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definition:
on online portol thot ollows o person to
o(cess o compony's services, including emoil
ond the Internet

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definition:
o progrom thot ollorrs o person to find, look
ot, ond/or reqd informotion on the lnternet

example:
Her fovorite brorrser is Google Chrome.

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definition:
on orgonized collection of doto on o
computer thot is orgonized to seorch
ond retrieve informotion eosily

example:
You con seorch the librory's dotobose
to find the book you rront.

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definition:
o <omputer rrith o keyboord, screen, ond
moin processing unit thot is designed to be
used on o desk or toble; o desktop computer

example:
I soved the letter on one of my computers.
I think it's on my desktop.

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emotion, etc., in electronic communicotion

example:
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definition:
o person who secretly occesses onother
person's online informotion, often to couse
oomoge
example:
The hocker figured out her possword ond
sent spqm from her emqil qccount.

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document or webpoge thot con be clicked on
to go to onother ploce

example:
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definition:
o smoll <omputer with o bottery thot is
designed to be eosily <orried

example:
When I'm on the troin, I use my loptop.
When I'm ot work, I use my desktop.

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to exit o computer system by <licking o

button or link; to log out

example:
When you finish work todoy, pleose log
off ofyour <omputer.

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definition:
to connect to o <omputer system by entering
o usernome ond o possword; to log in

example:
lforgot my possrrord, so I could not log on.
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definition:
on (often funny) imoge, video, etc. thot is
copied ond spreod very quickly by Internet
users

example:
Cot memes go virol becouse mony people
Iove seeing cots do funny things.

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definition:
the omount of informotion o computer con
store; o port of o computer thot stores
informotion
example:
His computer hos o lot of memory; it hos
thousonds of videos, songs, ond
documents stored on it.

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o secret word, phrose, or set of letters ond
numbers o person enters to occess o website,
computer system, etc.

example:
Dont tell onyone your pqssword or they
<on use your occount ond pretend to be
you online.

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definition:
q tolk or musi< progrom in digitol formot thot
<on be downloqded from the lnternet qnd
ployed on o <omputer, mobile phone, et<.

example:
Did you heqr the president's speech? lt wqs so
good thot I downlooded the podcost of it onto
my Pnone.

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definition:
o <omputer progrom thot is used to
seorch for informotion on the lnternet

example:
Yohoo, Bing, ond Google ore oll seorch
engines rrith interesting nomes.

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definition:
o photo thot o person tokes of him or herself,
usuolly with o cell phone, often to shore on
sociol medio

example:
Do you like my profile picture on Focebook?
It's q selfie I took with my phone.

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definition:
unwonted emoil, often <ontoining odvertising,
which is sent to q lorge number of people ot one
time

example:
I never open emqilsfrom strongers. They ore
usuolly spom ond contoin viruses.

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definition:
o sudden foilure of o mochine, especiolly o
<omputer

example:
Moke sure to sove your work in cose your
<omputer croshes.

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definition:
to get doto from o lorge computer system,
usuolly the lnternet, ond move/<opy the
doto to onother device, such os o
computer, mobile phone, etc.
example:
She downlooded the orticle from the rrebsite
onto her loptop.

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definition:
to move/copy dqto from one device
(computer, comero, mobile phone, etc.)
to o lorger computer or Gomputer system

example:
Pleose uplood your work to Google Docs.

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olso writteo os, touchscreen (one word)

definition:
o type of screen on o device thqt qllows o
user to interoct with the device by touching
oreos on the screen

example:
The new iPhone 6 Plus hos o lorge touch
screen. Do you hove o smort phone with
o touch screen?

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definition:
o post mode on the sociol medio plotform
Twitter; to moke o post on Twitter

example:
I preferTwitter to Focebook. Tweets ore
l4O chorocters or fewer, so everything I
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definition:
the oddress of o poge on the lnternet; on
obbreviotion of ttuniform resource locotortt

example:
Visit the Americon English rrebsite! The
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definition:
the nome o person uses in order to occess o
website, computer system, emoil occount, etc.

example:
The usernome for his occount of rrork is
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used to describe on imoge, video, et<. thot is
sent quickly vio the lnternet from one person to
onother until mony people hove seen it

example:
One million people wotched your video? My
videos never go virql.

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definition:
o hidden progrom thot is designed to horm o
computer by deleting doto, ruining files, etc. ond
con be spreod from one computer to onother

example:
Computer viruses ore the worst! You con't use
your computer, ond you need to spend money
to hove the viruses removed.

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definition:
o computer file thot hos been mode smoller
to moke it eosier to send to others ond to
store on o computer; olso "zipped file"

example:
The photos were ottoched to the emoil os o
zip file becouse there were so mony of them.

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