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Stein vs Stdin - What's the difference?

stein | stdin |

As a proper noun stein

is from a (etyl) diminutive of stephen.

As an abbreviation stdin is

(computing) standard input: a stream mapped to the primary input device, typically a keyboard.

stein

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein . Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *1974 , (Thomas Pynchon), (w, Gravity's Rainbow)
  • *:A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.

    • References

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]

    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

    stdin

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (computing) Standard input: a stream mapped to the primary input device, typically a keyboard.

    • See also

    * stderr * stdout

    Anagrams

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