dust

en-noun

dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)

→ Russian: дуст (dust)

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

der

(cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.


dust

en-verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

dusts (present singular third-person)
dusting (participle present)
dusted (participle past)
dusted (past)

(cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.


fog

en-noun

fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).


clean

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

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


k

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

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


delegate

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

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

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

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


delegate

en-verb

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

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

/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

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


gem

en-noun

gem (countable and uncountable, plural gems)

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

der

programming language
programming language

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


device

From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).

(computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.


scrub

en-noun

scrub (countable and uncountable, plural scrubs)

Variant of shrub, possibly under Norse influence.

(countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.


scrub

en-verb

scrub (third-person singular simple present scrubs, present participle scrubbing, simple past and past participle scrubbed)

scrubs (present singular third-person)
scrubbing (participle present)
scrubbed (participle past)
scrubbed (past)

From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).

der

The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

(databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets


box

en-noun

box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)

boxes (plural)
boxen (humorous nonstandard plural)

Tok Pisin: bokis

→ Afrikaans: boks

→ Bengali: বাক্স (bakśo)

→ Bulgarian: бокс (boks)

→ Crimean Tatar: boks

→ Danish: boks

→ Dutch: box m

→ Faroese: boks

→ French: box m

→ German: Box f

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: बकस m (bakas), बक्सा m (baksā)

Urdu: بکس m (baks, bakas)

→ Icelandic: box n

→ Indonesian: boks

→ Irish: bosca m

→ Italian: box m

→ Japanese: ボックス (bokkusu)

→ Korean: 박스 (bakseu)

→ Maori: pāka

→ Nepali: बाकस (bākas)

→ Norman: bosc m

→ Norwegian: boks m

→ Pashto: بکس (baks)

→ Persian: باکس (bâks)

→ Polish: boks m

→ Portuguese: box m

→ Rajasthani: बकस (baks, bakas)

→ Russian: бокс m (boks)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bogsa m, bocsa

→ Spanish: box m

→ Swedish: box c

→ Welsh: bocs

table
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.

rasia

compartment or receptacle for receiving items

ramme

rectangular border around an image, text, etc.

ruutu

small area on a document for a tick mark

tofu

empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts

a UNIX box

i can't seem to find any how-to regarding connecting a terminal to a linux boxen via parallel port …

1996 January 15, Siu Ha Vivian Chu, “DEC vt320 → linux boxen”, in comp.os.linux.networking (Usenet), message-ID <4dceos$gg7@morgoth.sfu.ca>

Furthermore, it is necessary that all four Linux boxen have the same development environment […]

2002 September 8, Gregory Seidman, “serving debian to redhat boxen”, in muc.lists.debian.user (Usenet), message-ID <20020908205128.GA19944@cs.brown.edu>

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.


box

en-verb

box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)

boxes (present singular third-person)
boxing (participle present)
boxed (participle past)
boxed (past)
box (infinitive)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.

koteloida

(object-oriented programming) to place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object


black hole

desc

→ Bengali: ব্ল্যাকহোল (blêkhol), ব্ল্যাক হোল (blêk hol)

→ Japanese: ブラックホール (burakku hōru)

→ Korean: 블랙홀 (beullaekhol)

en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)

In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.

One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.

(Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.

(programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.


black hole

en-verb

black hole (third-person singular simple present black holes, present participle black holing, simple past and past participle black holed)

black holes (present singular third-person)
black holing (participle present)
black holed (participle past)
black holed (past)

Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (RFC 3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.

2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks, page 186

(transitive, Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).


platform

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

der

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71

In fact, wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect.

2014, Astra Taylor, “Preface”, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company

The promise of the platform business model is its magical self-reinforcement: Once the platform is in place, money is supposed to flow through the system without much extra effort at all.

2021 September 15, Reeves Wiedeman, “Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

digital platform
digital platform#English

(Internet) Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.

Plattform

computing: computer system used to deliver services to clients

That program runs on the X Window System platform.

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

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

computing platform
computing platform#English

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

مَنَصَّة

computing: particular type of operating system or environment


dump

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

onomatopoeic

imitative

The new XML dump is coming soon.

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

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


dump

en-verb

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

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

→ French: domper

onomatopoeic

imitative

to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge

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

dumpata

to copy data from a system to another place or system

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


h

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

1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers

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

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

(computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)


peer

en-verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

peers (present singular third-person)
peering (participle present)
peered (participle past)
peered (past)

From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.


run

run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)

runs (present singular third-person)
running (participle present)
ran (past)
run (participle past)
run (infinitive)

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

purjehtia myötätuuleen

to sail a boat with the wind coming from behind

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

the course of true love never did run smooth

you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry


run

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal part of a step”

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal distance of a set of stairs”

juoksu

point scored in baseball, cricket or similar games

This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.

A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

(mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model

ajo

computing: execution of a program or model

This was my first successful run without losing any health.

That NPC bugged out and killed my run.

(video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

partida

video games: playthrough, session of play


pub

Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.

2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers, you're an tool and have no right to complain about cheaters.”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet)


fact

en-noun

fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)

From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

der

(databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.


near

en-adj

near (comparative nearer, superlative nearest)

nearer (comparative)
nearest (superlative)

off

antonym(s) of “side of an animal or vehicle”

From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).

cog

a near pointer

(programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.


crown

en-verb

crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)

crowns (present singular third-person)
crowning (participle present)
crowned (participle past)
crowned (past)

From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

doublet

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

ampua päähän

video games: to shoot in the back of the head


pass

→ Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se)

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

pyyhkäisy

movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool

Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

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


pass

Anyone want to trade passes?

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

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

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


password

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

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

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

wagwoord

computing: string of characters known only to a user

passkey

coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords

keyphrase

used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces


password

en-verb

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

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

(computing, transitive) To protect with a password.


community

en-noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. Morphologically, from commune + -ity. Doublet of communitas.

der

Spam texts are encoded but no decryption is possible. There is no plaintext message. I find them wonderful, and read them as poetics, as odd fragments generative of narrtives and scenography. I find the process of their production wonderful as well. The texts are written to elude community standards and means of censorship, and at the same time to enter and impose themselves into the standards and means for the community to read itself.

2015, Sandy Baldwin, “I Read My Spam”, in The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; 9), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, section VI, page 89

Online gaming communities develop their own language, history, routines, and relationships. The online poker community is no different, developing its own culture distinct from the traditional poker community. One asp[ect that differentiates internet poker from other online gaming communities is the presence of money, creating what [Edward] Castronova et al. (2009) refer to as a virtual economic system complete with its own rules and forces.

2015, Aaron M. Duncan, “Shifting the Scene to Cyberspace: Internet Poker and the Rise of Tom Dwan”, in Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge

(countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.


stroke

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

isku

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

ход

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

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.

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


party

→ Bulgarian: парти (parti)

desc

Cantonese: → 派對／派对 (paai³ deoi³), → party, ⇒ P

→ Dhivehi: ޕާޓީ (pāṭī)

→ Hindi: पार्टी (pārṭī)

→ Hindi: पार्टी (pārṭī)

→ Japanese: パーティー (pātī)

→ Korean: 파티 (pati)

→ Mandarin: 趴體／趴体 (pātǐ), 派對／派对 (pàiduì)

→ Russian: парти (parti)

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta (“a part, party”), from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partior (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

حِزْب

business in the front, party in the back

(now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

(roleplaying games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.

joukko

online gaming: player characters organized into a single group

(video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.

joukko

video games: group of characters controlled by the player


party

en-verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

parties (present singular third-person)
partying (participle present)
partied (participle past)
partied (past)

If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

(online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).


list

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

cog

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

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

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

llista

computing: codified representation of a list


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

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

veld

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

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

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

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

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

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

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

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


state

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.

der

something is rotten in the state of Denmark

there is something rotten in the state of Denmark

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

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

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

وَضْع

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

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

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

estat

computing: the set of all parameters relevant to a computation

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

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

estat

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


live

en-adj

live (comparative more live, superlative most live)

more live (comparative)
most live (superlative)

An object in the heap is live if its address is held in a root, or there is a pointer to it held in another live heap node.

1996, Richard Jones, Rafael Lins, Garbage Collection, page 4

Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.

(programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.


short

→ Cantonese: short

→ Italian: short

→ Japanese: ショート (shōto)

→ Mandarin: 秀逗 (xiùdou)

→ Hakka: 秀逗 (sió-tò)

→ Maltese: xort

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.

A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.

(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.


salt

en-noun

salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)

Bislama: sol

Tok Pisin: sol

PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

(cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.

sůl

additional bytes inserted into an encryption


salt

en-verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

salts (present singular third-person)
salting (participle present)
salted (participle past)
salted (past)

(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

(wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.


key

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

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

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

Press the Escape key.

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

sleutel

button on a typewriter or computer keyboard

(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

sleutel

cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)

(Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

sleutel

computing: field of a database constrained to be unique

sleutel

computing: field in a record used as a search argument

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

sleutel

computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array

You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 195

There are key controls that adjust the “slice level” or the level at which the key kicks-in and starts cutting a hole for the “fill” […] Chroma key is another form of keying, which derives the key cutter or hole from a selected color.

2016, Jerry C. Whitaker, The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook

(computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.


key

en-verb

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

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

Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

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


hammer

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

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

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

sense

the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

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

1995, Optimizing Windows NT, volume 4, page 226

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


evil

en-adj

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

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

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

cog

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

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


menu

→ Cebuano: menu

→ Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)

→ Japanese: メニュー

→ Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)

→ Tok Pisin: menyu

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

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

قَائِمَة

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


mask

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

maski

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

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

maski

(computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.


mask

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

piilottaa

computing: to disable by setting or unsetting the associated bit


home

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

cog

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

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

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

(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.

inici

home directory — see also home directory


home

Click here to go home.

To one's home.
(Internet) To the home page.


quiet

en-adj

quiet (comparative quieter or more quiet, superlative quietest or most quiet)

quieter (comparative)
more quiet (comparative)
quietest (superlative)
most quiet (superlative)

From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus.

a quiet install

(software) Requiring little or no interaction.


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

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

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

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

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

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

roura

computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another

A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.

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

pleca

data backbone or broadband Internet access

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

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

(computing, typography) The character |.

Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.


pipe

en-verb

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

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

onomatopoeic

imitative

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


generation

en-noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre, present active infinitive of generō (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.

inh+

It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.

1989 November 20, Dean Hickerson, “Life: glider gun origin”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)

1999 June 15, hexatron, “A new hexagonal CA with a new glider”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):

2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.


localize

en-verb

localize (third-person singular simple present localizes, present participle localizing, simple past and past participle localized)

localizes (present singular third-person)
localizing (participle present)
localized (participle past)
localized (past)

From local + -ize. Compare French localiser.

We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.

en:adapt to a particular place, transitively

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, marketing, transitive) To adapt (a product or service) for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country and modifying currencies, date formats, etc.

локализирам

to adapt a product for use in a particular country or region

the ethical dilemma faced when to localize is to self-censor

(translation studies, chiefly software, marketing) To adapt translated text to fit a local culture; to domesticate.


localization

en-noun

localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)

/ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.

გაქართულება

specifically meaning localization to Georgian only

(software engineering) The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

localització

software engineering: act or process of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region

översättning c (applicable to translation)

(translation studies, chiefly software, marketing) The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.


cycle

→ Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of cyclus and wheel (see there for more).

pyörä

bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle etc. — see also bicycle

(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.


drag

en-verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

drags (present singular third-person)
dragging (participle present)
dragged (participle past)
dragged (past)
drug (dialectal participle past)
drug (dialectal past)

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Drag the file into the window to open it.

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

trække

computing: to move a cursor while holding down a button on the mouse


rupee

From Hindustani रुपीया / رُوپِییَہ (rūpīya), variant of रुपया / رُوپَیَہ (rūpaya, “rupee”), from Sanskrit रूप्यक (rūpyaka, “silver coin”), from रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought gold or silver; stamped coin; beautiful, well-shaped; impressed, stamped”).
Coined by the Sultan of the Suri Empire Sher Shah Suri (reigned 1540–1545).

coin

In fact, the visible appearance of the iron is a symbol; it is not what it ultimately is. To take an analogy we are given a ten-rupee note. He knows it truly who at sight recognizes the piece of paper as a symbol of unity that represents ten separate silver coins.

1937, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lecture II: Supreme Man”, in Man: Lectures Delivered at the Andhra University under the Terms of the Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Endowment (Andhra University Series; no. 16), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: Kitabistan, published 1946, →OCLC, pages 37–38

In the fifth and sixth [standard] I obtained scholarships of rupees four and ten respectively, an achievement for which I have to thank good luck more than my merit.

1948, Mohandas K[aramchand] Gandhi, “At the High School”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., Gandhi’s Autobiography, or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →OCLC; reprinted as An Autobiography; or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2007, page 12

There are no precise estimates available about the capital requirements of agricultural and rural development in India. But the amount required is in hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees.

1999, Katar Singh, “Financing Rural Development”, in Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, 2nd edition, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, published 2005, page 290

The Seychelles rupee was allowed to depreciate in 2006 after being overvalued for years and fell by 10% in the first 9 months of 2007. Despite these actions, the Seychelles economy has struggled to maintain its gains and in 2008 suffered from food and oil price shocks, a foreign exchange shortage, high inflation, large financing gaps, and the global recession.

2013, “Strategic and Development Profiles”, in Seychelles Business Law Handbook, volumes 1 (Strategic Information and Basic Laws), Washington, D.C.: International Business Publications, page 15

The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨.

(video games) The primary currency of Hyrule.


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

(software) A software program that allows a computer to be used as a musical instrument – virtual instrument


alert

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

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


YMMV

your mileage may vary
your mileage may vary#English

(Internet) Initialism of your mileage may vary.


directory

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

/dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/

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

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


information

en-noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/

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

der

information and communications technology

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

information technology
information technology

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


bulletin board system

en-noun

bulletin board system (plural bulletin board systems)

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

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

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

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

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

電子佈告欄

computer system to exchange messages and data


tournament

→ Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)

Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.


stealth

en-verb

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

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

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

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


fighter

From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.

Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.

2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 59

(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.


size

en-noun

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

→ Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)

→ Irish: saghas

→ Japanese: サイズ (saizu)

→ Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)

→ Malay: saiz

→ Persian: سایز (sâyz)

→ Urdu: سائز (sāiz)

Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).

ncog

(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.

koko

graph theory: a number of edges in a graph


kernel

→ Japanese: カーネル (kāneru)

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

der

The Linux kernel is open-source.

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

نَوَاة

(computing) central part of many computer operating systems

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

(programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.


video game

en-verb

video game (third-person singular simple present video games, present participle video gaming, simple past and past participle video gamed)

video games (present singular third-person)
video gaming (participle present)
video gamed (participle past)
video gamed (past)

/ˈvɪdiːəʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/

Soloway coins the “Nintendo Generation” expression, putting the attention on the never-seen-before trait of young people: they are video gaming.

2015, Emanuele Rapetti, Lorenzo Cantoni, “Learners of Digital Era (LoDE): What’s True, and What’s Just Hype About the So-Called Digital Natives”, in Mohamed Ally, Badrul H[uda] Khan, editors, International Handbook of E-learning, volumes 2 (Implementation and Case Studies), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 79

And Mouse hacked and video gamed.

2018, Nathan Lee Birr, One Life to Lose (The Douglas Files; 7), Beacon Books, LLC, page 75

He’d logged on once, only for her to demand to know why he was video gaming during a supposed vacation.

2018, Vivienne Savage, Xander (Nova Force; 1), Payne & Taylor

They may not be engaged because they have fully bought into the existing structures, or because they are video gaming in their dorm rooms, or because they are working multiple jobs to pay for college (or to feed a family).

2019, Rahuldeep Gill, “The Call of Death and the Depth of Our Callings: The Quality of Vocational Discernment”, in David S. Cunningham, editor, Hearing Vocation Differently: Meaning, Purpose, and Identity in the Multi-Faith Academy, Oxford University Press, part one (Reframing Vocation: Creating Spaces for New Ways of Hearing), page 86

This is one of the most common scenarios we see in our center — when a teen or young adult wants to finish high school, or more often college, and they are video gaming 12 hours a day.

2021, David N. Greenfield, “Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Your Internet Use”, in Overcoming Internet Addiction (For Dummies), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., part 5 (The Part of Tens), page 296

It means you show up. Whether it’s a diaper change, advising your son about girls, patting his back after a tough sports game, or egging him on to stop slacking off while he’s video gaming.

2021, Kendall Smith, “Step One: Being There”, in Rookie Father: A Playbook for Men Experiencing Fatherhood for the First Time, Familius LLC

Relatedly, families that video gamed together reported better family satisfaction and closer relationships within the family (Wang et al., 2018).

2022, Marco Rüth, Kai Kaspar, “Educational and Social Exergaming: A Perspective on Physical, Social, and Educational Benefits and Pitfalls of Exergaming at Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Afterwards”, in Pedro L. Almeida, Michael Brach, Ricardo De La Vega, Mauricio Garzon, Julia Maria D’andréa Greve, Margarita Limon, Luis Mochizuki, editors, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Confinement on Physical Activity, Sedentarism, and Rehabilitation, Frontiers Media, page 508, column 1

His feet were clad in brightly colored sneakers that made her think of the boyish side of him that often emerged when he was video gaming.

2023, Caridad Piñeiro, chapter 10, in Biscayne Bay Breach (South Beach Security; 3), Harlequin Intrigue


context

en-noun

context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)

(programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.


group

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

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

der

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


edit

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

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

a basketball edit, a Thor edit

bro thinks he's in an edit (Internet meme)

Valorant edits have become massive on TikTok as creators put their editing skills to the test in making the best edits they can, but Tarik argued that videos like these can be "over-edited" and that he can't tell what's happening.

2023 July 21, Carver Fisher, “Tarik slams "over-edited" Valorant TikTok video trend”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-11-08

(Internet, specifically) A compilation of memorable moments (in a show, sport, etc.), often featuring stylized camera effects and intense music.


edit

en-verb

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

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

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

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


refresh

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

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

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

virkistää

computing: to perform periodic energizing

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

2007, Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous

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

обновявам

computing: to reload a document, web page etc.

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

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

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

aktualigi

computing: to cause to refresh a display


refresh

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


(cryptography) Initialism of Message Digest 5, a cryptographic hash function.


APL

(computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962).

The language APL presents a number of novel problems for a compiler writer: weak variable typing, run time changes in variable shape, and a host of primitive operations, among others.

1988, Timothy Budd, An APL Compiler, Springer, page 1

(computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.


view

model

antonym(s) of “part of computer program”

→ Japanese: ビュー (byū)

→ Korean: 뷰 (byu)

→ Persian: ویو (viyu)

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

(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.

visualització

internet: individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user

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

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

view

computing: user interface part of program


MP

en-noun

MP (countable and uncountable, plural MPs)

(fantasy, roleplaying games, board games, video games) mana points or magic points

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games


MP

(video games) Initialism of multiplayer.


execute

en-verb

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

executes (present singular third-person)
executing (participle present)
executed (participle past)
executed (past)

From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

to execute a program

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

نَفَّذَ

to start a defined process and run it to completion

نَفَّذَ

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

The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

(intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.


image

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

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

cog

The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

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

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


image

en-verb

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

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

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


PHP

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

(computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.


ASP

application service provider
w:application service provider

(computing) Initialism of application service provider.


GB

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

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

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibyte.


GB

(Internet slang) Initialism of God bless.


hardware

→ Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)

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

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

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

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


PS

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation.

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


PS

en-noun

PS (countable and uncountable, plural PSes or PSs)


fast

en-adj

fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)

faster (comparative)
fastest (superlative)

slow

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

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

алас

moving or capable of moving with great speed

masalusu

velocity of a flowing liquid in a body of water

quick

don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly

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

nopea

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


memory

en-noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

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

cog

This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

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

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

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


link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

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

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

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

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

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

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

enllaç

computing: connection between buses or systems


link

en-verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

links (present singular third-person)
linking (participle present)
linked (participle past)
linked (past)

Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.

(transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

(transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.

(software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.


window

en-noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

From Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian vindu, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .

ncog

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

(graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.


NES

en-noun

NES (countable and uncountable, plural NESes)

Nintendo Entertainment System
w:Nintendo Entertainment System

(video games) Initialism of Nintendo Entertainment System.


file

→ Armenian: ֆայլ (fayl)

→ Azerbaijani: fayl

→ Belarusian: файл (fajl)

→ Bulgarian: файл (fajl)

→ Bengali: ফাইল (phail)

→ Burmese: ဖိုင် (hpuing)

→ Dutch: file

→ Estonian: fail

→ Finnish: faili

→ German: File

→ Hindi: फ़ाइल (fāil)

→ Hungarian: fájl

→ Italian: file

→ Japanese: ファイル (fairu)

→ Korean: 파일 (pail)

→ Lao: ໄຟລ໌ (fain)

→ Latvian: fails

→ Lithuanian: failas

→ Macedonian: фајл (fajl)

→ Malay: fail

→ Maltese: fajl

→ Oromo: faayila

→ Persian: فایل (fâyl)

→ Portuguese: file

→ Russian: файл (fajl)

→ Kazakh: файл (fail)

→ Kyrgyz: файл (fayl)

→ Mongolian: файл (fajl)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фајл

Latin script: fajl

→ Slovak: fajl

→ Swahili: faili

→ Tajik: файл (fayl)

→ Thai: ไฟล์ (faai)

→ Turkmen: faýl

→ Ukrainian: файл (fajl)

→ Urdu: فائل (fāil)

→ Uzbek: fayl

→ Welsh: ffeil

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

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

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

(computing) The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.


defenestrate

en-verb

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

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

Back-formation from defenestration, from Latin de- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”).

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

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

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

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

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

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


help

en-noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

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

inh

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated

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

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

ndihmë

textual support of a software application


quest

→ Macedonian: квест (kvest)

→ Russian: квест (kvest)

→ Ukrainian: квест (kvest)

From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).

der

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

(video games) A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.


hyperlink

→ Danish: hyperlink

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

Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.

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

Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.

(by extension) The URL or other address that defines a hyperlink's target or function.


hyperlink

en-verb

hyperlink (third-person singular simple present hyperlinks, present participle hyperlinking, simple past and past participle hyperlinked)

hyperlinks (present singular third-person)
hyperlinking (participle present)
hyperlinked (participle past)
hyperlinked (past)

Their Web page hyperlinks to your Web site.

2001, Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer, Open Your Own Bead & Breakfast, 4th edition, John Wiley and Sons, page 165

(of a hypertext document) To point to another document by a hyperlink.

υπερσυνδέω

to point to another document by a hyperlink

One valuable thing a blogger often does is hyperlink to magazine and newspaper stories or other interesting blogs, she says.

2004 April 15, Gregory M. Lamb, “Blogs: Here to Stay - With Changes”, in Christian Science Monitor

Indeed, what consumers will see on a Web site is likely to vary depending on the point or Web page at which they access the Web site, how many pages they “hyperlink” through when reviewing the site, and how much of the page containing the disclosure is displayed by consumers' Web browsers without requiring additional scrolling.

1999, John Graubert, Jill Coleman, “Consumer Protection and Antitrust Enforcement at the Speed of Light: The FTC Meets the Internet”, in Canada–United States Law Journal, volume 25, page 275

To use a hyperlink to jump to a document.

υπερσυνδέομαι

to use a hyperlink to jump to a document


Wikipedian

From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).

That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.

2001 September 20, Peter Meyers, “Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.

This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, page 139

(Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the website.

وِيكِيبِيدِيّ

a person who uses, edits, or contributes to Wikipedia


Wikipedian

Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.

2006 April 19, “The Wikipedia FAQK”, in Wired News

In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.

2007 September 6, GALE ZOË GARNETT, “The language of the love of language”, in Globe and Mail

If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"

2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent


output

en-noun

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

a six-page output; six pages of output

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

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

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

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


output

en-verb

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

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

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

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


splash

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

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

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


kata

From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”).
In English use since the 1950s.

These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.

2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, O'Reilly Media, page 728

(by extension, programming) A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)

Atanasoff-Berry computer
w:Atanasoff-Berry computer

(computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.

artificial bee colony
artificial bee colony#English

(computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.

Abstract base classes (ABCs) represent an interesting paradox. […] It is instructive to think of ABCs as tools rather than as part of the product.

2010, James Coplien, Gertrud Bjørnvig, “What the System Is, Part 2: Coding It Up”, in Lean Architecture for Agile Software Development, John Wiley & Sons, page 133

Most ABCs in the collections.abc module exist to formalize interfaces that are implemented by built-in objects and are implicitly supported by the interpreter—both of which predate the ABCs themselves.

2022, Luciano Ramalho, Fluent Python, 2nd edition, O'Reilly

(object-oriented programming) Initialism of abstract base class.


ABC

(computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.


ABC

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

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


spider

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.

2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, page xii

(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.


spider

en-verb

spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

spiders (present singular third-person)
spidering (participle present)
spidered (participle past)
spidered (past)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

(Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.


host

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

der

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

ܡܐܲܪܚܵܢܵܐ

computing: computer attached to a network


host

en-verb

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

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

Kremvax hosts a variety of services.

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

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

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

ܐܲܪܸܚ

computing: run software for a remote user or process


kick

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

kicks (present singular third-person)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)
kicked (past)
kick (infinitive)

→ German: kicken

→ Welsh: cicio

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

штовхну́ти

ного́ю; нога́ми

He was kicked from the IRC server for flooding.

(transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.

изри́твам

to remove a participant from an online activity

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

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

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

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

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


kick

→ German: Kick

→ Irish: cic

(Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.


GCC

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

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


magic

en-noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

→ Japanese: マジック (majikku)

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

toorkuns

use of supernatural rituals, forces etc.

toorkuns

ritual associated with supernatural magic or mysticism

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

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

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

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


magic

The code is full of magic numbers and we can't figure out what they mean.

(programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable


PET

en-noun

PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)

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

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

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

personal electronic transactor
w:Commodore PET

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


dev

dev (countable and uncountable, plural devs)

French: dev


STS

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:SharePoint

(software) Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).

SharePoint Team Services

(software) Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.


ping

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

inh

The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.

(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

ping

a packet which a remote host is expected to echo

I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

(text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

kilahdus

an email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement

2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet):

"You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
> > And other such insights into why I was winning.

2000 November 8, the_mad...@my-deja.com, “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet)

2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):

Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]

2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet)

(video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.


ping

en-verb

ping (third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pung)

pings (present singular third-person)
pinging (participle present)
pinged (past)
pang (nonstandard past)
pinged (participle past)
pung (nonstandard participle past)

Coordinate term: poll

I'm pinging their server.

The server pings its affiliates periodically.

Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.

2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press

(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.

pinguejar

to send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present


dummy

мор

bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

(programming) An unused parameter or value.


Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

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

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

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


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

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

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


cloudlet

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

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

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


void

→ Welsh: foed

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.

2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns

The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.

2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development

(programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.


void

My little void is so sweet sometimes.

(Internet, humorous, endearing) A black cat.


CD

en-noun

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

سِي دِي

abbreviation of compact disc — see also compact disc

collision detection
collision detection#English

(networking) Initialism of collision detection.

Coordinate term: CI

continuous delivery
continuous delivery#English

(software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.


MIDI

When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.

1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer

(informal, file format) A computerized music file in the MIDI format.


binary code

binary code (countable and uncountable, plural binary codes)

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


UPN

User Principal Name
w:User Principal Name

(computing) Initialism of User Principal Name.


FF

(video games) Initialism of Final Fantasy.


CBS

(software) Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.


arity

arity (countable and uncountable, plural arities)

From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.

(logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.

(mathematics, computer science) The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.


alpha

alpha (countable and uncountable, plural alphas)

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.

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

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

(software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.

(computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.

(computer graphics) Ellipsis of alpha layer.


gamma

gamma (countable and uncountable, plural gammas)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.

gamma correction
gamma correction#English

(computer graphics) Synonym of gamma correction.


An initialism of MPEG Audio Layer 3. First use appears c. 1994. See cite below.

Also, mpeg audio streams are usually identified by mp1, mp2 and mp3 extensions, all from MPEG-1 (layer 1 , 2 or 3).

1994 November 6, Francois Dion, “Does anyone know of .mpa to .wav conversion software.”, in comp.multimedia (Usenet)

(audio file format) MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, an audio data compression format.


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

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

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

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


epsilon

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

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

uder

All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106

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

(computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.


ham

en-noun

ham (countable and uncountable, plural hams)

From Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon.

cog

(Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.