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Software vs Scrobble - What's the difference?

software | scrobble |

As nouns the difference between software and scrobble

is that software is software while scrobble is a datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

As a verb scrobble is

(slang) to waylay, kidnap or steal or scrobble can be (internet slang) to publish one's music-listening habits to the internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.

software

English

Noun

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  • (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
  • * 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
    • The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
  • * 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
    • As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."

    Usage notes

    Software'' is a mass noun (''some software'', ''a piece of software''). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (''a software'', ''some softwares ).

    Hyponyms

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    Related terms

    * adware * bloatware * firmware * freeware * hardware * malware * schlockware * shareware * spyware * vaporware * wetware

    See also

    * application * assembly * assembler * bug * code * coding * compilation * compiler * debugging * interpreter * linking * linker * open source * patch * programming * script * utilities * warez

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    scrobble

    English

    Etymology 1

    1927, in the book .

    Verb

  • (slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
  • * (John Masefield)
    • They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
  • * Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (page 73)
    • "We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her..."

    Etymology 2

    From the name of the Internet service (Audioscrobbler).

    Verb

  • (internet slang) To publish one's music-listening habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

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