wait

From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan.


wave

From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “a wave”). See also waw.

cog

As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.

2011, Raffaele Cecco, Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: With HTML5 Canvas and jQuery

(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.


hover

en-verb

hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)

hovers (present singular third-person)
hovering (participle present)
hovered (participle past)
hovered (past)
hover (infinitive)

Welsh: hofran

Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Coast Guard

The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.

suffix

A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

懸停

to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over (something on a screen) without clicking, so as to produce a result

placer le curseur au-dessus d’un hyperlien


format

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).


format

en-verb

format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)

formats (present singular third-person)
formatting (participle present)
formatted (participle past)
formatted (past)

I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.

(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

форматирам

computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use


moot

Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation.

Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there

2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10

I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.

2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222

RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link)

(Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.


office

Tok Pisin: opis

→ Bulgarian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Cebuano: opis

→ Iban: opis

→ Marshallese: wōpij

→ Russian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Swahili: afisi

Microsoft Office
office (disambiguation)

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y: forming actions”), from op- (“base of opus: work”) + -i- (“connective”) + -fex (“combining form of facere: to do, to make”).
The use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

zyrë

room(s) or building used for non-manual work

(computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.


computer virus

en-noun

computer virus (plural computer viruses or (proscribed) computer viri or (rare, chiefly non-native speakers’ English) computer vira)

computer viruses (plural)
computer viri (plural proscribed)
computer vira (English plural rare)

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.


SOB

SOB (countable and uncountable, plural SOBs)

(speedrunning) Initialism of sum of best.


tour

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

tor (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger)

taw (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger, non-rhotic)


exclusive or

Exclusive disjunction
exclusive disjunction

(logic, computing) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.

(logic, computing, more generally) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many); contrasted with inclusive or, which indicates only that one or more is true.

exclusive disjunction
exclusive disjunction

(logic, computing) An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates; contrasted with an inclusive or, which is the result of applying an inclusive or.


inclusive or

(logic, computing) A logical connective joining two or more predicates that yields the logical value "true" when at least one of the predicates is true.

(computing) A bitwise operator that yields 1 when any of its operands is 1.


EPIC

w:explicitly parallel instruction computing

(computing) Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.


time travel

(databases) The ability to access previous states of a database.


relative

[ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv]

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”).

The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

(computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.


select

en-verb

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)

selects (present singular third-person)
selecting (participle present)
selected (participle past)
selected (past)
select (infinitive)

From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

(databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.


byte

An alteration of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.

(computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.

The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

(computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.


option

option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)

options (present singular third-person)
optioning (participle present)
optioned (participle past)
optioned (past)

From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt + -ion.

der

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

(computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.


hypercube

(computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.


enter

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)


NP

en-noun

NP (countable and uncountable, plural NPs)

Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.

2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, page 81

(computing theory) Abbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time.


wormhole

1590s. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.

(programming, slang) A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.


fragment

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

der

(computing) An incomplete portion of code.

Holonym: anchor link

The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.

2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, page 523

(Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.


fragment

en-verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

fragments (present singular third-person)
fragmenting (participle present)
fragmented (participle past)
fragmented (past)

(transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.


tumbler

The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.

2021 April 29, Kim Lyons, “Feds arrest founder of bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335 million over ten years”, in The Verge

(cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.


girth

en-noun

girth (countable and uncountable, plural girths)

From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *gerdō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).

cog

(graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.


XNAY

Initialism of X-No-Archive: yes., a Usenet message header that indicates the message should not be retained on the server after delivery. Probably also influenced by ixnay.

(Internet slang) Indicates the poster’s request for a message not to be stored in Usenet archives.


data

→ Turkish: data

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

Coordinate term: information

(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.


GBA

(video games) Initialism of Game Boy Advance.


LAN

/ˌɛl ˌeɪ ˈɛn/

Audio (US)

Audio (US)

A LAN connects all of the computers in our office.

local area network
local area network#English

(networking) Acronym of local area network.


clan

→ Catalan: clan

→ Danish: klan

→ Dutch: clan

→ French: clan
→ Turkish: klan

→ Galician: clan

→ German: Clan

→ Italian: clan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: klan

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: klan

→ Polish: klan

→ Russian: клан (klan)

→ Portuguese: clan, clã

→ Spanish: clan

→ Swedish: klan

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

отог

group of relatives with some degree of political organization

(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.


wikify

en-verb

wikify (third-person singular simple present wikifies, present participle wikifying, simple past and past participle wikified)

wikifies (present singular third-person)
wikifying (participle present)
wikified (participle past)
wikified (past)

The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.

2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”, in The Observer

Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.

2008 March 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”, in Science

(transitive) To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach for.


native

en-adj

native (comparative more native, superlative most native)

more native (comparative)
most native (superlative)

foreign

born or grown in the region in which it is found

Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.

This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.

The native integer size is sixteen bits.

cloud native, crypto native

(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

nativo

computing: pertaining to a particular system


shortcut

There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.

(computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

keyboard shortcut
keyboard shortcut#English

(computing) Short for keyboard shortcut.


parse

en-verb

parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)

parses (present singular third-person)
parsing (participle present)
parsed (participle past)
parsed (past)

Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).

разобра́ть

синтакси́чески OR граммати́чески

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

(computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.

解析

(computing) to resolve (a string) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar

This sentence doesn't parse.

(computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.

jäsentyä

(computing, linguistics) to conform to rules of grammar


parse

The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.

(computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.

ана́лиз

граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий

разбо́р

граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий

This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.

(computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.


circumference

From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“I carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang.

(graph theory) The length of the longest cycle of a graph.


awk

Alfred Aho
Brian Kernighan
Peter Weinberger

From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.

I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects.

One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output.

2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, page 77

command line interface
command line interface

(computer languages) A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.


GNAA

The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) was created in 2002, and typified this sort of extreme trolling. Their opening page featured the following invitation: “Are you GAY? Are you a NIGGER? Are you a GAY NIGGER? If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the above questions, then GNAA might be exactly what you're looking for!”

2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, Melville House

Asked why GNAA is getting involved in the election now, Meepsheep demurred. “The media has created a lot of fertile soil for trolling and I’m sure you’ll start seeing a lot more out of the GNAA and others within the next few months,” he or she wrote.

2016 October 13, Brendan O'Connor, “Internet Trolls Vandalize Hillary and Bill Clinton's Wikipedia Pages in Extremely NSFW Way”, in Jezebel

Gay Nigger Association of America
w:Gay Nigger Association of America

(Internet) Initialism of Gay Nigger Association of America.


drill down

en-verb

drill down (third-person singular simple present drills down, present participle drilling down, simple past and past participle drilled down)

drills down (present singular third-person)
drilling down (participle present)
drilled down (participle past)
drilled down (past)

From the employee list, you can drill down to find addresses and pay history.

(idiomatic, software) To examine information at another level or in greater detail; especially in a database, to navigate to a more detailed level or record.

Clicking here lets you replace the annual sales data with monthly data, drilling down to help you track revenue.

(idiomatic, software) To replace data with more specific data.


palette

Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.

It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.

2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009, page 394

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.


tycoon

Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon; cf. Street Fighter and later fighter (“game with a focus on physical combat”)).

Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.

2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, page 172

In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.

2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, page 65

In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme.

2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, page 13

These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured.

2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, page 217

What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?

2022, Jessica Stone, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, 2nd edition, Routledge

The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.

2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!, Adams Media, page 153

A genre of video games in which players earn money which is then used to purchase upgrades.


patch

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).

tilkku

small piece of material used to clean a gun barrel

flejtuch

piece of greased cloth used to fit a rifle ball to the bore

Immediately following the incident Siemens commissioned a software patch that will allow units which protectively shut down below 49Hz to recover themselves without the need of a reboot or laptop when the frequency rises to 49.5Hz. At the beginning of September, this patch was being verified by Siemens software engineers at Erlangen in Germany.

2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 28

(computing) A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.

ъпде́йт

computing: file describing changes made to source code


patch

en-verb

patch (third-person singular simple present patches, present participle patching, simple past and past participle patched)

patches (present singular third-person)
patching (participle present)
patched (participle past)
patched (past)

fliki

computing: update source code with a patch

(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:

To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.

To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.


character

en-noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

→ Scottish Gaelic: caractar

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

der

(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

karakter

(computing) basic element in a text string


gate

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.


paste

en-verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

pastes (present singular third-person)
pasting (participle present)
pasted (participle past)
pasted (past)

Etymology tree
Middle English paste
English paste
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta.

etymon

(transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.


vanilla

en-adj

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

more vanilla (comparative)
most vanilla (superlative)

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

vanilla JavaScript

BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet)

(colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.


bake

en-verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) baken)

bakes (present singular third-person)
baking (participle present)
baked (past)
book (dialectal past)
baked (participle past)
baken (dialectal participle past)

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

paska

to make baked goods or something into bread

(computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.


metaverse

From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992.

coin

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, pages 354–356

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020 May 15, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, in The Guardian

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021 July 10, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021 July 30, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, in VICE

The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life.

2022 January 18, Brian X. Chen, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(science fiction, Internet) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


lapis

French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.

1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53

That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.

2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291

The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]

2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99


block

→ Dutch: block

→ German: Block

→ Irish: bloc

→ Manx: block

→ Maori: poraka

→ Norwegian: blokk

→ Polish: blok

desctree

→ Russian: блок (blok)
→ Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
→ Yakut: блок (blok)

→ Spanish: block

→ Vietnamese: lốc

From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.

طَابُوقَة

substantial often approximately cuboid piece

թաղամաս

group of buildings demarcated by streets

But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.

1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Perhaps the simplest puffer known is the following period 20 puffer based on the period 20 spaceship, which creates blocks.

1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 5/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Blocks have a couple of unusual properties: they are cleanly destroyed by an incoming glider on any one of six adjacent paths, and none of the possible collisions include any output gliders, so you can't get chain reactions.

2005 February 23, Dave Greene, “exist glider gun able of reconstruction in Life?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.

блок

residential building consisting of flats

Coordinate term: cluster

After one disk is mapped, the next block starts at address 0 on the next disk.

2003, Dilip M. Ranade, Shared Data Clusters, page 79

A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.

(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.

With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.

2006, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional, page 49

(programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

блок

programming: region of code that acts as single unit

(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.

lohko

cryptography: fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message

The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.

(computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).


block

en-verb

block (third-person singular simple present blocks, present participle blocking, simple past and past participle blocked)

blocks (present singular third-person)
blocking (participle present)
blocked (participle past)
blocked (past)

When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.

Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.

2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25

(programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.


pad

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

unk

probably

(cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.


mobile game

(video games) An electronic game played using a cellular phone.


deflate

en-verb

deflate (third-person singular simple present deflates, present participle deflating, simple past and past participle deflated)

deflates (present singular third-person)
deflating (participle present)
deflated (participle past)
deflated (past)

From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Partly based on Latin deflo, deflare (perfect passive participle deflatus), which meant "blow away".

Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!

2003, Alan D Johnson, “unzip utility on HPUX”, in comp.sys.hp.hpux (Usenet)

(transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

der

What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

Worshippers in Mecca are streaming their stories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online.

2015 July 14, Aisha Gani, “Mecca worshippers stream their stories live on Snapchat”, in The Guardian

People can make stories public or private, and can choose if they want only a subsection of their followers to view them.

2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

I have come across a few (OK, two) Stories that have made me laugh. And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness. But here’s hoping the Instagram Stories on my feed improve as time goes by. The End.

2016 August 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Instagram Stories: who cares about your commute or cleansing routine?”, in The Guardian

While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at their Story or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at each noti wondering if it’s them.

2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan

(social media, sometimes capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.


story

en-verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

stories (present singular third-person)
storying (participle present)
storied (participle past)
storied (past)

But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.

2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair

I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these mini Friends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; Aniston Storying herself shopping at Gelson’s; […]

2019 June 24, Christian Allaire, “Jennifer Aniston, We Beg You, Get on Instagram”, in Vogue

(transitive, intransitive, social media, sometimes capitalized) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.


alchemy

en-noun

alchemy (countable and uncountable, plural alchemies)

From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia.

der

اَلْكِيمِيَاء

Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)

(computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.


monitor

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

The information flashed up on the monitor.

(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.

a machine code monitor

(computing) A program for viewing and editing.

computerskærm

computing: program for viewing and editing


beep

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


inflate

en-verb

inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)

inflates (present singular third-person)
inflating (participle present)
inflated (participle past)
inflated (past)

From Latin īnflātus, from the verb īnflō. Doublet of inblow.

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.


joystick

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

unk

unclear

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.


wallop

en-verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

wallops (present singular third-person)
walloping (participle present)
walloped (participle past)
walloped (past)

(Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.


disambiguation

en-noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

/dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.


chatty

en-adj

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

chattier (comparative)
chattiest (superlative)

From chat (“informal conversation”) + -y.

Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

(computing) Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.


virus

en-noun

virus (countable and uncountable, plural viruses or (rare) virusses or (rare) vira or (proscribed) viri or (proscribed) virii)

viruses (plural)
virusses (plural rare)
vira (plural rare)
viri (plural proscribed)
virii (plural proscribed)

→ Amharic: ቫይረስ (vayräs)

→ Bengali: ভাইরাস (bhairaś)

→ Burmese: ဗိုင်းရပ်စ် (buing:rapc)

→ Dhivehi: ވައިރަސް (vairas)

→ Hindi: वायरस (vāyras)

→ Japanese: バイラス (bairasu)

→ Kannada: ವೈರಸ್ (vairas)

→ Korean: 바이러스 (baireoseu)

→ Lao: ໄວຣັສ (wai rat)

→ Malay: virus

→ Malayalam: വൈറസ് (vaiṟasŭ)

→ Maltese: vajrus

→ Sinhalese: වෛරස (wairasa)

→ Telugu: వైరస్ (vairas)

→ Thai: ไวรัส (wai-rát)

desc

→ Urdu: وائرس

→ Urdu: وائرس

From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

der

Wait a minute! Is this one of those virus emails?!

2004 November 15, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #118: virus”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman)

(computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.

(computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.


sysop

(computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


silo

From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.

(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.


mnemonic

Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonikós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1.
cognates
* French mnémonique (noun)
* German Mnemonik
* Italian mnemonica
* Portuguese mnemónico

crib

collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort

(computing) The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.


giant

/ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/

[ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt]

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.


puck

→ Danish: puck

→ German: Puck

→ Swedish: puck

From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.


bouncer

(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.


Alice

From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheidis, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Adelaide.

af

Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#x5F;#x7B;A-B#x7D;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#x5F;#x7B;A-B#x7D;(N) back to Bob.

1978, V.S. Bagad, I.A. Dhotre, Computer Networks, Technical Publications

Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.

2009, N. David Mermin, It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press, page 19

(cryptography, physics) The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.


whack

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken < Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack).

del c:\docs\readme.txt
Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]

2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress, page xxi

For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.

2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148

(computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


diameter

From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

(graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.


relocatable

en-adj

relocatable (comparative more relocatable, superlative most relocatable)

more relocatable (comparative)
most relocatable (superlative)

(computing, of a machine code routine) That functions identically at any address in memory.

færanlegur

computing: that functions identically at any address in memory


googlewhack

From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on 8 January 2002.

(Internet) A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.


googlewhack

en-verb

googlewhack (third-person singular simple present googlewhacks, present participle googlewhacking, simple past and past participle googlewhacked)

googlewhacks (present singular third-person)
googlewhacking (participle present)
googlewhacked (participle past)
googlewhacked (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit.


sweaty

en-adj

sweaty (comparative sweatier, superlative sweatiest)

sweatier (comparative)
sweatiest (superlative)

table
From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

Watch out for that sweaty team.

The YouTuber delved deeper into his goals, claiming: "I want to do sweaty, try hard FPS gaming from the toilet."

2022 August 3, Terry Oh, “YouTuber turns toilet into gaming PC for when duty calls”, in Dexerto

(video games, slang) Extremely (and possibly inappropriately) obsessed with winning.

I stick to casual because ranked lobbies are way too sweaty.

The mode caters to competitive players by offering increased health and larger lobby sizes. However, some players argue the game mode is extremely "sweaty."

(video games, slang) Attracting many extremely competitive players.


park

en-verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

parks (present singular third-person)
parking (participle present)
parked (participle past)
parked (past)

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in, under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

cog

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)


technical

From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).

(video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.


stitch

en-verb

stitch (third-person singular simple present stitches, present participle stitching, simple past and past participle stitched)

stitches (present singular third-person)
stitching (participle present)
stitched (participle past)
stitched (past)

From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).

inh

I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.

To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.

(computer graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰

2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pages 186–187

She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)

2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times

(TikTok) To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.


like

en-verb

like (third-person singular simple present likes, present participle liking, simple past and past participle liked)

likes (present singular third-person)
liking (participle present)
liked (participle past)
liked (past)

Jersey Dutch: lāike

Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).

inh

I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.

I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.

What' up, y'all? I'm the last man on Earth. Shit's all fucked up. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We out here.

2021, Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, spoken by Jason Orlean (Jonah Hill)

(Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

հավանել

to show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote


like

→ Russian: лайк (lajk)

→ Ukrainian: лайк (lajk)

→ Spanish: like, likear

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes

2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia

Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.

2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times

(Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)

information management
w:information management

(computing) Initialism of information management.

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49

(Internet) Initialism of instant message.

Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70

Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy.

2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80

instant messaging
instant messaging#English

(Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.


bleep censor

(computing) A software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician, putting a five-second broadcast delay on the live content, providing time to censor the audio (and video) feed, and used to censor out what many consider "inappropriate" audio content during a live broadcast signal and replace it with a bleep signal.


skeleton

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

der

Coordinate term: stub

In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.

(computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.


oblique

en-verb

oblique (third-person singular simple present obliques, present participle obliquing, simple past and past participle obliqued)

obliques (present singular third-person)
obliquing (participle present)
obliqued (participle past)
obliqued (past)

From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).

uder

(transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.


cooked mode

(computing) The mode of a device driver in which input data is processed or preprocessed.


spaghetti

en-noun

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek.
The verb is derived from the noun.

مَعْكَرُونَة

type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings

spagetti

something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled

(uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.

(programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).


dispatch

en-verb

dispatch (third-person singular simple present dispatches, present participle dispatching, simple past and past participle dispatched)

dispatches (present singular third-person)
dispatching (participle present)
dispatched (participle past)
dispatched (past)

Cuthbert Tunstall
Samuel Johnson
dispatch

From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.

These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel[…]

2004, Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification, page 102

(transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).


dispatch

en-noun

dispatch (countable and uncountable, plural dispatches)

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.


driver

desctree

→ Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
→ Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
→ Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)

→ Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

դրայվեր

program acting as interface between an application and hardware


database

→ Danish: database

→ Dutch: database

→ Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: database

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: database

The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.

(computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.

Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?

(computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

(computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.


stake

en-verb

stake (third-person singular simple present stakes, present participle staking, simple past and past participle staked)

stakes (present singular third-person)
staking (participle present)
staked (participle past)
staked (past)

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake.

Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.

2019, Elad Elrom, “Blockchain Basics”, in The Blockchain Developer […], Apress, page 23

(cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.


range

Japanese: レンジ (renji)

Korean: 레인지 (reinji)

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).

der

std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.

(programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.


block level element

en-noun

block level element (plural block level elements)

(HTML) An HTML element that normally begins on a new line, and may or may not contain other block level elements or inline elements.


page

→ Hindi: पेज (pej)

→ Japanese: ページ (pēji)

→ Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page (Figure 9).

2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.


pod

From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), likely from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

gloss

"seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">pod-ware</i> (“legume seed; seed grain”)

cog

I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette

(informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.


cheat

→ Dutch: cheat

→ French: cheat

→ German: Cheat

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.


cooked

en-adj

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

more cooked (comparative)
most cooked (superlative)

more than someone has had cooked dinners

(computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.


camp

en-verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

camps (present singular third-person)
camping (participle present)
camped (participle past)
camped (past)

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

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Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.

דָּגַר

to stay in an advantageous location in a video game

The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

Go and camp the flag for the win.

(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.


dock

From early modern English "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from Dutch dok (“dock”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, ship's dock”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare modern Dutch dok, modern German Low German Dock, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Danish dok, Swedish docka.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct.
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic/Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”), related to Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Old Icelandic dökk, dökð (“pit, pool”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.

der

(graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.

任務欄

toolbar for launching and switching between applications


dock

en-verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

docks (present singular third-person)
docking (participle present)
docked (participle past)
docked (past)

(transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.


protocol

en-noun

protocol (countable and uncountable, plural protocols)

/ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/

Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).

der

Moloch passed the message to the Behemoth / Whose master passed it on to Zebedee / It was sent by Internet, by obscure protocols / To its recipient, the delicious Miss Gee

2001, “More Shopping”, in Discosis, performed by Bran Van 3000 ft. Momus

An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).

2006, Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing, p. 444

Founders of those kinds of platforms argue that they are just building a “protocol” ultimately led by a community of users, with the computer code effectively running the show.

2021 September 5, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.


fuzzy

en-adj

fuzzy (comparative fuzzier, superlative fuzziest)

fuzzier (comparative)
fuzziest (superlative)

Uncertain. Apparently from fuzz + -y, though some sources suggest that fuzz derives from fuzzy. Compare fozy, or Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”).

(computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.


diskette

→ Portuguese: disquete

From disk + -ette, by analogy with cassette.

(computing) A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.

(computer hardware, dated) An 8-inch floppy disk.


messenger

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

The 4 primary messengers include AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.

2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Sexual exploitation of children over the Internet, page 395

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

(computing) An instant messenger program.


affinity

en-noun

affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities)

From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity.

(computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.


zombie

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.

(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.


grip

grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)

From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.


floppy disk

→ Italian: floppy disk

→ Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)

A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.

1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.

1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, page 107

(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.

قُرْص مَرِن

flexible disk used for storing digital data


selection

selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)

From Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

der

(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ


deprecate

en-verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

deprecates (present singular third-person)
deprecating (participle present)
deprecated (participle past)
deprecated (past)

From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecārī (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precārī (“to pray”).

The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.

It is still supported but strongly deprecated.

A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex

(transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.


web hosting

The service of hosting a web site on the Internet, making it viewable by other users.


blogger

The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”

2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in The Atlantic

(Internet) A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.


creator

head

creator (plural creators, feminine creatress or creatrix)

creators (plural)
creatress (feminine)
creatrix (feminine)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-creator.wav

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

Coordinate term: influencer

creator economy

People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.

2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

sisällönluoja

one who regularly produces and publishes content on social media — see also content creator


immutable

From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.

Constants are immutable.

(programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.


baz

Suppose we have three objects, foo, bar and baz.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(computing) A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.


camper

first-person shooting
first-person shooter

(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

kämppäri

video games: person who stays in one spot


resident

en-adj

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

more resident (comparative)
most resident (superlative)

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

semantic loan

(computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.


golf

en-verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

golfs (present singular third-person)
golfing (participle present)
golfed (participle past)
golfed (past)

The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).

(computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)


neighborhood

en-noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods)

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
Cognates
Dutch nabijheid (common in modern language), Dutch naburigheid (uncommon in modern language).

veïnat

topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point

vizinhança

topology: set containing an open ball which contains a specified point

(graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule.

1990 July 9, David Hiebeler, “Languages for programming cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Universal: Is able to simulate other CA, the neighborhood size may be limited but the number of cell value should be unlimited (big neighborhoods can be transformed into multivalued cells).

2005 September 7, IzI, “reversible universal 1D CA?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state), or more precisely and if you want to be pedantic, since there are a lot of variants of cellular automata: 2D Range-1 Moore neighborhood 2-state (non-totalistic) cellular automata (regular euclidean grid implied, although some people explore toroidal configurations, nonstandard tilings, or arbitrary graphs).

2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.


vend

en-verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

vends (present singular third-person)
vending (participle present)
vended (participle past)
vended (past)

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.

2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, page 289

(programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.

1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)

The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.

1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)

(dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.


non-maskable interrupt

en-noun

non-maskable interrupt (plural non-maskable interrupts)

non-maskable interrupts (plural)
NMI (abbreviation)

(computing) A hardware-level interrupt that cannot be masked by software, such as a memory parity error.


tumble

en-verb

tumble (third-person singular simple present tumbles, present participle tumbling, simple past and past participle tumbled)

tumbles (present singular third-person)
tumbling (participle present)
tumbled (participle past)
tumbled (past)

From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln and Danish tumle.

der

Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured.

2019, Brian Merchant, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 2020, number January

(cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.


realm

From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *rēgālimen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of regimen with rēgālis is usually cited.

(computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.


mat

I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.

Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.

2019 October 24, Christopher Groux, “'Fortnite' Weapon Upgrade Guide - Upgrade Bench Locations & More”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-30

While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.]

[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-05-21

Fortnite added a new trap with the Armored Wall reinforcement for mats and one viral TikTok showed just how deadly the new item can be in a close fight.

2021 September 25, Alan Bernal, “Viral Fortnite TikTok trick shows how to use Armored Walls for easy kills”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2021-10-26

The looper goes on laying more than a thousand mats in thirty seconds. He finally reaches his opponent, who is easily brought down with a shell of a shotgun and a burst of an SMG. Upon eliminating the opponent, he is ecstatic in celebration.

2022 July 16, Sarthak Chauhan, “Fortnite YouTuber using 1000 mats in less than 30 seconds shows exactly what not to do”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-05-29

(video games, slang, chiefly Fortnite, in the plural) Clipping of material.


cave

From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage.

cog

Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.

2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games


resolve

en-verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

resolves (present singular third-person)
resolving (participle present)
resolved (participle past)
resolved (past)

From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.

sulattaa

to melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.


nugatory

en-adj

nugatory (comparative more nugatory, superlative most nugatory)

more nugatory (comparative)
most nugatory (superlative)

(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

The game offers four save slots.

(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.


population

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

bor+

invånarantal (often expressed as "har X invånare" instead)

This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity.

1996 December 16, Dean Hickerson, “What is his name ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Since unoccupied cells never send a message they never access their neighbors and so if the population of the arena is, say, 20% of the total area then 80% of time no neighbor cells need to be accessed at all leading 1/9th as many array accesses and computation speeds up to 9 times faster per generation.

2003 February 28, fiziwig, “Fast GOL alogrithm that doesn't examine neighbors.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

End population was 101,764 cells, but with some significant spikes and drops along the way.

2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

(cellular automata) The number of living cells in a pattern.

John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.


boxing

(object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

käärintä

automatic conversion of value types to objects


store

desc

→ Kashubian: sztor (Canada, United States, New Zealand)

Tok Pisin: stua
→ Rotokas: sitoa

→ Afrikaans: stoor

→ Cantonese: 士多 (si⁶ do¹)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.


store

en-verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

stores (present singular third-person)
storing (participle present)
stored (participle past)
stored (past)

This operation stores the result on the stack.

(transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

һаҡлау

computing: write (something) into memory or registers


EDT

(software) An editor on the VMS operating system.


EDT

en-noun

EDT (countable and uncountable, plural EDTs)

An EDT is a special case of ADT where each product type is a singleton.

2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima

(programming) Initialism of enumerated data type.


nest

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest

Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.

1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's, Garland STPM Press, page 49

Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.

1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), page 178

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.


MPEG

(computer graphics) Any of a group of computer file formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data.

(computer graphics) A computer file (as of a movie) in an MPEG format.


flop

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.

1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

(computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second.

floating-point operation
floating-point operation#English

(computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.


verbose

en-adj

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

more verbose (comparative)
most verbose (superlative)

From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”) + English -ose (suffix meaning ‘full of; like’). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Equivalent to verb + -ose.

der

You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.

2001, Richard Blum, “Common Postfix Problems”, in Postfix, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, part III (Advanced Postfix Server Topics), page 532

Verbose logging adds extra detail and increases the descriptiveness of the log entries made. Verbose logging also adds one additional client log file that is specific to DCM, SmsClrHost.log, and one management point log file, MP_GetSdmPackage.log.

2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey [et al.], “Desired Configuration Management”, in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, part III (Configuration Manager Operations)

For troubleshooting purposes, enable verbose logging for the WUA by following these steps: [...]

2015, Andre Della Monica, Chris Shilt, Russ Rimmerman, Rushi Faldu, “Understanding Software Update Architecture: Client Side”, in Mitch Tulloch, editor, Microsoft System Center: Software Update Management Field Experience, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, page 19

(computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

ausführlich

(computing) producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes


scripting language

en-noun

scripting language (plural scripting languages)

It's a great application, but the scripting language is hard to learn.

A computer language designed to be used as part of a larger application.


loaf

→ Bengali: লোফ (lōph)

→ Marshallese: ļoob

→ Norwegian Bokmål: loff

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: loff

→ Scottish Gaelic: lofa

* From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hlāf (“bread, loaf of bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread, loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognate with Scots laif (“loaf”), German Laib (“loaf”), Swedish lev (“loaf”), Russian хлеб (xleb, “bread, loaf”), Polish chleb (“bread”); as a borrowing, Finnish leipä (“bread”), Estonian leib (“black bread”). Doublet of chleb and khleb.
* (brain or head): Rhyming slang, shortened from "loaf of bread".

cog

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

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

Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards.

1992 September 10, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 3b)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I am looking for the smallest ancestor of the following four loaf pattern in Conway's Game of Life:

1998 January 27, Ian Osgood, “Life: looking for smallest ancestor of a quad-loaf”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.


delay

en-noun

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

→ Portuguese: delay

From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally.
Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

cog

(programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)


WAN

Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.

wide area network
wide area network#English

(networking) Acronym of wide area network.


prepend

en-verb

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

prepends (present singular third-person)
prepending (participle present)
prepended (participle past)
prepended (past)

From pre- + (ap)pend, by analogy with append.

The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).

2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI

(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.

antaŭglui

to attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix


acknowledgment

en-noun

acknowledgment (countable and uncountable, plural acknowledgments)

acknowledgement

most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US

(telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).

ontvangstbevestiging

indication of a successful receipt of a transmission


BOM

balm (some speakers with the father-bother merger)