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relationship | microsoft |

As nouns the difference between relationship and microsoft

is that relationship is connection or association; the condition of being related while microsoft is (figuratively) a company whose products are widespread.

As a verb microsoft is

(slang) to microsoftify.

relationship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Connection or association; the condition of being related.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
  • A romantic or sexual involvement.
  • A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship .}}
  • (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

    • Derived terms

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    See also

    * relate * relation * relative

    microsoft

    English

    Alternative forms

    * MicroSoft, Micro-Soft (former names of the company) * (pejorative)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (figuratively) a company whose products are widespread.
  • * 2001 , Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food (ISBN 0738202916), page 110:
    • Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.
  • * 2005 , Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs (ISBN 0520246705), page 64:
    • The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock (ISBN 0306814579), page 232:
    • Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life ), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "Microsoft")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) to Microsoftify.
  • (slang) to make more like Microsoft with regards to perceived business practices and tactics.
  • * 2003 , Wine Enthusiast (volume 16, issues 2-8?, page 122)
    • You could call it the Microsofting of the wine industry. Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.

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