shallow copy

If you modify that, you'll modify all the shallow copies of the header that points to it.

(computing) A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original.


deep copy

Don't try to make a deep copy of that: you'll pull in half the database.

(computing) A copy of a data structure duplicating not only the structure itself, but all structures to which it is linked.


potato

en-noun

potato (countable and uncountable, plural potatoes)

[pə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]

[pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ]

[pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.

2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer

If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer

Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.

(humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.


thumbnail

desc

→ Japanese: サムネイル (samuneiru), サムネール (samunēru); サムネ (samune) — clipping

→ Portuguese: thumbnail

→ German: Thumbnail

From thumb + nail. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.

(chiefly computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.


thumbnail

en-verb

thumbnail (third-person singular simple present thumbnails, present participle thumbnailing, simple past and past participle thumbnailed)

thumbnails (present singular third-person)
thumbnailing (participle present)
thumbnailed (participle past)
thumbnailed (past)

(transitive, computing) To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).


sheet

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”).
Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

cog

The gecko moves from left to right and you must catch him when he calls. […] On the second sheet you must stand under the Gecko in the tree and jump, and on the third sheet you must catch the Gecko's friend.

1983, "Program Printout: Gecko" (in Sinclair User, issue 21, page 95)

If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.

What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.

1984, Chris Passey, Matthew Uffindell, “Run It Again”, in Crash, number 4

(video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.


guard

From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.

der

(programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.


steward

head

steward (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stīweard, stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

управител

any administrator of the property or affairs of another

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.


local

en-adj

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

more local (comparative)
most local (superlative)

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

der

local disk drive

local file

The panel shows both local and remote sites.

(computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.


local

Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25

(programming) A locally scoped identifier.

Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […]

2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25

Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.

2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11

Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.

2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60

(fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.


abandonware

en-noun

abandonware (countable and uncountable, plural abandonwares)

→ Polish: abandonware

RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a evaluation
RR> version available?
It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)

1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-08, message-ID <ff1_9610122110@mb.fidonet.org>

Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor. Software that is still being sold, but no longer supported, is sometimes also referred to as abandonware.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, page 1

(software, chiefly video games) A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.

programari descatalogat

software which has been abandoned by its developer


canvas

From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.

(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.


recurse

en-verb

recurse (third-person singular simple present recurses, present participle recursing, simple past and past participle recursed)

recurses (present singular third-person)
recursing (participle present)
recursed (participle past)
recursed (past)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)s/

The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.

(intransitive, computing) To execute a procedure recursively.


conversation

en-noun

conversation (countable and uncountable, plural conversations)

[ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩]

[ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩]

From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”).
Morphologically converse + -ation.

(computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.


recursion

recursion (countable and uncountable, plural recursions)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).

bor

This function uses recursion to compute factorials.

When an algorithm makes two recursive calls, we say that it uses binary recursion.

2011, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, David M. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, page 144

(programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

تَسَلْسُل

the invocation of a procedure from within itself


wipe

en-verb

wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped)

wipes (present singular third-person)
wiping (participle present)
wiped (participle past)
wiped (past)

From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.

cog

I accidentally wiped my hard drive.


wipe

From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.

If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

(intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.


wipe

(roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.


job

→ Antillean Creole: djòb

→ French: job

→ Louisiana Creole: djòb

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

der

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

зада́ча

computing: task(s) carried out in batch mode


poke

en-verb

poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)

pokes (present singular third-person)
poking (participle present)
poked (participle past)
poked (past)

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

onomatopoeic

imitative

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

Coordinate term: peek

The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.

1984 July 30, Franco Frey, “SPECGRAFFITI”, in Crash, number 6

If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.

1985, Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook, page 44

(transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

kirjoittaa

computing: to modify the value stored in a memory address

Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info.

2009, Alexander Tokar, Metaphors of the Web 2.0, Peter Lang, page 68

(transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.


poke

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

[…] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes.

1984, Electronics & Wireless World, volume 90, page 6

One of the major limitations is that the Commodore 64 does not easily support auto-repeat (it must be turned on by a poke instruction from BASIC).

1984, Northcon/84, Mini/Micro Northwest-84 Conference Record

Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users.

1988 July 30, Lloyd Mangram, “Forum”, in Crash, number 54

(computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

It could be described as a poke, but not a friendly one. For those who have not yet succumbed to Facebook, the latest craze on the internet, a ‘poke’ is an electronic greeting sent, for example, to an old friend from university.

2007 July 22, David Smith, “Faceoff!”, in The Guardian

(informal, social media) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.


scum

en-verb

scum (third-person singular simple present scums, present participle scumming, simple past and past participle scummed)

scums (present singular third-person)
scumming (participle present)
scummed (participle past)
scummed (past)

From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Dutch schūme (“foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”). Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), West Frisian skuum, German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Saterland Frisian Skuum, Sicilian scuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim.

der

(video games, informal) To startscum or savescum.


recursive

en-adj

recursive (comparative more recursive, superlative most recursive)

more recursive (comparative)
most recursive (superlative)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/

Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurs + -ive

lbor

filtered-popping recursive transition network

(computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself

rekurzivní

computing: of a program or function that calls itself

(computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time

recursief

computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time

(computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

recursief

computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive

recursively enumerable

of a set, whose characteristic function is recursive


recur

en-verb

recur (third-person singular simple present recurs, present participle recurring, simple past and past participle recurred)

recurs (present singular third-person)
recurring (participle present)
recurred (participle past)
recurred (past)


locale

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.


ATM

en-noun

ATM (countable and uncountable, plural ATMs)

(computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.


shadow

en-verb

shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)

shadows (present singular third-person)
shadowing (participle present)
shadowed (participle past)
shadowed (past)

From Middle English schadowe, schadewe, schadwe (also schade > shade), from Old English sċeaduwe, sċeadwe, oblique form of sċeadu (“shadow, shade; darkness; protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shade, shadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots scaddow, schaddow (“shadow”), Saterland Frisian Skaad (“shade, shadow”), Dutch schaduw (“shadow”), German Schatten (“shadow, shade”), Norwegian skodde (“fog, mist”), Irish scáth (“shadow”), Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos, “darkness, gloom”).

cog

In this snippet, inside the for loop the a and b variables shadow variables from the outer scope, and while legal, this is almost certainly a programming error.

2012, Mark Summerfield, Programming in Go, Addison-Wesley, page 189

(transitive, programming) To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.

varjostaa

programming: to make an identifier inaccessible

(transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).

varjostaa

computing: to apply the shadowing process to


blame

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).

(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.


draft

en-noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw (“to draw, drag”) + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.

draught

British spelling of many senses, but not all

I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.

His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.

Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43

(universal) An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.


mode

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

der

In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer.

(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.

рэжы́м

computing: one of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours

Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode.

2017 October 17, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode”, in Ars Technica

I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer

Selfie modes, meanwhile, let you add filters and change characters’ facial expressions, from Link in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2.

2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian

(video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.


thumbshot

(computing) A thumbnail snapshot of an electronic document.


thumbshot

en-verb

thumbshot (third-person singular simple present thumbshots, present participle thumbshotting, simple past and past participle thumbshotted)

thumbshots (present singular third-person)
thumbshotting (participle present)
thumbshotted (participle past)
thumbshotted (past)

(computing, transitive) To take a snapshot of (an electronic document).


cart

→ Japanese: カート (kāto)

→ Korean: 카트 (kateu)

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), akin to Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).


cart

My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

(computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]

2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, page 31

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance.

2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.

(attributive, linguistics, computing) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.


ghost

en-verb

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

ghostol

computing: to copy a file or hard drive image — see also copy

Whenever a menu or menu item is inappropriate or unavailable for selection, it should be ghosted. Never allow the user to select something that does nothing in response.

1991, Amiga User Interface Style Guide, page 76

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

kiszürkít

graphical user interface: to gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable — see also gray out

I'm so untechnical that I once ghosted a registered IRC nick and then tried to identify myself to NickServ with the valid password before actually changing my nick to the aforementioned moniker.

2001, Luke, “to leave (vb.): Hurg [OT]”, in alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island (Usenet)

(Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

I’ve recently been trying out Tinder, and while I match with people and even chat with them everything seems to be going well, but whenever I bring up meeting IRL, they are quick to ghost me.

2015 October 15, “Why is it so hard to go from chatting on Tinder to meeting up in real life?”, in The Guardian

By 6 p.m., I had a list of restaurants to try from Hamish, a chef who couldn’t meet, a follow-up from Adam (“I’ve never seen a room at the Ace....”), and an offer from Agoraphobic Paul to come over and “have a joint and a cuddle.” I’d confirmed a walking tour of Greenwich from Max, who ghosted.

2016 March 21, Allison P. Davies, “What I Learned Tindering My Way Across Europe”, in Travel + Leisure, archived from the original on 2018-01-06

Tinder knows me so well. It knows the real, inglorious version of me who copy-pasted the same joke to match 567, 568, and 569; who exchanged compulsively with 16 different people simultaneously one New Year’s Day, and then ghosted 16 of them.

2017 September 26, Judith Duportail, “I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets”, in The Guardian

He had texted, called, and emailed a bunch since then. I hadn't meant to ghost, but it was just easier not to deal with it.

(slang, social media) To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.

ghosten

slang, social media: to perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media


destroy

destroy (third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed)

destroys (present singular third-person)
destroying (participle present)
destroyed (participle past)
destroyed (past)

From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“I build”).

The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.

изтри́вам

(computing) to remove data (e.g., from memory)


hop

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

der

(networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

hyppy

sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey


rogue

→⇒ Irish: rógaire

→⇒ Irish: rógánta

Uncertain. From either:
* Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”).
* Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this.
* Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).

An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'.

2009 October 29, Larry Seltzer, “Scareware Tops Microsoft's Malware List”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues.

2013 October 31, “Windows PUPs: how do I remove potentially unwanted programs?”, in The Guardian

Now though researchers at Microsoft's Malware Protection Center are reporting a downward trend in the traffic generated by some of the most popular rogues over the past 12 months.

2014 August 20, Ian Barker, “Microsoft detects fall in fake antivirus traffic”, in BetaNews

(computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.

invasor

malware that presents itself as antispyware


toad

en-verb

toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)

toads (present singular third-person)
toading (participle present)
toaded (participle past)
toaded (past)

From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”).
Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast.

(Internet, informal, transitive) To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.


token

From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law.
The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian. Cognate with German Zeichen, Dutch teken and Danish tegn.

der

that and a token will get you on the subway

Coordinate term: placeholder

For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a token and passes this data package on to the parser.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine, page 68

(computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.

(computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

(computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.


acquire

en-verb

acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)

acquires (present singular third-person)
acquiring (participle present)
acquired (participle past)
acquired (past)
acquire (infinitive)

From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest.

(computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.


theology

en-noun

theology (usually uncountable, plural theologies)

Trésor de la langue française informatisé

From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek θεολογία (theología), from θεολόγος (theológos, adjective), from θεός (theós) + λόγος (lógos). By surface analysis, theo- + -logy.

While those folks are caught up in theological arguments about LISP versus PROLOG, […]

1986 December 9, Jim Seymour, “In plain English”, in PC Mag, volume 5, number 21, Ziff Davis, →ISSN, page 96

(uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.


vendor

en-verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

vendors (present singular third-person)
vendoring (participle present)
vendored (participle past)
vendored (past)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).

I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.

software engineering
software engineering

(transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

(transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.


portal

From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

jet bridge

elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport

The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.

(Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.


source

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. See surge.

der

(graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.


phishing

Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.

(computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.


Wikiholic

I'm a Wikipedia editor. A Wikiholic. I have some 500 articles on my watchlist (!!!) and I edit some of the more controversial articles on WP: the Islam-related articles. For many months, I have been butting heads with some Iranian Shi'a editors...

2005 November 27, Karen Lofstrom, “Peeve: Iranian Shi'a”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)

2005, Richard Quinn, as quoted by David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: Charlie Stross: Wikipedian Extraordinaire” (April 8), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet
I was blessed with insight, that rare moment of lucidity which can truly validate the Buddhist belief in a path to enlightenment: Charles Stross is a Wikiholic!

"A lot of them are probably the sort of people who would have social problems in real life," said one wikimaniac over lunch, as though being a "wikiholic" suggested a full and active life.

2006 August 9, “Gary Younge reports on Wiki-mania, and Wikipedia vandalism”, in The Guardian Unlimited

(wiki jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia or another wiki.

wikiholiker

person who devotes lots of time to a wiki-based project


dragon

→ Fijian: drekoni

→ Japanese: ドラゴン (doragon)

→ Marathi: ड्रॅगन (ḍrĕgan)

→ Marshallese: tūrāikōn

→ Niuean: tarākoni

→ Swahili: dragoni

→ Tamil: டிராகன் (ṭirākaṉ)

→ Yoruba: dírágónì

From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Displaced native Old English draca—a doublet of dragon, as are Draco, dracone, and dragoon.

taniwha

Maori mythological creature similar to a dragon

Daemons and Dragons. The print spooler is an example of a DAEMON, a program that executes in the background and provides a service […] Strictly speaking, a dragon is a daemon that is not invoked explicitly but is always there, waiting in the background […]

1995, Harley Hahn, The UNIX Companion, page 420

Many of the postmaster functions are actually handled by computer software such as dragons and mailer daemons.

2018, J. K. Petersen, Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary

(computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.


gig

Sense 1 is a clipping of gigabyte, while sense 2 is a clipping of giga- (prefix multiplying the unit to which it is attached by one billion).

This picture is almost a gig; don’t you want to resize it?

My new computer has over 500 gigs of hard drive space.

The restore would get through between 13 and 20 gigs of data, and then the tape would fail.

2003, IT Professional's Guide to E-mail Administration, CNET Networks Inc., page 88

(informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).


adventurer

Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.

1983 July, PC Mag, volume 2, number 2, page 351

It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.

1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)

(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.

Thronbewerber

social pretender on the lookout for advancement


intro

Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.

1999, brainpower / digital artists, “Win32 demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet)

Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

(demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.


thread

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), West Frisian tried, Dutch draad, German Draht, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish tråd, and Icelandic þráður. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.

cog

(computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

(Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.


interpolation

en-noun

interpolation (countable and uncountable, plural interpolations)

/ɪnˌtɜː(ɹ)pəˈleɪʃən/

From French interpolation, from Latin
 interpolatio.
Morphologically interpolate + -ion

(computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.

интерполя́ция

computing: process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program


copy

en-verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

copies (present singular third-person)
copying (participle present)
copied (participle past)
copied (past)

Etymology tree
Middle English copy
English copy
From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin cōpia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

der

First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.

(transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.


library

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: लाइब्रेरी f (lāibrerī)

Urdu: لائبریری f (lāibrerī)

→ Japanese: ライブラリー (raiburarī)

→ Korean: 라이브러리 (raibeureori)

→ Yoruba: láíbìrì

/ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi/

From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

ncog

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

Coordinate term: framework

A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.

2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 307

(programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.


op

(Internet) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.


op

en-verb

op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)

ops (present singular third-person)
opping (participle present)
opped (participle past)
opped (past)

True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.

1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.


empty

en-adj

empty (comparative emptier, superlative emptiest)

emptier (comparative)
emptiest (superlative)

From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.

der

(computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).


reluctant

en-adj

reluctant (comparative more reluctant, superlative most reluctant)

more reluctant (comparative)
most reluctant (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).

(regular expressions) Tending to match as little text as possible.


crack

en-verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)

cracks (present singular third-person)
cracking (participle present)
cracked (participle past)
cracked (past)

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).

cog

there's more than one way to crack an egg

you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

Nobody really knows how much actual damage cracking does to the software companies. But as the industry rolls apprehensively toward the uncertain future of an ever-more frictionless electronic marketplace, almost everyone thinks piracy will increase.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN

(transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.


crack

en-noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

破解

program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions on software


address

Tok Pisin: adres

→ Bole: adireshi

→ Cebuano: adres

→ Sinhalese: ඇඩ්රස් (æḍras)

→ Tagalog: adres

From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)), from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiō, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight or right”), from the verb dīrigō, itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).

osoite

property — see also location, property, premises, residence

valmistautuminen

(obsolete in English) act of getting ready — see also preparation

The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.

(computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address.


address

en-verb

address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)

addresses (present singular third-person)
addressing (participle present)
addressed (participle past)
addressed (past)
addrest (obsolete participle past)
addrest (obsolete past)

(transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.

adreçar

to refer to a location in computer memory


scale

scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)

scales (present singular third-person)
scaling (participle present)
scaled (participle past)
scaled (past)

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

(intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.


SSBM

Super Smash Bros. Melee
w:Super Smash Bros. Melee

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. Melee.


isochronal

From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -al.


alternation

en-noun

alternation (countable and uncountable, plural alternations)

Latin alternatio; compare French alternation.
Morphologically alternate + -ion

(computing) A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.


breadth

breadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)

From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th. Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).

(graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.


groom

en-verb

groom (third-person singular simple present grooms, present participle grooming, simple past and past participle groomed)

grooms (present singular third-person)
grooming (participle present)
groomed (participle past)
groomed (past)

From Middle English grom, grome (“man-child, boy, youth”), of uncertain origin. Apparently related to Middle Dutch grom (“boy”), Old Icelandic grómr, gromr (“man, manservant, boy”), Old French gromme (“manservant”), and also to Middle Dutch grom (“fish guts”), Middle Low German grôm (“fish guts”), from the same Proto-Germanic root. Possibly from Old English *grōma, from Proto-West Germanic *grōmō, *grōm (“swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”), from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”).
Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of gome (“man”) with an intrusive r (also found in bridegroom, hoarse, cartridge, etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms.

(transitive, software engineering) In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.


adventure

en-noun

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).
Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.

der

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/

/ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/

The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.

1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash, number 4, (review)

To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]

1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves [review]”, in Your Sinclair, number 29, archived from the original on 2013-05-26

Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.

1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.


agile

en-adj

agile (comparative agiler or more agile, superlative agilest or most agile)

agiler (comparative)
more agile (comparative)
agilest (superlative)
most agile (superlative)

From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.

agile methods

(chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.


agile

(chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.


migrate

en-verb

migrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)

migrates (present singular third-person)
migrating (participle present)
migrated (participle past)
migrated (past)

From Latin migratus, past participle of migrō (“migrate, change, transport”).

They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.

(transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.


table

→ Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)

→ Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)

→ Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)

→ Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)

→ Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)

→ Maori: tēpu

→ Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)

→ Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)

→ Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

der

(computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.


administrator

Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally “he that is near to attend”).

bor

(computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

адміністра́тар

computing: one who responsible for software and maintenance of a computer or network


active

en-adj

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

more active (comparative)
most active (superlative)

Albanian: aktiv

From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Morphologically act + -ive.

I think it should be upgraded to Visual BASIC, but I'm no good at that. So maybe someone here would like to take a crack at it. There are only 40 lines of active code, plus a few REMs. About 100 BASIC commands altogether.

2006 December 24, David Williams, “satellite program”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet)

Edge uses green text for comments. This makes it easier for you to quickly differentiate between active code and comments.

2012, Chris Grover, “Triggering Actions”, in Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual, 3rd edition, Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, page 98

(computing, of source code) Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.


Luganda

table
Portmanteau of Ukrainian Луга́нськ (Luhánsʹk) or Russian Луганск (Lugansk) + Uganda. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Луга́нда (Lugánda) or Ukrainian Луга́нда (Luhánda).

/luːˈɡɑːndə/

Coordinate term: Donbabwe

A novel abusive word for a resident of Lugansk "Lugan-don/Lugansk-condom" can be explained as either an agglutination of the two words "Lugansk" + "condom" or as a reference to a mythological country "Luganda" whose name comprises component "Lugansk" and "Uganda".

2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Chapter 11, page 285

Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Luhansk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Luhansk People's Republic.


croak

en-verb

croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

croaks (present singular third-person)
croaking (participle present)
croaked (participle past)
croaked (past)

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g- (compare Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati from *greh₂-k-), of onomatopoeic origin.

The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.

2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl, O'Reilly, page 200

(programming slang, Perl) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.


aggressive

en-adj

aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)

more aggressive (comparative)
most aggressive (superlative)

From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

rīrā

Spreading rapidly of a disease or tumour

This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, page 59

Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, page 173

However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.

2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, page 465

The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.

2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press →ISBN, page 249

This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.

2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer, page 182

The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.

2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, page 11

(programming) Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.


migration

en-noun

migration (countable and uncountable, plural migrations)

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“I migrate”).
Morphologically migrate + -ion

(computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.

হিজরত

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one


moustache

Used in English since the 16th century. Via French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.

der

In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.

2013, Peter Gasston, The Modern Web: Multi-device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, No Starch Press, page 102

(computing, informal) A curly bracket, { or }.


stuffing

en-noun

stuffing (countable and uncountable, plural stuffings)

(Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.


compare

compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)

From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).

[…] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.

1998, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings, IEEE, page 490

2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs
It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.

(countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.


seed

seed (countable and uncountable, plural seeds)

From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“sowing; seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.

alkutilanne

initial state, condition or position of a process

If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

As suggested in [3], space can be saved by using a deterministic pseudo random number generator (PRNG) and storing only the seed of that PRNG.

2009, Daniel J. Bernstein, Johannes Buchmann, Erik Dahmen, editors, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Springer, page 44

Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain. Each biome you spawn in is determined by the seed. With a custom seed, you can have a desert biome right next to a mesa biome.

2015, Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro, Minecraft For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 242

pseudorandom number generator
pseudorandom number generator

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

(cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)

siemenluku

The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.

(Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)


seed

en-verb

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

seeds (present singular third-person)
seeding (participle present)
seeded (participle past)
seeded (past)

(Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).


walk

From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

cog

(graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.

kulku

graph theory: a sequence of alternating vertices and edges


inherit

en-verb

inherit (third-person singular simple present inherits, present participle inheriting, simple past and past participle inherited)

inherits (present singular third-person)
inheriting (participle present)
inherited (participle past)
inherited (past)

From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.

ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window.

(computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.

For example, the following two code segments, from different assemblies, show how easy it is to inherit a class from another assembly.

(computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).


chord

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)

der

Ctrl-K is the default first key for chords, but you can create chords using any keys that you want.

2005, James Avery, Visual Studio hacks, page 99

(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.

(graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.


dom

en-verb

dom (third-person singular simple present doms, present participle domming, simple past and past participle dommed)

doms (present singular third-person)
domming (participle present)
dommed (participle past)
dommed (past)

Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."

2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34

(slang, online gaming or BDSM) To dominate.

switch

one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role


worm

From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.
(computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.
cognates
Germanic cognates include Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Swedish orm (“snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“earthworm or snake”), Danish orm and Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem).
Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian var̃mas (“insect, midge”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”).

шнек

something helical, especially the thread of a screw

When Trevor opened his worm email, it spread to 100 people in his address book.

(computing) A self-replicating malware that propagates through a network.


alive

en-adj

alive (comparative more alive, superlative most alive)

more alive (comparative)
most alive (superlative)

From Middle English alive, alife, olive, olife, on live, on life, from Old English on līf (“alive”, literally “in life" or "in (the) body”), from on (“on, in”) + līf, dative singular of līf (“life”). In this sense, replaced Old English cwic (whence English quick). Equivalent to a- + life. Compare Dutch in leven (“alive”, literally “in life”), German am Leben (“alive”, literally “at life" or "at living”).


clairvoyant

en-adj

clairvoyant (comparative more clairvoyant, superlative most clairvoyant)

more clairvoyant (comparative)
most clairvoyant (superlative)

From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).

(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.


leaf

en-noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

Tok Pisin: lip

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

flat-leaf parsley

Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group; syn. Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

blad

computing, mathematics: tree node without descendants


stale

en-adj

stale (comparative staler, superlative stalest)

staler (comparative)
stalest (superlative)

From Middle English stale, from Old French estale (“settled, clear”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ‘urine’.

The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.

(computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.


symmetric

symmetric (comparative more symmetric, superlative most symmetric)

more symmetric (comparative)
most symmetric (superlative)

From symmetry + -ic, from Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría).

(cryptography) Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.


pointer

From point + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 10).

I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures."

1974, Donald Knuth, “Structured Programming with go to Statements”, in Computing Surveys, volume 6, number 5, →DOI, archived from the original on 2009-08-24, pages 261–301

(programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

مُؤَشِّر

computer programming: variable that stores the address of another variable

The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing the appearance of the pointer. System-busy pointers usually adopt a timepiece metaphor.

1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley, page 231

(graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.


discard

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120

(programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.


trap

en-noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

cog

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.


trap

en-verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

traps (present singular third-person)
trapping (participle present)
trapped (participle past)
trapped (past)

(computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

paikallistaa

computing:to capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it


cursor

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

(graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.

նշորդ

GUI: moving icon representing the position of a pointing device

סמן עכבר m (saman akhbár, literally “mouse-cursor”)

འོད་རྟགས ('od rtags, literally “light-sign”)

མདའ (mda', literally “arrow”) (specifically, arrow-shaped cursors)

(computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

նշորդ

computing: indicator of where the next insertation or other edit will take place

(databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.

(programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.


cursor

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

cursors (present singular third-person)
cursoring (participle present)
cursored (participle past)
cursored (past)

The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22

(intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.


asymmetric

en-adj

asymmetric (comparative more asymmetric, superlative most asymmetric)

more asymmetric (comparative)
most asymmetric (superlative)

From a- + symmetric, as Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría, “disproportion, deformity”).

der

(cryptography) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.


rip

en-verb

rip (third-person singular simple present rips, present participle ripping, simple past and past participle ripped)

rips (present singular third-person)
ripping (participle present)
ripped (participle past)
ripped (past)

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną (compare West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijaną (compare Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”)), causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ *reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus (“bramble”)), variant of *Hrewp- (“to break”). More at reave, rob.

(transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.


rip

Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?

(computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

agentti

computing: part of the system that performs action on behalf of a client or server


flatbed

(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.


chap

(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).


escape

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

escapes (present singular third-person)
escaping (participle present)
escaped (participle past)
escaped (past)

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8

Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.

2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, in Inside ASP.NET, page 214

Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.

2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, in Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, page 213

When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.

Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

(transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

轉義

to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

stoppen

to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys


escape

You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).


register

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪs.tə/

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪs.tɚ/

From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).

der

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

If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.

регистър

computing: part of the central processing unit used to store and manipulate numbers


wallpaper

en-noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

You can design your own wallpaper using Paintbrush. A wallpaper appears on your desktop in tiles. The number of tiles that are needed to cover the desktop depends on the size of the canvas you use to create a wallpaper.

1997, Richard Dungworth, Philippa Wingate, Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 for Beginners, page 65

(computing, countable, uncountable) An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.


anon

An anonymous person, especially an author.

(Internet) An anonymous poster (“person who contributes a note, message, etc”). A participant in an online site, such as a forum or an imageboard, without an account, or who posts without identifying themselves, or hidden behind a pseudonym.


alias

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

bor

(computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.

kromnomo

abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)


alias

en-verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

aliases (present singular third-person)
aliasing (participle present)
aliased (participle past)
aliased (past)

(computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.

sinonimi

to assign an additional name to an entity


splash screen

Coordinate term: homescreen

While a splash screen is displayed, project forms can be loaded, databases accessed, local databases initialized, and information validated.

1998, Harold Davis, Visual Basic 6 Secrets, IDG Books, page 400

(graphical user interface) An initial screen displayed by an application, usually containing a logo, version information, and a copyright notice.

startskærm

graphical user interface: an initial screen displayed by interactive software


stuff

stuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)

stuffs (present singular third-person)
stuffing (participle present)
stuffed (participle past)
stuffed (past)

From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.

der

(transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

pakata

computing: to compress in the StuffIt format


blog

→ Bulgarian: блог (blog)

→ Catalan: blog

→ Czech: blogovat

→ Danish: blogge

tooltip

reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes

→ Dutch: blog, ⇒ bloggen

→ Faroese: blogga

→ Finnish: blogata

→ French: bloguer

→ German: Blog

→ Hungarian: blogol

→ Icelandic: blogga

→ Italian: blog, ⇒ bloggare

→ Macedonian: блог (blog)

→ Polish: blog

desc

→ Portuguese: blogue, blog (unadapted spelling)

→ Russian: блог (blog)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: бло̀г

Latin: blòg

→ Spanish: blog, ⇒ bloguear

→ Swahili: blogu

→ Thai: บล็อก (blɔ́k)

→ Turkish: blog

→ Yoruba: búlọ́ọ̀gù

Rebracketing of weblog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

So you see, the blog has been around since the beginning of the web; that is how basic the concept is. Today's blogs, and the activity of blogging, have taken on more meaning, but the concept of it all is still very simple and rooted in the beginning and intentions of the web itself.

2002, Biz Stone, chapter 1, in Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., page 4

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)

This blog was originally posted on my personal site but is reproduced on the forums for greater visibility.

(Internet) An individual post to a blog.


blog

en-verb

blog (third-person singular simple present blogs, present participle blogging, simple past and past participle blogged)

blogs (present singular third-person)
blogging (participle present)
blogged (participle past)
blogged (past)

Blogger Anil Dash summed up the initial reaction well when he blogged his assessment of Macromedia's new blogging strategy: […]

2002, Biz Stone, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., page 163

I hadn’t blogged myself, because I thought I had nothing to say. After 9/11, I did. So I planned to write the blog for a few weeks, until I ran out of memories.

2009, Jeff Jarvis, What would Google do?, New York: HarperLuxe, page 40

(blogging, transitive, intransitive) To contribute to a blog.


candlestick

Sranan Tongo: kandratiki

From Middle English candelstik, candelstikke, from Old English candelsticca (“candlestick”), equivalent to candle + stick. Cognate with Scots candilsteke, candilstik (“candlestick”). Compare Old Norse kertastika, kertistika (“candlestick”).

inh

Sorcerers and other practitioners of witchcraft used to make a variety of candlestick called the Hand of Glory, chiefly from the flesh of criminals[.]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 114

A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

shandan

a holder with a socket or spike for a candle

(gymnastics) A gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.

(finance) A color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.

Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose. When the shell burst in the air this iron object fell to the ground and, since it came often from a great height, its fall was dangerous. The men called these candlesticks, which they much resembled.

1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 20

(British, military slang, historical) The central ignition tube connecting the fuse and charge of a WWI shrapnel shell, shaped like a candle stick.


candlestick

en-verb

candlestick (third-person singular simple present candlesticks, present participle candlesticking, simple past and past participle candlesticked)

candlesticks (present singular third-person)
candlesticking (participle present)
candlesticked (participle past)
candlesticked (past)

Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.

1998, Sandler Stanley, Segregated Skies, page 104

Archie Jack had a second lucky escape in a later attempt when his pilot, nervous of flying over the high mountain ranges, made him jump out at a much greater altitude than was usual. What initially seemed inconsiderate saved Jack's life as his parachute 'candlesticked', ...

2003, Heather Williams, Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans

Others with chutes aflame candlesticked into the sea.

(of a parachute) To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.

The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.”

2003, Cynthia Pirl, Intentional Investing

“You wouldn't happen to be the B. J. Devine who wrote the Devine candlestick formula?” I blurted, not thinking it could be true. Candlesticking is one of the trickier methods of charting stock.

(investing) To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.

If cut on the individual stems at three-leaf clusters, the cane will "candlestick."

1957, The American Rose Annual - Volume 42, page 50

Initially, the end of the shaft is ragged, but then begins to taper smoothly, exhibiting the "candlesticking" or "pencilling" referred to in the literature (Fig. 13).

1976, Journal of the American Podiatry Association

Caught there on a candlesticked overhang of ice, Quaid turned to peer down at his buddy.

1991, Renee Roszel, Valentine's Knight, page 192

To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.


Apache

From American Spanish apache, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču (“Navajos”), or possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people". The web server software was named to honor the Apache people, although much has been made of the fact that its design was "patchy" (constructed by assembling software patches). See Apache HTTP Server § Name.

This list is necessary so Apache can set the right HTTP headers when a certain file is requested.

2002, Daniel López Ridruejo, Daniel Lopez, Ian Kallen, Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 62

This section discusses the process of configuring Apache to participate in WebLogic clusters. Apache is a Web server, the most popular one, actually.

2003, Scott Hawkins, BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit, page 59

IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it makes more sense to use an established, proven web server.

2014, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Sams Publishing, page 496

(computing, informal) Apache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.


IO

en-noun

IO (countable and uncountable, plural IOs)

Alternative form: I/O

(computing, electronics) Initialism of input and output.


bootstrap

From boot + strap. The sense "pull up (without aid)" comes from the phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

(computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.

arrencada

the process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory — see also boot

(computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

malvolvo

the process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program


bootstrap

en-verb

bootstrap (third-person singular simple present bootstraps, present participle bootstrapping, simple past and past participle bootstrapped)

bootstraps (present singular third-person)
bootstrapping (participle present)
bootstrapped (participle past)
bootstrapped (past)

(computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.

Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.

(computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

自舉

to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program


RISC

Coordinate term: CISC

reduced instruction set computer
w:reduced instruction set computer

(computing) Acronym of reduced instruction set computer.


CISC

Coordinate term: RISC

complex instruction set computer
w:complex instruction set computer

(computing, retronym) Acronym of complex instruction set computer.


TCP

Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol.


DAC

en-noun

DAC (countable and uncountable, plural DACs)

(computer security) Initialism of discretionary access control.


trace

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

der

(programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.


trace

en-verb

trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)

traces (present singular third-person)
tracing (participle present)
traced (participle past)
traced (past)

From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.

der

(computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

jäljittää

to follow the execution of a program line by line


CAD

en-noun

CAD (countable and uncountable, plural CADs)

computer-aided design
computer-aided design#English

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design.

computer-aided drafting
w:computer-aided drafting

(computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.

(computing) Initialism of control alt delete.


Abbreviated from "year 2000", with "K" standing for 1000, as in the prefix kilo- though capital K as a prefix is often used as x1024. The correct S.I. Prefix is lowercase k.


CRT

CRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk.

2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN

cathode ray tube
cathode ray tube#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of cathode ray tube.

(electronics, computing, becoming dated) A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.


interstitial

/ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/

From Latin interstitiālis. By surface analysis, interstitium + -al.

Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time.

2007, Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, page 126

(Internet, advertising) A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.

väli-ikkuna

web page displayed before a content page


AFC

Application Foundation Classes
w:Application Foundation Classes

(computing) Initialism of Application Foundation Classes.


vertex

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin vertex (“whirl, eddy; top, crown, peak, summit”). Doublet of vortex.

der

Mathworld article on vertices of polyhedra

Mathworld article on vertices of polygons

Coordinate term: plot

(graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.

Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates

(computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.


USB

Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus#English

(computing, trademark) Initialism of Universal Serial Bus; a serial bus standard for connecting devices.


USB

(computer hardware, trademark, informal) A USB flash drive.

(communication, space science) Initialism of unified S-band (a communication system used for the Apollo program).


AAC

en-noun

AAC (countable and uncountable, plural AACs)

advanced audio coding
advanced audio coding#English

(file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.


CPU

central processing unit
central processing unit#English

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.

(video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.

(computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.


KDE

A computer desktop environment that runs on Unix and Linux.


agnostic

en-adj

agnostic (comparative more agnostic, superlative most agnostic)

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”). Or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).

der

The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.

The software's registration key is platform agnostic and will work on both x86 and ARM processors.

(computing, of a software component etc.) Unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.


programming language

en-noun

programming language (plural programming languages)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmɪŋ læŋɡwɪdʒ/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ læŋɡwɪdʒ/

(programming) A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.

W:List of programming languages by category


pepper

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

Tok Pisin: pepa

→ Hawaiian: pepa

→ Marshallese: pepa

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

cog

(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.


root

en-noun

root (countable and uncountable, plural roots)

From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.

(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

rod

graph theory: node in a tree that has no parent

I have to log in as root before I do that.

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

ĉefuzanto

computing: user account at the root of the directory structure

root

Coordinate term: home directory

I installed the files in the root directory.

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

juurihakemisto

computing: highest directory of a directory structure


root

en-verb

root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)

roots (present singular third-person)
rooting (participle present)
rooted (participle past)
rooted (past)

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

(computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.


apartment

→ Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento)

desc

→ Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

→ Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

APT

The US Postal Service prefers this variant

(computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.


graphic

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).


(computing) shorthand for "eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit", the most common configuration for serial lines, e.g. EIA-232.


nerf

en-verb

nerf (third-person singular simple present nerfs, present participle nerfing, simple past and past participle nerfed)

nerfs (present singular third-person)
nerfing (participle present)
nerfed (participle past)
nerfed (past)

From the Nerf brand of toys designed as non-dangerous counterparts of existing things, such as sports balls and guns. Originally used to equate a change in the damage of a weapon in a video game to a change from real weapons to Nerf weapons.

The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless.

(transitive, slang, video games) To change a mechanic, an ability or a character in a video game in order to make a previously dominant strategy less viable or less effective.


nerf

(slang, video games) The deterioration, weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.


key off

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

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

This logic keys off the user's social security number.

(computing) To take something as a controlling input datum.