comitative plural)
webmasterisi (nominative singular)
webmasterisi (nominative plural)
webmasterisi (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterisi (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterisi (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterisi (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterisi (genitive singular)
webmasteriesi (genitive plural)
webmastereidesi (genitive plural)
webmastereittesi (genitive plural)
webmasteriasi (partitive singular)
webmastereitasi (partitive plural)
webmasterejasi (partitive plural)
webmasterissasi (inessive singular)
webmastereissasi (inessive plural)
webmasteristasi (elative singular)
webmastereistasi (elative plural)
webmasteriisi (illative singular)
webmastereihisi (illative plural)
webmasterillasi (adessive singular)
webmastereillasi (adessive plural)
webmasteriltasi (ablative singular)
webmastereiltasi (ablative plural)
webmasterillesi (allative singular)
webmastereillesi (allative plural)
webmasterinasi (essive singular)
webmastereinasi (essive plural)
webmasteriksesi (singular translative)
webmastereiksesi (plural translative)
webmasterittasi (abessive singular)
webmastereittasi (abessive plural)
webmastereinesi (comitative plural)
webmasterimme (nominative singular)
webmasterimme (nominative plural)
webmasterimme (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterimme (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterimme (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterimme (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterimme (genitive singular)
webmasteriemme (genitive plural)
webmastereidemme (genitive plural)
webmastereittemme (genitive plural)
webmasteriamme (partitive singular)
webmastereitamme (partitive plural)
webmasterejamme (partitive plural)
webmasterissamme (inessive singular)
webmastereissamme (inessive plural)
webmasteristamme (elative singular)
webmastereistamme (elative plural)
webmasteriimme (illative singular)
webmastereihimme (illative plural)
webmasterillamme (adessive singular)
webmastereillamme (adessive plural)
webmasteriltamme (ablative singular)
webmastereiltamme (ablative plural)
webmasterillemme (allative singular)
webmastereillemme (allative plural)
webmasterinamme (essive singular)
webmastereinamme (essive plural)
webmasteriksemme (singular translative)
webmastereiksemme (plural translative)
webmasterittamme (abessive singular)
webmastereittamme (abessive plural)
webmastereinemme (comitative plural)
webmasterinne (nominative singular)
webmasterinne (nominative plural)
webmasterinne (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterinne (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterinne (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterinne (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterinne (genitive singular)
webmasterienne (genitive plural)
webmastereidenne (genitive plural)
webmastereittenne (genitive plural)
webmasterianne (partitive singular)
webmastereitanne (partitive plural)
webmasterejanne (partitive plural)
webmasterissanne (inessive singular)
webmastereissanne (inessive plural)
webmasteristanne (elative singular)
webmastereistanne (elative plural)
webmasteriinne (illative singular)
webmastereihinne (illative plural)
webmasterillanne (adessive singular)
webmastereillanne (adessive plural)
webmasteriltanne (ablative singular)
webmastereiltanne (ablative plural)
webmasterillenne (allative singular)
webmastereillenne (allative plural)
webmasterinanne (essive singular)
webmastereinanne (essive plural)
webmasteriksenne (singular translative)
webmastereiksenne (plural translative)
webmasterittanne (abessive singular)
webmastereittanne (abessive plural)
webmastereinenne (comitative plural)
webmasterinsa (nominative singular)
webmasterinsa (nominative plural)
webmasterinsa (accusative nominative singular)
webmasterinsa (accusative nominative plural)
webmasterinsa (accusative genitive singular)
webmasterinsa (accusative genitive plural)
webmasterinsa (genitive singular)
webmasteriensa (genitive plural)
webmastereidensa (genitive plural)
webmastereittensa (genitive plural)
webmasteriaan (partitive singular)
webmasteriansa (partitive singular)
webmastereitaan (partitive plural)
webmasterejaan (partitive plural)
webmastereitansa (partitive plural)
webmasterejansa (partitive plural)
webmasterissaan (inessive singular)
webmasterissansa (inessive singular)
webmastereissaan (inessive plural)
webmastereissansa (inessive plural)
webmasteristaan (elative singular)
webmasteristansa (elative singular)
webmastereistaan (elative plural)
webmastereistansa (elative plural)
webmasteriinsa (illative singular)
webmastereihinsa (illative plural)
webmasterillaan (adessive singular)
webmasterillansa (adessive singular)
webmastereillaan (adessive plural)
webmastereillansa (adessive plural)
webmasteriltaan (ablative singular)
webmasteriltansa (ablative singular)
webmastereiltaan (ablative plural)
webmastereiltansa (ablative plural)
webmasterilleen (allative singular)
webmasterillensa (allative singular)
webmastereilleen (allative plural)
webmastereillensa (allative plural)
webmasterinaan (essive singular)
webmasterinansa (essive singular)
webmastereinaan (essive plural)
webmastereinansa (essive plural)
webmasterikseen (singular translative)
webmasteriksensa (singular translative)
webmastereikseen (plural translative)
webmastereiksensa (plural translative)
webmasterittaan (abessive singular)
webmasterittansa (abessive singular)
webmastereittaan (abessive plural)
webmastereittansa (abessive plural)
webmastereineen (comitative plural)
webmastereinensa (comitative plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English webmaster.

ubor

Synonym of sivustovastaava (“webmaster”)


webmaster

webmaster (person responsible for maintaining a website)


webmaster

es-noun

webmaster m or f by sense (plural webmasters or webmaster)


wall

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

cog

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.


add

en-verb

add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)

adds (present singular third-person)
adding (participle present)
added (participle past)
added (past)
add (infinitive)

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.


add

From English add. Compare Mandarin 加 (jiā, “to friend”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) to friend; to add someone as contact, friend, or follower


add

(Brazil, Internet slang, uninflected) to add in certain internet services

to friend (to add as a friend in a social network)

to add (to add as a contact in an instant messenger service)


network

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
Compound of net + work.

etymon

filtered-popping recursive transition network

The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.

(computing, Internet) Multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information

netwerk

multiple computers and other devices connected together


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


wireless

en-noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

безжично свързване

wireless connectivity to a computer network


radio

radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)

desctree

→ Japanese: ラジオ (rajio)
→ Hokkien: la-jí-o͘h

→ Malay: radio

desc

→ Hokkien: (Malaysia, Singapore) 黎撩 (lê-liô)

emergency position indicating radio beacon

(Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.


love

en-verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

loves (present singular third-person)
loving (participle present)
loved (participle past)
loved (past)
love (infinitive)
loue (alternative)
luv (alternative)

Sranan Tongo: lobi

Aukan: lobi

Saramaccan: lóbi

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from Norman amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).

der

the course of true love never did run smooth

the love of money is the root of all evil

She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.


board

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

inh

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

en:clipping of blackboard, surfboard, or others

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.


smiley

smileys (plural)
smilies (plural)
smilie (alternative)
smily (alternative)

(Internet) A sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood; especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.

emoticon

characters that representation an emotion


index

→ Persian: اندکس (andeks)

→ Turkish: endeks, indeks

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indicō (“point out, show”).

the welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php


inc

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of incoming.


CDC

Initialism for criador de conteúdo ("content creator"). Feminine form: criadora de conteúdo.

(Internet, initialism) content creator (forum or page editor)


ask

asks (plural)
aks (alternative)
ax (alternative)
aske (alternative)
aſk (alternative)

From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).

cog

African-American Vernacular, Cajun, Nigeria, proscribed

Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.

2017, Abigail Oakley, “Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr”, in Isabel K. Düsterhöft, Paul G. Nixon, editors, Sex in the Digital Age, unnumbered page:

The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: […]

2018, Lynette Kvasny, Fay Cobb Payton, “African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes”, in Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, editors, Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity, page 168:

Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.

2020, Lee Brown, “Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr”, in Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, Louisa Stein, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures, page 265:

(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.


ID

en-noun

ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)

(Internet) Initialism of image description.


web browser

web browsers (plural)
Web browser (alternative)
web-browser (alternative)
Web-browser (alternative)

(Internet) A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.

webblaaier

a computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web


kill

en-verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.


eleven

elevens (plural)
Arabic numerals (alternative)
Roman numerals (alternative)

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

der

A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

(Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.


supersede

supersedes (plural)
supercede (alternative)
superseed (alternative)

From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.

Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.

(Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.


router

/ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/


router

nl-noun

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

routers (plural)
routertje (diminutive neuter)


router

router (nominative singular)
routery (nominative plural)
routera (genitive singular)
routerów (genitive plural)
routerowi (dative singular)
routerom (dative plural)
router (accusative singular)
routery (accusative plural)
routerem (instrumental singular)
routerami (instrumental plural)
routerze (locative singular)
routerach (locative plural)
routerze (singular vocative)
routery (plural vocative)
ruter (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

(Internet) router (device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet)


X

Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.

Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

2025 February 3, Richard Luscombe, “Marco Rubio appoints himself head of USAid as workers locked out of office”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(social media) An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.


ICQ

Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."

ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.

2005, Laura Lambert, Chris Woodford, Christos J. P. Moschovitis, The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 136:

(Internet) A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet.


ICQ

en-verb

ICQ (third-person singular simple present ICQs, present participle ICQing, simple past and past participle ICQed)

ICQs (present singular third-person)
ICQing (participle present)
ICQed (participle past)
ICQed (past)

"My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]

2000 January 14, Greg Miller, “Ethernet Is Changing Dorm Life”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:

I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.

2002, Mike Savage, Lake Effect, Savage Press, →ISBN, page 94:

It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.

2004, Michael C. Westwood, Meeting the President, →ISBN, page 94:

(transitive, Internet) To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.


some

some (nominative singular)
somet (nominative plural)
some (accusative nominative singular)
somet (accusative nominative plural)
somen (accusative genitive singular)
somet (accusative genitive plural)
somen (genitive singular)
somejen (genitive plural)
somein (genitive plural rare)
somea (partitive singular)
someja (partitive plural)
somessa (inessive singular)
someissa (inessive plural)
somesta (elative singular)
someista (elative plural)
someen (illative singular)
someihin (illative plural)
somella (adessive singular)
someilla (adessive plural)
somelta (ablative singular)
someilta (ablative plural)
somelle (allative singular)
someille (allative plural)
somena (essive singular)
someina (essive plural)
someksi (singular translative)
someiksi (plural translative)
sometta (abessive singular)
someitta (abessive plural)
somein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
someni (nominative singular)
someni (nominative plural)
someni (accusative nominative singular)
someni (accusative nominative plural)
someni (accusative genitive singular)
someni (accusative genitive plural)
someni (genitive singular)
somejeni (genitive plural)
someini (genitive plural rare)
someani (partitive singular)
somejani (partitive plural)
somessani (inessive singular)
someissani (inessive plural)
somestani (elative singular)
someistani (elative plural)
someeni (illative singular)
someihini (illative plural)
somellani (adessive singular)
someillani (adessive plural)
someltani (ablative singular)
someiltani (ablative plural)
somelleni (allative singular)
someilleni (allative plural)
somenani (essive singular)
someinani (essive plural)
somekseni (singular translative)
someikseni (plural translative)
somettani (abessive singular)
someittani (abessive plural)
someineni (comitative plural)
somesi (nominative singular)
somesi (nominative plural)
somesi (accusative nominative singular)
somesi (accusative nominative plural)
somesi (accusative genitive singular)
somesi (accusative genitive plural)
somesi (genitive singular)
somejesi (genitive plural)
someisi (genitive plural rare)
someasi (partitive singular)
somejasi (partitive plural)
somessasi (inessive singular)
someissasi (inessive plural)
somestasi (elative singular)
someistasi (elative plural)
someesi (illative singular)
someihisi (illative plural)
somellasi (adessive singular)
someillasi (adessive plural)
someltasi (ablative singular)
someiltasi (ablative plural)
somellesi (allative singular)
someillesi (allative plural)
somenasi (essive singular)
someinasi (essive plural)
someksesi (singular translative)
someiksesi (plural translative)
somettasi (abessive singular)
someittasi (abessive plural)
someinesi (comitative plural)
somemme (nominative singular)
somemme (nominative plural)
somemme (accusative nominative singular)
somemme (accusative nominative plural)
somemme (accusative genitive singular)
somemme (accusative genitive plural)
somemme (genitive singular)
somejemme (genitive plural)
someimme (genitive plural rare)
someamme (partitive singular)
somejamme (partitive plural)
somessamme (inessive singular)
someissamme (inessive plural)
somestamme (elative singular)
someistamme (elative plural)
someemme (illative singular)
someihimme (illative plural)
somellamme (adessive singular)
someillamme (adessive plural)
someltamme (ablative singular)
someiltamme (ablative plural)
somellemme (allative singular)
someillemme (allative plural)
somenamme (essive singular)
someinamme (essive plural)
someksemme (singular translative)
someiksemme (plural translative)
somettamme (abessive singular)
someittamme (abessive plural)
someinemme (comitative plural)
somenne (nominative singular)
somenne (nominative plural)
somenne (accusative nominative singular)
somenne (accusative nominative plural)
somenne (accusative genitive singular)
somenne (accusative genitive plural)
somenne (genitive singular)
somejenne (genitive plural)
someinne (genitive plural rare)
someanne (partitive singular)
somejanne (partitive plural)
somessanne (inessive singular)
someissanne (inessive plural)
somestanne (elative singular)
someistanne (elative plural)
someenne (illative singular)
someihinne (illative plural)
somellanne (adessive singular)
someillanne (adessive plural)
someltanne (ablative singular)
someiltanne (ablative plural)
somellenne (allative singular)
someillenne (allative plural)
somenanne (essive singular)
someinanne (essive plural)
someksenne (singular translative)
someiksenne (plural translative)
somettanne (abessive singular)
someittanne (abessive plural)
someinenne (comitative plural)
somensa (nominative singular)
somensa (nominative plural)
somensa (accusative nominative singular)
somensa (accusative nominative plural)
somensa (accusative genitive singular)
somensa (accusative genitive plural)
somensa (genitive singular)
somejensa (genitive plural)
someinsa (genitive plural rare)
someaan (partitive singular)
someansa (partitive singular)
somejaan (partitive plural)
somejansa (partitive plural)
somessaan (inessive singular)
somessansa (inessive singular)
someissaan (inessive plural)
someissansa (inessive plural)
somestaan (elative singular)
somestansa (elative singular)
someistaan (elative plural)
someistansa (elative plural)
someensa (illative singular)
someihinsa (illative plural)
somellaan (adessive singular)
somellansa (adessive singular)
someillaan (adessive plural)
someillansa (adessive plural)
someltaan (ablative singular)
someltansa (ablative singular)
someiltaan (ablative plural)
someiltansa (ablative plural)
somelleen (allative singular)
somellensa (allative singular)
someilleen (allative plural)
someillensa (allative plural)
somenaan (essive singular)
somenansa (essive singular)
someinaan (essive plural)
someinansa (essive plural)
somekseen (singular translative)
someksensa (singular translative)
someikseen (plural translative)
someiksensa (plural translative)
somettaan (abessive singular)
somettansa (abessive singular)
someittaan (abessive plural)
someittansa (abessive plural)
someineen (comitative plural)
someinensa (comitative plural)

Contraction of sosiaalinen media (“social media”).

contraction

Jos tänä päivänä aikoo menestyä politiikassa, on pakko olla somessa.

If one wants to be successful in politics nowadays, it's obligatory to be on social media.


slashdot

en-verb

slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

slashdots (present singular third-person)
slashdotting (participle present)
slashdotted (participle past)
slashdotted (past)

After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.

2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM
If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).

[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.

2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html
Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.

(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.


wiki

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

etymon

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.


wiki

en-verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

wikis (present singular third-person)
wikiing (participle present)
wikied (participle past)
wikied (past)

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:

Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-04:

(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.


wiki

head

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

wikiyi (accusative definite)
wikiler (plural)
wiki (nominative singular)
wikiler (nominative plural)
wikiyi (accusative definite singular)
wikileri (accusative definite plural)
wikiye (dative singular)
wikilere (dative plural)
wikide (locative singular)
wikilerde (locative plural)
wikiden (ablative singular)
wikilerden (ablative plural)
wikinin (genitive singular)
wikilerin (genitive plural)
wikim (first-person nominative singular)
wikilerim (first-person nominative singular)
wikin (nominative second-person singular)
wikilerin (nominative second-person singular)
wikisi (nominative singular third-person)
wikileri (nominative singular third-person)
wikimiz (first-person nominative plural)
wikilerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
wikiniz (nominative plural second-person)
wikileriniz (nominative plural second-person)
wikileri (nominative plural third-person)
wikimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
wikilerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
wikini (accusative definite second-person singular)
wikilerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
wikisini (accusative definite singular third-person)
wikilerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
wikimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
wikilerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
wikinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
wikilerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
wikilerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
wikime (dative first-person singular)
wikilerime (dative first-person singular)
wikine (dative second-person singular)
wikilerine (dative second-person singular)
wikisine (dative singular third-person)
wikilerine (dative singular third-person)
wikimize (dative first-person plural)
wikilerimize (dative first-person plural)
wikinize (dative plural second-person)
wikilerinize (dative plural second-person)
wikilerine (dative plural third-person)
wikimde (first-person locative singular)
wikilerimde (first-person locative singular)
wikinde (locative second-person singular)
wikilerinde (locative second-person singular)
wikisinde (locative singular third-person)
wikilerinde (locative singular third-person)
wikimizde (first-person locative plural)
wikilerimizde (first-person locative plural)
wikinizde (locative plural second-person)
wikilerinizde (locative plural second-person)
wikilerinde (locative plural third-person)
wikimden (ablative first-person singular)
wikilerimden (ablative first-person singular)
wikinden (ablative second-person singular)
wikilerinden (ablative second-person singular)
wikisinden (ablative singular third-person)
wikilerinden (ablative singular third-person)
wikimizden (ablative first-person plural)
wikilerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
wikinizden (ablative plural second-person)
wikilerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
wikilerinden (ablative plural third-person)
wikimin (first-person genitive singular)
wikilerimin (first-person genitive singular)
wikinin (genitive second-person singular)
wikilerinin (genitive second-person singular)
wikisinin (genitive singular third-person)
wikilerinin (genitive singular third-person)
wikimizin (first-person genitive plural)
wikilerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
wikinizin (genitive plural second-person)
wikilerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
wikilerinin (genitive plural third-person)


ant

ants (plural)
ante (alternative)
ampte (alternative)

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.


car

→ French: car

→ Russian: кар (kar)

⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

→ Japanese: カー (kā)

→ Hindi: कार (kār)

→ Urdu: کار (kār)

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of horse.

der

(Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.


finger

en-verb

finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)

fingers (present singular third-person)
fingering (participle present)
fingered (participle past)
fingered (past)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

cog

There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]

1996, Marc Saltzman, Sean McFadden, Internet Games Directory, Lycos Press, →ISBN, page 29:

PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

1996, Yves Bellefeuille, “List of useful freeware”, in comp.archives.msdos.d (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.


thumb

thumbs (plural)
thum (alternative)
thume (alternative)
thumbe (alternative)

From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “thumb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

2001, Gary, “Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE”, in alt.sex.services (Usenet):

(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.


room

en-noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

→ Japanese: ルーム (rūmu)

→ Kikuyu: rumu

→ Maori: rūma

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”).
Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.
In the standard language, it is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in standard Modern English native vocabulary. The pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ does occur in, for example, Lancashire. However, German Raum did undergo diphthongization similar to the Great Vowel Shift.

inh

rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.

Here in the room we are as one / Together you and me, together you and me / Hours connect / As we switch on

2000, “My Internet Girl”, performed by Aaron Carter:

(Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.


egg

en-noun

egg (countable and uncountable, plural eggs)

→⇒ German: not the yellow from the egg

Jamaican Creole: eg

Sranan Tongo: eksi

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into at least c. 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.

wôwan

approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development

ou

thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg

egg

person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, or who has not yet come out as transgender or is in the early stages of transitioning; one’s lack of awareness that one is transgender

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

(Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.


god

gods (plural)
gawd (alternative)
Gawd (alternative)
g-d (alternative)
G-d (alternative)
God (alternative)

Belizean Creole: gaad

Sranan Tongo: gado

Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).

time spent laughing is time spent with the gods

The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.

The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:

(Internet, roleplaying games) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.


WWW

Orthographic borrowing from English WWW (“World Wide Web”).


BA

en-noun

BA (countable and uncountable, plural BAs)

(Internet, security) Initialism of Basic Authentication.


ES

Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.

2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 652:

If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.

2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

(computer languages) Initialism of ECMAScript.


ban

ban (nominative singular)
bany (nominative plural)
bana (genitive singular)
banów (genitive plural)
banowi (dative singular)
banom (dative plural)
bana (accusative singular)
bany (accusative plural)
banem (instrumental singular)
banami (instrumental plural)
banie (locative singular)
banach (locative plural)
banie (singular vocative)
bany (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English ban, from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to bannish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”) and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).


NS

(Internet, historical) Initialism of Netscape.


NS

From English NS, initialism of name server.


YT

(Internet) Abbreviation of YouTube, a popular video hosting website.


MX

en-noun

MX (countable and uncountable, plural MXs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of mail exchanger.


TL

(Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.


GA

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

(wiki jargon) Initialism of good article.


IA

Indian Army at the Encyclopedia of India

Indian Airlines at the Encyclopædia Britannica

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.


OH

OH: "We should just burn the whole place down"

(Internet) Initialism of overheard; a post whose contents were overheard by its author.


OR

OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.


voice

→ Russian: войс (vojs) (slang, from "voice message")

From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, and Old English woþ. Broadly overtook Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.

the voice of the people, the voice of God

True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem.

1999 February 20, Cory McWilliams, “IRC oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <7amrhu$17kg@enews2.newsguy.com>:

(Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

puheoikeus

internet: flag determining whether or not a user can send messages to the channel


voice

en-verb

voice (third-person singular simple present voices, present participle voicing, simple past and past participle voiced)

voices (present singular third-person)
voicing (participle present)
voiced (participle past)
voiced (past)
voyce (alternative)

From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).

I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.

2001 November 22, Thom Peppard, “assistance please”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <B8225C66.240B%thompeppard@tru.eastlink.ca>:

If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).

2004 August 1, Remco Rijnders, “moderating an IRC session”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <opsb1625xn32ljov@news.xs4all.nl>:

(transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.


twit

(Internet) Tweet, an entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.


slug

Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

inh

Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.

2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

(web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.


re

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254

"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."

2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-02:

About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.

فِي مَا يَخُصّ

fī mā yaḵuṣṣ


re

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.


re

gg [good game], no re

(video games, slang) Clipping of rematch.

(marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names)


ściana

pl-noun

ściana f (diminutive ścianka, related adjective ścianowy or ścienny)

ścianka (diminutive)
ścianowy (adjective)
ścienny (adjective)
ściana (nominative singular)
ściany (nominative plural)
ściany (genitive singular)
ścian (genitive plural)
ścianie (dative singular)
ścianom (dative plural)
ścianę (accusative singular)
ściany (accusative plural)
ścianą (instrumental singular)
ścianami (instrumental plural)
ścianie (locative singular)
ścianach (locative plural)
ściano (singular vocative)
ściany (plural vocative)
ściena (alternative)

Inherited from Old Polish ściana. Sense 9 is a semantic loan from English wall.

sl

(Internet) wall (personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user)


chat

en-noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?

Chat, is this prime minister serious?

2024 September 11, Fatima Payman, 00:48 from the start, in Skibidi Senator Payman + 100,000 aura (video), archived from the original on 2024-09-12:

(Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

(metonymically, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.

(by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."

Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me.

While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]

1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256:


chat

chaten (definite singular)
chatar (indefinite plural)
chatane (definite plural)
chatt (alternative)


chat

chatowy (adjective)
chat (nominative singular)
chaty (nominative plural)
chatu (genitive singular)
chatów (genitive plural)
chatowi (dative singular)
chatom (dative plural)
chat (accusative singular)
chaty (accusative plural)
chatem (instrumental singular)
chatami (instrumental plural)
chacie (locative singular)
chatach (locative plural)
chacie (singular vocative)
chaty (plural vocative)


chat

chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)


HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

1996 May, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet)


ISP

Upon my glorious ISP homepage is a wonderful piece of wisdumb […]

2008, Allan A. Zarbock, The Emperor is Naked, page 58:

Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.

2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2009-02-10:

internet service provider
internet service provider#English

(Internet) Initialism of internet service provider. (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)


ISP

ISP (Bokmål indefinite masculine singular)
ISP-en (Bokmål definite masculine singular)
ISP-er (Bokmål indefinite masculine plural)
ISP-ene (Bokmål definite masculine plural)
ISP (Nynorsk indefinite masculine singular)
ISP-en (Nynorsk definite masculine singular)
ISP-ar (Nynorsk indefinite masculine plural)
ISP-ane (Nynorsk definite masculine plural)


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.

(Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.


down

de-adj

down (strong nominative masculine singular downer, not comparable)

downer (masculine nominative singular strong)

(Internet, of websites and servers) down, not online


chat room

chat rooms (plural)
chatroom (alternative)
chat-room (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-chat room.wav

If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:

(Internet) Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.


poop

en-noun

poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)

Russian: пуп (pup)

Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.

cog

Alternative form: Poop

The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.

2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech:

And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.

2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes:

(Internet slang) Ellipsis of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).


icon

icons (plural)
eikon (alternative)
ikon (alternative)

From Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.

der

Is it okay if I use your drawing as my icon?

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.

(Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.


cut

en-noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

leikkaus

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.

(Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.


fed

en-verb

fed (third-person singular simple present feds, present participle fedding, simple past and past participle fedded)

feds (present singular third-person)
fedding (participle present)
fedded (participle past)
fedded (past)


feed

en-noun

feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)

From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”).

I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.

(Internet) online content presented sequentially:

(syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.

Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.

2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:

Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.

2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

possessive determiner
possessive determiner

(social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated


feed

(Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)


feed

De acuerdo con downdetector.com un 49% de los usuarios de la red, no puede actualizar su feed, el 31% no logra entrar a Instagram y el 18% no puede verlo desde su computadora.

2019 March 13, Leslie Santana, “Primero Facebook, y ahora cae Instagram”, in El Universal (Mexico):

According to downdetector.com, 49% of the network's users can't update their feed, 31% can't enter Instagram and 18% can't see it on their computer.


freeze

en-verb

freeze (third-person singular simple present freezes, present participle freezing, simple past froze, past participle frozen or (now colloquial) froze)

freezes (present singular third-person)
freezing (participle present)
froze (past)
frozen (participle past)
froze (colloquial participle past)

→ Maltese: ffriża

From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”).
Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Danish fryse (“to freeze”), Norwegian fryse, Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).

cog

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

Some websites, such as YouTube, deliberately freeze the view count, intended to deter attempts to game the system.

(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.


sandbox

sandboxes (plural)
sand box (alternative)
sand-box (alternative)

→ Chinese: 沙盒 (shāhé) (calque)

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.


hit

→ Catalan: hit

→ Czech: hit

→ Danish: hit

→ French: hit

→ Dutch: hit

→ Japanese: ヒット (hitto)

→ Polish: hit

→ Portuguese: hit

→ Russian: хит (xit)

→ Spanish: hit

→ Swedish: hit

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

хіт

success, especially in the entertainment industry

папада́нне

collision of a projectile with the target

(computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

попаде́ние

computing, Internet: positive result of a search

My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.


basket

en-noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

→ Irish: bascaed

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).

unk

obscure

buslo

a large, deep basket used especially in marketing

pangnan

a small basket used by fishermen or to hold flowers or fruit

(Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

զամբյուղ

notional place to store items before ordering them online


overlay

/ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

(Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.


ring

→ French: ring
→ Romanian: ring

→ Hungarian: ring

→ Italian: ring

→ Japanese: リング

→ Polish: ring

→ Serbo-Croatian: ring

→ Spanish: ring

→ Turkish: ring

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.
Cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas

Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.

2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:


sit

situri (plural)
sit (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
situl (accusative definite nominative singular)
situri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
siturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
sit (indefinite singular)
sitului (definite singular)
situri (indefinite singular)
siturilor (definite plural)
situle (singular vocative)
siturilor (vocative)

Borrowed from French site or English site.


tell

From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.

cog

(Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.


anchor

→ Chuukese: angko

From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora and anker.

(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.


following

Coordinate term: follower

When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him.

2014, Zhengbiao Guo, Zhitang Li, Hao Tu, Da Xie, “Weibo: An Information-Driven Online Social Network”, in Marina L.Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, editors, Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8360), Springer, →ISBN, part I (Neural and Social Networks), page 6:

A follower can follow any other users and receive any kind of tweets from his or her followings.

2017, Konglin Zhu, Xiaoming Fu, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Jan Nagler, “Population Growth in Online Social Networks”, in Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo, Margarete Boos, editors, Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies, CRC Press, →ISBN, section 3 (The Data), subsection 1 (Three Online Social Networks):

She scrolled through her [Chloe’s] page and liked a few of her pictures that were like candy to her eyes before thoroughly checking her followings. She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.

2020, Jay Janzee, Don’t Get Too Close, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 79:

(social media) An account which is followed.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

One needs only to decide upon a series of rules to define the functionality of a CSS and then to decide how to implement that sheet, either directly within their HTML document, or by using an externally linked file.

2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:

A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented.

2013, Frania Hall, The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:

Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.

2014, Alberto Souza, Practical Play Framework: Focus on What Is Really Important, Editora Casa do Código, →ISBN:

Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for <h1> to "IndianRed".

2021, Prashant Joshi, Introduction to IT Systems, Khanna Book Publishing Co. (P) Ltd., published 2022, →ISBN, page 110:

cascading style sheet
cascading style sheet#English

(web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.


CSS

style sheet language
style sheet language

(web design) Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.


URL

[jɯ̟ːa̠ːɾɯ̟e̞ɾɯ̟]

Uniform Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator


URL

URL (indefinite nominative singular)
URL:s (genitive indefinite singular)
URL:n (definite nominative singular)
URL:en (definite nominative singular)
URL:ns (definite genitive singular)
URL:ens (definite genitive singular)
URL:er (indefinite nominative plural)
URL:ers (genitive indefinite plural)
URL:erna (definite nominative plural)
URL:ernas (definite genitive plural)
url (alternative)

Nu ska dock namnbytet äntligen vara helt färdigt, Elon Musk meddelade att alla system på sociala medieplattfomen nu ligger på url:en x.com. Skriver du in twitter.com i adressfältet ska du omdirigeras till den nya url:en.

2024 May 17, Kristian Kask, Petter Ahrnstedt, “Twitters namnbyte är nu helt färdigt [Twitter's name change is now complete]”, in M3:

The name change is now finally complete, as Elon Musk announced that all systems on the social media platform are now hosted at the URL x.com. If you type twitter.com into the address bar, you will be redirected to the new URL.

(Internet) A URL, a Uniform Resource Locator.


XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
w:Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.)


JS

(computing, Internet) Initialism of JavaScript.


short

→ Cantonese: short

→ Italian: short

→ Japanese: ショート (shōto)

→ Mandarin: 秀逗 (xiùdou)

→ Hakka: 秀逗 (sió-tò)

→ Maltese: xort

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognates
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.

A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.


salt

en-verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

salts (present singular third-person)
salting (participle present)
salted (participle past)
salted (past)

PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

(wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.


pull

en-noun

pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)

button

antonym(s) of “device meant to be pulled”

-ʊl (accents with foot–goose merger or full–fool merger)

Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).

cog

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

server pull

pull technology

(Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.

pull

internet: situation where a client sends out a request for data


push

en-noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare (“to beat, strike”), frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus). Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.

server push; a push technology

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.


flame

flame (countable and uncountable, plural flames)

From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.

der

Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.

1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Usenet Newsgroups, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 39:

(Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.


flame

en-verb

flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)

flames (present singular third-person)
flaming (participle present)
flamed (participle past)
flamed (past)

From Middle English flawmen, from Old French flamber, flammer.

I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

I wish you had the nerve to put your own name on that article, rather than logging into a public account to do it. I would have prefered^([sic]) to respond to you personally, rather than burden the net with my flaming, particularly since opinions like yours are best left ignored. But I feel I must respond to this one.

1983 October 20, Joe Ziegler, net.motss (Usenet):

This was one of the highest points of the show for me. Playin' followed, with a nice jam afterwards. After that, Jerry wandered into Crazy Fingers. (I had been hoping for Terrapin...oh well. Crazy Fingers seems to highlight Jerry's ability to come in late and tentative on lyrics. I'm sure I'll get flamed, since lots of folks seem to worship CF.)

1989 June 29, Neil McAvoy [Wing Attack Plan R], rec.music.gdead (Usenet):

If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

2001, w:Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.

2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition:

(Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

blusse

to post a critical or abusive message on the Internet


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet):

(Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.


e

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of em.


chan

I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

1997, Dominic Donegan, “Is there a #nethack chan on IRC?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):


chan

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

more niche chans


b

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of bạn.


attachment

en-noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


c

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of cậu.

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of chị.


h

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of giờ.


j

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of gì.


k

k ăn đâu

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of không.


m

[ʔɛm˧˧ məː˨˩]

[ʔɛm˧˧ məː˦˩]

[ʔɛm˧˧ məː˨˩]

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of mày / mi.


p

I'm doing p good, how are you?

There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole think SU27 is p bad!).

1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim/msg/8ebf7044a96c18e5

(Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)


t

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of tao / tau / tôi / tớ. Generally perceived as tao / tau.


v

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of vậy.


刀

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (刀):
* → Japanese: 刀(とう) (tō)
* → Korean: 도(刀) (do)
* → Vietnamese: đao (刀)

→ Khmer: ដាវ (daaw)

→ Vietnamese: dao

→ White Hmong: tob

→ English: dao

Pictogram (象形) – a knife. The original form was 𠚣, which can be found in a variant of 利, 𥝢 (in turn used on the top of the character 黎).
Unclear. Here are several proposals:
* Schuessler (2007) considers this to be an area word or a word widely borrowed from Chinese into other languages; compare Proto-Karen *ʔdɔ (“knife”), Jingpho [script needed] (n³¹-do³¹, “short knife”), Proto-Vietic *-taːw (“knife”), Bulo Stieng taaw;
* Stephen Baron posits Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ta-w, with a sparsely attested suffix *-w retained in Sinitic yet lost in Tibeto-Burman, yielding Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ta (“knife; axe; sword”); compare Tibetan སྟ་རེ (sta re, “axe; hatchet”), Burmese ဓား (dha:, “knife; sword”), Proto-Loloish *ta² (“knife”) (STEDT);
* Starostin derives it from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tā̆w ~ *dā̆w, comparing it to Tibetan སྟེའུ (ste'u, “carpenter's axe, adze”) and Jingpho nhtu (“sword”).

cog

Reselling an October 26 Shanghai concert ticket, original price 880, small negotiations available.

Zhuǎn yī zhāng 10 26 shànghǎi yǎnchànghuì ménpiào, yuánjià 880, kě xiǎo dāo.

轉一張1026上海演唱會門票，原價880，可小刀。

转一张1026上海演唱会门票，原价880，可小刀。

(neologism, Internet) to bargain; to negotiate on price


gram

Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”).


gram

en-verb

gram (third-person singular simple present grams, present participle gramming, simple past and past participle grammed)

grams (present singular third-person)
gramming (participle present)
grammed (participle past)
grammed (past)
gramme (alternative)


peer

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

peers (present singular third-person)
peering (participle present)
peered (participle past)
peered (past)

From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.


domain

range

antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

definisieversameling

(mathematics) the set on which a function is defined

2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

(computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.


profile

en-noun

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.

After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:

(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.

profil

space with personal information in software or Internet systems