lineo

Borrowed from English line, French ligne, German Linie, Italian linea, Russian ли́ния (línija), Spanish línea. Compare Esperanto linio.

io-bor

(genealogy, geometry, military, printing, telegraphy, writing, etc.) line


buttinsky

en-noun

buttinsky (plural buttinskys or buttinskies)

buttinskys (plural)
buttinskies (plural)
buttinski (alternative)

From butt in (“to join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited, interject”) + -sky (a variant of -ski (suffix added to a word, name, or phrase to invoke Russianness, Polishness, or a more general Slavicness)), humorously modelled after Russian surnames, and originally and often used in the form of a surname.

suffix

(telecommunications) A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and lines staff for testing telephone circuits or making a temporary connection to a telephone line.


ultraism

en-noun

ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)

The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.

1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

(poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.


Morse code

(telecommunications) A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by radio.


ERC

(telephony) Initialism of easily-recognizable code.


poste

→ Belarusian: пост (post)

→ Bulgarian: пост (post)

→ Danish: post

→ Dutch: post

→ Indonesian: pos

→ English: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Khmer: ប៉ុស្តិ៍ (poh)

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Swedish: post

→ Ukrainian: пост (post)

→ Vietnamese: bốt


aubade

Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Rosalía de Castro

PIE word
 *albʰós
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

beuregan

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.

1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:

(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

(music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.

aubade

morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning


wireless telegraphy

en-noun

wireless telegraphy (usually uncountable, plural wireless telegraphies)

This most conspicuous triumph of Mr. Marconi's invention is peculiarly gratifying to The Times, which has long made liberal use of wireless telegraphy in its European news service.

1909 January 26, “The Triumph of Wireless Telegraphy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(telegraphy, historical) Telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables.


telemetry

telemetry (countable and uncountable, plural telemetries)

We have also installed river level monitors and scour telemetry on more than 25 bridges across our network, and over the next two years we will continue to increase the number of locations fitted with these technologies.

2022 April 20, Alex Hynes, “Making our railway safer”, in RAIL, number 955, page 27:

(space flight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

telemetrie

the science, and associated technology, of automatic recording


wrapping

From Middle English wrappinge, wrappynge, equivalent to wrap + -ing.

See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound

(computing, writing) The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.


BHCA

busy-hour call attempts
w:busy-hour call attempts

(telecommunications) Initialism of busy-hour call attempts.


roam

en-verb

roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)

roams (present singular third-person)
roaming (participle present)
roamed (participle past)
roamed (past)

From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.

漫遊 /漫游

(Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices

(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.

At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.

2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development:

(transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.


soliloquy

en-noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

Augustine of Hippo
Hamlet
Soliloquiorum libri duo
To be, or not to be
William Shakespeare

1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]

1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:

Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.


POTS

plain old telephone service
plain old telephone service#English

(acronym, telecommunications) Initialism of plain old telephone service.


echolalia

echolalia (nominative singular)
echolalii (genitive singular)
echolalii (dative singular)
echolalię (accusative singular)
echolalią (instrumental singular)
echolalii (locative singular)
echolalio (singular vocative)

(rhetoric, poetry) echolalia (stylistic device consisting of the repetition of identical or similar vocal groups solely in order to emphasise the rhythmic or melodic character of the text)


unlock

en-verb

unlock (third-person singular simple present unlocks, present participle unlocking, simple past and past participle unlocked)

unlocks (present singular third-person)
unlocking (participle present)
unlocked (participle past)
unlocked (past)

From Middle English unloken, unlouken, onlouken, from Old English onlūcan (“to unlock”), equivalent to un- + lock. Cognate with Dutch ontluiken (“to unlock”).

(transitive, mobile telephony) To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.


popularise

popularise (third-person singular simple present popularises, present participle popularising, simple past and past participle popularised)

popularises (present singular third-person)
popularising (participle present)
popularised (participle past)
popularised (past)
popularize (alternative)

(transitive, communication) To present information in a form which the general public better understands or accepts, especially by excluding details and jargon found in technical or academic publications.

通俗化

to present information in a form which the general public better understands


cabal

Inherited from Late Latin capālis, from Latin capitālis. Equivalent to cap + -al.


data set

data sets (plural)
dataset (alternative)

(telecommunications, dated) A modem that connects a device such as a teletype to an ordinary telephone.


ハム

ja:ハム (曖昧さ回避)

(electronics, telecommunications) noise emitted from a receiver or other equipment experiencing electrical interference


glare

en-noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

cog

(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.


TCP/IP

w:Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

(Internet, telecommunications) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a standard for computer network communication, used in particular for the Internet.


doggerel

Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

dogrel (alternative obsolete)
doggrel (alternative archaic)

True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.

1677 (date written), John Dryden, “Prologue”, in The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC:

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.


doggerel

en-noun

doggerel (countable and uncountable, plural doggerels)

doggerels (plural)
dogrel (alternative obsolete)
doggrel (alternative archaic)

Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).

1894, George du Maurier, “Part Sixth”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 302:

As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 86:

(poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.


bod

bod (nominative singular)
body (nominative plural)
bodu (genitive singular)
bodów (genitive plural)
bodowi (dative singular)
bodom (dative plural)
bod (accusative singular)
body (accusative plural)
bodem (instrumental singular)
bodami (instrumental plural)
bodzie (locative singular)
bodach (locative plural)
bodzie (singular vocative)
body (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French baud, named after French telegraph engineer and inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot.


refactor

en-verb

refactor (third-person singular simple present refactors, present participle refactoring, simple past and past participle refactored)

refactors (present singular third-person)
refactoring (participle present)
refactored (participle past)
refactored (past)

Two significant activities which to contribute to community projects, such as Wikipedia, are to refactor complicated articles into simpler ones, and to refactor duplicated content into reusable templates.

(writing) To rewrite existing text in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without intentionally affecting its meaning. Similar to, but sometimes involving more extensive restructuring than, copy editing.


stanco

eo-noun

stanco (accusative singular stancon, plural stancoj, accusative plural stancojn)

stancon (accusative singular)
stancoj (plural)
stancojn (accusative plural)


syllabary

/ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/

From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

(orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

(orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.


cadena

Inherited from Latin catēna. Compare Occitan cadena, French chaîne.


over the top

en-adj

over the top (comparative more over the top, superlative most over the top)

more over the top (comparative)
most over the top (superlative)
over-the-top (alternative)

The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.

(communication) Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.

επιφυής

delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device


blue box

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

This was before Wozniak—known among the cognoscenti as Woz—almost woke up the Pope by calling the Vatican on his famed illegal "blue box," before he invented the Apple II and helped launch the personal computer industry, and before he gave up his brilliant engineering career and became a public school teacher.

1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2011-08-10:

(historical, telephony) An electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system.


chancery

en-noun

chancery (countable and uncountable, plural chanceries)

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/

From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).
The adverbial form is an allusion to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court.


hunting

hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)

desc

→ Korean: 헌팅 (heonting, “flirting with strangers, pickup”)

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

(telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.


madrigal

/ˈmæd͡ɹɪɡəl/

From Italian madrigale, from Latin mātrīcālis.

(poetry) A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.


sending

fo-noun

sending f (genitive singular sendingar, plural sendingar)

sendingar (genitive singular)
sendingar (plural)
sending (indefinite nominative singular)
sendingin (definite nominative singular)
sendingar (indefinite nominative plural)
sendingarnar (definite nominative plural)
sending (accusative indefinite singular)
sendingina (accusative definite singular)
sendingar (accusative indefinite plural)
sendingarnar (accusative definite plural)
sending (dative indefinite singular)
sendingini (dative definite singular)
sendingum (dative indefinite plural)
sendingunum (dative definite plural)
sendingar (genitive indefinite singular)
sendingarinnar (definite genitive singular)
sendinga (genitive indefinite plural)
sendinganna (definite genitive plural)

(communication) transmission (data etc.)


sidekick

From side + kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.

So even though he had – no question – the best lines in Friends, he was never what he would have been in an earlier era: the sidekick.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.


tp

You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1 tp. 8.

(telecommunications) Initialism of transponder.


Android

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(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.


Android

Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.

2016, Technology Made Easy: Simple Ways to Use Your Computer, Phone, and Other Electronic Devices, Peachtree City, Ga.: FC&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 317:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile phone running on Android OS.


Android

de-proper noun

Android n (proper noun, strong, genitive Androids or Android)

Androids (genitive)
Android (genitive)
Android (nominative singular)
Androids (genitive singular)
Android (genitive singular)
Android (dative singular)
Android (accusative singular)

Unadapted borrowing from English android.

ubor

(computing, mobile telephony) Android (operating system)


Android

(computing, mobile telephony) Android: a mobile operating system currently developed by Google


Handy

de-noun

Handy n (strong, genitive Handys, plural Handys or (now nonstandard) Handies)

Handys (genitive)
Handys (plural)
Handies (nonstandard plural)
Handy (nominative singular)
Handys (definite nominative plural)
Handies (definite nominative plural proscribed)
Handys (genitive singular)
Handys (definite genitive plural)
Handies (definite genitive plural proscribed)
Handy (dative singular)
Handys (dative definite plural)
Handies (dative definite plural proscribed)
Handy (accusative singular)
Handys (accusative definite plural)
Handies (accusative definite plural proscribed)

→? English: handy

Some sources claim the existence of an early English preform. Perhaps from English handie-talkie, apparently used as a Motorola product name based on walkie-talkie. Or perhaps derived from English handheld transceiver, coined by CB radio users, later informally applied to the first mobile phones, and soon found in product names.
Others assert the use for a phone is exclusively German, possibly as a short form of Handfunktelefon, as which it was marketed by firms like Bosch and Hagenuk. Thus equivalent to an anglicisation of Hand (“hand”) + -i (diminutive suffix).

Alle paar Minuten hängt er am Handy und macht Termine klar.

1994 May 11, Ralf Schlüter, “Stimmungen frei Hand”, in Berliner Zeitung:

Every few minutes he's on his cell phone arranging appointments.

Bluetooth ist eine drahtlose Kommunikationstechnologie. Der Ursprung dieser Technologie liegt im Jahre 1994, als die Firma Ericsson eine Alternative zu Kabeln für die Verbindung ihrer Handys zum Zubehör wie Headsets suchte.

2008, Ulrich Breymann, Heiko Mosemann, Java me, Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 283:

Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology. This technology originated in 1994, when Ericsson was looking for an alternative to cables for connecting their cell phones to accessories like headsets.

Der Kunde hält sein Handy zum Bezahlen einfach an ein Lesegerät und der Betrag wird von seinem Konto abgebucht.

2009, Ernst Stahl, E-Commerce-Leitfaden, ibi research, →ISBN, page 123:

To pay, the customer just holds his cell phone up to a reader and the amount is deducted from his account.

Es gab noch keine Handys / Es war alles Gegenwart

2018, “Unwiederbringlich”, in Die Unendlichkeit, performed by Tocotronic:

(mobile telephony) mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, phone (portable, wireless telephone)


Ionic

From Ancient Greek ἰωνικός (iōnikós, “related to Ionians”).

uder

(poetry) A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.


Splitter

de-noun

Splitter m (strong, genitive Splitters, plural Splitter)

Splitters (genitive)
Splitter (plural)
Splitter (nominative singular)
Splitter (definite nominative plural)
Splitters (genitive singular)
Splitter (definite genitive plural)
Splitter (dative singular)
Splittern (dative definite plural)
Splitter (accusative singular)
Splitter (accusative definite plural)

(telecommunications) a DSL splitter or filter


Winter

en-noun

Winter (countable and uncountable, plural Winters)

(poetry) Alternative letter-case form of winter.


MAC

MAC (countable and uncountable, plural MACs)

Migration Authorisation Code
w:Migration Authorisation Code

(UK, telecommunications) Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.


cambio

Deverbal from cambiar. Compare Italian cambio, Portuguese câmbio, and Catalan canvi.

¡Cambio y fuera!


caput

la-noun

caput n (genitive capitis); third declension

capitis (genitive)
caput (nominative singular)
capita (nominative plural)
capitis (genitive singular)
capitum (genitive plural)
capitī (dative singular)
capitibus (dative plural)
caput (accusative singular)
capita (accusative plural)
capite (ablative singular)
capitibus (ablative plural)
caput (singular vocative)
capita (plural vocative)
cap. (alternative)
c. (alternative)
capud (alternative)
capus (alternative Late-Latin)
cabo (alternative)

Direct reflexes:

Sardinian: cabudu, cabude, cabide

⇒ Vulgar Latin: capus (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ English: caput

→ Portuguese: caput

Reflexes of capita and, via back-formation, a new singular *capitum:

Balkans:

Aromanian: capiti, capit, capitu

Istro-Romanian: cåpete

Megleno-Romanian: capiti

Romanian: capete, capăt

Italy and environs:

Central Italian: capita, capitu, capito

Lombard: caved

Sardinian: cabida

From *capucla, feminine of *capuclum, from *caputulum:

Italian: capocchia

From *caputia:

Italian: capoccia

From Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Cognates include German Haupt and English head.

capita rerum

(writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter.


TCAP

en-noun

TCAP (countable and uncountable, plural TCAPs)

(telephony) Transaction Capabilities Application Part (SS7)


DCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of dedicated channel (in UMTS).


cosmopolite

en-adj

cosmopolite (comparative more cosmopolite, superlative most cosmopolite)

more cosmopolite (comparative)
most cosmopolite (superlative)

Borrowed from French cosmopolite, from Latin cosmopolītēs, itself borrowed from Koine Greek κοσμοπολίτης (kosmopolítēs, “citizen of the world”), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”).

der

κοσμοπολίτης

There was no middle course for Richard's comrades between high friendship or absolute slavery. He was deficient in those cosmopolite habits and feelings which enable boys and men to hold together without caring much for each other; and, like every insulated mortal, he attributed the deficiency, of which he was quite aware, to the fact of his possessing a superior nature.

1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

2008, Jennifer L. Sumner, Healthcare Communication Networks: The Dissemination of Employee Information for Hospital Security, Doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida, Orlando, published by ProQuest LLC, Section 3.3, p. 42, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d4qyF7zlXokC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Early adopters tend to be better educated, enjoy higher social status, occupy positions in organizations of greater size and resources, consume higher levels of information from mass media communications, and are more cosmopolite than their later adopting counterparts. An individual or organization that is more cosmopolite is one that seeks and receives higher levels of exposure and exchange with individuals and organizations outside of their specific social system.

(communication) Oriented, exposed to or open to ideas and influences outside one's own social system or group.


uplead

When the capacity at the top has been made so large compared with the effective capacity of the uplead that the current in the latter is sensibly uniform, the length of that current is sensibly the full height h of the uplead, which is the greatest available height with the given masts.

1921, L. B. Turner, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony:

Effectively, the downlead and uplead for an individual sensor in the simple array becomes the downlead and uplead for a ladder in the subarray.

1997, L.S. Grattan, Optical Fiber Sensor Technology: Devices and Technology, page 137:

Imagine the feelings of a very young engineer when required to measure the impedance of this vast aerial system with a “tuned circuit substitution” measuring set which looked minute compared with the 12-ft-diameter aerial uplead, which required a gang to move i to the measuring set.

2003, John Bray, The Communications Miracle: The Telecommunication Pioneers from Morse to the Information Superhighway:

(telecommunications) The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna.


ZF

In the case of the ZF detector, we suppress the interference among the transmit streams by multiplying the received signal vector y with the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the channel matrix […]

2008, Byeong Gi Lee, Sunghyun Choi, Broadband Wireless Access and Local Networks:

However, due to its simplicity, ZF equalization is a good choice when the channel is known and fixed, and also when there is no frequency notch in the channel frequency response […]

2010, Dayan Adionel Guimaraes, Digital Transmission, page 348:

Thus, the importance of the upper bound is in showing that even in the most optimistic case, the achievable rate cannot exceed the ZF rates by more than 10%.

2013, Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, page 308:

(telecommunications, signal processing) Initialism of zero forcing.


WP

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Windows Phone.


PTT

en-noun

PTT (countable and uncountable, plural PTTs)

postal telephone and telegraph
w:Postal Telephone and Telegraph

(telecommunications) Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph.

(telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-talk.

(telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-transmit.

(telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-talk.

(telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-transmit.


CPS

CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)

(telecommunications) Initialism of characters per second.


FTA

(broadcasting, telecommunications) Abbreviation of free to air.


IMS

IMS (countable and uncountable, plural IMSes)

IP Multimedia Subsystem
w:IP Multimedia Subsystem

(telecommunications) Initialism of IP Multimedia Subsystem.


volte-face

volte-faces (plural)
volte face (alternative)

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Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.

(literature, chiefly poetry) A dramatic change in mood or tone.


UC

UC (countable and uncountable, plural UCs)

(mobile telephony) Initialism of ultra capacity.


ACS

ACS (countable and uncountable, plural ACSs or ACSes or ACS's)

ACSs (plural)
ACSes (plural)
ACS's (plural)

(communication, electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel selectivity.


ICT

ICT (countable and uncountable, plural ICTs)

2012, Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council
In order to speed up the decision-making process, national standardisation bodies and European standardisation organisations should facilitate accessible information on their activities through the promotion of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their respective standardisation systems, for example by providing to all relevant stakeholders an easy-to-use online consultation mechanism for the submission of comments on draft standards and by organising virtual meetings, including by means of web conferencing or video conferencing, of technical committees.

2014, "No end to ICT skills crunch" by Lance Harris, published on itweb.co.za
The total number of students that enrolled for these courses has grown only slightly and the marginal increase of graduates does not match the growth rate of the ICT industry.
Graduates with ICT qualifications, senior managers and especially mid-career professionals are all still in short supply across a range of disciplines and market segments.

information and communications technology#English

(uncountable, electronics, communication) Initialism of Information and Communications Technology.

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Initialism of information and communications technology


LF

LF (countable and uncountable, plural LFs)

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of low frequency.


MBR

MBR (countable and uncountable, plural MBRs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of maximum bitrate.


OTP

Open Telecom Platform
w:Open Telecom Platform

(telecommunications) Initialism of Open Telecom Platform.


CAS

CAS (countable and uncountable, plural CASes)

(electronics, communication) Initialism of channel-associated signalling.


LIR

(telecommunications) Initialism of local interconnection region, an alternative to exchanged-based interconnection strategy for Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs).


PRI

PRI (countable and uncountable, plural PRIs)

primary rate interface
primary rate interface#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of primary rate interface.


CMS

CMS (countable and uncountable, plural CMSes or CMSs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of call management system.


tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


Rx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Alternative form of rx (“reception”).


rx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of reception.


Alcaic verse

(poetry) A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus, consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls.


TDD

TDD (countable and uncountable, plural TDDs)

(countable, telecommunications) Initialism of telecommunications device for the deaf.


OCS

(communication, Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Office Communications Server, a software product.


plesiochronous

From plesio- + chrono- + -ous from Ancient Greek πλησίον (plēsíon, “near”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

The DS-3 standard uses bit stuffing to allow the clocks of its tributaries to be plesiochronous.

(communication) Almost, but not quite, synchronous.


telephone exchange

telephone exchange (plural telephone exchanges)

(telephony) Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.

(telephony) The rooms housing such equipment.


royalty

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

→ Danish: royalty

→ German: Royalty

→ Italian: royalty

→ Norwegian Bokmål: royalty

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty

→ Portuguese: royalty

→ Swedish: royalty

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.

Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

(authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.


app

A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:

So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.

1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:

The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything

1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:

Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity

2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:

(computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.


locked

(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.


silta

silta (nominative singular)
sillat (nominative plural)
silta (accusative nominative singular)
sillat (accusative nominative plural)
sillan (accusative genitive singular)
sillat (accusative genitive plural)
sillan (genitive singular)
siltojen (genitive plural)
siltain (genitive plural rare)
siltaa (partitive singular)
siltoja (partitive plural)
sillassa (inessive singular)
silloissa (inessive plural)
sillasta (elative singular)
silloista (elative plural)
siltaan (illative singular)
siltoihin (illative plural)
sillalla (adessive singular)
silloilla (adessive plural)
sillalta (ablative singular)
silloilta (ablative plural)
sillalle (allative singular)
silloille (allative plural)
siltana (essive singular)
siltoina (essive plural)
sillaksi (singular translative)
silloiksi (plural translative)
sillatta (abessive singular)
silloitta (abessive plural)
silloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
siltani (nominative singular)
siltani (nominative plural)
siltani (accusative nominative singular)
siltani (accusative nominative plural)
siltani (accusative genitive singular)
siltani (accusative genitive plural)
siltani (genitive singular)
siltojeni (genitive plural)
siltaini (genitive plural rare)
siltaani (partitive singular)
siltojani (partitive plural)
sillassani (inessive singular)
silloissani (inessive plural)
sillastani (elative singular)
silloistani (elative plural)
siltaani (illative singular)
siltoihini (illative plural)
sillallani (adessive singular)
silloillani (adessive plural)
sillaltani (ablative singular)
silloiltani (ablative plural)
sillalleni (allative singular)
silloilleni (allative plural)
siltanani (essive singular)
siltoinani (essive plural)
sillakseni (singular translative)
silloikseni (plural translative)
sillattani (abessive singular)
silloittani (abessive plural)
siltoineni (comitative plural)
siltasi (nominative singular)
siltasi (nominative plural)
siltasi (accusative nominative singular)
siltasi (accusative nominative plural)
siltasi (accusative genitive singular)
siltasi (accusative genitive plural)
siltasi (genitive singular)
siltojesi (genitive plural)
siltaisi (genitive plural rare)
siltaasi (partitive singular)
siltojasi (partitive plural)
sillassasi (inessive singular)
silloissasi (inessive plural)
sillastasi (elative singular)
silloistasi (elative plural)
siltaasi (illative singular)
siltoihisi (illative plural)
sillallasi (adessive singular)
silloillasi (adessive plural)
sillaltasi (ablative singular)
silloiltasi (ablative plural)
sillallesi (allative singular)
silloillesi (allative plural)
siltanasi (essive singular)
siltoinasi (essive plural)
sillaksesi (singular translative)
silloiksesi (plural translative)
sillattasi (abessive singular)
silloittasi (abessive plural)
siltoinesi (comitative plural)
siltamme (nominative singular)
siltamme (nominative plural)
siltamme (accusative nominative singular)
siltamme (accusative nominative plural)
siltamme (accusative genitive singular)
siltamme (accusative genitive plural)
siltamme (genitive singular)
siltojemme (genitive plural)
siltaimme (genitive plural rare)
siltaamme (partitive singular)
siltojamme (partitive plural)
sillassamme (inessive singular)
silloissamme (inessive plural)
sillastamme (elative singular)
silloistamme (elative plural)
siltaamme (illative singular)
siltoihimme (illative plural)
sillallamme (adessive singular)
silloillamme (adessive plural)
sillaltamme (ablative singular)
silloiltamme (ablative plural)
sillallemme (allative singular)
silloillemme (allative plural)
siltanamme (essive singular)
siltoinamme (essive plural)
sillaksemme (singular translative)
silloiksemme (plural translative)
sillattamme (abessive singular)
silloittamme (abessive plural)
siltoinemme (comitative plural)
siltanne (nominative singular)
siltanne (nominative plural)
siltanne (accusative nominative singular)
siltanne (accusative nominative plural)
siltanne (accusative genitive singular)
siltanne (accusative genitive plural)
siltanne (genitive singular)
siltojenne (genitive plural)
siltainne (genitive plural rare)
siltaanne (partitive singular)
siltojanne (partitive plural)
sillassanne (inessive singular)
silloissanne (inessive plural)
sillastanne (elative singular)
silloistanne (elative plural)
siltaanne (illative singular)
siltoihinne (illative plural)
sillallanne (adessive singular)
silloillanne (adessive plural)
sillaltanne (ablative singular)
silloiltanne (ablative plural)
sillallenne (allative singular)
silloillenne (allative plural)
siltananne (essive singular)
siltoinanne (essive plural)
sillaksenne (singular translative)
silloiksenne (plural translative)
sillattanne (abessive singular)
silloittanne (abessive plural)
siltoinenne (comitative plural)
siltansa (nominative singular)
siltansa (nominative plural)
siltansa (accusative nominative singular)
siltansa (accusative nominative plural)
siltansa (accusative genitive singular)
siltansa (accusative genitive plural)
siltansa (genitive singular)
siltojensa (genitive plural)
siltainsa (genitive plural rare)
siltaansa (partitive singular)
siltojaan (partitive plural)
siltojansa (partitive plural)
sillassaan (inessive singular)
sillassansa (inessive singular)
silloissaan (inessive plural)
silloissansa (inessive plural)
sillastaan (elative singular)
sillastansa (elative singular)
silloistaan (elative plural)
silloistansa (elative plural)
siltaansa (illative singular)
siltoihinsa (illative plural)
sillallaan (adessive singular)
sillallansa (adessive singular)
silloillaan (adessive plural)
silloillansa (adessive plural)
sillaltaan (ablative singular)
sillaltansa (ablative singular)
silloiltaan (ablative plural)
silloiltansa (ablative plural)
sillalleen (allative singular)
sillallensa (allative singular)
silloilleen (allative plural)
silloillensa (allative plural)
siltanaan (essive singular)
siltanansa (essive singular)
siltoinaan (essive plural)
siltoinansa (essive plural)
sillakseen (singular translative)
sillaksensa (singular translative)
silloikseen (plural translative)
silloiksensa (plural translative)
sillattaan (abessive singular)
sillattansa (abessive singular)
silloittaan (abessive plural)
silloittansa (abessive plural)
siltoineen (comitative plural)
siltoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈs̠il̪t̪ɑ̝]

From Proto-Finnic *cilta, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *tílˀta (compare Latvian tilts, Lithuanian tiltas).

(telecommunications) bridge (system which connects two or more local area networks)


DL

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

DLs (plural)
D.L. (alternative)
D. L. (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


verso

Inherited from Old Spanish verso (“verse”).


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

der

(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.


pulse dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as the equivalent number of pulses.


touch-tone dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a tone or combination of tones of specific pitch.


CLEC

local exchange carrier
local exchange carrier#English

(US, telecommunications) Initialism of competitive local exchange carrier.


ILEC

(US, telecommunications) Initialism of incumbent local exchange carrier.


double talk

From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.

double-talk (alternative)
doubletalk (alternative)

(telephony) A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.


trellis

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

communication theory
communication theory

(computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.


impressionism

en-noun

impressionism (countable and uncountable, plural impressionisms)

(poetry) A style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions.


unlocked

an unlocked iPhone

(mobile telephony, of a phone) Not bound to any particular carrier.


Vermittlung

de-noun

Vermittlung f (genitive Vermittlung, plural Vermittlungen)

Vermittlung (genitive)
Vermittlungen (plural)
Vermittlung (nominative singular)
Vermittlungen (definite nominative plural)
Vermittlung (genitive singular)
Vermittlungen (definite genitive plural)
Vermittlung (dative singular)
Vermittlungen (dative definite plural)
Vermittlung (accusative singular)
Vermittlungen (accusative definite plural)
Vermittelung (alternative uncommon)

/fɛʁˈmɪtlʊŋ/

[fɛɐ̯ˈmɪtlʊŋ]


eavesdropping

en-noun

eavesdropping (countable and uncountable, plural eavesdroppings)

(telecommunications) The interception of electronic communication.


GPRS

→ Russian: жопоре́з (žoporéz)

General Packet Radio Service
General Packet Radio Service#English

(mobile telephony) Initialism of General Packet Radio Service.


ghostwrite

en-verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

ghostwrites (present singular third-person)
ghostwriting (participle present)
ghostwrote (past)
ghostwritten (participle past)
ghost-write (alternative)
ghost write (alternative)

Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.

(authorship, intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).

The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.


tone dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a burst of a single audio frequency.


Netz

de-noun

Netz n (strong, genitive Netzes, plural Netze)

Netzes (genitive)
Netze (plural)
Netz (nominative singular)
Netze (definite nominative plural)
Netzes (genitive singular)
Netze (definite genitive plural)
Netz (dative singular)
Netze (dative singular)
Netzen (dative definite plural)
Netz (accusative singular)
Netze (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German netze, from Old High German nezzi, from Proto-West Germanic *nati.
Akin to Dutch net, Low German Nett, English net, Danish net, Swedish nät.

(general, also telecommunications) network; grid (a system, often interconnected, that covers a certain area)

(informal, telecommunications) signal (connection to a network)


tinta

→ Tagalog: tinta

→ Tataltepec Chatino: tintya

→ Yogad: tinta

Inherited from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb). Cognate with English tint, Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, and Portuguese tinta.


monologue

monologues (plural)
monolog (alternative US noun)

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

der

(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.


SB

en-noun

SB (countable and uncountable, plural SBs)


exposition

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)

From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.

This essay has too much exposition in it.

My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).

I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.

(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.

বয়ান

(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.


buffer

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

bufro

anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.


SSB

SSB (countable and uncountable, plural SSBs)

(electronics, communication) Initialism of single sideband, a type of radio emission.


OSS

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

(telecommunications) Initialism of operations/operational support system.


encode

en-verb

encode (third-person singular simple present encodes, present participle encoding, simple past and past participle encoded)

encodes (present singular third-person)
encoding (participle present)
encoded (participle past)
encoded (past)

The blotchy black mark she impresses on my hand will still be there tomorrow morning, a confused barcode, unsure of what exactly it encodes.

(transitive, communication) To convert source information into another form.

kode

to convert source information into another form


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefonok (plural)
mobiltelefon (nominative singular)
mobiltelefonok (nominative plural)
mobiltelefont (accusative singular)
mobiltelefonokat (accusative plural)
mobiltelefonnak (dative singular)
mobiltelefonoknak (dative plural)
mobiltelefonnal (instrumental singular)
mobiltelefonokkal (instrumental plural)
mobiltelefonért (causal-final singular)
mobiltelefonokért (causal-final plural)
mobiltelefonná (singular translative)
mobiltelefonokká (plural translative)
mobiltelefonig (singular terminative)
mobiltelefonokig (plural terminative)
mobiltelefonként (essive-formal singular)
mobiltelefonokként (essive-formal plural)
mobiltelefonban (inessive singular)
mobiltelefonokban (inessive plural)
mobiltelefonon (singular superessive)
mobiltelefonokon (plural superessive)
mobiltelefonnál (adessive singular)
mobiltelefonoknál (adessive plural)
mobiltelefonba (illative singular)
mobiltelefonokba (illative plural)
mobiltelefonra (singular sublative)
mobiltelefonokra (plural sublative)
mobiltelefonhoz (allative singular)
mobiltelefonokhoz (allative plural)
mobiltelefonból (elative singular)
mobiltelefonokból (elative plural)
mobiltelefonról (delative singular)
mobiltelefonokról (delative plural)
mobiltelefontól (ablative singular)
mobiltelefonoktól (ablative plural)
mobiltelefoné (singular)
mobiltelefonoké (plural)
mobiltelefonéi (singular)
mobiltelefonokéi (plural)
mobiltelefonom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
mobiltelefonjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mobiltelefonod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
mobiltelefonjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mobiltelefonja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
mobiltelefonjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mobiltelefonunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
mobiltelefonjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mobiltelefonotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
mobiltelefonjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
mobiltelefonjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
mobiltelefonjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(mobile telephony) mobile, mobile phone, cell phone (portable, wireless telephone capable of changing antenna connections during travel)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefon m (definite singular mobiltelefonen, indefinite plural mobiltelefoner, definite plural mobiltelefonene)

mobiltelefonen (definite singular)
mobiltelefoner (indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonene (definite plural)

(telephony) cell phone or cellphone (US), or mobile phone (UK)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefon m (definite singular mobiltelefonen, indefinite plural mobiltelefonar, definite plural mobiltelefonane)

mobiltelefonen (definite singular)
mobiltelefonar (indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonane (definite plural)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefon (indefinite nominative singular)
mobiltelefons (genitive indefinite singular)
mobiltelefonen (definite nominative singular)
mobiltelefonens (definite genitive singular)
mobiltelefoner (indefinite nominative plural)
mobiltelefoners (genitive indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonerna (definite nominative plural)
mobiltelefonernas (definite genitive plural)

Compound of mobil (“mobile”) + telefon (“telephone”). First attested in 1958.

com+

I en bil kan besökarna stifta bekantskap med s k mobiltelefon, som genom […]

1958 April 15, Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, page 6:

In a car, visitors can get acquainted with the so-called mobile phone, which through […]

Det tar för lång tid för polisen att tömma en misstänkt persons mobiltelefon på information, och det drabbar brottsutredningarna.

2021 August 23, Simon Andrén, “Åklagare: Tar för lång tid att analysera misstänktas mobiler [Prosecutor: It takes too long to analyze suspects' mobile phones]”, in Ekot, Sveriges Radio:

It takes too long for the police to empty a suspect's mobile phone of information, and that affects criminal investigations.

(mobile telephony) a cell phone, a mobile phone


CSD

circuit switched data
circuit switched data#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of circuit switched data.


run-in

en-adj

run-in (not generally comparable, comparative more run-in, superlative most run-in)

more run-in (comparative)
most run-in (superlative)

These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.

participial adjective
participial adjective

(participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.


break up

en-verb

break up (third-person singular simple present breaks up, present participle breaking up, simple past broke up, past participle broken up)

breaks up (present singular third-person)
breaking up (participle present)
broke up (past)
broken up (participle past)
break-up (alternative)

You're breaking up. Can you repeat that? Well, it got cut off.

what did you say? you're breaking up on me

(intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.

hävitä

of a telephone conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection


anapest

anapest (nominative singular)
anapesty (nominative plural)
anapestu (genitive singular)
anapestů (genitive plural)
anapestu (dative singular)
anapestům (dative plural)
anapest (accusative singular)
anapesty (accusative plural)
anapeste (singular vocative)
anapesty (plural vocative)
anapestu (locative singular)
anapestech (locative plural)
anapestem (instrumental singular)
anapesty (instrumental plural)

K nejfrekventovanějším stopám patří trochej (¯ ˘), jamb (˘ ¯), daktyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amfibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) a spondej (¯ ¯).

1997, Jiří Fukač with Jiří Vysloužil and Petr Macek, Slovník české hudební kultury, Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN, page 742:

Trochee (¯ ˘), iamb (˘ ¯), dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amphibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) and spondee (¯ ¯) belong among the most frequented feet.

Jakmile jsem si vytvořil tento vztah ke zvuku, jazyku a námětu, okamžitě jsem viděl – lépe řečeno, okamžitě jsem slyšel –, že anapest nemusí pokaždé skončit jako monotónní, ucouraná, vlezlá odrhovačka na způsob básní Edgara Allana Poea, Roberta Service, Kiplinga a dalších.

2007, James Dickey, “Básník jde do sebe”, in Revolver revue, volumes 67–68, page 125:

I saw at once—or rather I heard at once—when I began to have this kind of relationship to sound, language and subject, that the anapest needn't result in the monotonous, slugging, obtrusive singsong that it has in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Service, Kipling, and others.

(poetry) anapest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short or unstressed and one long or stressed


instant messaging

(communication, computing) A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.


saturation

en-noun

saturation (usually uncountable, plural saturations)

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

Etymology tree
Late Latin saturatiobor.
English saturation
Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.

etymon

(telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.

Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.

(telecommunications) The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.


MSB

(telecommunications) Initialism of main switchboard.


in-line

An in-line mathematical formula does not have to be on a line of its own.

Parenthetical referencing is a citation style which uses in-line citations enclosed within parentheses.

This is an inline (e.g. mid-sentence) template for marking up text as a Wikipedia self-reference.

(writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.


sestet

From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

(poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.


UMTS

w:Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.


BNC connector

Short for bayonet Neill–Concelman, after its bayonet mount locking mechanism and its inventors, Paul Neill and Carl Concelman.

(telecommunications) A connector for a coaxial cable which keeps the central wire from touching the cable's outer shield.


coaxial cable

(electronics, telecommunications) A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used to carry high frequency signals such as TV.


longueur

Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).

bor+

Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.

1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker:

He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:

[T]he reader can’t help feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book.

2015 October 5, Michiko Kakutani, “Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days”, in New York Times:

Claire Fontaine (who are actually a duo) have queered the phrase, lending its pungency and ambiguity to a biennale that I wish were nearly so succinct. There are longueurs. There are detours and incomprehensible delays.

2024 April 22, Adrian Searle, “Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.


medida

(literary, poetry, music) measure; measurement; number of syllables in a line (in poetry)


LNA

numerical aperture
numerical aperture#English

(communication) Initialism of launch numerical aperture.


dynamic IP address

en-noun

dynamic IP address (plural dynamic IP addresses)

internet service provider
internet service provider

(telecommunications) An IP address which changes periodically, when each time a user connects to their internet service provider.


gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).


acento

(orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)


quantize

en-verb

quantize (third-person singular simple present quantizes, present participle quantizing, simple past and past participle quantized)

quantizes (present singular third-person)
quantizing (participle present)
quantized (participle past)
quantized (past)
quantise (alternative)

→ Spanish: cuantizar

(transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values

kvantittaa

to approximate a continuously varying signal


spondee

spondees (plural)
spondeus (alternative archaic)

From Latin spondēus (“spondee”), from Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeîos, “associated with a libation”) from σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”): spondees were often used in melodies sung at libations.

der

(poetry) A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.


mora

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.

1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:

(poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.


mora

mora (nominative singular)
mory (nominative plural)
mory (genitive singular)
mor (genitive plural)
morze (dative singular)
morom (dative plural)
morę (accusative singular)
mory (accusative plural)
morą (instrumental singular)
morami (instrumental plural)
morze (locative singular)
morach (locative plural)
moro (singular vocative)
mory (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin mora. First attested in 1677–1690.

ref

Ewa Rodek (20.02.2023) “MORA II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(poetry) mora (a unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry)


bylgja

is-noun

bylgja f (genitive singular bylgju, nominative plural bylgjur)

bylgju (genitive singular)
bylgjur (nominative plural)
bylgja (indefinite nominative singular)
bylgjan (definite nominative singular)
bylgjur (indefinite nominative plural)
bylgjurnar (definite nominative plural)
bylgju (accusative indefinite singular)
bylgjuna (accusative definite singular)
bylgjur (accusative indefinite plural)
bylgjurnar (accusative definite plural)
bylgju (dative indefinite singular)
bylgjunni (dative definite singular)
bylgjum (dative indefinite plural)
bylgjunum (dative definite plural)
bylgju (genitive indefinite singular)
bylgjunnar (definite genitive singular)
bylgna (genitive indefinite plural)
bylgja (genitive indefinite plural)
bylgnanna (definite genitive plural)
bylgjanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-.


hattur

hattur m (genitive singular hatts, nominative plural hattar)

hatts (genitive singular)
hattar (nominative plural)
hattur (indefinite nominative singular)
hatturinn (definite nominative singular)
hattar (indefinite nominative plural)
hattarnir (definite nominative plural)
hatt (accusative indefinite singular)
hattinn (accusative definite singular)
hatta (accusative indefinite plural)
hattana (accusative definite plural)
hatti (dative indefinite singular)
hattinum (dative definite singular)
höttum (dative indefinite plural)
höttunum (dative definite plural)
hatts (genitive indefinite singular)
hattsins (definite genitive singular)
hatta (genitive indefinite plural)
hattanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse hǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.


háttur

háttur m (genitive singular háttar, nominative plural hættir)

háttar (genitive singular)
hættir (nominative plural)
háttur (indefinite nominative singular)
hátturinn (definite nominative singular)
hættir (indefinite nominative plural)
hættirnir (definite nominative plural)
hátt (accusative indefinite singular)
háttinn (accusative definite singular)
hætti (accusative indefinite plural)
háttu (accusative archaic indefinite literary plural)
hættina (accusative definite plural)
hætti (dative indefinite singular)
hættinum (dative definite singular)
háttum (dative indefinite plural)
háttunum (dative definite plural)
háttar (genitive indefinite singular)
háttarins (definite genitive singular)
hátta (genitive indefinite plural)
háttanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse háttr, from Proto-Germanic *hahtuz.


mál

non-decl-blank-full

mál

mál (indefinite nominative singular)
málit (definite nominative singular)
mǫ́l (indefinite nominative plural)
mǫ́lin (definite nominative plural)
mál (accusative indefinite singular)
málit (accusative definite singular)
mǫ́l (accusative indefinite plural)
mǫ́lin (accusative definite plural)
máli (dative indefinite singular)
málinu (dative definite singular)
mǫ́lum (dative indefinite plural)
mǫ́lunum (dative definite plural)
máls (genitive indefinite singular)
málsins (definite genitive singular)
mála (genitive indefinite plural)
málanna (definite genitive plural)

Icelandic: mál

Faroese: mál

Norwegian Bokmål: mål

Old Swedish: māl

Swedish: mål

Danish: mål

desc

→ Old English: māl (“speech, contract, agreement”)

Middle English: mal, male

English: mail

Scots: mail

From Proto-Germanic *maþlą, whence also Old Saxon mahal, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl).

bragarmál

contraction of unstressed words; poetic speech


ductus

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.

bor

The number of strokes that make up a written letter, and the direction, sequence and speed in which they are written (Compare graph; see also aspect.)

A subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter.


federated

(computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.


HSDPA

High Speed Downlink Packet Access
w:High Speed Downlink Packet Access

(telecommunications) Initialism of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (in UMTS).


HS-DSCH

(communication, electronics) High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).


HS-PDSCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).


HS-SCCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Shared Control Channel (in UMTS).


CQI

en-noun

CQI (countable and uncountable, plural CQIs)

(communication, electronics, initialism) Initialism of channel quality indicator.


DPDCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of dedicated physical data channel.


DPCCH

(communication, electronics) Abbreviation of dedicated physical control channel.


DPCH

(communication, electronics) Acronym of dedicated physical channel.


FDR

FDR (countable and uncountable, plural FDRs)

FDRs (plural)
F.D.R. (alternative)
F. D. R. (alternative)

(communication, electronics) Initialism of false transmit format detection ratio (in UMTS).


HSUPA

High Speed Uplink Packet Access
w:High Speed Uplink Packet Access

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Uplink Packet Access (in UMTS).


HSCSD

Highspeed Circuit Switched Data
Highspeed Circuit Switched Data#English

(communication, electronics) Initialism of Highspeed Circuit Switched Data (2.5G).


diacritical mark

diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)

(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.


address message

address message (plural address messages)

(telecommunications) a message sent in the forward direction that contains (a) address information, (b) the signaling information required to route and connect a call to the called line, (c) service-class information, (d) information relating to user and network facilities, and (e) call-originator identity or call-receiver identity.


acute accent

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).
Cognate to French accent aigu.

der

(orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.


我們

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

2020, 杨琳, “流行的词源误说辨正”, in 励耘语言学刊, number 2:

We believe that the sense of “need” of 消 xiāo is self-extended.

Wǒmen rènwéi “xiāo” de xūyào yì shì zìshēn yǐnshēn chūlái de.

我们认为“消”的需要义是自身引申出来的。

我們認為“消”的需要義是自身引申出來的。

(academic writing) we; us (referring to the author(s) of the paper, even if the paper has only one author)

筆者

used in both academic and general writings


accent grave

nl-noun

accent grave n (plural accents graves or accent graves)

accents graves (plural)
accent graves (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent grave.


accent grave

id-noun

accent grave (plural accent-accent grave)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch accent grave (“grave accent”), from unadapted borrowing from French accent grave (“grave accent”).


accent grave

accent grave m (definite singular accent graven, indefinite plural accent graver, definite plural accent gravene)

accent graven (definite singular)
accent graver (indefinite plural)
accent gravene (definite plural)

[lærerinnen] kom med accent aigu og accent grave. Og det underlige skjedde at Frida Grytum i løpet av få uker hadde ført Paris inn i klasseværelset

1985, Gerd Brantenberg, Ved fergestedet, page 153:

[the teacher] came with acute accent and grave accent. And the strange thing happened that in a few weeks Frida Grytum had brought Paris into the classroom

(orthography) a grave accent (a diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.)


pecker

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

af

Click, click, click, the pecker is at work.

1858 June 13, H.C.F. Jenkin, letter in Papers (1887), volume I, page lxxxvi:

Pecker, the small cylindrical pin which rises and falls in scanning the holes punched in a slip corresponding to the coding of the message.

1940, Chambers's Technical Dictionary, 621/1:

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:

(uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:

(telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.


алло

head

алло́ • (alló)

алло́ (canonical)
alló (romanization)
алё (alternative informal usually)

→ Eastern Mari: алло (allo)

Borrowed from French allô, ultimately from English hello.

Бесстыжая горничная, поставив одну ногу на стул, сняла трубку с рычажка и сказала в нее:
— Алло!

1973, Михаил Булгаков, “Глава XVIII. Неудачливые визитёры”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:

The shameless maid put one foot on a chair, picked up the receiver, and into it said:
‘Hello!’

Besstyžaja gorničnaja, postaviv odnu nogu na stul, snjala trubku s ryčažka i skazala v neje:
— Allo!


алло

алло́ • (alló)

алло́ (canonical)
alló (romanization)
галло́ (alternative)
альо́ (alternative)
гальо́ (alternative)


аудитория

Borrowed from Russian аудитория (auditorija).


liten

head

liten (comparative mindre, superlative minst)

mindre (comparative)
minst (superlative)
liten (indefinite positive)
mindre (comparative indefinite)
minst (indefinite superlative)
litet (indefinite neuter positive singular)
mindre (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
minst (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
små (indefinite plural positive)
mindre (comparative indefinite plural)
minst (indefinite plural superlative)
små (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
mindre (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
minst (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
lille (definite masculine positive singular)
mindre (comparative definite masculine singular)
minste (definite masculine singular superlative)
lilla (definite positive)
mindre (comparative definite)
minsta (definite superlative)

From Old Norse lítinn, accusative of lítill, from Proto-Germanic *lītilaz.

(writing, not comparable) small, lowercase


بحر

ar-noun

بَحْر • (baḥr) m (plural بِحَار (biḥār) or بُحُور (buḥūr) or أَبْحُر (ʔabḥur))

بَحْر (canonical)
baḥr (romanization)
بِحَار (plural)
بُحُور (plural)
أَبْحُر (plural)
بَحْر (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَحْر (definite informal singular triptote)
بَحْر (construct informal singular triptote)
بَحْرٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَحْرُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَحْرَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَحْرٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
بَحْرَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
بِحَار (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
بُحُور (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَبْحُر (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْبِحَار (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْبُحُور (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُر (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
بِحَار (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
بُحُور (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَبْحُر (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
بِحَارٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
بُحُورٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَبْحُرٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْبِحَارُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْبُحُورُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
بِحَارُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
بُحُورُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَبْحُرُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
بِحَارًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
بُحُورًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أَبْحُرًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْبِحَارَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْبُحُورَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
بِحَارَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
بُحُورَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَبْحُرَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
بِحَارٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
بُحُورٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَبْحُرٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْبِحَارِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْبُحُورِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
بِحَارِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
بُحُورِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أَبْحُرِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (bəḥər)

Maltese: baħar

Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)

→ Azerbaijani: bəhr

→ Bengali: বহর (bohor)

→ Lishana Deni: בחר (baḥḥaṛ)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: بحر (baḥr)
Turkish: bahir

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਿਰ (bahir)

Shahmukhi script: بحر (bḥr)

→ Swahili: bahari
→ Malagasy: bahary

→ Uzbek: bahr

→ Zaghawa: bahar


DDD

en-noun

DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”).


catalectic

From Latin catalecticus, from Ancient Greek καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “leaving off, incomplete”) from κατάληξις (katálēxis).

der

καταληκτικός

(poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.


blocked

en-adj

blocked (comparative more blocked, superlative most blocked)

more blocked (comparative)
most blocked (superlative)

Blocked users will be unable to access their accounts indefinitely.

The phone will reject calls from blocked numbers.

(of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.


introverted

introverted (comparative more introverted, superlative most introverted)

more introverted (comparative)
most introverted (superlative)
introvert (alternative)

In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth.

1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:

(poetry, literature) Arranged so that two similar words, lines, etc. form the middle of the structure.


voet

nl-noun

voet m (plural voeten, diminutive voetje n)

voeten (plural)
voetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: voet

Jersey Dutch: vût

desc

Negerhollands: voet, voeti, fut, futu, vut

→ Virgin Islands Creole: voet (dated)

Skepi Creole Dutch: fut

→? Sranan Tongo: futu

→? Aukan: futu

→ Saramaccan: fútu

From Middle Dutch voet, from Old Dutch fuot, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Dit gedicht heeft een ritme van vier voeten per vers.

This poem has a rhythm of four feet per line.

Een jambische pentameter heeft vijf voeten per vers.

An iambic pentameter has five feet per line.

(poetry) foot (most basic element of a metre)


signaal

nl-noun

signaal n (plural signalen, diminutive signaaltje n)

signalen (plural)
signaaltje (diminutive neuter)
signael (alternative obsolete)

→ Indonesian: sinyal

Borrowed from Middle French signal. First attested in 1588.

(telecommunications) signal (electromagnetic action that conveys information)


englyn

The concluding Englyn has written below it, in a very bad and quite different hand, "Dauid (or Daniel?) Davies," but whether this name is that of the supposed author of the Englynion, or that of one of the owners of the MS., we cannot say.

1892, F[rancis] T[urner] Palgrave, “Henry Vaughan of Scethrog, 1622–1695: Some Notes on His Life and Characteristics as a Poet of Welsh Descent”, in Egerton Phillimore, editor, Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, volume XI, London: Printed for the Society [Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion] by Gilbert & Rivington, Limited, St. John's House, Clerkenwell, London, E.C., page 222:

The metrical system of the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and isosyllabic rules of the Welsh englyn, is infinitely more complicated but we believe our readers will agree that the spirit has been well caught.

1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses: A Novel, Paris: Shakespeare and Company; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483, page 299

The englyn as we know it in Canu Llywarch Hen and Elegy on Cynddylan is characterized by three lines with end rhyme.

1993, Sarah Lynn Higley, Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN:

(poetry) A short Welsh or Cornish poem of a variable structure, with each line using quantitative metre and cynghanedd (a repeating pattern of consonants and accent), and different lines being arranged in standardized patterns of rhyme and half rhyme.


μέτρον

grc-noun

μέτρον • (métron) n (genitive μέτρου); second declension

métron (romanization)
μέτρου (genitive)
τὸ μέτρον (nominative singular)
μέτρω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ μέτρου (genitive singular)
μέτροιν (dual genitive)
μέτρων (genitive plural)
τῷ μέτρῳ (dative singular)
μέτροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς μέτροις (dative plural)
τὸ μέτρον (accusative singular)
μέτρω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (accusative plural)
μέτρον (singular vocative)
μέτρω (dual vocative)
μέτρᾰ (plural vocative)

Greek: μέτρο (métro)

→ English: metron

desctree

→ Latin: metrum
→ Dutch: metrum
→ Indonesian: metrum
→ French: mètre (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Metrum
→ Luxembourgish: Metrum
→ Old Irish: metar
Irish: meadar
→ English: mether, medar, meather, madder
→ Fingallian: meddar
→ Italian: metro
→ Polish: metrum
Spanish: miedro

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) + -τρον (-tron).


blind spot

blind spots (plural)
blindspot (alternative)

زاوِية مَيِّتة

part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen

(telecommunications) A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.


ottava

From Italian ottava (“octave”) (also feminine form of ottavo (“eighth”), ordinal form of otto).


time-out

time-outs (plural)
timeout (alternative)

(communication) The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.

aikakatkaisu

intentional ending of an incomplete task after a time limit


timeout

timeouts (plural)
time out (alternative)

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(communication) The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.

aikakatkaisuaika

My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.

(communication) The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.


runa

pl-noun

runa f (related adjective runiczny or runicki or runowy or runiany)

runiczny (adjective)
runicki (adjective)
runowy (adjective)
runiany (adjective)
runa (nominative singular)
runy (nominative plural)
runy (genitive singular)
run (genitive plural)
runie (dative singular)
runom (dative plural)
runę (accusative singular)
runy (accusative plural)
runą (instrumental singular)
runami (instrumental plural)
runie (locative singular)
runach (locative plural)
runo (singular vocative)
runy (plural vocative)

(chiefly in the plural, poetry) rune (Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala)


punctum

la-noun

pūnctum n (genitive pūnctī); second declension

pūnctum (canonical neuter)
pūnctī (genitive)
pūnctum (nominative singular)
pūncta (nominative plural)
pūnctī (genitive singular)
pūnctōrum (genitive plural)
pūnctō (dative singular)
pūnctīs (dative plural)
pūnctum (accusative singular)
pūncta (accusative plural)
pūnctō (ablative singular)
pūnctīs (ablative plural)
pūnctum (singular vocative)
pūncta (plural vocative)

Asturian: puntu

Catalan: punt

→ Danish: punktum

→ Dutch: punt

→ English: punctum

Friulian: pont

Galician: punto

→ German: Punkt, Punktum

→ Esperanto: punkto

→ Serbo-Croatian: punkt

→ Hungarian: pont

→ Romanian: pont

Irish: ponc

Italian: punto

→ English: punto

→ Ottoman Turkish: پونطو (punto)

Turkish: punto

→ Middle Low German: punct

→ Old Norse: punktr

Danish: punkt

Norwegian Bokmål: punkt

Swedish: punkt

→ Middle Welsh: pwnc

Welsh: pwnc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: punktum

Occitan: ponch

desctree

→ Old Czech: punkt (learned)
Czech: punkt

Old French: point

→ Middle English: point

→ Middle Welsh: pwynt

Welsh: pwynt

English: point, p'int
→ Cantonese: point
→ Indonesian: poin
→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)
→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)
→ Malay: poin

Middle French: poinct

French: point

→ Danish: point

→ Dutch: punt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: poeng

→ Polish: pointa

→ Swedish: poäng

→ Turkish: puan

→ Middle Irish: pointe

Irish: pointe

Norman: point

Portuguese: ponto

→ Polish: punkt (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *puɨθ

Middle Welsh: pwyth

Welsh: pwyth

→ Romanian: punct

→ Russian: пункт (punkt)

Sicilian: puntu

Spanish: punto, puento (dialectal)

→ Tagalog: punto

Venetan: ponto

Neuter form of pūnctus, the perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, puncture”).


prosody

en-noun

prosody (countable and uncountable, plural prosodies)

From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

der

But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.

1894, Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody, Oxford University Press, page 30:

(poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.


بيت

ar-noun

بَيْت • (bayt) m (plural أَبْيَات (ʔabyāt))

بَيْت (canonical)
bayt (romanization)
أَبْيَات (plural)
بَيْت (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْت (definite informal singular triptote)
بَيْت (construct informal singular triptote)
بَيْتٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَيْتَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَيْتٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَات (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

→ Azerbaijani: beyt

→ Persian: بیت (beyt)

→ Urdu: بیت (bait)

→ Ottoman Turkish: بیت (beyt, beyit)

> Turkish: beyit (inherited)

→ Uyghur: بېيىت (bëyit)

→ Uzbek: bayt


adaptation

en-noun

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

adaptations (plural)
adaption (alternative rare)

/ˌædəpˈteɪʃən/

/ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/

/aˈɖæpˌʈeːʃan/

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.

der

Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.

(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.


trunk call

(telephony, dated, chiefly British) a long-distance telephone call, especially one connected by the operator


草書

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (草書):
* → Japanese: 草書(そうしょ) (sōsho)
* → Korean: 초서(草書) (choseo)
* → Vietnamese: thảo thư (草書)

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

(calligraphy) a Chinese calligraphic style

cursive script
a Chinese calligraphic style


Vokal

de-noun

Vokal m (strong, genitive Vokales or Vokals, plural Vokale)

Vokales (genitive)
Vokals (genitive)
Vokale (plural)
Vokal (nominative singular)
Vokale (definite nominative plural)
Vokales (genitive singular)
Vokals (genitive singular)
Vokale (definite genitive plural)
Vokal (dative singular)
Vokale (dative singular)
Vokalen (dative definite plural)
Vokal (accusative singular)
Vokale (accusative definite plural)
Vocal (alternative obsolete)
Vocalis (alternative obsolete)

15th century, from Latin (littera) vōcālis (“vowel”).

(orthography) vowel letter (letter representing such a sound)


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


back-to-back connection

en-noun

back-to-back connection (plural back-to-back connections)

(telecommunications) The direct connection of the output of one telecommunications device to the input of another.


decima

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decim, decime, and dime.

His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.


jamb

jambi (genitive)
jambi (partitive)
jamb (nominative singular)
jambid (nominative plural)
jamb (accusative nominative singular)
jambid (accusative nominative plural)
jambi (accusative genitive singular)
jambid (accusative genitive plural)
jambi (genitive singular)
jambide (genitive plural)
jambi (partitive singular)
jambe (partitive plural)
jambisid (partitive plural)
jambi (illative singular)
jambisse (illative singular)
jambidesse (illative plural)
jambesse (illative plural)
jambis (inessive singular)
jambides (inessive plural)
jambes (inessive plural)
jambist (elative singular)
jambidest (elative plural)
jambest (elative plural)
jambile (allative singular)
jambidele (allative plural)
jambele (allative plural)
jambil (adessive singular)
jambidel (adessive plural)
jambel (adessive plural)
jambilt (ablative singular)
jambidelt (ablative plural)
jambelt (ablative plural)
jambiks (singular translative)
jambideks (plural translative)
jambeks (plural translative)
jambini (singular terminative)
jambideni (plural terminative)
jambina (essive singular)
jambidena (essive plural)
jambita (abessive singular)
jambideta (abessive plural)
jambiga (comitative singular)
jambidega (comitative plural)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos).


jamb

pl-noun

jamb m inan (related adjective jambiczny)

jambiczny (adjective)
jamb (nominative singular)
jamby (nominative plural)
jambu (genitive singular)
jambów (genitive plural)
jambowi (dative singular)
jambom (dative plural)
jamb (accusative singular)
jamby (accusative plural)
jambem (instrumental singular)
jambami (instrumental plural)
jambie (locative singular)
jambach (locative plural)
jambie (singular vocative)
jamby (plural vocative)

(poetry, prosody) iamb (metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)


clustering

(writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.


answering machine

en-noun

answering machine (plural answering machines)

(telephony) A device that automatically records voice mail from unanswered telephone calls.


envoy

From French envoyé (“envoy, messenger”), from envoyer (“send”).

(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).


teleplay

(authorship) A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.


screenplay

screenplays (plural)
screen play (alternative)

I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.


caller

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call + -er.

―I’ve got someone on the line.
―Who’s the caller?

Thaler was arrested in Orono last May when a caller reported that the car she was driving had a shattered rear window and a blown-out tire.

2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com:

(telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.


háček

háčeks (plural)
háčky (plural)
haček (alternative)
hacek (alternative)
hachek (alternative)
haċek (alternative)
hatcheck (alternative)
hatschek (alternative)
hatchek (alternative)
hacheck (alternative)
hac̬ek (alternative)
haczek (alternative)
hácek (alternative)
haĉek (alternative)
haceck (alternative)

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First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

cog

The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound.

1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian), page 6:

Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček.

1951, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Notes on Gurage Grammar, page 5:

Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič.

1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332:

In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ.

1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:

The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:

háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)

2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:

Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.

2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:

My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.

2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:

For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.

diacritical mark
diacritical mark#English

(orthography and typography) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.

Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž Ǆǅǆ

acute accent

diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts

comma

above right ( ̕); below ( ̦), reversed (ʽ), turned (ʻ)

hook

above ( ̉); palatal ( ̡), retroflex ( ̢), rhotic (˞)

tilde

above (˜); below ( ̰), double ( ͠ ), middle / overlay ( ̴), vertical ( ̾)


beeper

beeper (nominative singular)
beepery (nominative plural)
beepera (genitive singular)
beeperów (genitive plural)
beeperowi (dative singular)
beeperom (dative plural)
beeper (accusative singular)
beepery (accusative plural)
beeperem (instrumental singular)
beeperami (instrumental plural)
beeperze (locative singular)
beeperach (locative plural)
beeperze (singular vocative)
beepery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English beeper.

(electronics, telecommunications) alternative spelling of biper


baria

bareia (alternative)
varia (alternative)

(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ` ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes normal or low pitch.


ring cadence

(telephony) The ringing pattern heard by the dialer before the called party picks up the call.


rann

head

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)

rainn (genitive singular)
rainn (nominative plural)
rann (indefinite nominative singular)
rainn (indefinite nominative plural)
a rainn (indefinite singular vocative)
a ranna (indefinite plural vocative)
rainn (genitive indefinite singular)
rann (genitive indefinite plural)
rann (dative indefinite singular)
rainn (dative indefinite plural)
an rann (definite nominative singular)
na rainn (definite nominative plural)
an rainn (definite genitive singular)
na rann (definite genitive plural)
leis an rann (dative definite singular)
don rann (dative definite singular)
leis na rainn (dative definite plural)


rann

rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)

rainn (genitive singular)
rannan (plural)

às na ceithir ranna ruadha

from all corners of the earth, from all four corners of the world; from the four red parts


instant message

en-noun

instant message (plural instant messages)

(communication, computing) A message conveyed through an instant messaging program.


instant message

en-verb

instant message (third-person singular simple present instant messages, present participle instant messaging, simple past and past participle instant messaged)

instant messages (present singular third-person)
instant messaging (participle present)
instant messaged (participle past)
instant messaged (past)

(communication, computing) To convey a message via an instant messaging program.


spondaic

From Latin spondaicus, spondiacus, from Ancient Greek σπονδειακός (spondeiakós, “(music) used at a libation”).

der

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


trochaic

trochaics (plural)
troch. (alternative abbreviation)
trochaick (alternative obsolete)

Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.

(poetry) A poetical composition of this kind.


sim

cái (classifier)
chiếc (classifier)
SIM (alternative)

Subscriber Identity Module
Subscriber Identity Module

(telecommunications) Subscriber Identity Module


xenia

xenia (nominative singular)
xenie (nominative plural)
xenii (genitive singular)
xenii (genitive plural)
xenij (archaic genitive plural)
xenii (dative singular)
xeniom (dative plural)
xenię (accusative singular)
xenie (accusative plural)
xenią (instrumental singular)
xeniami (instrumental plural)
xenii (locative singular)
xeniach (locative plural)
xenio (singular vocative)
xenie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā).

lbor

(poetry) Xenien (biting epigram in the form of a two-line poem)


repeater

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(telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.


switchboard

/ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbɔɹd/

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

камута́тар

electronic panel used to direct telephone calls


dur

head

dur m (feminine singular dura, masculine and feminine plural dur)

dura (feminine singular)
dur (feminine masculine plural)
dür (alternative Modern)

From Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).