Sherlock

Meaning

Name

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
3. (humorous) A detective (from Sherlock Holmes), especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.

Verb

1. (informal) To deduce.
2. (informal) To search.
3. (slang) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.

Translations

El Modern Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock

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Calma

Sherlock

Sherlock Jr.

detective

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk/

Etymology

Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.