fabric

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

→ Irish: fabraic

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

der

The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

verkko

computing: interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed


shade

en-verb

shade (third-person singular simple present shades, present participle shading, simple past and past participle shaded)

shades (present singular third-person)
shading (participle present)
shaded (participle past)
shaded (past)

Noun from Middle English schade, from Old English sċeadu, sċadu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.
Verb from Old English sceadwian, derived from sċeadu, above.

inh

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.


load

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).
Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.

cog

All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.

This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.

2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614

(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.


load

en-verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

loads (present singular third-person)
loading (participle present)
loaded (past)
loaded (participle past)
loaden (archaic participle past)

Click OK to load the selected data.

(transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

This program takes an age to load.

(intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

yüklənmək

intransitive: to transfer from a storage medium into memory


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down.

2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.


support

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English wraþu.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

This game has no mouse support.

(computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.

-tuki (e.g. onko siinä hiirituki?)

compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature


define

From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”).

From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.

1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment

Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.

1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++, page 309

(programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.

define-makro

macro that replaces one text string with another


immortal

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis). Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.

Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals. […] Immortals do not need experiance.

1999, Corey Crawford, “RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet)

(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


forward

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

rojník

players nearest to the opposing rugby team

When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.

2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27

This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies.

2009, Joli Ballew, Windows 7 for the Over 50s in Simple Steps

(Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.


kite

en-verb

kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)

kites (present singular third-person)
kiting (participle present)
kited (participle past)
kited (past)

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.

If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.

2001, Juanita Jones, Everquest Player’s Guide: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Roseville, Calif.: Prima Games, page 70

The wind kited us toward shore.

It was mere happenstance that the Weston meteor kited across the sky on December 14, 1807, the same day President [Thomas] Jefferson's Non-Importation Act, which restricted trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, went into effect.

2010, Cathryn J. Prince, “The Misquote Heard Round the World”, in A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, page 130

In the distance creatures on leathery wings kited across the sky, lofted by thermal winds.

2019, Amy J. Murphy, chapter 13, in Pat Dobie, editor, Allies and Enemies: Legacy (Allies and Enemies; book 4), [s.l.]: Amy J. Murphy

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).


dewikify

en-verb

dewikify (third-person singular simple present dewikifies, present participle dewikifying, simple past and past participle dewikified)

dewikifies (present singular third-person)
dewikifying (participle present)
dewikified (participle past)
dewikified (past)

I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".

(wiki jargon, transitive) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


sticky

en-adj

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

stickier (comparative)
stickiest (superlative)

We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.

(computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.

predeterminado

persistent across multiple incarnations of a widget

(computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.

(Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.

(Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.


sticky

en-noun

sticky (countable and uncountable, plural stickies)

(Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


sticky

en-verb

sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)

stickies (present singular third-person)
stickying (participle present)
stickied (participle past)
stickied (past)

(Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


screenshot

→ Dutch: screenshot

→ German: Screenshot

→ Italian: screenshot

desc

→ Japanese: スクリーンショット, スクショ

→ Japanese: スクリーンショット, スクショ

→ Portuguese: screenshot

→ Russian: скриншо́т (skrinšót), скри́ншот (skrínšot)

→ Thai: สกรีนช็อต

→ Thai: สกรีนช็อต

→ Ukrainian: скріншот (skrinšot), скрін (skrin)

From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

compound

I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

(computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.


screenshot

en-verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted or (less common) screenshot)

screenshots (present singular third-person)
screenshotting (participle present)
screenshotted (participle past)
screenshotted (past)
screenshot (participle past uncommon)
screenshot (past uncommon)

To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.

Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25

(computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.


bin

en-noun

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.

Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

(video games, fandom slang, in the plural) A notional draconian arm of a corporation (originally Nintendo), tasked with dealing with individuals that infringe on its rights or do not comply with its regulations.


ninja

en-verb

ninja (third-person singular simple present ninjas, present participle ninjaing, simple past and past participle ninjaed or ninja'd)

ninjas (present singular third-person)
ninjaing (participle present)
ninjaed (participle past)
ninjaed (past)
ninja'd (participle past)
ninja'd (past)

That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!

(online gaming slang) To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.


reaction

Inherited from Middle English reaccion, from Old French reaction, from Latin reāctiō, from the verb reagō, from re- (“again”) + agō (“to act”); more at re-, action; equivalent to react + -ion.

(Internet) An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.


rank

en-noun

rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.

cog

(mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.


delegation

en-noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

/dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/

Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.

(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

delegointi

(computing) a method dispatching technique


stripe

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”).

cog

(computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.


stripe

en-verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

stripes (present singular third-person)
striping (participle present)
striped (participle past)
striped (past)

(transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.


mirror

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy."

ncog

Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.

(computing, Internet) A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.


mirror

en-verb

mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)

mirrors (present singular third-person)
mirroring (participle present)
mirrored (participle past)
mirrored (past)

(computing, transitive) To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).

tükröz

(computing) to create something identical to (a web site, etc.)


plot

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.
Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

cog

I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.

2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.

The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.


plot

en-verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

plots (present singular third-person)
plotting (participle present)
plotted (participle past)
plotted (past)

They had plotted a robbery.

They were plotting against the king.

(transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

كَادَ

intransitive: to conceive a crime or misdeed

They plotted the number of edits per day.

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).


part

part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

parts (present singular third-person)
parting (participle present)
parted (participle past)
parted (past)

The noun is from Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). The verb is from Middle English parten, from Old French partir. Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slīfan (“to split”)).

ayrılmaq

to become divided in two or separated; shed

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).


bounce

en-verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bunsen (“to beat, thump”), perhaps imitative. Compare Low German bunsen (“to beat”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb”), and akin to bonken (“to bang, smash”), and possibly English bang.

onomatopoeic

imitative

What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.

The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.


bounce

en-noun

bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.

The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

(computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

tagi

computing: keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

(transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.

2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82

(transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

marcar

to attach the name of a user so that they are linked from the post


editor

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

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.

(computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.


jail

en-noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: जेल (jel)

Urdu: جیل (jel)

→ Punjabi: ਜੇਲ੍ਹ (jelh)

→ Welsh: jêl, jael

From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.

(computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.


porter

From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”).

[…] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.

1998, Michael McMillan, Perl from the Ground Up, page 45

(computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).


LC

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

(fashion on the Internet) Initialism of legit check.


relation

relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin relātiō, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relātus (“related”), from verb referō (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“I bear, I carry”).
Morphologically relate + -ion

This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.

(databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

關係

mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments

關係

set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database


wrap

en-verb

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

wraps (present singular third-person)
wrapping (participle present)
wrapped (participle past)
wrapped (past)
wrapt (archaic participle past)
wrapt (archaic past)

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”).
Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).

cog

(computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.


greeking

If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.

2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, pages 46–47

Designers have long worked with a concept known as greeking. Greeking is a method of drawing gray bars to represent blocks of text rather than taking the time to image them all on the screen. […] Unless you really want to see every character of every word at every size, there's hardly any reason to turn greeking off.

2007, David Blatner, Gene Gable, Real World QuarkXPress 7, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press

The use of greeking (also called dummy text) allows page designers to place text on a page without the actual content acting as a distraction. The history of greeking is unclear, but it was first used in the middle of the 20th century. The text was based on the words of Cicero, a Roman leader whose writings are admired. The language he spoke and wrote was Latin rather than Greek, so the naming of this dummy text is misleading.

2007, Susan E. L. Lake, Karen Bean, “Using Other Design Tools”, in The Business of Technology: Digital Desktop Publishing, Mason, Oh.: Thompson/South-Western, page 109

(computing, typography) Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice of using such placeholder text or graphics.


tagger

To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109

(computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.


industry

en-noun

industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)

From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).

cog

It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]

2007, Dominique Guellec with Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, The economics of the European patent system, page 122

(Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.


software engineer

en-noun

software engineer (plural software engineers)

Back-formation from software engineering.

backformation

One who designs and implements software solutions.

програми́ст

one who designs and implements software solutions


res

Coordinate term: hi-res

Can I get that in a higher res?

(computing) Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image).


automagical

en-adj

automagical (comparative more automagical, superlative most automagical)

more automagical (comparative)
most automagical (superlative)

/ˈɑtoʊˈmæd͡ʒɪkəl/

Throughout this text we will emphasize the employment of a systems approach to the practice of analysis and design. In it we attempt to present this portion of the software lifecycle as a discipline rather than an "automagical" (automated magic) process.

1987, Lawrence J. Peters, Advanced Structured Analysis and Design, Prentice-Hall, page 2

"How're we paying you, actually?" I asked.
"Certain automagical manipulations."

1993, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric: A Novel, Crown Publishers, page 186

It is hoped that, over time, new e-mail list management tools will become available for users which can "automagically" determine who and how to do these…

1994, Daniel P. Dern, The Internet Guide for New Users, McGraw-Hill, page 490

In the more florid cases, where the diagnosis is unmistakeable, several anatomical studies (especially with automagical computerized devices, such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) have shown clear though subtle differences in the brains of schizophrenic patients…

1995, István Raskó, C. Stephen Downes, Genes in Medicine: Molecular Biology and Human Genetic Disorders, Springer, page 277

These result [sic] indicate that the more complex the system, and the less the human feels aware of how the system is operating (i.e. to what degree it seems ‘automagical’) the less effective the operator becomes in correctly identifying problematic situations and taking the necessary corrective action.

2006, Stefan Axelsson, David Sands, Understanding Intrusion Detection Through Visualization, Springer, page 6

(computing, technology, informal) Automatic, but with an apparent element of magic. Commonly referring to complex technical processes hidden from the view of users or operators, resulting in technology that "just works".

automagisch

automatic, but with an apparent element of magic


soft

soft (comparative softer, superlative softest)

softer (comparative)
softest (superlative)

hard

antonym(s) of “giving way under pressure”

firm

antonym(s) of “lacking strength or resolve”

From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.

inh

Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.

(computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.


soft

Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.

December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly

(computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.


waterfall

/ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/

From Middle English waterfal, waterfalle, from Old English wæterġefeall (“waterfall”), equivalent to water + fall. Cognate with West Frisian wetterfal (“waterfall”), Dutch waterval (“waterfall”), German Wasserfall (“waterfall”), Swedish vattenfall (“waterfall”).

വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം

veḷḷaccāṭṭaṁ

A very long duration project […] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.

(technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model


structure

en-noun

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

[ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]

From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

der

This structure contains both date and timezone information.

(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

struktur

computing: several pieces of data treated as a unit


fiber

en-noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers)

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.

2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, unnumbered page

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.


immediate

en-adj

immediate (comparative more immediate, superlative most immediate)

more immediate (comparative)
most immediate (superlative)

From Old French immediat, from Late Latin immediātus (“without anything between”), from Latin in + mediātus, past participle of mediō (“to halve, to be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

der

(computer science, of an instruction operand) Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).


cracker

From crack + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Coordinate term: script kiddie

It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.

1984, Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making, Macmillan, page 137

Likewise, early software pirates and "crackers" often used phrases like "information wants to be free" to protest the regulations against the copying of proprietary software packages and computer systems.

2002, Steve Jones, Encyclopedia of New Media, page 1925

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.


loot

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

poen

slang: money, especially illicitly acquired

Loot, plunder, pillage.

He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.

1839, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, page 104

Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340

The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.

1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505

India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22

The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.

Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

en-verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

loots (present singular third-person)
looting (participle present)
looted (participle past)
looted (past)

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder

1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66

The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.

1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483

We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.


material

en-noun

material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)

From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.

ncog

(graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.


firewire

From fire + wire. In the first sense ("high speech digital link standard"), the term was originally a trade name—capitalized FireWire—used by Apple Inc. as it developed the standard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.


freeware

From free + -ware, a contraction of software; Coined by Andrew Fluegelman.

(software) Complete and functional software that does not require payment or other compensation (such as viewing advertising) for its use. Freeware may be a proprietary license with no access to the source code.


smelly

en-adj

smelly (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)

smellier (comparative)
smelliest (superlative)

above board

antonym(s) of “having a quality that arouses suspicion”

That smelly code needs to be refactored.

(figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.


quark

Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Quark#Etymology

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.

coin

Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […]

2012, Keith D. Gregory, Programming with Motif, page 453

(computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.


obfuscation

en-noun

obfuscation (countable and uncountable, plural obfuscations)

From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

замъгляване

You need to turn on obfuscation for these classes.

(uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.

(computing, uncountable) The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.

obfuscation

alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent


ASPI

(computing) Initialism of Advanced SCSI Peripheral Interface.


fibre

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres)

fibres (plural)
spellings (New-Zealand South-Africa)

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.


style

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

→ Finnish: staili

→ Scottish Gaelic: stoidhle

→ Iban: stail

→ Japanese: スタイル (sutairu)

→ Korean: 스타일 (seutail)

→ Malay: stail

→ Portuguese: style

→ Swahili: staili

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.
The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

styl

manner of expression in writing or speech

styl

applying styles to text in a wordprocessor  Cascading Style Sheets

In today's assignment, you need to: [...] Right justify your heading in 12 point Helvetica font and plain text style.

2001, Dee L. Fabry, Sally A. Seier, “Speaking, Technology, Analysis, and Reading through Research”, in Opening Doors to Reading: Building School-to-work Skills, Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, page 64

The concept of creating styles has been around since long before the Web. Desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign, and even word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, have long used styles to manage the formatting and editing of text on printed pages.

2011, Janine Warner, “Cascading Style Sheets”, in Dreamweaver CS3 for Dummies, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.

kāhua

visual or other modification to text or elements of a document


RP

en-noun

RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)

(video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.


simulation

simulation (countable and uncountable, plural simulations)

→ Japanese: シミュレーション (shimyurēshon)

First attested in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French simulation/simulacion, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō (“imitate”).
Morphologically simulate + -ion.

Some kids in the classroom will be playing simulations after school.

(video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to cause something to revolve by turning over and over

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

(dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.

(computing) To generate a random number.

To throw dice.
To generate a random number.


tray

From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.

cog

[…]some developers try to use it that way for some reason (some applications inexplicably minimize to the tray rather than to the taskbar as they should).

2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets

(computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.

ilmaisinalue

notification area in a computer's graphical user interface

(computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.


hacker

From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

hacker

one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems

ха́кер

one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

(by extension, computer security, telecommunications) Synonym of white hat (“a computer security professional who hacks computers for a good cause, or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws)”)

white hat

PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share of hackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating.

2021 June 27, Wasif Ahmed, “Tencent Banned over 3.8 Million Hackers in PUBG Mobile Last Week”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-06-03

Cheaters continue to plague Fortnite, as Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and Jack 'CouRage' Dunlop have run into a hacker using fly-mode and aimbot, completely destroying and leaving both popular streamers speechless.

2022 January 11, Samed Kadirogullari, “Fortnite’s Flying Hackers Leave Ninja & CouRage Speechless”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-01-11

The server is certainly not for everyone. Gamers need to be prepared to deal with many hackers, trolls, and griefers. However, those looking for a unique Minecraft experience might just find it on 2b2t.

2022 March 9, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft servers to play in 2022”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-05

While a patch was rolled out that's given Diamond, Master, and Predator competitors protection against DDoSing, players still want Respawn to do more about the abundance of hackers.

2023 January 30, Alex Garton, “Apex Legends Dev Confirms Even More Anti-cheat Improvements Coming in Season 16”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-01-30

(by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.

hakkeri

someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game

a phone hacker

I'm a computer crook, the Willie Sutton of hackers. I break into computer systems for fun—and profit. To me, the Apple is the forbidden fruit.

1986 April, Curtis Slepian, “The April Papers”, in R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor, Games, volume 10, number 4 (number 74 overall), New York, N.Y.: Playboy Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15

Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender.

2007, “Category 5—Illustrative Crosscutting Problem-focused Research Areas”, in Seymour E. Goodman, Herbert S. Lin, editors, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, Washington, D.C.: Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council, part II (An Illustrative Research Agenda), page 205

The Electrical Engineering Department, J. McKenzie in particular, for allowing me to use the PDP-1 computer to do the extensive computations, draw graphs, and even type this thesis. In this connection Charles Landau did some of the programming, Luella Thompson did most of the typing, and W. B. Ackermann helped when the machine would not cooperate. Many other computer hackers also willingly offered advice.

1968 September, Rory [Jack] Thompson, Louis N[orberg] Howard, thesis supervisor, “Acknowledgments”, in Instabilities of Some Time-dependent Flows (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-23, page 107

A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" – magazines on floppy disks – started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals […]

1984, Venture: For Entrepreneurial Business Owners and Investors, volume 6, part 1, New York, N.Y.: Venture Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 142

While most hackers are people who simply love playing with computers and who break security measures in a network only for fun or to point out flaws, there is a malicious subset of hackers known as "crackers," who intrude on computer networks to cause damage, commit fraud, or steal data.

1995 May 22, Joe Chidley, “Cracking the Net”, in Maclean’s, volume 108, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean-Hunter Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 54–56; quoted in “Bibliography”, in Suzanne Elizabeth Kender, editor, Crime in America (The Reference Shelf; volume 68, number 5), New York, N.Y.: H[alsey] W[illiam] Wilson Company, 1996, page 197

(computing, dated) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.

food hacker

growth hacker

(by extension) One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.

hakkeri

one who applies a novel method, etc., to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity


redundant

en-adj

redundant (comparative more redundant, superlative most redundant)

more redundant (comparative)
most redundant (superlative)

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

(computing) (of topology) containing duplicate pathways to send a message.


target

en-verb

target (third-person singular simple present targets, present participle targeting or targetting, simple past and past participle targeted or targetted)

targets (present singular third-person)
targeting (participle present)
targetting (participle present)
targeted (participle past)
targeted (past)
targetted (participle past)
targetted (past)

From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe (“light shield”), from Old French, from Frankish *targa (“buckler”), akin to Old Norse targa (“small round shield”) (whence also Old English targe, targa (“shield”)) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).

cog

This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.

(transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.


layer

Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to the other word below that is also spelt layer.
However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has long been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger.

пцум

single thickness of some material covering a surface

(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.

(networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.


blackout

en-noun

blackout (countable and uncountable, plural blackouts)

→ French: blackout

→ German: Blackout

→ Portuguese: blecaute, blackout

the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout

A group of Redditors, many of whom are moderators, organized a temporary boycott, with participating subreddits going private or restricted for 48 hours starting on Monday. A Twitch stream tracking the blackout claimed that nearly 8,500 subreddits, some with tens of millions of subscribers, had gone dark by Tuesday afternoon.

2023 June 14, Sara Morrison, “The ongoing Reddit Blackout, explained”, in Vox

(Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.


lock out

en-verb

lock out (third-person singular simple present locks out, present participle locking out, simple past and past participle locked out)

locks out (present singular third-person)
locking out (participle present)
locked out (participle past)
locked out (past)

The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.

(computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.


digraph

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “double”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”), di- + -graph.

(computing) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.


firehose

2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.


record

→ Portuguese: recorde

table
From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).

Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?

(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.

سِجِلّ

computing: set of data relating to a single individual or item

This chapter examines another data structure, the record (available in Pascal but not in all other high-level languages). Records make it easier to organize and represent information in Pascal, a major reason for the popularity of the Pascal[…]

1989, Elliot B. Koffman, Pascal: Problem Solving and Program Design, Addison-Wesley, page 406

The new record type provides another solution. A record is a class-like construct for data classes, a restricted form of class like enums and annotations.

2020, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, page 232

A record is a special kind of class that's designed to work well with immutable (readonly) data.

2021, Joseph Albahari, C# 9.0 in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Media, page 210

programming language
programming language

(programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.

tietue

if distinct from structs, the latter are called arvoluokka


speed of light

speeds of light (plural)
as (abbreviation common-gender)

The translated distance divided by the period is the speed of the spaceship. Since the maximum speed of propagation of a signal in Life is one cell per generation, this speed is known as c (the speed of light). This speed is also the fastest possible growth of any finite object for a finite number of generations (think of a long line of ON cells). However, growth (or even just movement) of a finite object for an infinite time cannot occur at this speed.

1992 August 14, David I. Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A rate of travel of a signal equal to one cell per generation, the fastest possible speed in the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods.


pump

pump (third-person singular simple present pumps, present participle pumping, simple past and past participle pumped)

pumps (present singular third-person)
pumping (participle present)
pumped (participle past)
pumped (past)

⇒ Czech: pumpovat

→ Thai: ปั๊ม (bpám)

From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”). Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe.

der

Sure enough, rather than pumping a message to the Console window, you will now see a message box displaying your message

2006, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform

The CLR pumps messages automatically during a wait, reducing the likelihood of this but it can show up in native code.

2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows

c. 2012, Microsoft, .NET Framework 4.5 documentation for Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext
The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.

(computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.


perk

(video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.


click

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.


click

en-verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

clicks (present singular third-person)
clicking (participle present)
clicked (participle past)
clicked (past)

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

кликвам

transitive: press and release (button on a mouse)

(transitive, graphical user interface) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.

Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

(transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a web site).

I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.

From the home page, click through to the Products section.

(intransitive, graphical user interface) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

կտտացնել

intransitive: click the left button of a mouse


adware

(computing) A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.


client

→ Japanese: クライアント (kuraianto)

From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).

(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.

client

computing: the role of a computer application or system


cyber

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.

2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]

Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-


cyber

These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice

2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

(singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.


cipher

14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.

a public-key cipher

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.


spyware

In the end of the 90s we call this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]

2017 December, 5:24 from the start, in Interview with hacktivist Jaromil, ArtEZ studium generale

(Internet) Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.


logical

en-adj

logical (comparative more logical, superlative most logical)

more logical (comparative)
most logical (superlative)

/ˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/

/ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/

Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.

It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program[…]

1986, Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version

(computing) Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression

arorau

non-physical or conceptual underpinning something physical or actual


magnet

→ Cebuano: magnet

→? Indonesian: magnet

→? Malay: magnet

→ Tagalog: magnet

→ Welsh: magnet

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.

der

μαγνῆτις 􂀿λίθος􂁀

Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling it together.

2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142


existential

From Late Latin existentialis, from existentia.

Coordinate term: generic

existential type
existential type#English

(programming) Ellipsis of existential type.


spark

→ Esperanto: sparko

→ Japanese: スパーク

From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō (compare Saterland Frisian Spoorke, West Frisian spark, Dutch spark, German Low German Sparke, German Sparke), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz (“lively, energetic”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperg- (“to strew, sprinkle”) (compare Breton erc’h (“snow”), Latin spargō (“to scatter, spread”), sparsus (“scattered”), Lithuanian sprógti (“to germinate”), Ancient Greek σπαργάω (spargáō, “to swell”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬔𐬀 (frasparega, “branch, twig”), Sanskrit पर्जन्य (parjanya, “rain, rain god”)).

cog

(cellular automata) A small collection of cells which briefly appears at the edge of a larger pattern before dying off.


rich

en-adj

rich (comparative richer or more rich, superlative richest or most rich)

richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

inh

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

2002, David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming

Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

2003, Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

2008, Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation

(computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.


bong

(slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.


surrogate

→ Dutch: surrogaat

From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“ask”); a variant of subrogō, from sub (“under”) + rogō (“ask”).

(computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.


property

en-noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.

خَاصَّة

attribute or abstract quality associated with an object, individual or concept

characteristic

attribute or abstract quality of an object

You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".

(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.

propietat

computing: an editable parameter associated with an application

egenskab c (property often used untranslated)


charset

Clipping of character set.. By surface analysis, char + set.


news

Sranan Tongo: nyunsu

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though unlike the English word, these originated as genitives, not plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

cog

The Usenet news system brings people together from around the world and forms social groups on the basis of common interest. Usenet news is a domain that is suffering badly from information overload.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, page 207

(Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.


character set

字符集

set of characters in a character encoding

In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters.

1995 May 2, Dan Connolly, “Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft”, in HTML Working Group

(computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.

(computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding.


kung fu

en-noun

kung fu (countable and uncountable, plural kung fu)

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.

bor

(slang) A mastery of or expertise in a skill

(slang, computing) A mastery of or expertise in computer programming, hacking, or cracking


architecture

en-noun

architecture (countable and uncountable, plural architectures)

/ˈɑɹkɪtɛkt͡ʃɚ/

Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”, literally “chief builder, principal craftsman”).

der

(computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.

arsitektur

computing: a family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other

The Intel architectures have more software written for them.

(computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.

arsitektur

computing: a specific model of a microchip or CPU


triage

en-noun

triage (countable and uncountable, plural triages)

From French triage, from trier (“to sort”).

(computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.


dislike

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


dislike

en-verb

dislike (third-person singular simple present dislikes, present participle disliking, simple past and past participle disliked)

dislikes (present singular third-person)
disliking (participle present)
disliked (participle past)
disliked (past)

Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.

(Internet) To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.


level

en-noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

→ German: Level

→ Irish: leibhéal

→ Japanese: レベル (reberu)

→ Welsh: lefel

From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.

(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.

taso

computer science: distance from the root node of a tree structure

It took me weeks to get to level seven. Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.

(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.

(roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

級

gaming: numeric value for something or someone's experience and power


level

en-verb

level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)

levels (present singular third-person)
leveling (US participle present)
levelling (participle present)
leveled (US participle past)
leveled (US past)
levelled (participle past)
levelled (past)

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

(roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.


topic

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”), of Pre-Greek origin.


boot loader

In the case of a PC that runs nothing but Windows, the boot loader in the MBR is hard-coded to check for a secondary boot loader in the active primary partition. This secondary boot loader directly loads the Windows kernel.

2007, Roderick W. Smith, Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-002, John Wiley & Sons, page 41

It was a thought that returned to me days later while reading an article about Elon Musk, one of the loudest voices calling to reopen the economy–a man who once referred to humanity as the “biological bootloaders” for AI.

2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Elon Musk, chapter 13, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]

(computing) A small program that initiates the bootstrap process by loading the operating system proper.

käynnistyslataaja

A program that initiates the bootstrap process


CORBA

software engineering
software engineering

Object Request Broker
object request broker#English

(software engineering) Initialism of Common Object Request Broker Architecture.


panel

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.

cog

admin panel

(graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.


visibility

en-noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible + -ity.

(programming) The scope within which a variable or function is able to be accessed directly.


principal

principal (countable and uncountable, plural principals)

From Middle English principal, from Old French principal, from Latin prīncipālis.

Principal (education)
Principal value
principal


NGN

next generation networking
next generation networking#English

(networking) Initialism of next generation networking.


disk

→ Japanese: ディスク (disuku)

→ Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: disk

→ Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)

→ Turkish: disk

→ Welsh: disg

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

doublet

He still uses disks from 1979.

(computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.

(computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.

She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

(computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.


spoofing

en-noun

spoofing (countable and uncountable, plural spoofings)

(computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.

1993, Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2

'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'

(video games) A major or final enemy; boss.


desktop environment

desktop environment (plural desktop environments)

(computing) A complete graphical user interface solution to operate a computer.


GNOME

Originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, but this meaning is now officially deprecated.

An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.


reverse

en-verb

reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)

reverses (present singular third-person)
reversing (participle present)
reversed (participle past)
reversed (past)

unreverse

antonym(s) of “to turn something in the opposite direction”

From Middle English reversen, from Anglo-Norman reverser, Middle French reverser, and their source, Latin reversō, from re- + versō.

реверсирам

to cause a mechanism or vehicle to operate or move in the opposite directions

tolat

rail transport, of points: to move from the normal position to the reverse position

Reversing is also heavily used in connection with malicious software, on both ends of the fence: […]

2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

[…] but in some instances where malware is proving to be difficult, reversing is needed.

2012, Christopher C. Elisan, Malware, Rootkits & Botnets: A Beginner's Guide, page 117


compiler

Serbo-Croatian: kompajler

From Middle English compilour, from Anglo-Norman compilour, from Old French compileur, from Latin compīlātōrem.

(software compilation) A computer program which transforms source code into object code.


unmount

unmount (third-person singular simple present unmounts, present participle unmounting, simple past and past participle unmounted)

unmounts (present singular third-person)
unmounting (participle present)
unmounted (participle past)
unmounted (past)

(computing, transitive) To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.


umount

umount (third-person singular simple present umounts, present participle umounting, simple past and past participle umounted)

umounts (present singular third-person)
umounting (participle present)
umounted (participle past)
umounted (past)

(computing, transitive, Unix) To unmount.


orphan

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

weeskind

person whose (parent or) parents have died

anak yatim (who has lost father, literally means orphan child)

An orphan isn't harmful in a language that has garbage collection, such as Java. However, reducing the number of orphans can be expected to improve code performance.

2003, David D. Riley, The Object of Data Abstraction and Structures Using Java, page 234


orphan

en-verb

orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)

orphans (present singular third-person)
orphaning (participle present)
orphaned (participle past)
orphaned (past)
orphan (infinitive)

When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

(transitive, computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.


cutaway

While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.

(computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.


compile

compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)

compiles (present singular third-person)
compiling (participle present)
compiled (participle past)
compiled (past)

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works.

(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.

(intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.


compile

[…] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.

1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing

Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.

2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual


utility

en-noun

utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)

From Middle English utilite, from Old French utilite, utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ūtilitās, from uti (“to use”). By surface analysis, utile + -ity.

užitek

economics: ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants

I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.

1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35

application software
application software

(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.

hulpmiddel

computing: software program with specific task


cull

en-verb

cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled)

culls (present singular third-person)
culling (participle present)
culled (participle past)
culled (past)

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.

der

Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera.

2023 July 17, Blender Foundation, "Blender 3.6 Manual"

w:back-face culling

(computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.


melee

en-verb

melee (third-person singular simple present melees, present participle meleeing, simple past and past participle meleed)

melees (present singular third-person)
meleeing (participle present)
meleed (participle past)
meleed (past)

Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.

(video games, slang) To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.


orthogonal

/ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/

/ɔɹˈθɑɡ.ə.nəl/

By surface analysis, ortho- + -gon + -al. From French orthogonal, from Medieval Latin orthogōnālis, from Latin orthogōnius (“right-angled”).

surf

The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery.

An orthogonal approach also promotes reuse. If components have specific, well-defined responsibilities, they can be combined with new components in ways that were not envisioned by their original implementors.

1999, Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 36

(software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.


lag

en-verb

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

lags (present singular third-person)
lagging (participle present)
lagged (participle past)
lagged (past)

→ Swedish: lagga

My phone is starting to lag.

(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.


conquest

en-noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

lipunvaltaus

competitive mode in first-person shooter games


cloak

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.


bezel

Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”).
Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin.

(computing) The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.

etupaneeli

the panel that covers the front of a computer case or the panel covering each drive bay

Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.

(computing) The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.


aspect

From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).

suunta

position in respect to points of a compass, the sun, etc.

takoto

of the position of land in relation to the sun

(programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.


affine

en-verb

affine (third-person singular simple present affines, present participle affining, simple past and past participle affined)

affines (present singular third-person)
affining (participle present)
affined (participle past)
affined (past)

affined the sequential regions to run only on CPU 0

2005, M. Annavaram, E. Grochowski, J. Shen, “Mitigating Amdahls Law through EPI Throttling”, in 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'05), Madison, WI, USA: IEEE, →DOI, pages 298–309

the affined CPU will be randomly allocated

2013, Zi Guo Fan, Rong Liang Wang, Peng Hao Yang, “Study and Simulation of CPU Priority Scheduling Algorithm on Multi-Core Processor Platform”, in Advanced Materials Research, volumes 694-697, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 2540–2544

we also affined all interrupts to CPU cores that are not allocated to FASA

2015 June 30, Raphael Eidenbenz, Thanikesavan Sivanthi, Aurelien Monot, Jun Liu, “Real-time network traffic handling in FASA”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), IEEE, →DOI, pages 1–10

(computing, transitive) To set the CPU affinity of something


bisect

bisect (third-person singular simple present bisects, present participle bisecting, simple past and past participle bisected)

bisects (present singular third-person)
bisecting (participle present)
bisected (participle past)
bisected (past)

From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).

affix

(transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.

(computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.


export

en-verb

export (third-person singular simple present exports, present participle exporting, simple past and past participle exported)

exports (present singular third-person)
exporting (participle present)
exported (participle past)
exported (past)

(transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.

прехвърлям

computing: send (data) from one program to another


model

desc

→ Cantonese: 模特兒／模特儿 (mou⁴ dak⁶ ji⁴), 摩度

→ Cebuano: model

→ Mandarin: 模特兒／模特儿, 麻豆 (neologism)

→ Swahili: modeli

From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.

عارض أزياء

ʕāriḍ ʔazyāʔ

software architecture
software architecture

(software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.


comment

en-noun

comment (countable and uncountable, plural comments)

→ Armenian: քոմենթ (kʻomentʻ)

→ Japanese: コメント (komento)

→ Korean: 코멘트 (komenteu)

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

der

(programming) A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

комента́р

programming: remark not affecting behavior


comment

en-verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

comments (present singular third-person)
commenting (participle present)
commented (participle past)
commented (past)

From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).

der

I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

(transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

(transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.


hazard

en-noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.


triple

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English triple (also þripell), from Latin triplus. Doublet of treble.

(mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.


command

command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)

From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander, from Late Latin commandāre, from Latin commendāre. Compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

(computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.

أَمْر

computing: directive to a computer program


decay

decay (countable and uncountable, plural decays)

From Middle English decayen, dekeyen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence.

der

(programming) The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.


decay

en-verb

decay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)

decays (present singular third-person)
decaying (participle present)
decayed (participle past)
decayed (past)

(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

(intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.

(programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.


imager

From Middle English ymageour, from Old French imageor; equivalent to image + -er.

(computing) A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image.


lossy

en-adj

lossy (comparative lossier, superlative lossiest)

lossier (comparative)
lossiest (superlative)

JPEG is a lossy image compression format.

(computing, of an algorithm for converting or compressing data) Reducing the amount of information in data.

häviöllinen

reducing the amount of information in data

不可逆 (fukagyaku) (data compression, literally “irreversible”)


clique

Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by "claque", though this may have happened in French rather than in English.

claque

another type of ingroup of people with biased interests

The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.

(graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.

1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet)

even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...

2000, - deanna -, “ot: hiya”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet)

you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.

2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet)

(Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.


linter

Coordinate term: sanitizer

A linter checks your source code for syntax and style errors.

2021, Felix Zumstein, Python for Excel, page 73

(computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.


doge

From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.

Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC

(Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.


monad

From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-) + -ad.

The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just.

2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, chapter 14, in Real World Haskell, O'Reilly Media, page 328

(functional programming) A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".


poller

(computing) a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data


parser

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

(computing) A computer program that parses.


return

en-verb

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

returns (present singular third-person)
returning (participle present)
returned (participle past)
returned (past)

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

der

(intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.

palata

computing: to relinquish control to the calling procedure

This function returns the number of files in the directory.

(transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

retourneren

computing: to pass back (data) to the calling procedure


return

en-noun

return (countable and uncountable, plural returns)

(computing) A carriage return character.

(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

paluu

computing: act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure

(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.


negate

en-verb

negate (third-person singular simple present negates, present participle negating, simple past and past participle negated)

negates (present singular third-person)
negating (participle present)
negated (participle past)
negated (past)

Borrowed from Latin negātus, past participle of negāre (“to deny, refuse, decline”), reduced from *nec-aiare (or a similar form), from nec (“not, nor”) + aiere (“to say”).

(computing) To perform the NOT operation on.


neural

From Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “a sinew, nerve”) + -al.

der

(computing) Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.


hex

(computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.