different between haphazard vs shovelware

English

Etymology

From archaic hap (“chance, luck”) +? hazard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæp?hæz.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hæp?hæz.?d/

Adjective

haphazard (comparative more haphazard, superlative most haphazard)

1. Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.

   Synonyms: random, chaotic

   Antonym: systematic

   • 1886, N. H. Egleston, Arbor-Day, Popular Science Monthly, p. 689:

     The haphazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easily spent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed.

   • 1909, Fielding H. Garrison, Josiah Willard Gibbs and his relation to modern science, Popular Science Monthly, p. 191:

     we assume a gas to be an assemblage of elastic spheres or molecules, flying in straight lines in all directions, with swift haphazard collisions and repulsions, like so many billiard balls.

   • 1912, Robert DeC. Ward, The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations, Popular Science Monthly, p. 129:

     There is a very considerable series of observations — non-instrumental, unsystematic, irregular, "haphazard" if you will — which any one with ordinary intelligence and with a real interest in weather conditions may undertake.

Derived terms

• haphazardly
• haphazardness

Translations

Noun

haphazard (plural haphazards)

1. Simple chance, a random accident, luck.

References

• haphazard at OneLook Dictionary Search
• haphazard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

• haphazard at OneLook Dictionary Search
• haphazard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From shovel +? -ware.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?lw??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v?lw??/
• Hyphenation: sho?vel?ware

Noun

shovelware (uncountable)

1. (computing, slang, derogatory) A haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality. [from 20th c.]
2. (media, slang) Traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the Internet without considering the needs and capabilities of that medium.
   • 2008, Tim Holmes, “Writing Online”, in Wynford Hicks, Sally Adams, Harriett Gilbert, and Tim Holmes, Writing for Journalists, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, ?ISBN, pages 134 and 135:

     Click onto it, however, and you will find a great deal of the content simply reproduces the news reports and features that appear in the printed newspaper – shovelware. […] [M]odified shovelware can also encompass shortened or otherwise amended pieces originally written for print. Such material may be augmented with 'rich' additions like comments, related blogs and suggested links to other stories, videos and podcasts.

Further reading

• shovelware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia