roger

en-verb

roger (third-person singular simple present rogers, present participle rogering, simple past and past participle rogered)

rogers (present singular third-person)
rogering (participle present)
rogered (participle past)
rogered (past)

The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.

(radio telecommunications, transitive) To acknowledge by saying "roger".


leonine

Léonin
Pope Leo II
Pope Leo IV
San Clemente al Laterano

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“of or pertaining to a person named Leo; specifically Pope Leo IV”), from Latin leōnīnus, from Leo (“man’s name”) (from leo (“lion”): see etymology 1) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Sense 2 (“being or relating to a kind of verse with internal rhyme”) is said to refer to a (possibly apocryphal) medieval monk named Leo or Leonius who composed verse with this characteristic; his identity is uncertain, but the composer Léonin (also known as Leo, Leoninus, or Leonius; flourished 1135–1201) has been suggested. Alternatively, the word may refer to Pope Leo II (c. 611–683): see the c. 1760–1761 quotation.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

leonine rhyme

In the Church of St. Dominick is a ſmall Picture of the Bleſſed Virgin, vvith the Infant JESUS in her Arms, vvell painted, and yet, appears to have been done in the Iron Age of Painting and other Arts, by the follovving verses, vvrit under it. […] Theſe Leonine Verſes, as plainly appears by them, expreſs a Senſe contrary to the Intention of the VVriter.

1712, [Bernard de] Montfaucon, “My Journey to Siena; […]”, in [John Henley?], transl., The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris thro’ Italy. […], London: […] D. L. for E[dmund] Curll […], E[gbert] Sanger […], R[obert] Gosling […], and W. Lewis […], →OCLC, page 403:

Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; […] It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after Leo, probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.

c. 1760–1761 (date written; published 1814), Thomas Gray, “[Essays. Metrum.] Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 374–375:

[T]he Latin poetry, instead of Leonine rhymes, or attempts at regular hexameters almost equally bad, becomes, in the hands of Gunther, Gualterus de Insulis, Gulielmus Brito, and Joseph Iscanus, to whom a considerable number of names might be added, always tolerable, sometimes truly spirited; […]

1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “On the General State of Literature in the Middle Ages to the End of the Fourteenth Century”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 84, page 100:

(poetry) Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.

leoniininen

being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse; of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme


leonine

A[llen]. The Clink of Syllables call'd Rymes, / Brought in ith' barb'rous Runick times, / To ſober Criticks ſeems to be / A paultry part of Poetry, / Becoming Monkiſh dull Divines, / VVho traded much in Leonines. / J[ohn]. Altho' to ſpoil I ſhould be ſorry, / An undergraduate Antiquary, / Yet I'll produce a Line or tvvo / Of Leonines in Cicero, / Before the Monks long time ago.

1715, “Canto III”, in The Miller of Trompington: being an Exercise upon Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, London: […] Jonas Brown, […]; and sold by J[ames] Roberts […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:

[F]rom the jingling of the Greek couplet juſt before, and ſimilar inſtances of his taſte, I am perſuaded Sir VVilliam intended theſe as Leonines perfect in their kind.

1771 December, “Illustration of the Inscription on Sir W[illiam] Browne’s Monument. […] Continued from Our Last. The Notes.”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton Junr. […]; [a]nd sold by Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 648, column 1:

The manuscript of Trinity College, Cambridge, which we have already mentioned, was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and the proverbs which it contains are translations into Latin leonines of some of the more popular English, and, in one or two instances, Norman proverbs of that time.

1835 March, “Art. V.— […] 4. Collection of English Proverbs of the Twelfth Century, Translated into Latin Leonines. MS. Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 2. 45. (Unpublished.) [book review]”, in Cochrane’s Foreign Quarterly Review, volume I, number II, London: Whittaker & Co. […]; Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 395:

(poetry, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of Leonine verse (“a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme)”).


chuff

en-noun

chuff (countable and uncountable, plural chuffs)

(scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.


corona

A favorite and most attractive combination is that of the corona or series of sonnets, employed to frame or develop some one theme. A list of these corone is given by Biadene, who selects and publishes from among them a series of three by Petrarch, and the famous corona of the months by Folgore da San Gemignano.

1889 May, F. M. Warren, “The Sonnet. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene [Studj di Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10.]”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume IV, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins University Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 308:

But the poets of Siena, and particularly the Academy of the Intronati, found the proper way of constructing coronas—since the ones mentioned above should really be called sequences ['catene'] rather than coronas.

1997, Michael R. G. Spiller, The Sonnet Sequence: A Study of Its Strategies (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres; 13), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:

[Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: "In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?" (Wroth, Poems 127).

2000, Mary B. Moore, “The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism”, in Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

Both sets of echoes derive from the poets' first poems, and since first poems in Petrarchan sequences set stylistic, tonal, and thematic expectations, Robert [Sidney]'s double allusion to first poems should color readings of this, the first poem of his corona.

2015, Mary B. Moore, “Robert Sidney’s Poetry”, in Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Michael G. Brennan, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700, volume 2 (Literature), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part VI (Poetry), page 250:

(poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.


lossy

en-adj

lossy (comparative lossier, superlative lossiest)

lossier (comparative)
lossiest (superlative)

(telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.


paster

(telephony) A diagram of the circuitry of a telephone, glued inside the telephone itself.


volta

[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.

2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, quoting Lamorna Ash, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

(poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.


contention

en-noun

contention (countable and uncountable, plural contentions)

From Middle English contencion, borrowed from Old French contencion, from Latin contentio, contentionem, from contendō (past participle contentus); equivalent to contend + -tion (similar formation to attention).

(computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.

kamppailu

(computing, telecommunications) Competition for a limited resource.


extension

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.

(telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.

междуградска

telecommunication: phone extension number


flap

en-verb

flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)

flaps (present singular third-person)
flapping (participle present)
flapped (participle past)
flapped (past)

From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.


premise

premises (plural)
premiss (alternative)
præmise (alternative archaic)
præmiss (alternative archaic)

From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).
The sense "a piece of real estate" arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense.

der

In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:

(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.


release

en-verb

release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released)

releases (present singular third-person)
releasing (participle present)
released (participle past)
released (past)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

If you continue to use abusive language, I will need to release the call.

(transitive, telephony) (of a call) To hang up.


scan

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

scans (present singular third-person)
scanning (participle present)
scanned (participle past)
scanned (past)

⇒ Lithuanian: skenuoti

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

مَحَّصَ

to examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely

In such cases as these, almost any one with a good ear will "scan" the verse correctly enough without instruction. It is not proposed to give here a list of Shakspere's slurred and contracted words; […]

1886, Francis Barton Gummere, A Handbook of Poetics for Students of English Verse, page 218:

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

escandir

to read or mark so as to show a specific metre

You're right, sir, it doesn't scan very well in the English, but in the Gaelic it's sheer poetry. Have you the Gaelic?

1998, Milton Acorn, Cedric Smith, edited by James Deahl, The Road to Charlottetown: A Play, UnMon Northland:

(poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.


slam

en-verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

slams (present singular third-person)
slamming (participle present)
slammed (participle past)
slammed (past)

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

правя капо

card games: to defeat by winning all the tricks

(transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.


stave

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Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.

Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]

1874, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, page 73:

[The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)

1974, John Collins Pope, Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, page 193:

... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have[…]

1975, Studies in Medieval Culture, page 11:

This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.

(poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.


strain

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

cog

Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.

2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2024

(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

напев

music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.


pentameter

en-noun

pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural pentameters)

pentameters (plural)
pentametre (alternative)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.

The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.

1822, Robert Bland, Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, third edition, London: John Robinson, page vi:

(poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.

(poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.


tetrameter

tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)

tetrameters (plural)
tetrametre (alternative)

(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.

tetrametër

a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)


dimeter

dimeter (countable and uncountable, plural dimeters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.

(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.


celerity

celerity (usually uncountable, plural celerities)

From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).

Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title]

1867, Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, The Telegraph Manual:

...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.

1885, The Wonders of the Universe, Cassell Publishing Company:

(telecommunications, dated) The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.


seagull

seagulls (plural)
sea gull (alternative)
sea-gull (alternative)

From sea + gull. The second element is from a Brythonic language. Compare Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.

(orthography) The symbol ̼, which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.


PBX

private branch exchange
private branch exchange#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of private branch exchange.


TDS

time-driven switching
time-driven switching#English

(communication, uncountable) Initialism of time-driven switching.


diacritic

en-adj

diacritic (comparative more diacritic, superlative most diacritic)

more diacritic (comparative)
most diacritic (superlative)

/ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

/ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

[ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

/ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

[ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from διακρίνειν (diakrínein, “to distinguish, separate”), from διά (diá, “between”) + κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, distinguish”).

bor+

(orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.


cedilla

From Spanish cedilla (literally “little zed”), c. 1600. In Spanish cedilla referred to the letter ⟨Ç⟩, which had evolved from ⟨Ꝣ⟩, a Visigothic form of the letter Z (called a Z with copete); hence the name. The lower part of ⟨Ç⟩ (which came to be reinterpreted as a diacritical mark under a C) is the remnant of the original Z, after it gradually reduced in size; whereas the upper part was originally just an ornamentation over the Z (which increased in size until it resembled letter C, and finally came to be identified with this letter).

bor

(orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.


speaking

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

(telephony) Indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking.

на телефона

indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies

A channel stretches between them.

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

kanal

communication: part that connects a data source to a data sink

We are using one of the 24 channels.

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

kanal

communication: path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals

The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

kanaal

communication: single path provided by a transmission via spectral or protocol separation


identical

The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.

1992, Clarence Hugh Holman, William Harmon, A Handbook to Literature, page 439:

(poetry) A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".


pedestal

Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.

(telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.


prompt

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.
The verb is from Middle English prompen, apparently from the adjective. The noun is from the verb.

(writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.


waka

Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).

“Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”

1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 122:

(poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.


bitrate

bitrates (plural)
bit rate (alternative)

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

(computing, telecommunications) The frequency at which bits (binary digits) pass a given physical or metaphorical point, measured in bps (bits per second).


LAPD

(telecommunications) Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.


STD

en-noun

STD (countable and uncountable, plural STDs)

subscriber trunk dialling
subscriber trunk dialling#English

subscriber toll dialing
subscriber toll dialing#English

(telephony) Initialism of subscriber trunk dialling or subscriber toll dialing.


poll

en-verb

poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)

polls (present singular third-person)
polling (participle present)
polled (participle past)
polled (past)
pol (alternative)
pole (alternative)

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adjective), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”).
Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".

cog

The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.

(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).


boustrophedon

PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix).

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

af

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right with each new line.


boustrophedon

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.


boustrophedon

en-noun

boustrophedon (countable and uncountable, plural boustrophedons)

boustrophedons (plural)
bustrophedon (alternative)

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

The number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small; most of those just cited have been brought down by the experts to a date close to 550 B.C., a date to which several texts of more than one line inscribed left to right may also be assigned (cf. pp.56—57 infra), besides the four-line retrograde sep. mon. of Pediarchus cited in the previous section (cf. p.52 supra). Stone texts only really become numerous in Attica about 550, and by this time it is clear that left-to-right writing is just as common as boustrophedon, and may have been so even earlier.[…]After 540 boustrophedon was certainly unusual.

1980, Leslie Threatte, The Grammar of Attic Inscriptions: Phonology, page 55:

(Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)

2000, Richard Sproat, A Computational Theory of Writing Systems, page 61:

He draws a sharp distinction between true boustrophedon, which has the tops of the runes pointed in the same direction, but with a change in the direction of writing with each line, and false boustrophedon, which changes from upright to inverted runes with each line, but the lines themselves are each written in the same direction.

2002, Elmer H. Antonsen, Runes and Germanic Linguistics, page 132:

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

بُطْرُفَة

writing that is alternately right-to-left and left-to-right


SDP

en-noun

SDP (countable and uncountable, plural SDPs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of service data point.


MDC

(telecommunications) Initialism of Motorola data communications.


video conference

video conference (plural video conferences)

video conferences (plural)
videoconference (alternative)
video-conference (alternative)

The four of us should hold a video conference next week.

(telecommunications) A conference held by video link; an arranged video phone call between more than two parties.


video conference

en-verb

video conference (third-person singular simple present video conferences, present participle video conferencing, simple past and past participle video conferenced)

video conferences (present singular third-person)
video conferencing (participle present)
video conferenced (participle past)
video conferenced (past)
videoconference (alternative)
video-conference (alternative)

I video conferenced with the client this morning.

(intransitive, telecommunications) To hold or take part in a video conference.

The academic meeting will be video conferenced.

(transitive, telecommunications) To broadcast by means of a video conference.


clearing

en-noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

(telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.


connectivity

connectivity (countable and uncountable, plural connectivities)

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(telecommunications) The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network

yhdistettävyys

telecom: ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network


lyric

en-adj

lyric (comparative more lyric, superlative most lyric)

more lyric (comparative)
most lyric (superlative)
lyrick (alternative obsolete)

From French lyrique, or its source, Latin lyricus, from Ancient Greek λυρικός (lurikós), from λύρα (lúra, “lyre”). Its English equivalent would be lyre + -ic.
The original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Stainer and Barrett used the word as a singular substantive: "Lyric, poetry or blank verse intended to be set to music and sung". By the 1930s, the present use of the plurale tantum "lyrics" had begun; it has been standard since the 1950s for many writers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song by authorities such as Alec Wilder, Robert Gottlieb, and Stephen Sondheim. However, the singular form is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics.

(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style.


rhapsody

The noun is derived from Latin rhapsōdia (“part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation”), from Koine Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation; rigmarole”), Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “composition or recitation of Epic poetry”), from ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “composer or performer of Epic poetry”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ῥαψῳδός (Rhapsōidós) is derived from ῥᾰ́πτω (rhắptō, “to sew”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend; to turn”)) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “ode; song”) (ultimately from Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ (“song”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns).
Sense 2.2 (“instrumental composition of irregular form”) probably developed from sense 2.1 (“exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing”), and both of these senses may have been influenced by rapture (“extreme excitement, happiness, or pleasure”), the latter being a quality associated with the senses. Sense 2.3 (“literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works”) is borrowed from Middle French rhapsodie (modern French rhapsodie), from Latin rhapsōdia: see above.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* French rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)
* German Rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)

cog

(Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

狂想曲

ancient Greek epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation


stichomythia

en-noun

stichomythia (countable and uncountable, plural stichomythias)

/stɪkəˈmɪθɪə/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στιχομυθία (stikhomuthía), from στίχος (stíkhos, “line of verse”) (see sticho-) + μῦθος (mûthos, “speech”).

The trial in the great hall under its high vaults, dusty sunlight shafting in, full of murmurers and growlers quietened by beadles and bailiffs, with howlers in the street held back with pikes, was by way of being a play without plot or exercise in what the Senecans term stichomythia.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:

The stichomythias are just as necessary in Sophocles' tragedies as are his choruses.

2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 297:

The two modes have different effects: while a rhesis allows the speaker to give an account of himself, attempt to persuade his hearers, or move freely across a range of emotions or types of argument, stichomythia is better suited to swift exchange of information through question and answer, though it can also be used for spicy polemic, aggressive interrogation, or accusation and defence.

2012, R. B. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation, page 165:

(poetry) A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities.


macron

From Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón), neuter form of μακρός (makrós, “long”) (English macro-).

We say such words belong to a Long family, because of the long macron hat the vowels wear. Like the other twin o's, one hat is enough for both, for these twins are always found together.

1889, Rebecca S[mith] Pollard, A Complete Manual: Pollard’s Synthetic Method of Reading and Spelling. Designed to Accompany Synthetic Readers and Spellers, New York, N.Y.: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 75:

A macron is a mark placed above a long vowel to mark its quantity.

1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 13:

All vowels are pronounced short unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘i ’ in, e.g., fīlia, etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

1986, Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, “Introduction”, in Reading Latin, volumes 1 (Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2, general note 1:

(orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.


VoIP

The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.

1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-03, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>:

VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.

1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 2016-11-03:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


trombone

en-verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

trombones (present singular third-person)
tromboning (participle present)
tromboned (participle past)
tromboned (past)

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

affix

(telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.


LUDs

(telecommunications) local usage details; a list of locally called numbers, often provided by telecom companies to the police as part of an investigation.


initial

From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).

(typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

caplletra

calligraphy: distinguished initial letter


stock character

en-noun

stock character (plural stock characters)

(writing, theater, film) Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.

ամպլուա

fictional character based on a recognizable stereotype


engaged tone

(UK, Ireland, telephony) An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; a busy signal


instant messenger

instant messenger (plural instant messengers)

(communication, computing) A computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network or the Internet in its entirety.


taut

en-adj

taut (comparative tauter, superlative tautest)

tauter (comparative)
tautest (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English taught [and other forms], Early Middle English tohte, towehte (“strained, stretched; distended; tight; firm”), probably from tough, touth, touʒth, toʒt (“powerful, strong; fierce, violent; not tender, tough; hardy, resilient; steadfast, stout; difficult to do or endure”) and possibly influenced by togen, towen, past participle of ten (“to extend, stretch out; to drag, haul, pull, tow, tug”) (modern English tee (“(obsolete) to draw, lead; to draw away; to go, proceed”)), or directly from its etymon Old English tēon (“to drag, draw, pull”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull”)) The word may be related to thight (“(dialectal) compact, dense; close-fitting, tight”) and tight; and is cognate with Scots tacht, taght (“taut”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.

nb...

toft, toght, tohte, toth, tought, touht, tout, touȝt, touʒt, towght, towht, towt, towte, toȝt, toʒte

der

If he curbs his swing a little and gets something crisper and tauter in his methods he may yet be very good.

1921 March 19, Bernard Darwin, “Golf on the Forest”, in Peter Anderson Graham, editor, Country Life, volume XLIX, number 1263, London: George Newnes […], →OCLC, page 321, column 2:

The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

1991 February 14, Peter Travers, “The Silence of the Lambs [film review]”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Wenner Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-05:

Quick action and dialogue create a taut story, although it is illustration that shapes the characters.

1997, “Minty: A Story of a Young Harriet Tubman (written by Alan Schroeder, 1996) [book review]”, in Linda R. Andres, editor, Children’s Literature Review, volume 43, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 174, column 2; quoted in Milton C. Sernett, “‘Minty’”, in Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 35:

Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI's strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok's desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.

2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI Sounds Refreshed and Rejuvenated on Its 10th Album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-03:

(of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.

napínavý

containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled


EPIRB

emergency position indicating radio beacon#English

(communication, nautical) Abbreviation of emergency position indicating radio beacon.


FDD

en-noun

FDD (countable and uncountable, plural FDDs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of frequency-division duplex.


broadband

broadband (usually uncountable, plural broadbands)

(telecommunications) A wideband of electromagnetic frequencies.

banda ampla

wide band of electromagnetic frequencies


broadband

(telecommunications) Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies


precursor

/pɹɪˈkɜː.sə/

/ˈpɹiːˌkɜː.sə/

/pɹɪˈkɜɹ.səɹ/

/ˈpɹiˌkɜɹ.səɹ/

/pɹəˈkøː.sɐ/

/ˈpɹiːˌkøː.sɐ/

/pɹɪˈkʌɹ.səɹ/

/ˈpɹiˌkʌɹ.səɹ/

/pɾɪˈkəːʳ.səʳ/

/ˈpɾiːˌkəːʳ.səʳ/

(telecommunications, of intersymbol interference) Caused by the following symbol.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.


multiplexer

multiplexers (plural)
multiplexor (alternative)

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(computing, telecommunications) A device that combines several input signals into a single output signal.


flapping

flapping (countable and uncountable, plural flappings)

(computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.


buttinsky

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.


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.


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


data set

data sets (plural)
dataset (alternative)

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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


TCAP

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.


DL

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

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


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.


eavesdropping

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.


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


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


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)

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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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

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 ( ̾)


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.


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.


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


terza rima

en-noun

terza rima (usually uncountable, plural terze rime)

/ˌtɛːtsə ˈɹiːmə/

Borrowed from Italian terza rima (literally “third rhyme”).

bor

In attempting to make the ‘Divina Commedia’ better known to English readers, it might have been held only a fitting mark of deference to my original to reproduce it, if practicable, in the metre of the poet's own choice. But on the appearance of my ‘Inferno,’ its Terza Rima was denounced as the one ‘deleterious ingredient’ which corrupted the version throughout, […]

1865, Dante Alighieri, “preface”, in John Dayman, transl., The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman, page viii:

(poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.

тэрцы́на

arrangement of triplets rhyming aba bcb cdc


DMS

en-noun

DMS (countable and uncountable, plural DMSs)

(uncountable, telephony) Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.

(uncountable, telephony, rare) Initialism of Donors Message Service.


versification

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

(poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.


apostrophic

All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]

2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “The Tractable Apostrophe”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 38:

(orthography) Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').

apostrófico

pertaining to the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ')


gateway

portti

point that represents the beginning of a transition

(computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.


night letter

"Someone named Rose sent a night letter from Philadelphia asking for six free tickets. A relative?"

1976, [Walter Wager], My Side by King Kong: As Told to Walter Wager, New York, NY: Collier Books, page 104:

(telegraphy, historical) A telegram sent overnight at a reduced rate for delivery on the morning of the following day, typically with a minimum charge for 25 words or less.


CSP

CSP (countable and uncountable, plural CSPs)

CSPs (plural)
C.S.P. (alternative)
C. S. P. (alternative)
C S P (alternative)

(telecommunications) Initialism of communications service provider (“telecommunications company or telco”).


subtitle

(authorship) A heading below or after a title.