Sherlock
EigennameVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk//
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Eigenname
- 1
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
- 2
A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
- 3
A detective, especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.
— Where that arrow on the map says 'You are here', that must be where we are. — Yeah, well done Sherlock.
Herkunft
Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”). One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock. In the sense of “a detective”, from Sherlock Holmes. In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.
Verb
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umgangssprachlichTo deduce.
"Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!"
But almost at once I told myself that I ought to have Sherlocked the truth the moment this troubled, beautiful being had appeared on deck.
He wasn't crew, and he wasn't talent. I Sherlocked that from his clothes: […]
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umgangssprachlichTo search.
That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair.
It is reported that Governor McCall will also appoint a committee to investigate the high cost of living, but in the meantime individual investigators have Sherlocked around and their stories would make DeQuincy's Life of an Opium Eater fade into insignificance.
Mlle. Belge's eyes Sherlocked over her chorus until it matched up those curls.
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SlangTo obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.
The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked".
All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been "sherlocked".
Last year, when Apple released iOS 7 it added a feature to the Photo app, allowing users to sort photos on the basis of location and date. Photoworks, a third-party app, too offered same functionality. In response, app developer Stephen Orth tweeted, "I guess my new app just got sherlocked."
Formen
- Plural
- Sherlocks
- Präteritum
- Sherlocked
- Partizip II
- Sherlocked
- Partizip I
- Sherlocking
- 3. Person Singular
- Sherlocks
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