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Amstrad is a company formed by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the UK, and based in Brentwood in Essex, England. The name is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar TRADing.
In the 1980s the company launched the popular Amstrad CPC 464 home computer range in the UK, France and Germany, and also the business-orientated Amstrad PCW range, which was principally a word processor running the CP/M operating system and LocoScript Amstrad's proprietary word processing program. The company moved with the times and produced a range of affordable MS-DOS based personal computers, the first of which was the PC-1512.
The company still trades electronic goods such as music hi-fi systems, satellite dishes, etc.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amstrad."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AMSTRAD | English | Alan Michael Sugar Trading | N/A |
| AMSDOS | English | AMStrad Disk Operating System, "AMS-DOS" | Computer - (Amstrad, OS) |
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Crosswords: AMSTRAD |
| Specialty definitions using "AMSTRAD": Sinclair Research, Small-C. (references) |
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| "Amstrad Emailer Telephone" by Gary McCord Commentary: "Amstrad Emailer Telephone." |
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| "AMSTRAD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMSTRAD" is used about 241 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 241 | 19,264 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Amstrad Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AMSTRAD": amstrad-made. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amstrad cpc rom | 5 |
amstrad cpc | 4 |
amstrad cpc game | 2 |
2 amstrad jerry tom | 2 |
464 amstrad cpc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"AMSTRAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ametra, Amistad, Amserau, Astrac, Astrada, Astrud, Ekstrand, Fastrada, Ganstead. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: damars, dramas, madras. | |
-2 letters: atmas, damar, darts, drama, drams, drats, maars, marts, smart, trams. | |
-3 letters: amas, arms, arts, atma, dams, dart, data, dram, drat, maar, mads, mars, mart, mast, mats, rads, rams, rats, sard, star, tads, tams, tars, trad, tram, tsar. | |
-4 letters: aas, ads, ama, arm, ars, art, dam, mad, mar, mas, mat, rad. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: matadors. | |
+2 letters: draftsman, dramatics, dramatise, dramatist, farmstead, mandators, tamarinds, tradesman, tramroads. | |
+3 letters: adumbrates, bandmaster, demarcates, dramatised, dramatises, dramatists, dramatizes, dramaturgs, farmsteads, headmaster, headstream, loadmaster, smaragdite, trademarks, yardmaster. | |
+4 letters: admiralties, admirations, animadverts, bandmasters, catadromous, disarmament, dramatising, dramaturges, draughtsman, grandmaster, headmasters, headstreams, laundromats, loadmasters, madrigalist, maidservant, mandataries, mandatories, masturbated, matchboards, montagnards, mortadellas, smaragdites, tarmacadams, transdermal, traumatised, yardmasters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 53 54 52 41 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- ... - .-. .- -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M S T R A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 0053 0054 0052 0041 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35475354523538 |
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