WIKI

Proper noun

Wiki

(proscribed) Abbreviation of Wikipedia.

Usage notes

• Users at Wikipedia have written an essay criticizing this usage: "Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!".

Anagrams

• Kiwi, kiwi

Etymology

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

Hyponyms

• public wiki

• private wiki

• protected wiki

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

(intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.

(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.

Anagrams

• Kiwi, kiwi

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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