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Crud vs Octothorpe - What's the difference?

crud | octothorpe |

As an acronym crud

is (programming|database) create, read, update, and delete.

As a noun octothorpe is

(chiefly|us) the hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing.

crud

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Dirt, filth or refuse.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
  • Mixed impurities, especially corrosion products in nuclear reactor fuel.
  • A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to ski.
  • (euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
  • A contemptible person.
  • (slang, US, military, and, students) venereal disease, or (later) any disease.
  • A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    octothorpe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * octothorp

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) The hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing
  • * 1982 , Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
    • Octothorp is the
  • on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
  • * 2004 , Andrew Pitonyak, Openoffice.Org Macros Explained , Hentzenwerke, page 139
    • Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (
  • ) characters.

    • Synonyms

    * hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, hashtag, tic-tac-toe sign, naughts and crosses sign/symbol

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (Number sign)