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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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verb
To waylay, kidnap or steal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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History
From the name of the Internet service Audioscrobbler, probably a nonce coinage perhaps based on scribble.
1927, in the book The Midnight Folk by John Masefield.
