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Latest comment: 7 years ago by WF on Holiday in topic merge
Verb sense needed. — Hippietrail 11:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
- We seem to have them now. I thought there was a 1980s computing verb meaning "load and then automatically run" (a program, probably from tape or disk). It was definitely a keyword in some BASICs. Couldn't cite it, but I suppose the richest sources would be magazines, which aren't well represented on Google Books. Equinox ◑ 17:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- (I did eventually add and cite this.) Equinox ◑ 16:50, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Group of bobolinks
[edit]Supposedly "chain" is the collective noun for a group of bobolinks. I could only find this single book citation. Equinox ◑ 03:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- 2013, Joanna Kelly, Hooligan’s Alley (page 202)
- Walking toward the barn, under a chain of bobolinks perched on a low-slung clothesline (their droppings, no doubt, sticking like paste to the weathered fibers), Millie thought about the idea of spending time with this gentle German.
- 2013, Joanna Kelly, Hooligan’s Alley (page 202)
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[edit]Surely hyponyms, derived terms and related terms can all be squished together? --WF on Holiday (talk) 22:34, 1 August 2017 (UTC)