Sherlock

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A male given name from surnames.
• A detective (from Sherlock Holmes), especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.

Verb

• To deduce.
• To search.
• 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.

Origin

• Supposedly from an Old English scir-lock ("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 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.