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wiki | microsoft |

As a proper noun wiki

is (proscribed) wikipedia.

As a noun microsoft is

(figuratively) a company whose products are widespread.

As a verb microsoft is

(slang) to microsoftify.

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

    • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
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  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
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  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
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    • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    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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