Shop vs Data - What's the difference?
shop | data |
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
* Cowper
A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
* Shakespeare
An automobile mechanic's workplace.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
(business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
(internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
English plurals: Pieces of information.
(uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
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, title= (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
As nouns the difference between shop and data
is that shop is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well while data is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals: Pieces of information.As a verb shop
is to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.As an interjection shop
is Used to attract the services of a shop assistantshop
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Noun
(en noun)- From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
- A tailor called me in his shop .
- Our company is mostly a Java shop .
- This is where I do my weekly shop .
Synonyms
* (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalworkDerived terms
* beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshopVerb
(shopp)- I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
- He’s shopping for clothes .
- He shopped his mates in to the police.
Synonyms
* (to report a criminal to authority) grass up (slang)Derived terms
* shop around * shopper * shop till you drop * window shoppingAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsdata
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Alternative forms
* (electronics)Noun
(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
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Usage notes
* This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from aninternational standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf
Derived terms
* big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw dataReferences
* (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') *Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA*
John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum*
johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular