different between leet vs warez

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• Homophone: Leith (with th-stopping)

Etymology 1

From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hl?te (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.

Noun

leet (plural leets)

1. (Scotland) A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.

Etymology 2

From Old English l?t, past tense of l?tan (“to let”).

Verb

leet

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of let

Etymology 3

Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ?el?te (“crossroads”).

Noun

leet (plural leets)

1. (Britain, obsolete) A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.

Etymology 4

Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".

Noun

leet (plural leets)

1. (Britain) The European pollock.
   • 1854, William Hughes, A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish [1] (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans), page 27:

     The whiting pollock sometimes, par excellence is styled pollock only. On the Yorkshire coast it is called a leet, and in Scotland a lythe.

Etymology 5

From Middle English lete, from Old English ?el?t, ?el?te, from Proto-Germanic *gal?t?, *l?t?. More at leat.

Noun

leet (plural leets)

1. (obsolete) A place where roads meet or cross; intersection
2. Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”)

Etymology 6

An aphetic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.

Alternative forms

• 1337, eleet, el337, l33t, 31337, and 3l33t.

Noun

leet (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, dated) Abbreviation of leetspeak.

Adjective

leet (comparative leeter, superlative leetest)

1. Of or relating to leetspeak.
2. (slang) Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
3. (slang) Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
4. (slang) Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
   • 2006, Maximum PC (Autumn, page 26)

     Powered by leetness! You can have the leetest hardware imaginable in your gaming rig, but it won't matter if you run it with a cheap power supply.

References

• “leet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "leet" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.

Anagrams

• Teel, Tele, teel, tele, tele-

Finnish

Noun

leet

1. nominative plural of lee

Anagrams

• tele, tele-

Luxembourgish

Verb

leet

1. inflection of leeden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular/plural imperative

Verb

leet

1. inflection of leeën:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch l?th, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.

Adjective

lêet

1. loathsome, abhorrent

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• leit (Limburgish)

Descendants

• Dutch: leed

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *l?th, from Proto-Germanic *laiþ?.

Noun

lêet n

1. damage, harm
2. suffering, sadness
3. sickness

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• leit (Limburgish)

Descendants

• Dutch: leed
• Limburgish: leidj

Further reading

• “leet (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “leet (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “leet (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “leet (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

leet

1. simple past and past participle of lee

Alternative forms

• lea

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leet n

1. definite singular of le

Anagrams

• elte, etle, lete, tele

Plautdietsch

Adjective

leet

1. sorry, regretful, rueful

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian let, from Proto-Germanic *lataz. More at late.

Adjective

leet

1. late

Related terms

• lääst
• leeter

Scots

Etymology

Compare Old English hl?te (“share, lot”).

Noun

leet (plural leets)

1. a list

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English lete, from Old English ?el?te.

Noun

leet

1. a leading road

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• juarez (Internet slang)

Etymology

• A leet form of "wares", as a contraction of "software".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)z
• Homophones: wares, wears, where's (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

warez (usually uncountable, plural warez)

1. (Internet slang, leetspeak) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.

   Hey dude, I've got some cool new warez!

Translations

Verb

warez (third-person singular simple present warezes, present participle warezing, simple past and past participle warezed)

1. (Internet slang, leetspeak) To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.
   • 2002, John Lettice, in The Register [1]

     MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies

   • 2004, Timothy Lord, in Slashdot [2]

     Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player

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