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Definition: Update |
UpdateNoun1. News that updates your information. Verb1. Modernize or bring up to date; "We updated the kitchen in the old house". 2. Bring up to date; supply with recent information. 3. Bring to the latest state of technology; in computer technology. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | In job transfer and manipulation(JTM):data which is used to modify a selected work specification or proforma. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The action of putting into a master file changes required by current information or transactions. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Screenplays | Well, I should check in with Giles, get a situation update. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) | |
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 | Program Includes: General epidemiology of WNV, clinical symptoms, diagnosis and testing issues; laboratory testing, serological classification and laboratory diagnostics; update on WNV cases and what states are doing in response to WNV; panel discussion. Credit: CDC. |  | An early example of Coast Survey Notice to Mariners. This newspaper clipping was pasted in: "The American Light-house Guide with Sailing Directions" by Robert Mills, 1845. The notice, dated August 16, 1848 was meant to update and correct information on Nantucket Shoals. Library Call Number VK1022.M65 1845. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Diabetes Update / The American Diabetes Association, D.C. Area Affiliate [and] [NIDDKD]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | You may need to initiate discussions to update information if you feel that this has not happened naturally during the course of treatment and that the child is concerned but reluctant to raise questions. (references) | |
NORD publishes a general organization brochure, a pamphlet entitled "Physicians Guide to NORD Services," and a newsletter, "Orphan Disease Update," which includes research and medical updates, legislative action, personal stories, and letters from readers. (references) | ||
Ongoing work on these models is needed to update and improve the database used to produce and validate them. Furthermore, there is a need to validate, by use of empirical data, the assumption that transmission rates based on naturally occurring behaviors are equivalent to transmission rates based on behavioral changes in response to prevention efforts. (references) | ||
Business | The new Medicine Act will need to update the current legislation relating to medicinal packaging. (references) | |
Private universities in Mexico are trying to update their equipment to offer the best possible education. (references) | ||
Now, most of them have computing laboratories and offer specialized courses to update teachers and students. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | To attract more, and more upscale, tourists, Bulgaria needs to rapidly update and expand its tourist facilities. (references) |
Bangladesh | Legislation to update the Patents and Designs Act and the Trademarks Act is pending final vetting by the BDG Ministry of Law. (references) | |
Colombia | According to the most recent labor census update, approximately five percent of the Colombian work force is organized into over 2,432 unions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominica | In 1998 a consultant from the United Kingdom conducted a 3-month study to update antiquated police regulations and to establish new operational guidelines for the police. (references) |
Albania | In addition to such training, the Ministry of Public Order started to revamp and update the Police Academy's curriculum and promote sound and effective teaching practices of instructors. (references) | |
Bahamas | Despite these measures to improve efficiency, complaints persist of excessive pretrial detention, outdated record keeping, delayed justice for victims, and a failure to update new laws in the books. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guyana | In 1998 the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs admitted that the Amerindian Act was antiquated and expressed a commitment to update it, although it has taken no action to do so. The Government has long maintained that it is committed to demarcating lands that traditionally have been the home of Amerindians. (references) |
Political Economy | HAITI | A draft update of the Labor Code is currently in circulation and may be considered when parliament reconvenes in 2001. (references) |
DENMARK | Denmark opposes resumption of EU shipbuilding subsidies and would rather see an eventual update of the 1994 OECD agreement and subsequent ratification by the world's leading shipbuilding nations, including the United States. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | Consequently, only the price of the update should be shown in the commercial invoice. (references) |
Zambia | The Zambian Bureau of Standards intends to reevaluate and update existing legislation. (references) | |
Mexico | This annual program lists all committees working in the development, update, or cancellation of NOMs and NMXs for the year. (references) | |
Travel | Panama | Consular Affairs and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security update the CABB daily. (references) |
Vietnam | A number of publications in Vietnam (Timeout, The Guide, etc.) update their restaurant lists monthly. (references) | |
Women | Chad | In 1999 the Government held meetings with representatives of religious groups and civil society to update the Family Code; however, no action was taken to amend the Family Code by year's end. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | The Government has failed to act on various ILO recommendations since 1991 to update its program on inspection and accident reporting. (references) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Child labor laws are to be reviewed under a program of labor legislation review and update that began in 1999 with the 1986 Protection of Employment Act. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The International Labor Organization and UNICEF are working with the PA to study the nature and extent of the problem and to develop the capacity to enforce and update child labor laws. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Update" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 39.64% of the time. "Update" is used about 1,003 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 39.64% | 398 | 14,032 |
| Noun (singular) | 39.44% | 396 | 14,082 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.52% | 206 | 21,208 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,003 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "update": postponed update ♦ to update. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "update": update-only. | |
Ending with "update": frequent-update. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
window update | 12,552 | outlook express update | 319 |
microsoft update | 3,267 | driver update | 304 |
update | 2,704 | yahoo messenger update | 300 |
internet explorer update | 1,191 | explorer update | 260 |
microsoft window update | 1,094 | microsoft office update | 254 |
half life update | 993 | update for xp | 248 |
soap opera update | 888 | live update | 222 |
msn update | 753 | sars update | 222 |
bios update | 686 | award bios update | 215 |
window xp update | 683 | 3 quake update | 211 |
counter strike update | 617 | messenger update | 209 |
window 98 update | 614 | norton update | 200 |
viking update | 494 | soap update | 189 |
2000 serial update | 469 | luther update vandross | 187 |
messenger msn update | 381 | window me update | 186 |
software update | 369 | weather update | 145 |
office update | 356 | nero update | 142 |
window media player update | 341 | ie update | 137 |
norton anti virus update | 322 | java update | 135 |
update yahoo | 321 | mcafee update | 129 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "update"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | freskoj (cool, fresh, freshen, refresh, renovate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واكب العصر, عصر (age, compress, compressing, crush, date, eon, epoch, era, period, press, ream, squeeze, strain, time, wring), جعله عصريا يطلع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | осъвременявам (modernize), насрочвам за по-ранна дата, модернизирам (modernize, rationalize, retool), придвижвам по-напред, изтеглям по-напред. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 更新 (renew, renewal, renewed, renewing, renovate, renovated, updating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmodernizovat (bring up to date), informovat o nejnovìjších událostech, doplnit o poslední informace, aktualizovat (actualize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opdatering (updating), opdateret (updated), opdatere (to bring up to date, to currently adjust, to update), ajourføring (updating), ajourføre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | updaten, bijwerken (retouch), bijgewerkt (updated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جدیدکردن , بصورت امروزی دراوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päivitystiedot, päivitys (updating), päivittää (to bring up to date, to update, updated), päivitetty (updated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mettre jour (write up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aktualisierung (updating), aktualisieren (make topical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκσυγχρονίζω (modernize), ενημέρωση (briefing, information, updating), δεδομένα ενημέρωσης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לע"כן על "מצב, לע"כן (bring up to date, upgrade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | modernizál (modernize, to bring up to date, to streamline, to update), korszerûsít (modernize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memperbaharui. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aggiornare (adjourn, bring up to date, keep oneself up-to-date). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 更新 (innovation, renewal, renovation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうせい (adjustment, aggregation, all one's life, alteration, amendment, correction, lifelong, modification, retouching, revision, sound of the autumn wind, trait), "うし" (57th of the sexagenary cycle, accelerated, acceleration, backward, constancy, correspondence, developing, exasperated, exasperation, favorite courtier, filial devotion, innovation, labia, lips, march, meritorious retainer, one's junior, parade, red lips, renewal, renovation, rise, rising, spiritism, spiritualism, steadiness, telecommunications), アップデート , アップデイト . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 갱 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ateupday renovar (bud, furbish, modernize, recondition, refit, refurbish, renew, restore), modernizar (improve, modernize), atualizar (modernize), actualizado (updated). (various references) модернизировать (modernize, up-date). (various references) najnovije informacije, dodati najnovije informacije, ažurirati, ažuriranje. (various references) actualización (actualization, updating), puesta al día (updating), actualizar (actualize, modernize). (various references) uppdatering (updating), uppdatera (updated). (various references) modernleştirmek (modernize), modernleştirme, modernize etmek (modernize, rearm, revamp, streamline), güncelleştirmek, güncelleştirme, güncel veriler. (various references) модернізувати (modernize, style), модернізація (modernization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "update": updated, updater, updaters, updates. (additional references) | |
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"Update" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: udate, udite, udpa, undate, updator, upgate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "update" (pronounced updā"t or u"pdā't) |
| 3 | -d ā" t | date, postdate, predate, sedate. |
| 3 | -d ā' t | accommodate, backdate, consolidate, dilapidate, elucidate, intimidate, inundate, invalidate, liquidate, mandate, mithridate, outdate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: adept, pated, taped, taupe. | |
-2 letters: aped, date, daut, duet, dupe, pate, peat, tape, tepa. | |
-3 letters: ape, apt, ate, dap, due, dup, eat, eau, eta, pad, pat, pea, ped, pet, pud, put, tad, tae, tap, tau, tea, ted, tup, uta. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, et, pa, pe, ta, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: pupated, updated, updater, updates, uprated. | |
+2 letters: aptitude, captured, cuspated, deathcup, depurate, dustheap, eupatrid, outpaced, pastured, preadult, preaudit, pulsated, raptured, unparted, untapped, updarted, updaters, upstaged, upstared, upwafted. | |
+3 letters: amplitude, amputated, aptitudes, audiotape, autopsied, copulated, cuspidate, deathcups, departure, depurated, depurates, duplicate, dustheaps, eupatrids, outleaped, outpassed, outplayed, outprayed, outspread, parqueted, peculated, plateaued, platitude, populated, preaudits, repudiate, sulphated, supinated, unadapted, underpart, unpainted, unplaited, upstarted. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 64 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. -.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p d a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0064 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558270678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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