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In a paper and pencil game, players write their own words, often under specific constraints. For example, a crossword requires players to use clues to fill out a grid, with words intersecting at specific letters. Other examples of paper and pencil games include hangman, categories, Boggle, and word searches.
For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into the phrase "nag a ram"; which is an Easter egg suggestion in Google after searching for the word "anagram". [2] The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram. Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram.
In phonology, apocope (/ ə ˈ p ɒ k ə p i / [1] [2]) is the omission or loss of a sound or sounds at the end of a word.While it most commonly refers to the loss of a final vowel, it can also describe the deletion of final consonants or even entire syllables.
A sync-word is a pattern that is placed in the data stream through equal intervals (that is, in each frame). A receiver searches for a few sync-words in adjacent frames and hence determines the place when its LFSR must be reloaded with a pre-defined initial state. The additive descrambler is just the same device as the additive scrambler.
A fragment of the DeCSS code, which can be used by a computer to circumvent a DVD's copy protection.. DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc.
Pleonasm can serve as a redundancy check; if a word is unknown, misunderstood, misheard, or if the medium of communication is poor—a static-filled radio transmission or sloppy handwriting—pleonastic phrases can help ensure that the meaning is communicated even if some of the words are lost.
Following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s, due to the Great Depression, Sutherland began to concentrate on painting. [6] His early paintings were mainly landscapes and show an affinity with the work of Paul Nash. In 1934, Sutherland visited Pembrokeshire in Wales for the first time and was profoundly inspired by its landscape.
This place name is thought to be derived from the Old English elements grand, possibly meaning "gravel", and ham, meaning "hamlet" the English word given to small settlements of smaller size than villages. Alternatively, possibly from Old English græghama "grey-coated one" (ie, wolf).