cloud

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

cog

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

[…]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.

2018, James Bridle, The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN:

“But there’s no fucking cloud,” says Crabapple, “there’s other people’s computers. There are vast datacentres that are sucking up water and electricity and rare-earth metals, literally boiling up the planet […]”

2024 February 17, Tom Lamont, quoting Molly Crabapple, “‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.


clean

en-verb

clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)

cleans (present singular third-person)
cleaning (participle present)
cleaned (participle past)
cleaned (past)

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

cog

(transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).


clear

en-verb

clear (third-person singular simple present clears, present participle clearing, simple past and past participle cleared)

clears (present singular third-person)
clearing (participle present)
cleared (participle past)
cleared (past)
CLR (alternative)

From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.

çliroj

to remove obstructions or impediments from

raivata

to remove in order to make something else unobstructed

to clear an array;  to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value

(transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.

To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.

2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page 290:

(transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.


door

doors (plural)
doore (alternative obsolete)
durre (alternative obsolete)

Belizean Creole: doa

Sranan Tongo: doro

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.

a creaking door hangs long on its hinges

at church every time the doors swing open

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

don't let the door hit you on the way out

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.


differ

(computing) A program that diffs, a diff.


dirty

en-adj

dirty (comparative dirtier, superlative dirtiest)

dirtier (comparative)
dirtiest (superlative)

From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.

Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.

Notice that an asterisk has been added to the filename in the edit window tabs. This is a simple reminder that the file is “dirty” and needs saving.

2008, Stephen R. G. Fraser, Real World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System, page 105:

(computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.

muokattu

computing: containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory


depth

en-noun

depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).

(computing, colors) the total palette of available colors


AOL

aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented language#English

(computing) Initialism of aspect-oriented language.


JS

(computing, Internet) Initialism of JavaScript.


ROM

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

In all senses (except Romania in sports), by acronymy.

read-only memory
read-only memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of read-only memory.

en:any internal storage comparable to read-only memory sensu stricto

(computing, by extension) The nonvolatile internal storage, often a solid-state drive, on a mobile device or computer.


modem

→ Armenian: մոդեմ (modem)

→ Catalan: mòdem

→ Dutch: modem

→ Esperanto: modemo

→ Finnish: modeemi

→ French: modem

→ German: Modem

→ Hebrew: מודם (módem)

→ Hungarian: modem

→ Ido: modemo

→ Japanese: モデム (modemu)

→ Korean: 모뎀 (modem)

→ Norman: modem

→ Polish: modem

→ Portuguese: modem

→ Russian: моде́м (modém)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: модем

Latin script: modem

→ Spanish: módem

→ Swedish: modem

→ Turkish: modem

→ Vietnamese: modem

Choose and rent, over PC and modem and fiber-optic line, from tens of thousands of second-run films, documentaries, the occasional sport, old beloved non—‘Happy Days’ programs, wholly new programs, cultural stuff, and c.[…]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 416:

(computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.

modem

device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals


dialogue

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

dialogues (plural)
dialog (alternative US)

Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

der

Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.

(computing, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of dialog.


capture

en-noun

capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)

Gulf Arabic: كبجر (kabčar)

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

bor+

After the match […], the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.

2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409:

(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.


if

eef (alternative)
ifen (alternative)
iffen (alternative)
if'n (alternative)

From Middle English if, yif, yef, from Old English ġif (“if”), from Proto-West Germanic *jabu, *jabē, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”). Cognate with Scots gif (“if, whether”), Saterland Frisian af, of (“if, whether”), West Frisian oft (“whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), Middle Low German ef, if, af, of ("if; whether"; > German Low German of), German ob (“if, whether”), Icelandic ef (“if”).

gloss

"if; whether"; > German Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds-de">of</i>

I wouldn't piss on someone if they were on fire

one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

if A then B else C

Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition that may be (or prove to be) either true or false.

(computing) A keyword that invokes conditional processing: in the event that a given condition is true, execute the given statement(s) (otherwise execute other statements).


join

en-verb

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)

joins (present singular third-person)
joining (participle present)
joined (participle past)
joined (past)
join (infinitive)
join (first-person present singular)
joined (first-person past singular)
join (present second-person singular)
joinest (archaic present second-person singular)
joined (past second-person singular)
joinedst (archaic past second-person singular)
joins (present singular third-person)
joineth (archaic present singular third-person)
joined (past singular third-person)
join (plural present)
joined (past plural)
join (present subjunctive)
joined (past subjunctive)
join (imperative present)
joining (participle present)
joined (participle past)
joyn (alternative obsolete)
joyne (alternative obsolete)
joyen (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.

der

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.

(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.


join

joins (plural)
joyn (alternative obsolete)
joyne (alternative obsolete)
joyen (alternative obsolete)

(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]

2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference:

(computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.


list

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
Cognates
* Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”)
*Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”)
* German Low German Liest (“edging, border”)
* German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”)
* Swedish lista (“list”)
* Icelandic lista listi (“list”)
* Italian lista (“list; strip”)
* Portuguese lista (“list”)
* Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”)
* Galician lista (“band, strip; list”)
* Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).

cog

Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program.

1985 March 10, Ed Acly, “A Tale of Three Languages: C, Ada & Lisp”, in Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XIX, number 12, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page ID/10, columns 1–2:

programming language
programming language

(computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

llista

computing: codified representation of a list


narrow

en-adj

narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)

narrower (comparative)
narrowest (superlative)
narrowe (alternative)

From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”).
Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic njörva- (“narrow-”, in compounds).

cog

a narrow character; a narrow stream

(computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.


wide

en-adj

wide (comparative wider or more wide, superlative widest or most wide)

wider (comparative)
more wide (comparative)
widest (superlative)
most wide (superlative)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

compound

a wide character; a wide stream

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.


blade

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

teh

typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or other cutting tool


pull

en-verb

pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)

pulls (present singular third-person)
pulling (participle present)
pulled (participle past)
pulled (past)

push

antonym(s) of “apply force to (something) so it comes towards one”

-ʊl (accents with foot–goose merger or full–fool merger)

Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).

cog

it's not the whistle that pulls the train

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

(computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.


push

en-verb

push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)

pushes (present singular third-person)
pushing (participle present)
pushed (participle past)
pushed (past)
push (infinitive)
push (first-person present singular)
pushed (first-person past singular)
push (present second-person singular)
pushest (archaic present second-person singular)
pushed (past second-person singular)
pushedst (archaic past second-person singular)
pushes (present singular third-person)
pusheth (archaic present singular third-person)
pushed (past singular third-person)
push (plural present)
pushed (past plural)
push (present subjunctive)
pushed (past subjunctive)
push (imperative present)
pushing (participle present)
pushed (participle past)

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare (“to beat, strike”), frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus). Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:

(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

työntää

computing: to add a data item to the top of a stack

Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.

2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968:

(computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.

työntää

computing: to publish an update, etc. by transmitting it to other computers


push

en-noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.


float

en-verb

float (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)

floats (present singular third-person)
floating (participle present)
floated (participle past)
floated (past)

From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). Compare flow, fleet.

(computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.


float

From Middle English flote, from Old English flota (“sailor, boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotō, from Proto-Germanic *flutô, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-.

Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]

2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36:

When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.

2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93:

(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.


flow

flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)

flows (present singular third-person)
flowing (participle present)
flowed (participle past)
flowed (past)

From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.

(transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.


plenum

From Latin plēnum, noun use of neuter of plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.

sl

(computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.


volume

en-noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

volumes (plural)
vol. (alternative abbreviation)

From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

том

computing: accessible storage area with a single file system


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Press the Escape key.

(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

sleutel

button on a typewriter or computer keyboard

(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

sleutel

computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array


key

en-verb

key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)

keys (present singular third-person)
keying (participle present)
keyed (participle past)
keyed (past)

Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.


engine

→ Afrikaans: enjin

→ Bengali: ইঞ্জিন (injin)

→ Hindi: इंजन (iñjan)

→ Hong Kong Cantonese: engine

→ Iban: injin

→ Japanese: エンジン

→ Hakka: 引擎 (ên-chín)

→ Min Nan: 引擎 (ia̋n-jín)

→ Korean: 엔진 (enjin)

→ Malay: enjin

Indonesian: enjin

→ Portuguese: engine

→ Punjabi: ਇੰਞਣ (iññaṇ)

→ Scottish Gaelic: einnsean

→ Swahili: injini

→ Shanghainese: 引擎 (in¹-jin⁶)

→ Chinese: 引擎 (yǐnqíng)

From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

der

a graphics engine

a physics engine

(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.

2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82:

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

(computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

en:computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value


state

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stāre (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand.

der

something is rotten in the state of Denmark

there is something rotten in the state of Denmark

In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.

A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

وَضْع

computing: the stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle

The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.

(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

estat

computing: the set of all parameters relevant to a computation

A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

estat

computing: the values of all parameters at some point in a computation


federation

en-noun

federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)

federations (plural)
fœderation (alternative)

desc

ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း

→ Burmese: ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း (hpaida.re:hrang:)

/ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪʃn̩/

Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.

(computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.


MDM

en-noun

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

master data management
master data management#English

(computing) Initialism of master data management.

(computing) Initialism of mobile device management.


handle

desctree

→ Japanese: ハンドル (handoru)
→ Hokkien: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh)
→ Sakizaya: handulu

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

This article describes how to find the module name from the window handle.

A handle for a type instance is similar to an open file descriptor; it is used to reference that type instance when performing operations on it.

1989, Petrus Maria Gerardus Apers, Gio Wiederhold, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very Large Data, page 383:

By contrast, when a host function creates a handle for a nested function and returns that handle to a calling program, the host function's workspace is created and remains in existence for as long as the function handle remains in existence.

2008, Stephen J. Chapman, MATLAB programming for engineers, →ISBN, page 354:

(computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.

句柄

computing: reference to an object or structure


display

en-noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

desctree

→ Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
→ Kazakh: дисплей (displei)

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

der

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

(computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.


attachment

en-noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


h

If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers:

The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.

1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book, page 47:

(computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number).


k

(computing) A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).

(computing) A kilobit (more formally kb), especially in measuring Internet connection.


wedge

en-verb

wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)

wedges (present singular third-person)
wedging (participle present)
wedged (participle past)
wedged (past)

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

(computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.

(computing) In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").


cylinder

→ Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)

→ Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.

(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.


batch

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

խմբաքանակ

quantity of baked goods made at one time

The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.


batch

en-verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

batches (present singular third-person)
batching (participle present)
batched (participle past)
batched (past)

The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.


prefix

prefixes (plural)
præfix (alternative obsolete)
prefixe (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Late Latin praefīxum, from Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix. Doublet of the archaic synonym prefixum.

The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.

prefiks

computing: initial segment of a string of characters


flash

flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)

flashes (present singular third-person)
flashing (participle present)
flashed (participle past)
flashed (past)

In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.

(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).

uudelleenkirjoittaa

computing: to write to the memory of an updatable component


flash

en-noun

flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)

→ Catalan: flaix

→ Polish: flesz

onomatopoeic

imitative

The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.

(computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.


pass

→ Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se)

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

(computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.


pass

Anyone want to trade passes?

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

(computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).


hammer

en-verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

hammers (present singular third-person)
hammering (participle present)
hammered (participle past)
hammered (past)

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.

sense

the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]

1995, Optimizing Windows NT, volume 4, page 226:

(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).


annotation

en-noun

annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)

/ˌænəˈteɪʃən/

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.

(computing) Metadata added to a document or program.


domain

range

antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

definisieversameling

(mathematics) the set on which a function is defined

2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

(computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

(computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

(computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.


profile

en-verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)

profiles (present singular third-person)
profiling (participle present)
profiled (participle past)
profiled (past)

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

(computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.


home

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

cog

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

inici

home directory — see also home directory


read-only memory

en-noun

read-only memory (countable and uncountable, plural read-only memories)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-read-only memory.wav

(computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.

միայն կարդալու հիշողություն

memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates


random access memory

random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)

random access memories (plural)
random-access memory (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-random access memory.wav

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

computer memory in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed — see also RAM

隨機存取存儲器 /随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì

(computing, electronics) Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.


platform

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

der

That program runs on the X Window System platform.

“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.

1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56:

computing platform
computing platform#English

(computing) Ellipsis of computing platform (“a particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software”).

مَنَصَّة

computing: particular type of operating system or environment


gem

en-noun

gem (countable and uncountable, plural gems)

Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.

der

(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.


delegate

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.

Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:

(computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.


delegate

en-verb

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

delegates (present singular third-person)
delegating (participle present)
delegated (participle past)
delegated (past)

/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

/ˈdɛləˌɡeɪt/

/ˈdeləˌɡæɪt/

From the above noun by metanalysis or directly borrowed from Latin dēlēgātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

(computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.


upcast

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

(computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.


upcast

upcast (third-person singular simple present upcasts, present participle upcasting, simple past and past participle upcast or upcasted)

upcasts (present singular third-person)
upcasting (participle present)
upcast (participle past)
upcast (past)
upcasted (participle past)
upcasted (past)

(transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.


menu

→ Cebuano: menu

→ Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)

→ Japanese: メニュー (menyū)

→ Korean: 메뉴 (menyu)

→ Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)

→ Tok Pisin: menyu

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface

قَائِمَة

computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed


organizer

organizers (plural)
organiser (alternative)

/ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/

I'll add that meeting to my organizer.

(computing) A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.


hand-held

hand-helds (plural)
hand held (alternative)
handheld (alternative)

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.


log in

log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

logs in (present singular third-person)
logging in (participle present)
logged in (participle past)
logged in (past)

By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.

I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.

войти́

в систему v sistému


password

passwords (plural)
pass-word (alternative)

From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.

A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

(computing, cryptography) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.

wagwoord

computing: string of characters known only to a user

passkey

coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords

keyphrase

used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces


password

password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

passwords (present singular third-person)
passwording (participle present)
passworded (participle past)
passworded (past)
pass-word (alternative)

(computing, transitive) To protect with a password.


dump

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The new XML dump is coming soon.

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.


dump

en-verb

dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)

dumps (present singular third-person)
dumping (participle present)
dumped (participle past)
dumped (past)

→ French: domper

onomatopoeic

imitative

to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge

(transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

dumpata

to copy data from a system to another place or system

(transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.


evil

en-adj

evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)

eviller (comparative)
eviler (comparative)
more evil (comparative)
evillest (superlative)
evilest (superlative)
most evil (superlative)

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).

cog

Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

(computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: پيپ (pēp, bēb, “smoking pipe”), پايپ (pāyp, bāyb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

roura

computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another

A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.

(computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

pleca

data backbone or broadband Internet access

While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.

2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet):

(computing, typography) The character |.

Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.


pipe

en-verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

pipes (present singular third-person)
piping (participle present)
piped (participle past)
piped (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

(transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.


mask

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).

蒙版

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

(computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.


mask

en-verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

masks (present singular third-person)
masking (participle present)
masked (participle past)
masked (past)
masque (alternative)

That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[…]

1993, Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering, page 287:

(transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.

Some hardware interrupts can be masked, or disabled; that is, the CPU is told to ignore them.

1998, Rick Grehan, Robert Moote, Ingo Cyliax, Real-Time Programming: A Guide to 32-bit Embedded Development, page 199:

(transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.

piilottaa

computing: to disable by setting or unsetting the associated bit


alert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

(computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).


information

en-noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/

From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).

der

information and communications technology

(computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).


directory

From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrectōrium. Doublet of directorium.

/dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/

(computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.

(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.


group

groups (plural)
groop (alternative nonstandard)
groupe (alternative obsolete)

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).
In the “group theory” sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.


stealth

en-verb

stealth (third-person singular simple present stealths, present participle stealthing, simple past and past participle stealthed)

stealths (present singular third-person)
stealthing (participle present)
stealthed (participle past)
stealthed (past)

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

(especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.


bulletin board system

en-noun

bulletin board system (plural bulletin board systems)

bulletin board systems (plural)
bulletin-board system (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bulletin board system.wav

As companies increase their use of microcomputer-based bulletin board systems, microcomputer managers are finding themselves saddled with the responsibility of being system operators for the boards.

1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, in InfoWorld, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, page 18:

Hackers and hacker clubs primarily communicate by means of bulletin board systems. It is estimated that there are about 1,300 underground bulletin boards in the U.S.

2001, Sanjiv Purba, Architectures for E-Business Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 702:

(computing, historical) A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.

電子佈告欄 /电子布告栏

computer system to exchange messages and data


kernel

→ Japanese: カーネル (kāneru)

From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).

ядро

(mathematics, algebra) set of elements mapped to zero

The Linux kernel is open-source.

(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

نَوَاة

(computing) central part of many computer operating systems

(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.


fast

en-adj

fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)

faster (comparative)
fastest (superlative)

slow

antonym(s) of “occurring or happening within a short time”

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

алас

moving or capable of moving with great speed

masalusu

velocity of a flowing liquid in a body of water

don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly

But at the microlevel it consists of an unimaginable number of atoms connected by springy chemical bonds, all jiggling around at a rate that even our fastest supercomputer might envy.

2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in The New York Times:

(computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.

nopea

computing: able to transfer data in a short period of time


file

→ Armenian: ֆայլ (fayl)

→ Azerbaijani: fayl

→ Belarusian: файл (fajl)

→ Bulgarian: файл (fajl)

→ Bengali: ফাইল (phail)

→ Burmese: ဖိုင် (hpuing)

→ Dutch: file

→ Estonian: fail

→ Finnish: faili

→ German: File

→ Hindi: फ़ाइल (fāil)

→ Hungarian: fájl

→ Italian: file

→ Japanese: ファイル (fairu)

→ Korean: 파일 (pail)

→ Lao: ໄຟລ໌ (flai)

→ Latvian: fails

→ Lithuanian: failas

→ Macedonian: фајл (fajl)

→ Malay: fail

→ Maltese: fajl

→ Oromo: faayila

→ Persian: فایل (fâyl)

→ Portuguese: file

→ Russian: файл (fajl)

→ Kazakh: файл (fail)

→ Kyrgyz: файл (fayl)

→ Mongolian: файл (fajl)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фајл

Latin script: fajl

→ Slovak: fajl

→ Swahili: faili

→ Tajik: файл (fayl)

→ Thai: ไฟล์ (faai)

→ Turkmen: faýl

→ Ukrainian: файл (fajl)

→ Urdu: فائل (fāil)

→ Uzbek: fayl

→ Welsh: ffeil

From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.

I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.

(computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.


edit

Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.

(computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.


edit

en-verb

edit (third-person singular simple present edits, present participle editing, simple past and past participle edited)

edits (present singular third-person)
editing (participle present)
edited (participle past)
edited (past)

Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.

(computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.


view

model

antonym(s) of “part of computer program”

→ Japanese: ビュー (byū)

→ Korean: 뷰 (byu)

→ Persian: ویو (viyu)

From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.

(computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.

(computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with

view

computing: user interface part of program


image

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)


image

image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

images (present singular third-person)
imaging (participle present)
imaged (participle past)
imaged (past)

(transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.


help

en-noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).

inh

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated

I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.

(computing) Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.

ndihmë

textual support of a software application


link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

Hong Kong Cantonese: link (ling1), 拎 (ling1)

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

enllaç

computing: connection between buses or systems


hardware

→ Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)

From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:

(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.


refresh

en-verb

refresh (third-person singular simple present refreshes, present participle refreshing, simple past and past participle refreshed)

refreshes (present singular third-person)
refreshing (participle present)
refreshed (participle past)
refreshed (past)

From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.

virkistää

computing: to perform periodic energizing

She refreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.

2007, Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous:

(computing, ambitransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.

опреснявам

computing: to reload a document, web page etc.

You can save your code, refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment […]

2007, Philip C Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails):

(computing, ambitransitive) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.

aktualigi

computing: to cause to refresh a display


refresh

(computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.


memory

en-noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English ġemimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria. Displaced native Old English ġemynd, which took on a different meaning as modern mind.

cog

This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need. Hah. I know better now.

1987 July 27, Jerry Pournelle, “Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full”, in InfoWorld, volume 9, number 30, InfoWorld Media Group Inc, page 46:

(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).


execute

en-verb

execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)

executes (present singular third-person)
executing (participle present)
executed (participle past)
executed (past)
exequte (alternative obsolete)
exequute (alternative obsolete)
exsecute (alternative obsolete)
exsequute (alternative obsolete)

From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor (“to follow (up/through)”, particularly in the sense “to go through with a deed or punishment”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

m-g

to execute a program

(transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.

نَفَّذَ

to start a defined process and run it to completion

نَفَّذَ

to start a defined process, without regard to whether it runs to completion or not

The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

(intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.


GB

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

1989, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, IBM, page 7:

For those who aren’t aware, a Nitro Basic subscription costs $3 a month. Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to stream videos in 4K and use emojis in channels. In comparison, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram offer a 2 GB file limit.

2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, in Dexerto:

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibyte.


ASP

application service provider
w:application service provider

(computing) Initialism of application service provider.


PS

(computing, file format) PostScript, a page description language.


host

hosts (plural)
hoast (alternative obsolete)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis
Proto-Italic *hostipotis
Latin hospes
Old French ostebor.
Middle English hoste
English host
From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.

der

(computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.

ܡܐܲܪܚܵܢܵܐ

computing: computer attached to a network


host

en-verb

host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)

hosts (present singular third-person)
hosting (participle present)
hosted (participle past)
hosted (past)
hoast (alternative obsolete)

Kremvax hosts a variety of services.

CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.

1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., “Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet):

(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.

ܐܲܪܸܚ

computing: run software for a remote user or process


hyperlink

→ Danish: hyperlink

From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link.

Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.

(Internet) Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.

tejlidhje

link from one electronic document to another


call

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

calls (present singular third-person)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic participle past)
call'd (archaic past)
call (infinitive)
call (first-person present singular)
called (first-person past singular)
callest (archaic present second-person singular)
called (past second-person singular)
calledst (archaic past second-person singular)
calls (present singular third-person)
calleth (archaic present singular third-person)
called (past singular third-person)
call (plural present)
called (past plural)
call (present subjunctive)
called (past subjunctive)
call (imperative present)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
call'd (archaic participle past)

→ Kashubian: kolowac (United States)

From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

cog

call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel

call someone everything but a child of God

desperate times call for desperate measures

is that what the kids are calling it these days

A recursive function is one that calls itself.

(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.


call

en-noun

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

→ Armenian: քոլ (kʻol)

→ Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

the call is coming from inside the house

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

crida

computing: act of jumping to a subprogram


defenestrate

en-verb

defenestrate (third-person singular simple present defenestrates, present participle defenestrating, simple past and past participle defenestrated)

defenestrates (present singular third-person)
defenestrating (participle present)
defenestrated (participle past)
defenestrated (past)

First attested in 1904; back-formation from defenestration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from New Latin dē- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -ātiō (“-ation”).

This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)

1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair, Usenet http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2

◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.

2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News

2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,
Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.

(computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer).


magic

en-noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

magics (plural)
magick (alternative)
magicke (alternative obsolete)
magique (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: マジック (majikku)

→ Korean: 매직 (maejik)

From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.

toorkuns

use of rituals or actions exploiting the supernatural

toorkuns

ritual associated with supernatural magic or mysticism

աճպարարություն

illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural

The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.

2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook, page 257:

Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.

(computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.


splash

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.

2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005:


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)

Atanasoff-Berry computer
w:Atanasoff-Berry computer

(computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.

artificial bee colony
artificial bee colony#English

(computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.


ABC

Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.

(computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.


output

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

a six-page output; six pages of output

That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.

(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.


output

en-verb

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)

outputs (present singular third-person)
outputting (participle present)
output (participle past)
output (past)
outputted (participle past)
outputted (past)

When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.


kick

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

kicks (present singular third-person)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)
kicked (past)
kick (infinitive)
kick (first-person present singular)
kicked (first-person past singular)
kick (present second-person singular)
kickest (archaic present second-person singular)
kicked (past second-person singular)
kickedst (archaic past second-person singular)
kicks (present singular third-person)
kicketh (archaic present singular third-person)
kicked (past singular third-person)
kick (plural present)
kicked (past plural)
kick (present subjunctive)
kicked (past subjunctive)
kick (imperative present)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)

→ German: kicken

→ Welsh: cicio

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

штовхну́ти

ного́ю; нога́ми

In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.

1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98:

From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.

2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763:

(computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).


PET

en-noun

PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)

The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225:

personal electronic transactor
w:Commodore PET

(countable, historical, computing, backronym) Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.


GCC

* (GNU Compiler Collection): GCC was originally an acronym for "GNU C Compiler", now a backronym for "GNU Compiler Collection".
* (Gulf Cooperation Council): Initialism of Gulf Cooperation Council.

(computing) Initialism of GNU Compiler Collection, a collection of compilers for C, C++, Fortran, etc. aiming to be standards-compliant and correct.


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.


dev

dev (countable and uncountable, plural devs)

French: dev


Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

(computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

(computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.


en-verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

nulls (present singular third-person)
nulling (participle present)
nulled (participle past)
nulled (past)

A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.

2020, Tejas Mayekar, Destroyed In Seconds: 10 Mistakes That Will Destroy Your Website, page 6:

(computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

(uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:

We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).

2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.
These versions of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are betas and don’t represent final software.

2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN:

(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game

(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.


beta

(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.


beta

en-verb

beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)

betas (present singular third-person)
betaing (participle present)
betaed (participle past)
betaed (past)

(computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.


download

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

downloads (present singular third-person)
downloading (participle present)
downloaded (participle past)
downloaded (past)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)

→ Danish: downloade

→ Dutch: downloaden

→ German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)

desc

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Malay: muat turun (calque)

→ Maltese: ddawnlowdja

→ Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.

You can download Google's deskbar for free […]

2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences.
Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.

2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3

Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.

2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38:

With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:

That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.

2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

نَزَّلَ

to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one


cloudlet

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The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.

2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(computing) A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.


delta

From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ

When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.

(computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.

muutos

computing: set of differences between two versions of a file

This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.

(computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.


delta

en-verb

delta (third-person singular simple present deltas, present participle deltaing, simple past and past participle deltaed)

deltas (present singular third-person)
deltaing (participle present)
deltaed (participle past)
deltaed (past)

The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.

1992, Israel Silverberg, Source File Management With SCCS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 166:

(computing) To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).


epsilon

en-noun

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).

uder

Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.

All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106:

(computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.


binary code

en-noun

binary code (countable and uncountable, plural binary codes)

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(computing) A code that uses the binary digits (1 and 0), usually in groups of eight, to represent characters, machine instructions or other data.


UPN

(computing) Initialism of user principal name.


paragraph

/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

der

(computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.


TM

en-noun

TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)

(computing) Initialism of Turing machine.


dl

(computing) Download; Alternative form of DL.


dl

en-verb

dl (third-person singular simple present dls, present participle dling, simple past and past participle dled)

dls (present singular third-person)
dling (participle present)
dled (participle past)
dled (past)
DL (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

echoes (plural)
echos (plural)
echoe (alternative)
eccho (alternative)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

kaiutus

When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.

(computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.


echo

en-verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

echoes (present singular third-person)
echoing (participle present)
echoed (participle past)
echoed (past)
echoe (alternative)
eccho (alternative)

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:

(computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.


MSN

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Network.

(computing, informal) Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft.


buggy

en-adj

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

buggier (comparative)
buggiest (superlative)

This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

(computing) Containing programming errors.


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

(computing) Initialism of program counter.


artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial intelligences)

/ˌɑː.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/

/ˌɑɹ.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/

Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956.

kunsmatige intelligensie

intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity

ሠው ሰራሽ ዕውቀት

śäw säraš ʿəwḳät

artificially intelligent → artificially intelligently

Leo also said journalists must use artificial intelligence with “responsibility and discernment”.

2025 May 12, Angela Giuffrida, “Zelenskyy invites Pope Leo to Ukraine as pontiff urges journalists to report truth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, human-made) entity.

(countable, computing) A computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent.


emu

Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

2005 February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet), message-ID <9XkTd.5830$Ba3.2608@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>:

(computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.


OE

(computing) Initialism of Outlook Express.


declaration

en-noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

/ˌdɛkləˈɹeɪʃən/

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

(computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.


terminal

→ Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)

→ Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)

→ Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)

desctree

→ Russian: термина́л (terminál)
→ Kazakh: терминал (terminal)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

термина́л

computing - the end of a line of signals

(computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.

тэрміна́л

(computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.

тэрміна́л

computer program that emulates a terminal


tar

(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.

(computing) A file produced by such a program.


tar

en-verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

tars (present singular third-person)
tarring (participle present)
tarred (participle past)
tarred (past)

(computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.


SSE

Streaming SIMD Extensions
w:Streaming SIMD Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.

Streaming SIMD Extensions

2012, Django push: Using Server-Sent Events and WebSocket with Django, Curella. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115183325/http://curella.org/blog/django-push-using-server-sent-events-and-websocket/
There are currently a few alternative technologies for pushing events to the browser: Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket.
SSEs are a simpler protocol and are easier to implement, but they provide communication only in one direction

WebSockets is the optimal transport, but other techniques like Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Long Polling are used when other options aren't available. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/azure-signalr/signalr-overview

2024, What is Azure SignalR Service?, Microsoft:

(computing) Initialism of Server-sent events, a technique for pushing events from HTTP server to client, specified in HTML5.


function

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

der

(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

وَظِيفَة

computing: routine that returns a result


error

en-noun

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

errors (plural)
errour (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).

surf

-or<pos:suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition>

:Category:English terms prefixed with mis-

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error

(computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.