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{
"etymology_text": "After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.",
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{
"form": "slashdots",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "slashdotting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slashdotted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slashdotted",
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"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
{
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
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"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
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"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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{
"text": "2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM\nIf these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted)."
},
{
"text": "[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk\nAnd that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted."
},
{
"text": "2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA\nSites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute."
},
{
"text": "2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html\nOh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
],
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"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"render",
"render"
],
[
"website",
"website"
],
[
"slow",
"slow"
],
[
"unusable",
"unusable"
],
[
"unusually",
"unusually"
],
[
"request",
"request"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Slashdot effect"
},
{
"word": "slashdotting"
},
{
"word": "DDOS"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fark"
}
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
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]
}
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"tags": [
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"word": "slashdot"
}
{
"etymology_text": "After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.",
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slashdotting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slashdotted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
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}
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"word": "Slashdot effect"
},
{
"word": "slashdotting"
},
{
"word": "DDOS"
}
],
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"English verbs",
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"en:Internet"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM\nIf these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted)."
},
{
"text": "[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk\nAnd that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted."
},
{
"text": "2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA\nSites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute."
},
{
"text": "2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html\nOh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"render",
"render"
],
[
"website",
"website"
],
[
"slow",
"slow"
],
[
"unusable",
"unusable"
],
[
"unusually",
"unusually"
],
[
"request",
"request"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
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]
}
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fark"
}
],
"word": "slashdot"
}
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