Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of paper with rows and columns for recording financial data for use in comparative analysis.
- n. Computer Science An accounting or bookkeeping program that displays data in rows and columns on a screen.
Wiktionary
- n. dated A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
- n. computing A computer simulation of such a system of recording tabular data, with totals and other formulas calculated automatically.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen
Examples
“As the spreader wends its way through the fields, the amount of fertilizer sprayed is controlled by the computer (giving new meaning to the term spreadsheet).”
“Brings me back to the heady days of new software categories, when hundreds of column-inches in Byte were devoted to explaining what a spreadsheet is and why anyone would use it.”
“Boonton, your spreadsheet is extremely sensitive to the rate of pay increases.”
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“The easy way to post your spreadsheet is to convert it to a PDF and post it that way.”
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“One important thing about my spreadsheet is that each sheet includes not only past submissions but future ones.”
“It would work just like a built-in spreadsheet function except the call would go out over the net, run the procedure on the indicated server, and display the value it returns, formatted according to how the spreadsheet author says it should be formatted.”
“Speaking of Zoho, I was well pleased to hear that the Zoho spreadsheet is on its way.”
“However, the problem with a spreadsheet is if you have multiple people editing the same spreadsheet it can get very messy and thats exactly where the real time update ability on Google Spreadsheet comes to the fore.”
“Last night, I read a post somewhere explaining why an online spreadsheet is so much more difficult than an online word processor.”
“And a spreadsheet is one of those things that are made for collaboration.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spreadsheet’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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three sheets to the wind
go on, give me sheet about these puns.
sheetrock, balance sheet, silk sheets, sheet music, spreadsheet, mainsheet, bedsheet, curling sheet, three sheets to t..., cheat sheet, advance-sheet, termsheet and 50 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
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Spreadsheet Key words
Key words
row, column, formula, spreadsheet, add, subtract, divide, multiply, calculation, average, minimum, maximum and 2 more...
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
(Note for pedants: some of these words have more than one pronunciation. As long as just one of the possi...decoy, ballet, survey, sashay, argon, lilac, sumac, café, princess, dildo, wordy, flighty and 30 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Insurance Data-Related words
claimant, delete, register, invoice, spreadsheet, alert, electronic, cartridge, password, dashboard, certificate, presentation and 90 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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My Stupid Day
Words that happened today. Outside of this site, I mean.
overcast, shower, storm, voicemail, email, music, contract, passive-aggressive, megabytes, filtered, mocha, antacid and 44 more...
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wordie
morbid, ostentatious, enigma, heppelwhite, widdershins, mabel, caligari, maple, sebald, daedalus, salmonella, juggernaut and 62 more...
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PNCA
disconnect, delegate, meeting, coffee, chickering, pizza, swigert, commons, speak to, groupwise, ical, kyocera and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for spreadsheet.
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