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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of vertical bars of varying widths, in which each of the digits zero through nine are represented by a different pattern of bars that can be read by a laser scanner. The bars are commonly found on consumer products and are used especially for inventory control.
- noun A DNA barcode.
- transitive verb To provide or mark (an item) with a barcode.
- transitive verb To DNA barcode.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any set of
machine -readable parallel bars orconcentric circles , varying in width, spacing, or height,encoding information according to asymbology .
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Examples
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Its all in the software that the barcode is generated to. even scratched and old phones work superwell.
Fandango Rolling Out Movie Tickets on Your Cellphone | /Film 2010
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Airport staff will scan the barcode from the phones.
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Using this barcode, dba customers can go directly to the departure gate, where the barcode is read by a scanner.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » T-Mobile Start Ticketless check-in with MMS 2006
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Do you think index finger inking combined with a reproduction of our slate of choice tatooed in barcode form on our person (I love cop talk) will ferret out fraud.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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When your turn comes up, an official will approach your vehicle, read the barcode from the sticker, and verify that the information matches the description on his handheld reader device.
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Yeah, it’s probably a thing where they’re used to the jargon that distinguishes a UPC barcode from an ISBN barcode, and are aware Marvel carried both until now, so it’s perfectly clear to them, but to anyone else a barcode is a barcode.
Marvel Eliminates Barcodes on Collections » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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I bet the barcode is the real secret to the success of this trick.
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About ten years ago I did a short attachment to an inspection and review team where they were carrying out an ‘in house pilot’ (?) using ‘activity pens’ aka a barcode reader (shaped like a pen - amazing!) and a small book of barcodes, with each code relating to an activity e.g. arrive at work, go to meeting, use of transport public/private, went for poo etc.
It aint what you do, it’s the way you record it « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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One of the niftiest features is the ability to use a video camera to read a product's barcode, which is used to fetch its details from the net.
Delicious Library, Delicious Monster Greg Linden 2005
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I love it -- and the barcode is the only place on the box that the Scout emblem appears at all!
OSNews 2009
Prolagus commented on the word barcode
I love the sound of this word. So misterious.
April 22, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
I have two jobs. Both of them rely heavily on barcodes.
April 22, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barcode
The same kind of barcodes? Or are you a geneticist and a cashier?
April 22, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
I am neither a geneticist nor a cashier. But you're close!
April 22, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word barcode
Artist? (N.B. the linked page is fairly image-heavy, so best avoided on 56k.)
April 22, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
Beautiful stuff, VO -- thanks for the link!
But no, I am not an artist.
April 22, 2008
plethora commented on the word barcode
Are you a librarian?
April 22, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
Yes indeed, plethora! Well, sort of. I'm working on my master's degree to become a proper librarian. Until then, I'm just a weekend aide at my library's circulation desk.
That's one job guessed, one to go...
April 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barcode
Is this page only for people with screen names beginning with P? Oh, wait, VanishedOne was here. ;-)
Ptero, good luck to you--just thinking about being in school again while working makes me tired. And VO, thanks for the link to one of my favorite sites. :-)
April 23, 2008
sarra commented on the word barcode
/nick psarra
damn it!
April 23, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barcode
ha ha (response)!
April 23, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
It's never too late for a new nickname, psarra and preesetee! Just follow the example of pbilby and pchained_pbear.
April 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barcode
Heehee. Doesn't work here, does it?
Signed, pReeseTee
Edit: ptero, we must have posted at exactly the same ptime.
April 23, 2008
plethora commented on the word barcode
Maybe because my mother is a librarian, but that's what comes to mind when I think of barcodes, every time. :)
As for your other job... I'll have to think about it.
April 23, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word barcode
You can convey the suggestion of an extra initial P- by wearing a monocle and referring to everyone as Comrade. Although
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may have to do for the Wordie monocle.
April 24, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word barcode
Ah, that must be what lethora and rolagus did.
April 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barcode
Why... why, that looks just like reesetee!!
April 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barcode
Can't be. I'm a potager. The monocle would fall into the soup. ;-)
April 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barcode
Nice try to throw us off, there, reesetee. You've been a monocled raconteur all this time. Thankfully, as VO's illustration shows, your monocle chain means you can pull it out of the potage if it falls in..... Wait! Does this mean reesetee is chained too?!
April 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word barcode
Yet again, we come face to face with one of Wordie's eternal mysteries: just what is a reesetee, anyway?
April 24, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barcode
I had to add that tag.
April 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barcode
Oh, forget it, s. It's hopeless. Not even I know what I am anymore.
Nice barcode, Pro. At long last, Wordie can be scanned.
April 25, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barcode
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