-ware suff.
[from `software'] Commonly used to form
jargon terms for classes of software. For examples, see
annoyware, careware, crippleware
freeware, fritterware, guiltware
meatware, payware, psychedelicware
shelfware, vaporware, wetware.
[from `software'] Commonly used to form
jargon terms for classes of software. For examples, see
annoyware, careware, crippleware
freeware, fritterware, guiltware
meatware, payware, psychedelicware
shelfware, vaporware, wetware.
Related:
- ware: [from `software'] suff. Commonly used to form jargon terms
for classes of software.
For examples, see {careware}, {crippleware}, {crudware}... - shareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the
author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - annoyware n.
A type of shareware that frequently
disrupts normal program operation to display requests for payment
to the author in return for the ability to disable the request
messages.
(Also called `nagware') The requests generally require... - shareware /sheir'weir/ n.
A kind of freeware (sense
1) for which the author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - wetware /wet'weir/ n.
[prob. from the novels of Rudy
Rucker] 1.
The human nervous system, as opposed to computer ... - payware /pay'weir/ n.
Commercial software.
Oppose shareware or freeware... - wetware: /wet'weir/ [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] n.
1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer... - payware: /pay'weir/ n. Commercial software. Oppose {shareware}
or {freeware}.
The AI Hackers... - crippleware n.
1. [common] Software that has some important
functionality deliberately removed,
so as to entice potential users to pay for a working...
From the same category:
- meme /meem/ n.
[coined by analogy with `gene', by
Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator,
esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize... - DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the
SEX mnemonic out the door at one time,
but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced... - adger /aj'r/ vt.
[UCLA mutant of nadger,
poss.
also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate... - spell n.
Syn.
incantation... - backronym n.
[portmanteau of back + acronym] A word
interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended.
This is a special case of what linguists call `back...
