The Dictionary of Soldier Talk says GI was used for the words galvanized iron in a publication about the vehicles of the early twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

But we said earlier that, you know, we're going to get - to the point where we want to have a lot of pieces of -- a lot of variables in memory, maybe 140,000 dictionary words for some future peace set, but we don't want to enumerate line by line by line 140,000 variables.

但是我们之前说过，你们知道的，我们将获得,有很多块--很多变量的内存的指针-,可能有140，000个单词的集合,但是我们不想一行行地列举,140，000行变量。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They take those descriptions and the scientist that is known and they try to design new things, and so if you look at a dictionary it has words like this, that you're designing things or another way to say that is that you're trying to apply science, you're looking at applications.

他们利用已知的,科学原理和描述,来设计新东西,因此,如果你查字典时看到这样的词条,设计产品或者换句话说,试图应用科学原理,那么你看的这个词就是应用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Well,no one really knows. The Oxford English Dictionary lists about six hundred fifteen thousand words.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

Here is a recording of several words in the dictionary.

VOA: special.2009.12.02