| 单词 | dead tree edition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead tree edition dead tree n. and adj. colloquial (originally Computing) (a) n. (in plural) paper (cf. treeware n. 2); (b) adj. printed on paper; of or designating print media, as opposed to electronic media; frequently in dead tree edition. ΚΠ 1991 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. 129 Hackers seldom read paper documentation... A common comment on this is ‘You can't grep dead trees’. 1995 Ledger (Florida) (Nexis) 24 Mar. 6 c There's a lot here, including much material that goes beyond what's in the dead-tree edition. 1998 Time 3 Aug. 77/2 Internet companies..can sell ads..much more efficiently than either TV or off-line, dead-tree media. 2004 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Dec. 16/1 Don't use Evite. Send out a mass bcc'ed e-mail..or invites on dead trees. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Apr. 2 We shouldn't expect to see ebooks replace dead tree material. < as lemmas |
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