“App drawer,” “cross-post” and 25 more words received the “official status”
Twitter, tweet, tweeter, Tweety Pie? As many as 6 additional words devoted to the social network Twitter — “retweet,” “tweetable,” “tweetheart,” “tweetup,” “Twitterati,” “Twitterverse” were included in the newest, 9th edition, of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dicitonary app. One of the oldest explanatory English dictionaries published since 1948, can be obtained in the App Store and Google Play as an app.
The total of 900 new definitions were included in the latest, 9th edition, released earlier this month. These include 170 words related to IT, mobile and web development. Other words come from business vocabulary, abbreviations such as “TTYL,” “TTFN,” and “TPS.” Moreover, the “official status” found such words as “phablet,” “hipster,” “meme,” “selfie,” “shitstorm” and even “sharp sharp.” Many of these words are already well known to us, but now they have received the “official” recognition.
We chose the most interesting and relevant words from the digital world:
App drawer – a collection of all the applications that are installed on an electronic device such as a smartphone or a small computer.
Adware – a type of software that automatically displays or downloads advertisements on a computer screen, smartphone, etc. when a user is online.
Content farm – a website that includes a large quantity of material, which may be of low quality or taken from other sources, but which enables the site to appear high on the list of results given by a search engine.
Cyberthreat – the possibility that somebody will try to damage or destroy a computer network, computer system or website by secretly changing information on it without permission.
Feature phone – a mobile/cell phone that can do some important things such as connect to the Internet, play and store music, etc. but does not have all the functions of a smartphone.
Followee – a person, company, etc. whose messages on a microblogging service people choose to receive regularly.
Geofencing – a technology which draws a virtual line around a physical area so that a signal can be sent to a mobile electronic device such as a phone inside this line or when this line is crossed.
Oversharer – a person who gives more information than people want to hear about his or her personal life.
Ransomware – a type of software that is designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
Script kiddie – a person who uses existing programming code to hack (3) somebody’s computer, because they do not have the skill to write their own code.
Scareware – a type of computer program that tricks a user into buying and downloading unnecessary software that could be dangerous for the computer.
Tweetheart – a person who uses Twitter™ who is very popular with other users. A person somebody has met by using Twitter™ and has a romantic relationship with.
Tweetup – a meeting arranged by sending messages using the Twitter social networking service.
Woot! – used to express excitement, enthusiasm, satisfaction, etc., especially in text messages or emails.
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