war

en-noun

war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

cog

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)

flame war... edit war...

(countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.


computer

→ Albanian: kompjuter

→ Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)

desc

كَمْبْيُوتَر

→ Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر (kambyūtar)

→ Azerbaijani: kompüter

→ Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), кампу́тар (kampútar), камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)

→ Bengali: কম্পিউটার (kompiuṭar)

→ Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)

→ Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)

→ Danish: computer

→ Dutch: computer

→ Estonian: kompuuter

→ Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)

→ German: Computer

→ Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)

→ Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)

→ Indonesian: komputer

→ Italian: computer

→ Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)

→ Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)

→ Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)

→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)

→ Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)

→ Latvian: kompjūters

→ Lithuanian: kompiuteris

→ Luxembourgish: Computer

→ Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)

→ Malay: komputer

→ Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ (kampyūṭṭaṟ)

→ Maltese: kompjuter

→ Northern Kurdish: kompûter

→ Odia: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kampyuṭara)

→ Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta

→ Polish: komputer

→ Romanian: computer

→ Romansch: computer

desctree

→ Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
→ Dungan: конбиютә (konbii͡utə)
→ Kazakh: компьютер (kompüter)
→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: компьютер (kompʹjüter)
Mongolian script: ᠺᠣᠮᠫᠢᠶᠦᠲᠧᠷ (kompiyütēr)
→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter)
→ Turkmen: kompýuter
→ Uzbek: kompyuter

desc

→ Carpathian Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)

→ Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: компјутер

Latin script: kompjuter

→ Swahili: kompyuta

→ Tagalog: kompiyuter

→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), компутар (komputar)

→ Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Tok Pisin: kompyuta

→ Turkmen: kompýuter

→ Turkish: kompüter (obsolete)

→ Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)

→ Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)

→ Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)

→ Xhosa: ikhompyutha

→ Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)

→ Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)

→ Zulu: ikhompyutha

Computer
Computer (occupation)
Engineering (magazine)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mental calculator
Richard Brathwait

From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor.
Sense 1 first attested in 1613 by the poet Richard Brathwait.
Sense 2 first attested in 1897 in the Engineering magazine.

I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.

As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.

David is a computer expert.

Janet works at the computer store.

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.

béésh bee akʼeʼelchíhí tʼáá bí nitsékeesígíí


world

whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger)

whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)

From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).

inh

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.

Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?

There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.

(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.


VB

(computer languages) Initialism of Visual Basic


new

en-verb

new (third-person singular simple present news, present participle newing, simple past and past participle newed)

news (present singular third-person)
newing (participle present)
newed (participle past)
newed (past)

From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.


keyboard

(computing, etc.) A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.


cube

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube


Unicode

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.

This character isn't in Unicode.

(international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

convert to Unicode

(computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.


Unicode

Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

(computing, by extension, informal) Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.


ground

ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)

grounds (present singular third-person)
grounding (participle present)
grounded (participle past)
grounded (past)

From Middle English grounde, from Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.

We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.

2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

(machine learning) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.


POW

(cryptography, cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of PoW (“proof of work”)


PVC

en-noun

PVC (countable and uncountable, plural PVCs)

(networking) Initialism of permanent virtual circuit.


cast

en-verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

casts (present singular third-person)
casting (participle present)
cast (participle past)
cast (past)
casted (nonstandard participle past)
casted (nonstandard past)
cast (infinitive)

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

cog

let he who is without sin cast the first stone

let him that is without sin cast the first stone

let him who is without sin cast the first stone

To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type.

(computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

强制类型转换

computing: to change the type of a variable


bomb

en-verb

bomb (third-person singular simple present bombs, present participle bombing, simple past and past participle bombed)

bombs (present singular third-person)
bombing (participle present)
bombed (participle past)
bombed (past)

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

der

When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.

2001, Janet Holm McHenry, Girlfriend Gatherings: Creative Ways to Stay Connected, page 28

(slang)
(intransitive, computing) To crash.


bank

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.


poison

en-verb

poison (third-person singular simple present poisons, present participle poisoning, simple past and past participle poisoned)

poisons (present singular third-person)
poisoning (participle present)
poisoned (participle past)
poisoned (past)

From Middle English poisoun, poyson, poysone, puyson, puisun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtio, pōtiōnis (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“I drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root).
Mostly displaced native Old English ātor (see atter).

der

In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.

2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93

(transitive, computing) To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit.


symbol

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, put”).

(programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.


ask

From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).

cog

African-American Vernacular, Cajun, Nigeria, proscribed

ax

alternative pronunciation until about 1600, now dialectal and no longer standard

Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.

2017, Abigail Oakley, “Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr”, in Isabel K. Düsterhöft, Paul G. Nixon, editors, Sex in the Digital Age, unnumbered page

The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: […]

2018, Lynette Kvasny, Fay Cobb Payton, “African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes”, in Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, editors, Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity, page 168

Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.

2020, Lee Brown, “Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr”, in Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, Louisa Stein, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures, page 265

(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.


Hungarian

/hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/

The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.

2009, Michael Ekedahl, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

(computing, programming) Of or relating to Hungarian notation.


Hungarian

en-noun

Hungarian (countable and uncountable, plural Hungarians)

/hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/

Wiktionary’s coverage of Hungarian terms

The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.

(uncountable, computing, informal) Hungarian notation.


eleven

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

der

A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

(Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.


polyglot

/ˈpɑlɪˌɡlɑt/

Book of Genesis
Complutensian Polyglot Bible
Targum Onkelos

PIE word
 *glōgʰs
Borrowed from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “many-tongued”), alternative forms of Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος (polúglōssos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), from πολῠ́ς (polús, “a lot of, many”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + Attic Greek γλῶττα (glôtta), Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs (“tip of corn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns). The English word is analysable as poly- + -glot.
Noun sense 1 (“publication in several languages”) is probably derived from Late Latin polyglottus, from Koine Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos): see above.

der

πολῠ́γλωσσος

If you are interested in polyglot file formats, take a look at the polyglot web page in the Corkami wiki. There are various example polyglots, including a PDF file that is also a valid HTML file with JavaScript, as well as a valid Windows PE executable.

2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, “Evading Scanners”, in The Antivirus Hacker’s Handbook, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, part II (Antivirus Software Evasion), page 148

A file that can be interpreted validly as multiple formats.

programming language
programming language

(programming) A program written to be valid in multiple programming languages.


head

en-noun

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

base

antonym(s) of “topmost part of anything”

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
cognates
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

putouskorkeus

fluid dynamics: difference in elevation in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

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

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

гало́ўка

computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data


imperative

en-adj

imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)

more imperative (comparative)
most imperative (superlative)

(computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.

imperatiivinen

computing: having semantics that incorporates mutable variables


cherry

→ Bengali: চেরি (ceri)

→ Burmese: ချယ်ရီ (hkyairi)

→ Cantonese: 車厘子／车厘子 (ce¹ lei⁴ zi²)

→ Hindi: चेरी (cerī)

→ Japanese: チェリー (cherī)

→ Kapampangan: tiéri

→ Korean: 체리 (cheri)

→ Malay: ceri

Indonesian: ceri

→ Maori: tiere

→ Punjabi: ਚੈਰੀ f (cairī)

→ Spanish: cherry

→ Swahili: cheri

→ Urdu: چیری (cerī)

→ Thai: เชอร์รี (chəə-rîi)

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise and kirsch.

dwarf cherry

P. fruticosa, P. pumila; Exocarpus strictus

Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#x5F;1#x5C;inT#x5F;1…

2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching

Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…

2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology

(graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

kahdesta lehtisolmusta koostuva alipuu

graph theory: subtree consisting of two nodes


Quaker

(video games) One who plays any Quake games.


parallel

/ˈpæɹ.əˌlɛl/

/ˈpɛɹ.əˌlɛl/

From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.

Coordinate term: concurrent

a parallel algorithm

(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

паралелен

computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time


conditional

From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).

if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.

(programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.


king

Tok Pisin: king

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen

→ Burmese: ကင် (kang)

→ Isubu: kinge

→ Japanese: キング (kingu)

→ Korean: 킹 (king)

→ Maori: kingi

→ Marshallese: kiin̄

→ Thai: คิง (king)

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).

Audio (UK) — the king

акрал

a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

(graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.


color

en-verb

color (third-person singular simple present colors, present participle coloring, simple past and past participle colored)

colors (present singular third-person)
coloring (participle present)
colored (participle past)
colored (past)

From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. Doublet of couleur.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).

Can this graph be 2-colored?

You can color any map with four colors.

(mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

färglägga

mathematics: assign distinct colors to the vertices or regions of


tick

From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”).

(computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).

(video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.


kill

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.


coin

en-noun

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

desc

→ Cantonese: coins (kon¹ si²) (from the plural noun form)

→ Japanese: コイン (koin)

From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.

der

What's the best coin to buy right now?

(informal, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.


wiki

en-verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

wikis (present singular third-person)
wikiing (participle present)
wikied (participle past)
wikied (past)

First appears in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News

Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet)

I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.


sibling

1903, modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a 1903 citation in which "sibling" must be defined for those who don't know the intended meaning.

lbor

(computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.


close

en-verb

close (third-person singular simple present closes, present participle closing, simple past and past participle closed)

closes (present singular third-person)
closing (participle present)
closed (participle past)
closed (past)
close (infinitive)

From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.

cog

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

Close the file when you have finished reading data.

This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it closes.

(ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.


picture

Krio: pikchɔ

/ˈpɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.

der

The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.

1997, John Barnes, Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page 390

To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]

1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence, Mastering COBOL Programming, page 20

(programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.


temperature

en-noun

temperature (countable and uncountable, plural temperatures)

/ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əˌt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈtɛm.pəɹˌt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈtɛm.pɹəˌt͡ʃɚ/

[ˈtʰɛm.pʰəɹˌt͡ʃɚ]

[ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹəˌt͡ʃɚ]

Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“I temper”).

ջերմաստիճան

the temperature of the immediate environment

(machine learning) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.


quarantine

quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)

Cuban Missile Crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Louis IX of France
quarantine

From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (“forming distributive adjectives”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). Doublet of carene and quadragene.
In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.

kwarantyn

(figurative) any rigorously enforced isolation

karanténa

a place used for quarantining — see also lazaret

Also included is Canary, a ‘quarantine’ program for use as a sample to test for a virus by pairing it with new or suspect programs.

At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.

(computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..

If they click on the link then they're added to your approved senders list and their message is moved to your inbox; if they don't, the message stays in quarantine.

(computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.


argument

argument (countable and uncountable, plural arguments)

From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin argūmentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”), from arguere + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is the present active infinitive of arguō (“to argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false”), either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“silver, white; glittering”), or from Hittite [script needed] (arkuwā(i)-, “to make a plea, state one’s case”). The English word is analysable as argue + -ment. Doublet of argumentum.
Displaced native Old English racu and ġeflit.

der

/ˈɑːɡjʊmənt/

/ˈɑɹɡjʊmənt/

argument

fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason

وَسِيط

variable that is being passed to a function

Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.

A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.

A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.


banana

en-noun

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".

banánový (corresponding to English attributive use)

(corresponding to English attributive use) banánový

(computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).


advice

advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Displaced native Old English rǣd.

(countable, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.


expression

expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressiō, expressiōnem (“a pressing out”).
Morphologically express + -ion.

der

(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.

uitdrukking

(computing) a piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value


computer language

en-noun

computer language (plural computer languages)

(programming) A language that is used internally by computers, including programming languages, machine languages, query languages, markup languages etc.


computer graphics

(computing) The representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer.

компю́търна гра́фика

representation and manipulation of pictures by computer

(computing) The various technologies used to create and manipulate such pictorial data.

(computing) A sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content.


love

en-verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

loves (present singular third-person)
loving (participle present)
loved (participle past)
loved (past)
love (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: lobi

Aukan: lobi

Saramaccan: lóbi

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).

der

the course of true love never did run smooth

She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.


write

en-verb

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

writes (present singular third-person)
writing (participle present)
wrote (past)
writ (archaic past)
written (participle past)
writ (archaic participle past)
ywriten (obsolete participle past)
write (infinitive)

From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

cog

The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.

(computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.

megír

record onto a specific data storage, e.g. DVD


write

How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference, page 393

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.


hibernate

en-verb

hibernate (third-person singular simple present hibernates, present participle hibernating, simple past and past participle hibernated)

hibernates (present singular third-person)
hibernating (participle present)
hibernated (participle past)
hibernated (past)

[ˈhɑɪbəˌnɛɪt]

From Latin hībernātus, from hībernāre, from hībernus (“winter”).

Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.

2001, Microsoft Corp, Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries

(intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.


future

en-noun

future (countable and uncountable, plural futures)

From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.

noncog

(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.


remote

From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).

(computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.


remote

en-verb

remote (third-person singular simple present remotes, present participle remoting, simple past and past participle remoted)

remotes (present singular third-person)
remoting (participle present)
remoted (participle past)
remoted (past)

These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.

2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion

(computing) To connect to a computer from a remote location.


hack

hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)

hacks (present singular third-person)
hacking (participle present)
hacked (participle past)
hacked (past)

Spanish: jaquear

From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”).
The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).

اِخْتَرَقَ

to gain illegal access to a computer network

I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.

(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.

pätsätä

to make a quick code change to patch a computer program

He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.

The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.

2020 July 10, Tiffany May, Austin Ramzy, “Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-10

(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.

sbrogliare

to accomplish a difficult programming task

I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.

(computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.

työskennellä jonkin parissa

to work with on an intimately technical level

(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.

(transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

اِخْتَرَقَ

to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account

That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.

(intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.


hack

en-noun

hack (countable and uncountable, plural hacks)

Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.

(computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.

purkkaratkaisu

computing: expedient, temporary solution

Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.

(computing, slang, dated) A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.

Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!

(computing, slang, dated) A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.

Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.

computer programming
computer programming

(computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

מעקף

interesting technical achievement in programming

(computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.

[…] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […]

2014, Clara Fernández-Vara, Introduction to Game Analysis, page 165

(computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

hakkeroitu softa

video game or computer software that has been altered from its original state


computing

computing (usually uncountable, plural computings)

This course will cover several major fields of computing.

The study of computers and computer programming.

حَوْسَبَة

the study, field of computers and computer programming


update

ajan tasalla pitäminen

action of advising someone so that they are up to date

I just made an update to the Wikipedia article on guerillas.

A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.

Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM.

I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop.

A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.

You should try the update: it rocks.

A version of something which is newer than other versions.


update

en-verb

update (third-person singular simple present updates, present participle updating, simple past and past participle updated)

updates (present singular third-person)
updating (participle present)
updated (participle past)
updated (past)

Danish: opdatere, opdatering

French: updater

pitää ajan tasalla

to advise a person so that they are up to date

I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.

(transitive) To bring (a thing) up to date.

Update me on what happened while I was away.

(transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.


suffix

Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.

af

perfect passive participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">fīgere</i> (“to fasten, fix”)

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

(computing) A final segment of a string of characters.


parent

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).

(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

ouder

computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended


parent

en-verb

parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)

parents (present singular third-person)
parenting (participle present)
parented (participle past)
parented (past)

(programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.


mouse

en-noun

mouse (plural mice or (computing) mouses)

→ Bengali: মাউস (maus)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: mouse

→ French: souris (semantic loan)

→ Georgian: მაუსი (mausi)

→ Italian: mouse

→ Japanese: マウス (mausu)

→ Korean: 마우스 (mauseu)

→ Romanian: mouse

→ Spanish: mouse

desc

→ Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)

→ Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)

→ Vietnamese: chuột (semantic loan)

From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš),Northern Kurdish mişk,Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.

coin

the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray

the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

move the mouse over the icon
(that is, move the mouse so that the pointer moves over the icon)

(computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

踎士

loaned from English, though more commonly simply written as mouse


mouse

en-verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

mouses (present singular third-person)
mousing (participle present)
moused (participle past)
moused (past)

I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.

Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35

(intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.


epilogue

prologue

antonym(s) of “short speech at the end of a play”

prologue

brief script at the end of a literary piece

From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French.

uder

(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.


grandfather

The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather.
The verb is derived from the noun.

/ˈɡɹændˌfɑːðə/

/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/

[ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ]

File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B.

1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 50, page 22

Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.

2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31

The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.

2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 556

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.

Grotvader & Großvader

Schleswig-Holsteinisch; the latter influenced by High German


complete

en-adj

complete (comparative more complete or completer, superlative most complete or completest)

more complete (comparative)
completer (comparative)
most complete (superlative)
completest (superlative)

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

inh

complete androgen insensitivity syndrome

QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.

2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17

BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.

2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137

(computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).


case

→ Swedish: case n

From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).

der

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.

Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.

2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus, page 275

(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.


gold

From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.

The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.

2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10

He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.

I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.

2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221

(programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.


semaphore

en-noun

semaphore (countable and uncountable, plural semaphores)

/ˈsɛm.əˌfɔː/

/ˈsɛm.əˌfɔɹ/

The noun is borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰyeh₂- (“to notice”)) + French -phore (from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

The thread increments the semaphore to prevent other threads from entering the critical section at the same time.

Several synchronization techniques have been proposed and many of them have been adopted by parallel and distributed operating systems or parallel programming platforms. [...] Semaphores represent another synchronization technique that is mainly used by traditional stand-alone operating systems.

1996, P. Theodoropoulos, G. Manis, P. Tsanakas, G. Papakonstantinou, “Extending Synchronization PVM Mechanisms”, in Arndt Bode, Jack Dongarra, Thomas Ludwig, Vaidy Sunderam, editors, Parallel Virtual Machine – EuroPVM ’96: Third European PVM Conference, Munich, Germany, October 7–9, 1996: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 1156), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISSN, page 315

A semaphore makes sure that the different processes don't step on each other's toes when they access the shared memory segment. Before a process can use the segment, it needs to get control of the semaphore. When it's done with the segment, it releases the semaphore for another process to grab.

2003, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, “Variables”, in Paula Ferguson, editor, PHP Cookbook, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, section 5.6 (Sharing Variables across Processes), page 124

It is up to the programmer to ensure that if one thread updates multiple dependent memory locations (for example, writing a string, or updating a table) that another thread might read, some protection is put in place to ensure that the two threads don't update and read at the same time. [...] Several techniques are used by programmers to prevent this, including locks, semaphores, and mutexes.

2012, Timothy Mangan, “L1/L2/L3 Memory Cache”, in Windows System Performance through Caching: 15 Ways Caching Improves System Performance (Inside the OS Series), Canton, Mass.: TMurgent Technologies, page 22

(computing) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.

semafor

mechanism used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time


WWW

[dʌɥʊ̆dʌɥʊ̆dʌbˡju]


gossip

en-noun

gossip (countable and uncountable, plural gossips)

Chinese:

Wu: 茄山河

From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage.

inh

(computing) Communication done using a gossip protocol.


gossip

en-verb

gossip (third-person singular simple present gossips, present participle gossiping or gossipping, simple past and past participle gossiped or gossipped)

gossips (present singular third-person)
gossiping (participle present)
gossipping (participle present)
gossiped (participle past)
gossiped (past)
gossipped (participle past)
gossipped (past)

(intransitive, computing) To communicate using a gossip protocol.


omelette

en-noun

omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

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

This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

(computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.


SQL

Structured Query Language
w:Structured Query Language

(computer languages, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language.

SQL

pronounced эс-ку-э́ль (es-ku-élʹ) or эс-кью-э́л (es-kʹju-él)


thumb

From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “thumb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

a scroll-bar thumb

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.

2001, Gary, “Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE”, in alt.sex.services (Usenet):

(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.


finger

Sranan Tongo: finga

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

sormi

something similar in function to a finger

Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:

(computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.


finger

en-verb

finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)

fingers (present singular third-person)
fingering (participle present)
fingered (participle past)
fingered (past)

digitar

to provide instructions about the use of fingers in music

There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]

1996, Marc Saltzman, Sean McFadden, Internet Games Directory, Lycos Press, page 29

PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

1996, Yves Bellefeuille, “List of useful freeware”, in comp.archives.msdos.d (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.


SA

SA (third-person singular simple present SAs, present participle SAing or SA-ing or SA'ing, simple past and past participle SAed or SA'ed or SA'd)

SAs (present singular third-person)
SAing (participle present)
SA-ing (participle present)
SA'ing (participle present)
SAed (participle past)
SAed (past)
SA'ed (participle past)
SA'ed (past)
SA'd (participle past)
SA'd (past)

This time CPS did really investigate a lot more thoroughly, and the CPS worker said that she believes Allison was SA'ed by her dad, but that the role of CPS is to *remove children from abusive homes* and since Allison does not live in the abusive home, the duty falls to me to go thru the family court system to get no-visitation orders in place.

1995 March 9, Cindi, “no evidence that a crime was committed”, in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Usenet)

Remind me of that night and while I threw away the clothes I was SA'd in,, the clothes I wore to be around him make me feel gross too and

2017 July 14, @princesse_peche, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08

I just saw that! She doesn’t know anything! She’s regurgitating bull for a video to make money! And her subs won’t question it!! They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d! Absolutely vile and disgusting

2020 September 22, @Carly4243, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08

These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls. When said girls tell them to rightfully get lost out come the “jokes” about wanting to SA them or hoping the girls get SA’ed.

2022 December 31, @acegirleatscake, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-08

(transitive, Internet) To sexually assault (someone).


DC

en-noun

DC (countable and uncountable, plural DCs)

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.

I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC.

2012 February 6, "u n risr@optonline.net IYM", “Re: Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

(computing) Initialism of disconnection.


DC

en-verb

DC (third-person singular simple present DCs, present participle DCing, simple past and past participle DCed or DC'd)

DCs (present singular third-person)
DCing (participle present)
DCed (participle past)
DCed (past)
DC'd (participle past)
DC'd (past)

Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. For example,just now my Paladin was questing in Thou Needles, and I DC'd several times within a few minutes.

2012 February 3, "ToolPackinMama", “Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

(computing) To become disconnected from a network.


buff

en-noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

(video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.


buff

en-verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

buffs (present singular third-person)
buffing (participle present)
buffed (participle past)
buffed (past)

The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.

I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.

(video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.


ES

Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., page 41

Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.

2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, page 652

If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.

2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, page 31

(computer languages) Initialism of ECMAScript.


PB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of petabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of pebibyte.


PB

(sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.


MS

Initialism of Microsoft: an American multinational technology company founded in 1975.


BA

(Internet, security) Initialism of Basic Authentication.


PE

(software) Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).

Preinstallation Environment
w:Windows Preinstallation Environment

(software) Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.

In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]

2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)

Portable Executable
portable executable#English

(software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).


RS

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
w:Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.


sister

en-noun

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

sisters (plural)
sistren (archaic plural)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)

→ Japanese: シスター (shisutā)

→ Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)

PIE word
 *swésōr
From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

妹妹

mui⁶⁻⁴ mui⁶⁻²

(computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.


RR

en-noun

RR (countable and uncountable, plural RRs)

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Initialism of resource record.


AP

AP (countable and uncountable, plural APs)

(video games) Initialism of action point.


MX

MX (countable and uncountable, plural MXs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of mail exchanger.


SE

(computing) Initialism of standard edition.

software engineering
software engineering#English

(computing) Initialism of software engineering.


TL

(Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.


YT

(Internet) Abbreviation of YouTube, a popular video hosting website.


PU

(computing) Initialism of processing unit.


CL

CL (countable and uncountable, plural CLs)

computability logic
computability logic#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of computability logic.


CS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(computer games) Initialism of Counter-Strike: a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games that began in 1999.


SP

SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)

(video games, mostly role-playing games) synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements. Common examples of meanings of the abbreviation include but are not limited to: skill point, special point, spirit point, and spell point.


IL

Intermediate language
intermediate language#English

(computing, initialism) Intermediate language

(video games, speedrunning, initialism) Individual-level.


CM

CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)

Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “promotional video”), from English commercial + message.

(cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.


TB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of terabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of tebibyte.


CI

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

Coordinate term: CD

software engineering
software engineering

continuous integration
continuous integration#English

(software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.


warm

en-verb

warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)

warms (present singular third-person)
warming (participle present)
warmed (participle past)
warmed (past)

(computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.


AR

en-noun

AR (countable and uncountable, plural ARs)

augmented reality
augmented reality#English

(computing, chiefly uncountable) Initialism of augmented reality.


DE

DE (countable and uncountable, plural DEs)

desktop environment
desktop environment#English

(computing) Initialism of desktop environment.


GA

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

general availability
general availability#English

(chiefly software) Initialism of general availability.

genetic algorithm
genetic algorithm#English

(software) Initialism of genetic algorithm.


KS

en-verb

KS (third-person singular simple present KSs, present participle KSing, simple past and past participle KSed)

KSs (present singular third-person)
KSing (participle present)
KSed (participle past)
KSed (past)

(online gaming) Initialism of kill steal.


NS

(Internet, historical) Initialism of Netscape.


NS

(video games, first-person shooters) nice shot


IA

Indian Army at the Encyclopedia of India

Indian Airlines at the Encyclopædia Britannica

(computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.


IA

en-noun

IA (countable and uncountable, plural IAs)

information assurance
w:Information assurance

(computing) Initialism of information assurance.


ME

United States of America
United States of America

Abbreviation of Maine, a state of the United States of America.

Alternative form: Me

(computing) Windows ME (Millennium Edition).


MC

MC (countable and uncountable, plural MCs or MC's)


MC

(video games, informal) Initialism of Minecraft.


PR

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)

(software engineering) Initialism of pull request.


NC

(computing theory) Nick's Class, the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polylogarithmic time using a polynomial number of processors.


MO

(computing) Initialism of magnetooptical.


CA

Computer Associates
w:Computer Associates

(software, computing) Initialism of Computer Associates, an American software company.


CA

CA (countable and uncountable, plural CAs)

BTW: Of course the rules were parametrised, so any totalistic 2-dimensional 9-neighbourhood CA could be run.

1989 March 21, Mark Kramer, “Fast LIFE (was: Re: summing 9-cell neighborhoods)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The new CA is a modification of Fredkin's earlier SALT architecture in which every cell is identified as either even or odd - as in sodium and chlorine in a salt crystal hence the name. The state of each cell is either up or down and the development rule simple takes account of states of odd and even neighbours. The up-date at each time step simply takes the form of a swap of the states of diagonally related cells. SALT CAs are reversible and capable of universal computation and are conjectured to be capable of universal construction in the sense of Von Neumann.

2012 July 3, Mike James, “A New Computational Universe - Fredkin's SALT CA”, in www.i-programmer.info, retrieved 2012-10-25

I assume we are speaking of a single rule CA (one rule for every cell).

2013 October 31, Shawn LeGrand, “Question about one-dimensional cellular automaton with a finite number of cells”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

cellular automaton
cellular automaton#English

(cellular automata) Initialism of cellular automaton.

Well-designed CAs will create a trust hierarchy, which consists of a root with a number of subroots, to further enhance protection of the private key.

2003, Kapil Raina, PKI Security Solutions for the Enterprise, page 30

certificate authority
certificate authority#English

(computing) Initialism of certificate authority.


MB

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

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

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of megabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of mebibyte.


ML

(computing) Initialism of Markup Language.

The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming. In the first of these a program may be written without typing at all. Then a compiler should check whether a type can be assigned to the program. This will be the case if the program is correct. A well-known example of such a language is ML, see Milner (1984). The style of typing is called 'implicit typing'. The other paradigm in programming is called 'explicit typing' and corresponds to the Church version of typed lambda calculi. Here a program should be written together with its type. For these languages type-checking is usually easier, since no types have to be constructed. Examples of such languages are ALGOL 68 and PASCAL. Some authors designate the Curry systems as 'lambda calculi with type assignment and the Church systems as 'systems of typed lambda calculus'.

1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl, retrieved 2012-07-15

ML programming language
w:ML (programming language)

(computer languages) Initialism of MetaLanguage (the ML programming language)


ML

ML (countable and uncountable, plural MLs)

machine learning
machine learning#English

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of machine learning.

(countable, computing) Initialism of mailing list.


chain

en-verb

chain (third-person singular simple present chains, present participle chaining, simple past and past participle chained)

chains (present singular third-person)
chaining (participle present)
chained (participle past)
chained (past)

From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.

der

(computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.

ketjuttaa

computing: to relate data items with a chain of pointers

You don’t need to maintain state, or partition execution into different objects that then you can chain together (one executes the other on completion — chained continuations).

2016 January 15, Mark Papadakis, “Coroutines and Fibers. Why and When”, in Medium

(computing) To be chained to another data item.

How do you get one program to chain another? I want to run DrawWorks2 then !Draw but as soon as you run Drawworks2 it finishes the batch file and doesn't go on to the next instruction! Is there a way without loading one of these automatic loaders?

1996, Mr D Walsh, “Running two programs from a batch file”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)

You can do LOAD "" or CHAIN "" to load or chain the next program if I remember correctly (it's been a loooong time since I've used a tape on an Acorn!)

1998, Juan Flynn, “BBC software transmitted on TV - how to load?”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)

Recent versions of AntiSpam no longer use the Config file but have a Settings file instead, so when I updated the Config file to chain SpamStamp it had no effect as it was a redundant file.

2006, Richard Porter, “SpamStamp double headers”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet)

(transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).


SD

(video games) Initialism of self-destruct.


NE

(software) Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).


luck

en-noun

luck (usually uncountable, plural lucks)

→ Welsh: lwc

From Middle English luk, lukke, related to Old Frisian luk (“luck”), West Frisian gelok (“luck”), Saterland Frisian Gluk (“luck”), Dutch geluk (“luck, happiness”), Low German luk (“luck”), German Glück (“luck, good fortune, happiness”), Danish lykke (“luck”), Swedish lycka (“luck”), Icelandic lukka (“luck”). According to the OED, it may be related to lock.
A loanword into English in the 15th century (probably as a gambling term) from Middle Dutch luc, a shortened form of gheluc (“good fortune”), whence Modern Dutch geluk.
Middle Dutch luc, gheluc has parallels with Middle High German lücke, gelücke (Modern German Glück). The word occurs only from the 12th century, apparently first in Rhine Frankish. Perhaps from a Frankish *galukki. The word enters standard Middle High German during the 13th century, and spreads to English and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages. Its origin seems to have been regional or dialectal, and there were competing German words such as gevelle or schick, or the Latinate fortūne from Latin fortūna. Its etymology is unknown, although there are numerous proposals as to its derivations from a number of roots.
Use as a verb in American English is late (1940s), but there was a Middle English verb lukken (“to chance, to happen by good fortune”) in the 15th century.

cog

The creators of tool-assisted speedruns often manipulate luck to get the most favorable results in order to save the most time.

random number generator
random number generator#English

(video games, computing) The results of a random number generator.


turtle

Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.

1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing

(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

(computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.


turtle

en-verb

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

turtles (present singular third-person)
turtling (participle present)
turtled (participle past)
turtled (past)

(video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.


OR

(computer science) A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.


OR

en-noun

OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.


room

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

→ Japanese: ルーム (rūmu)

→ Kikuyu: rumu

→ Maori: rūma

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”).
Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.
It is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English native vocabulary.

inh

rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.

Here in the room we are as one / Together you and me, together you and me / Hours connect / As we switch on

2000, “My Internet Girl”, performed by Aaron Carter

(Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.


child

en-noun

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

children (plural)
childer (archaic dialectal plural)

adult

antonym(s) of “person below the age of adulthood”

parent

antonym(s) of “data item, process or object in a subordinate role”

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

der

[ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯.ɫ̩d]

offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter

call someone everything but a child of God

it is a wise child that knows his own father

The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.

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

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

en:figuratively, of times or tribes
en:child element in computing

(figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:

(computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

仔

(computing) object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another object

(mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.


boss

→ Cantonese: 波士 (bo¹ si⁶⁻²)

→ Danish: boss

→ French: boss

→ Indonesian: bos

→ Italian: boss

→ Japanese: ボス (bosu)

→ Korean: 보스 (boseu)

From Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-West Germanic *baswō, from Proto-Germanic *baswô (“uncle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *ba-, *bō- (“father, older male relative”), source also of the English terms babe, boy, bub, bully. Cognate with Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”), hence Saterland Frisian Boas (“boss”), Old High German basa (“father's sister, cousin”), hence German Base (“aunt, cousin”).
Originally a term of respect used to address an older relative. Later, in New Amsterdam, it began to mean a person in charge who is not a master. The representation of Dutch -aa- by English -o- is due to the older unrounded pronunciation of this letter, which is still used in North America and parts of Ireland, but was formerly found in some British accents as well.
The video game sense is borrowed from Japanese ボス (bosu), in turn from English boss.

cog

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.


car

→ French: car

→ Russian: кар (kar)

⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

→ Japanese: カー

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of horse.

der

(Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.


car

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

acronym

Holonym: cons

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach

(programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.


hole

→ Japanese: ホール (hōru)

→ Korean: 홀 (hol)

Sranan Tongo: olo

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

отвор

orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities)

know one's ass from a hole in the ground

know one's head from a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground

(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.


jump

en-verb

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

jumps (present singular third-person)
jumping (participle present)
jumped (participle past)
jumped (past)
jump (infinitive)

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

jump down

cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.

2008, Garry Robinson, Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security

(intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.


jump

Brill Publishers
hydraulic jump
jump cut
jump discontinuity
jump instruction

onomatopoeic

imitative

قَفْزَة

instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.


dub

I haven't had a dub in a few games.

Clipping of double-u.
(video games, Internet slang) A win.


unmask

en-verb

unmask (third-person singular simple present unmasks, present participle unmasking, simple past and past participle unmasked)

unmasks (present singular third-person)
unmasking (participle present)
unmasked (participle past)
unmasked (past)

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


gun

Sranan Tongo: gon

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].

2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature

It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.

2007 February 23, Frank, “Life on the Edge”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun

2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 74

(cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.


moon

moon (third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)

moons (present singular third-person)
mooning (participle present)
mooned (participle past)
mooned (past)

From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.

inh

It is impractical if a currency moons and plummets often.

I've followed several of the most popular crypto pundits on Twitter and discovered they constantly brag about their one big Hail Mary pick that mooned but neglect to mention – or delete – their numerous fumbles.

2019, Mark Grabowski, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money, Routledge

(cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly.


bucket

→ Farefare: bɔgtɛ

→ Japanese: バケツ (baketsu)

→ Maori: pākete

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

gloss

"bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">buck</i>

der

(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

kori

computing: a storage space in a hash table


bucket

en-verb

bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)

buckets (present singular third-person)
bucketing (participle present)
bucketed (participle past)
bucketed (past)

These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.

2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference, page 352

Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating the sorted buckets together is O(n).

2008, Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm, page 136

(computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.


twit

twit (third-person singular simple present twits, present participle twitting, simple past and past participle twitted)

twits (present singular third-person)
twitting (participle present)
twitted (participle past)
twitted (past)
twit (infinitive)

PIE word
 *h₂éd
The verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).
The noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.

натяквам

(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach

However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect, someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

1995 December 5, Michelle Jackson, “Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet)

Not only are some of the notoriously foul-mouthed echoes excluded from the BBS message base, but each message is auto-censored for key words that are, in the opinion of the SysOp (me in this case), offensive to a "G" audience. And no, it isn't 100% effective. And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

2002 August 14, Marc Lewis, “FidoNet”, in alt.bbs (Usenet)

(computing) To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).

bulletin board system
bulletin board system


father

Ireland, Canada, California, Western Pennsylvania, older New York City

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père. The development of the /ɑː/ vowel (outside of those accents which also have it in rather, lather) is irregular and has not been conclusively explained.

doublet

Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.

2004, Ray Bradley, The Ultimate Computing Glossary for Advanced Level, page 31

The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.

2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 556

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.


ant

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.


mine

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.

(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

louhintakone

computing: machine or network used to extract units of cryptocurrency


mine

en-verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

mines (present singular third-person)
mining (participle present)
mined (participle past)
mined (past)

Coordinate term: mint

Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.

2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

挖礦

computing: to earn new units of cryptocurrency


cold

en-adj

cold (comparative colder, superlative coldest)

colder (comparative)
coldest (superlative)

baking

antonym(s) of “having a low temperature”

Sranan Tongo: kowru
Aukan: koo

From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

cold as a witch's tit

cold as a witch's teat, cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra

make someone's blood run cold

make the blood run cold, one's blood runs cold

(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.


predicate

From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject”), a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedicō (“I proclaim”), as Etymology 2, below.

der

(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

predikaattifunktio

computing: an operator or function that returns either true or false


HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet)


son

From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).

па

a male person in relation to his parents

After the update, the new file master file is the son. The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather. The grandfather and son files are stored in different locations.

2007, O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Auditing and Attestation, page 779

(computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.


idiom

idioms (plural)
idiomata (plural)
used uncountably (sometimes)

From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”).

I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]

2005, Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, page 100

A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.

(programming) A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.