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Definition: FUD

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc.[Websters]
2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Fud" is a common misspelling or typo for: fund, fur, feud, cud, dud, fid.

Date "Fud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1847. (references)

Note: Fud \Fud\, noun. [Of uncertain origin.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: FUD

Domain Definition
Computing FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon. Source: Jargon File.
Aerospace First Use Date. (references)
Industry Waste from wool carding. Source: European Union. (references)
Information Technology Fire unit display. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: FUD

Expressions Definition
Fud Leclerc Fud Leclerc (born Fernand Urbain Dominic Leclercq), Belgian singer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: FUD

Expressions Domain Definition
FUD wars Computing FUD wars /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example. [Jargon File] (1994-12-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
FUD wars Computing FUD wars /fuhd worz/ n. [from FUD] Political posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict about Unix standards was one outstanding example; Microsoft vs. Netscape vs. W3C about HTML standards is another. Source: Jargon File..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: FUD

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
FUD English Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt Computer - (slang, IBM)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: FUD

Fud

Fud may refer to:

  • FUD, Fear, uncertainty and doubt, a marketing or political strategy
  • FUD, Female urination device
  • FUD (food), a Mexican brand of cold cuts and hot dogs

See also

  • Template:Amir Posted 24 hours a day 7 day s a week on forums spreading fud. A microsoft employee.
  • Elmer Fudd, a Warner Brothers cartoon character

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fud". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: FUD

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Fud Leclerc 8     Fud 6
Fud 6     FUD (food) 4
FUD (food) 4     Fud Leclerc 8

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"fud" is a common misspelling or typo for: fund, fur, feud, cud, dud, fid.


Computed Synonyms: FUD

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   5.0391   FUD     fuddy-duddy     fogy, fogey, fossil, fusty, old fogey   
 2   1.1192   FUD     old fogy     old fogey, fuddy-duddy, fossil, square, fogy   
 3   1.1095   FUD     gonad     gonidia, gonorrhea, gout, got, gorse   
 4   1.1092   FUD     granddad     grandfather, old man, ancestor   
 5   1.0196   FUD     fogy     fogey, fusty, Tory, diehard, conservative   
 6   1.0195   FUD     fanny     bottom, buttocks, backside, arse, bum   
 7   1.0195   FUD     flaps     bumps, clouts, dashes, crashes, shields   
 8   1.0195   FUD     fogey     fogy, antediluvian, old fogey, fuddy-duddy, fossil   
 9   1.0194   FUD     fossil     petrifaction, antiquated, fusty, obsolete, outmoded   
 10   1.0095   FUD     berk     fool, idiot, goon, nitwit, silly   
 11   1.0094   FUD     skate     slide, slip, glide, slither, slipping   
 12   1.0094   FUD     square     squares, straight, plaza, right, place   
 13   1.0088   FUD     petrifaction     petrification, fossilization, fossil, calcification, torpor   
 14   1.0083   FUD     sir Anthony blunt     fanny, berk, gonad, flaps   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: FUD

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Central Tai อวัยวะเพศหญิง (berk, FUD, fanny, flaps, gonad), คนล้าสมัย (fuddy-duddy, FUD, granddad). Additional references: Central Tai, Thailand, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari ادم امل (FUD), شخص اندك بين (FUD). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian begyöpösödött pasas (FUD, fuddy-duddy), begyöpösödött hapsi (FUD, fuddy-duddy), kövület (petrifaction, fossil, FUD, fuddy-duddy), régimódi ember (FUD, fuddy-duddy, old fogey, old fogy, square), kriptaszökevény (FUD, skate, fuddy-duddy), múzeumi példány (FUD, fuddy-duddy). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar begyöpösödött pasas (FUD, fuddy-duddy), begyöpösödött hapsi (FUD, fuddy-duddy), kövület (petrifaction, fossil, FUD, fuddy-duddy), régimódi ember (FUD, fuddy-duddy, old fogey, old fogy, square), kriptaszökevény (FUD, skate, fuddy-duddy), múzeumi példány (FUD, fuddy-duddy). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi ادم امل (FUD), شخص اندك بين (FUD). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian ادم امل (FUD), شخص اندك بين (FUD). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) ادم امل (FUD), شخص اندك بين (FUD). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Siamese อวัยวะเพศหญิง (berk, FUD, fanny, flaps, gonad), คนล้าสมัย (fuddy-duddy, FUD, granddad). Additional references: Siamese, Thailand, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Standard Thai อวัยวะเพศหญิง (berk, FUD, fanny, flaps, gonad), คนล้าสมัย (fuddy-duddy, FUD, granddad). Additional references: Standard Thai, Thailand, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Thai อวัยวะเพศหญิง (berk, FUD, fanny, flaps, gonad), คนล้าสมัย (fuddy-duddy, FUD, granddad). Additional references: Thai, Thailand, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
Thaiklang อวัยวะเพศหญิง (berk, FUD, fanny, flaps, gonad), คนล้าสมัย (fuddy-duddy, FUD, granddad). Additional references: Thaiklang, Thailand, FUD. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: FUD

Language Translations for “FUD” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin UDFAY (FUD). Additional references: Pig Latin, FUD. (volunteer)
Terran B kegyoposod (FUD). Additional references: Terran B, FUD. (volunteer)
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