Citations:Sherlock

English citations of Sherlock and sherlock

Verb: "(informal) to deduce; to figure out; to solve"

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• 1904, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Volume 73, page 572:

  “Personally, I'm convinced he was wrong,” added Murdock solemnly, “for I've studied the details of the mystery till I've really sherlocked the truth. […]

• 1913, Van Zo Post, Diana Ardway, J. B. Lippincott (1913), page 239:

  "That's right! I thought I had 'em again; but I sherlocked it out that one girl had happened in and seen the other one's flowers and replaced them with her own. […]

• 1920, Textile World Journal, Volume 57, Part 2, page 106:

  And finally the superintendent sherlocked the reason.

• 1920, New York University Alumnus, Volume 1, page 27:

  "Wullah! you speak the truth. It is all so, but how you know?"

  "Never mind how I Sherlocked you. Are you a citizen, Mustafa?"

• 1921, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Rainy Week, E. P Dutton (1921), page 77:

  "Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!"

• 1921, C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, The Brightener, Doubleday (1921), page 274:

  But almost at once I told myself that I ought to have Sherlocked the truth the moment this troubled, beautiful being had appeared on deck.

• 1923, C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, The Fortune Hunters and Others, Mills & Boon (1923), page 41:

  We sherlocked that our suite (we began at once to call it " ours ") must have been planned for Max Gessler-Brown, […]

• 1997, Bharati Mukherjee, Leave It to Me, Fawcett Columbine (1997), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  He wasn't crew, and he wasn't talent. I Sherlocked that from his clothes: […]

Verb: "(informal) to search; to hunt; to seek"

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• 1908, The Blue and Gold, Volume 35, page 52:

  That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair.

• 1917, The National Provisioner, Volume 56, Part 1, page 33:

  It is reported that Governor McCall will also appoint a committee to investigate the high cost of living, but in the meantime individual investigators have Sherlocked around and their stories would make DeQuincy's Life of an Opium Eater fade into insignificance.

• 1919, Theatre Magazine, Volumes 29-30, page 24:

  Mlle. Belge's eyes Sherlocked over her chorus until it matched up those curls.

Verb: "(computing) to obsolete a unique feature in third-party software..."

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• 2012, "You've been sherlocked", The Economist, 13 July 2012:

  The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked".

• 2013, Alex Hern, "Sherlocked: how Mavericks is making some apps obsolete", The Guardian, 28 October 2013:

  All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been "sherlocked".

• 2014, Javed Anwer, "WhatsApp CEO mocks Apple for copying features", The Times of India, 3 June 2014:

  Last year, when Apple released iOS 7 it added a feature to the Photo app, allowing users to sort photos on the basis of location and date. Photoworks, a third-party app, too offered same functionality. In response, app developer Stephen Orth tweeted, "I guess my new app just got sherlocked."