Sherlock

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk/

The English word “Sherlock” has 4 meanings listed here.

proper noun

A detective, especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.

verb

To deduce.
To search.
To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.

Etymology

Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”). One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock. In the sense of “a detective”, from Sherlock Holmes. In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called…

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