See fastloader in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "fast + loader", "forms": [ { "form": "fastloaders", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fastloader (plural fastloaders)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Computing", "orig": "en:Computing", "parents": [ "Technology", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1996, W. and S. Young, “C64 Fastloader prob solved?”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet):", "text": "I'm still waiting for the entire fastloader problem to be solved on the emulators. Could somebody give me an update on whether an up-and-coming emulator will solve this.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, Jason, “Target: Renegade - was Knight Lore & Alien 8”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):", "text": "The tape system could basically be told to work in any manner you wanted it to, fastloaders like Cyberload read the data in backwards and encrypted, run considerably faster than the stock loader and still only take about a tenth of the processors^([sic]) time so other jobs can execute simultaneously.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007, James Newman, Iain Simons, 100 Videogames, page 63:", "text": "Upon booting on the PC version, the game recreated the Commodore 64 loading screen and 'fastloader' coloured stripes. This knowing reference filled twenty-something gamers with a warm glow […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Synonym of turboload" ], "id": "en-fastloader-en-noun-mkoAnV38", "links": [ [ "computing", "computing#Noun" ], [ "turboload", "turboload#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(computing, historical) Synonym of turboload" ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "synonym", "synonym-of" ], "word": "turboload" } ], "tags": [ "historical" ], "topics": [ "computing", "engineering", "mathematics", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "sciences" ] } ], "word": "fastloader" }
{ "etymology_text": "fast + loader", "forms": [ { "form": "fastloaders", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fastloader (plural fastloaders)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English 3-syllable words", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "en:Computing" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1996, W. and S. Young, “C64 Fastloader prob solved?”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet):", "text": "I'm still waiting for the entire fastloader problem to be solved on the emulators. Could somebody give me an update on whether an up-and-coming emulator will solve this.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, Jason, “Target: Renegade - was Knight Lore & Alien 8”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):", "text": "The tape system could basically be told to work in any manner you wanted it to, fastloaders like Cyberload read the data in backwards and encrypted, run considerably faster than the stock loader and still only take about a tenth of the processors^([sic]) time so other jobs can execute simultaneously.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007, James Newman, Iain Simons, 100 Videogames, page 63:", "text": "Upon booting on the PC version, the game recreated the Commodore 64 loading screen and 'fastloader' coloured stripes. This knowing reference filled twenty-something gamers with a warm glow […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Synonym of turboload" ], "links": [ [ "computing", "computing#Noun" ], [ "turboload", "turboload#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(computing, historical) Synonym of turboload" ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "synonym", "synonym-of" ], "word": "turboload" } ], "tags": [ "historical" ], "topics": [ "computing", "engineering", "mathematics", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "sciences" ] } ], "word": "fastloader" }
Download raw JSONL data for fastloader meaning in English (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.