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  2. Prude - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The word prude comes from the Old French word prudefemme also prodefemme meaning loyal, respectable or modest woman, [3] which was the source of prude in the 18th century. [1] According to Pierer's Universal Lexikon in 1861, prudery is "modest in an exaggerated and affected way; seeming delicate, squeamish". In a broader sense, prudery ...

  3. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").

  4. Crack - Wikipedia

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    CRACK International Art Camp; Crack spread, the value difference between crude oil and oil products or between different oil products, usually expressed as a per-barrel value; Cracking (chemistry), the process whereby complex organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules; Craic, or crack, an Irish term for discourse, news, etc.

  5. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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    qBittorrent is one of the most widely used torrenting programs due to its free and open-source nature. Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music , movies or software .

  6. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...

  7. Warez - Wikipedia

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    The full form is a full version of a game or application, generally released as CD or DVD-writable disk images (BIN or ISO files). A rip is a cut-down version of the title in which additions included on the legitimate DVD/CD (generally PDF manuals, help files, tutorials, and audio/video

  8. DeepL Translator - Wikipedia

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    DeepL for Windows translating from Polish to French. The translator can be used for free with a limit of 1,500 characters per translation. Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files in Office Open XML file formats (.docx and .pptx) and PDF files up to 5MB in size can also be translated.

  9. Video game piracy - Wikipedia

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    However, it was easily cracked by hackers to play pirated ISO images of PlayStation games, leading to a lawsuit from Sony. Companies continued to fear that emulators would encourage piracy. [ 14 ] This has created a long-running debate over emulation, since many out-of-print video games can only be played via ROM, making emulators the only ...