Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pdfify

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pdfi-fy
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To convert (a file) to PDF format.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I can see why that might've been true back in the day of the manually-typed screenplay, but now that it's all on computer anyway, isn't it just as easy to print up or PDFify exactly the block of text you want -- with the irrelevant bits before and after taken out?"
"Handwritten, real paper essays are now converted to PDF files and are sent out through the ether to solitary scorers to be read on dim computer screens. […] I vehemently oppose any suggestion to do away with the Regents’ Examination, I decry the gradual lowering of Regents’ standards to which I have been a witness for over thirty years, and I reject with much conviction the computerized/PDFified scoring of Regents’ Essays."

Etymology

From PDF + -ify.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

PDFifies (present, singular) PDFifying (participle, present) PDFified (participle, past) PDFified (past) PDF-ify (alternative)

Synonyms

PDFize

Questions

What does pdfify mean?: To convert (a file) to PDF format.
Where does pdfify come from?: From PDF + -ify.

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