Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by notum on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @06:38AM (#9890608)

Dictionary to the rescue! All they need to do is to include a piezo pressure sensor in the fist kit.

tron (trɒn) n: a public weighing machine

[C15: from Old French trone, from Latin trutina, from Greek trutanē balance, set of scales]

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by rlevy on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:02AM (#9890678)

Amazon and google are also words to find in a dictionary but that doesn't get in the way of enforcing their trademark

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by okamiueru on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:14AM (#9890711)

Google is in the dictionary? Since when? Maybe you are thinking of 'googol'?

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by schappim on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:46AM (#9890796)

Yup, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary. I don't know when, but I'm guessing after September 4, 1998.

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by coroxout on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @08:56AM (#9890995)

The online version says for me "This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006)" for capitalised "Google", meaning "To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet."

It also has a lower-case "google", in a cricket-related meaning, from 1933; so it has that in common with Amazon, whose meaning in the OED is still unrelated to the company.

Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler: to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball).

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