Crossword clues for serial
serial
- Weekly show
- Type of number
- Published in installments
- Kind of killer
- Forming a series
- ___ number
- Story told in episodes
- Soap opera, for example
- Installment program?
- Episodic story
- Episodic drama
- Episodic amusement
- "To be continued" story
- Work released in installments
- Word before number or killer
- Word before "number" or "monogamist"
- Type of film
- Story with cliffhangers
- Story published in installments
- Soap opera format
- Sarah Koenig podcast
- Radio or TV genre
- Popular podcast
- Podcast that won a 2014 Peabody Award
- Podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig
- Novel published in installments
- Miniseries, e.g
- Many a Dickens story, originally
- Like some murders or numbers
- Leave-you-hanging story
- Kind of port or number
- Killer's leader?
- Installment plan of a sort
- First podcast to win a Peabody Award (2015)
- Drama with an ongoing plotline
- Done in installments
- Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers," originally
- Cliffhanger of silents
- Cliffhanger genre
- "Tune in for the conclusion" story
- "The Wire" was one
- ____ killer
- "Flash Gordon," once
- Soap, e.g.
- "Soap," for one
- Story that's "to be continued"
- Ongoing story
- Kind of number or dater
- "Buck Rogers," for one
- Soap format
- Continued drama
- Continuing story
- A periodical that appears at scheduled times
- Work in installments
- Continued story
- Sequential
- Pearl White specialty
- Any soap opera
- "Flash Gordon," e.g.
- Pearl White vehicle
- Like some TV dramas
- Describing certain modern music
- Soap opera, e.g
- Parceled yarn
- Soap opera, usually
- "Dynasty," for one
- "The Pickwick Papers," originally
- Episodic show
- Soap opera, e.g.
- "Perils of Pauline" was one
- Story in instalments
- Picked up grains one after another
- In instalments
- That's used for identifying theme song, perhaps?
- It's a long story
- Daytime drama, e.g
- Soap opera, for one
- Weekly TV show
- Soap, e.g
- It's one thing after another
- In installments
- Ongoing drama
- TV show type
- Daytime showing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonparallel \nonparallel\ adj.
not parallel; -- of lines or linear objects. Opposite of parallel. [Narrower terms: bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, oblique, skew, skewed, slanted ; {crossed, decussate, intersectant, intersecting; cross-grained ; {diagonal; orthogonal, orthographic, rectangular, right-angled ; {right, perpendicular; angled ; {convergent] Also See: convergent, divergent, diverging.
(Computers) Not using parallel processing; -- of computers. [Narrower terms: serial] PJC]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coming in regular succession," 1840, from series + -al (1); popularized in reference to Dickens' novels, published one part at a time in periodicals (as opposed to all at once in a book). Found to be a useful word and given wide application. Serial number, indicating position in a series, first recorded 1866, originally of papers, packages, etc.; of soldiers from 1918. Serial killer is first attested 1981 (in relation to John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy), though serial had been used in connection with murders since the early 1960s. Related: Serially.
1846, from serial (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having to do with or arranged in a series. 2 Published or produced in installments. n. 1 A work, such as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end. 2 (context computing slang English) A serial number required to activate software.
WordNet
adj. in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive]
pertaining to or composed in serial technique; "serial music"
pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series; "serial monogamy"; "serial killing"; "a serial killer"; "serial publication"
of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing" [syn: in series(p), nonparallel]
n. a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" [syn: series]
a periodical that appears at scheduled times [syn: series, serial publication]
Wikipedia
Serial may refer to the presentation of works in sequential segments, e.g.:
- Serial (literature), serialised fiction in print
- Serial (publishing), periodical publications and newspapers
- Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot
- Serial film, a short subject originally shown in theaters in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
Serial may also refer to:
In publishing and library and information science, the term serial is applied to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion."
Serial is a 1980 comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay, by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias, is drawn from the novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County by Cyra McFadden, published in 1977. Produced by Sidney Beckerman and directed by Bill Persky, the film stars Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman, Christopher Lee, Bill Macy, Peter Bonerz and Tom Smothers. The original music score was composed by Lalo Schifrin.
In television and radio programming, a serial has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from traditional episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes. Worldwide, the soap opera is the most prominent form of serial dramatic programming.
Serials rely on keeping the full nature of the story hidden and revealing elements episode by episode to keep viewers tuning in to learn more. Often these shows employ recapping segments at the beginning and cliffhangers at the end of each episode. Such shows also place a demand on viewers to tune into every episode to follow the plot. The invention of recording devices (such as VCRs, Digital video recorder (DVR) and TiVo) has made following these type of shows easier, which has resulted in increased success and popularity. Prior to the advent of DVRs, television networks shunned serials in prime time as they made broadcast programming reruns more difficult and television producers shunned them because they were tougher to go into broadcast syndication years down the road.
Serials contrast with episodic television, with plots relying on a more independent stand-alone format. Procedural drama television programs are commonly episodic.
In British television, the term serial is also synonymous with the American term miniseriesa short-run series with one title and plot. The finale of the serial sometimes concludes the program as a whole, for sequel serials are rarely made.
In literature, a serial is a printed format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in sequential installments. The installments are also known as numbers, parts or fascicles, and are either issued as separate publications or within in sequential issues of the same periodical publication.
Serial is a podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, released as a spin-off of the radio program This American Life. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder. Using investigative journalism, Koenig narrates a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. Episodes vary in length. New episodes were originally available weekly, but partway through the second season the schedule was revised to every other week. Serial ranked number one on iTunes even before its debut and remained there for several weeks. Serial won a Peabody Award in April 2015 for its innovative telling of a long-form nonfiction story.
The last episode of season two of Serial was released March 31, 2016. Season three's release date and story have yet to be announced.
Usage examples of "serial".
For instance, Francis Crick and Christof Koch believe that consciousness depends crucially on some form of serial attentional mechanism that helps sets of the relevant neurons to fire in a coherent semioscillatory way, probably at a frequency in the 40-70 Hz range.
Actionists, beatniks, hippies and serial killers were all pure libertarians who affirmed the rights of the individual against social norms and against what they believed to be the hypocrisy of morality, sentiment, justice and pity.
The other motif this tale seems to play with is the Bluebeard myth of the suitor who is actually a serial monogamist and a serial killer, with the bodies of previous brides stored in his dungeon.
She liked to say she was a serial monogamist with attention deficit disorder.
Or are we basically a society of serial monogamists with a fundamental need to refresh our love lives periodically?
In an active project at the NCAVC, experts in criminal personality profiling are taking advantage of the existing technology of artificial intelligence, or Al as it is known to its users, to capture the elusive decisionmaking rules associated with the profiling of serial violent criminals.
The correct classification assists in profiling and directs the investigation as serial homicides.
And to cap the sternmost rocket, here comes a pee-lot who wants serials!
First, the unassigned Encryption Lok-3 that Newman was using had a serial number that was not even in the range of those that the NSA had authorized for purchase.
First, the unassigned EncryptionLok-3 that Newman was using had a serial number that was not even in the range of those that the NSA had authorized for purchase.
Second, there were other unassigned EL-3 devices being used in that same serial sequence, and if those numbers were correct, there must he additional thousands of them circulating in the world.
Since the cylinders were no longer in coffins, they had to be individually unstacked, serial numbers verified, end caps safety-checked, etcetera, etcetera.
She remembered his talk about throwdown guns, untraceable because the serial number had been eradicated.
Doyle took the file with him, maybe headed up to Bitterroot to talk to Julie Albright, and on the way the psycho snowman serial killer mugged him.
Must Corso Navarone remember the serial number of a bicycle that whizzed past him in Milan one Friday when he was twelve?