barcode-reader
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The series will make much of how it gave us the first glimpses of such breakthroughs as the first breathalyser (way back in 1967), pocket calculators (1971) and the barcode-reader (1983)."
- "Nobody seriously suggests that navigating the aisles of a supermarket with a barcode-reader in one hand and a wire shopping chariot in the other is a highlight of contemporary civilisation."
- "In the IT business they use ‘legacy’ when they mean ‘old’ (probably best not to ask why) and this is how a company that sells barcode-readers described one of their very old systems: A legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life."
- "I threw myself in to decoding this new and unfamiliar world: one of scanning each label on every item of food to see if I could eat it or not (bewildering, to begin with, but now I do it without even thinking about it, my brain like a barcode-reader)."