| 词汇 | shovelware |
| 释义 | shovelware noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈʃʌvəlweər/us E-COMMERCE information that is put onto a website or CD-ROM without being checked or changed to make sure that it is suitable or useful: Any CD that promises 10,000 "professional fonts" for $3 is shovelware. IT software that is put onto a computer that is not necessary or useful: Hardware vendors tend to dump a lot of shovelware on packaged PCs. Examples of shovelwareshovelware Software reviewers, displeased with huge collections of inconsistent quality, dubbed this practice shovelware. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term shovelware is coined by semantic analogy to phrases like shareware and freeware, which describe methods of software distribution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The prevalence of shovelware has decreased due to the practice of downloading individual programs from a crowdsourced or curated app store becoming the predominant mode of software distribution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His term for these disks was shovelware. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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