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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Content-free adj. [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators. "Content-free? Uh... that's anything printed on glossy paper." (See also four-color glossies.) "He gave a talk on the implications of electronic networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was content-free.". Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CONTENT-FREE |
| Specialty definitions using "CONTENT-FREE": four-color glossies, four-colour glossies ♦ low-bandwidth ♦ math-out, My Favourite Toy Language ♦ social science number ♦ verbage ♦ zero-content. (references) |
| "CONTENT-FREE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTENT-FREE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CONTENT-FREE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 井戸端会議 (content-free chat, idle gossip). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | いどばたかいぎ (content-free chat, idle gossip). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ontent-freecay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: entrecote. | |
-3 letters: conferee, cretonne, enfetter, trecento. | |
-4 letters: centner, content, enforce, entente, enteron, oftener, refence, tenoner. | |
-5 letters: cenote, center, centre, confer, conner, cornet, cotter, encore, entree, eterne, fencer, fennec, fetter, netter, nocent, recent, refect, rennet, retene, rotten, teener, teeter, tenner, tenrec, tenter, tercet, terete, tonner, torten. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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