cell

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

der

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell

The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.

1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

It is used for land-use change simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain agriculture.)

2010 March 10, Jean H., “What is CA for?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)

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

(cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.


bell

→ Fiji Hindi: belo

→ Japanese: ベル (beru)

→ Korean: 벨 (bel)

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

campanilian

related to a peal of bells or bell tower


break

en-verb

break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (nonstandard) broke)

breaks (present singular third-person)
breaking (participle present)
broke (past)
brake (archaic past)
broken (participle past)
broke (nonstandard participle past)
break (infinitive)

From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.

breek

intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces

thyen

transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces

sındırmaq

to cause a person to lose spirit or will

խախտել

transitive: to do that which is forbidden by (something)

փչանալ

intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether

ջարդել

transitive: to cause to stop functioning

burst

ergative: separate into two or more pieces

contravene

transitive: do that which is forbidden by

break one's arm patting oneself on the back

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

(specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

zero-width non-breaking space

(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.


break

No matter how much text you add above the break, the text after the break will always appear at the top of a new page.

2001, Nan Barber, David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, page 138

(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.


differ

(computing) A program that diffs, a diff.


charm

en-noun

charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)

From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).

der

Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given.

2012, J. Peter Bruzzese, Using Windows 8

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.


attack

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).

birthday attack; denial-of-service attack

(computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.


concern

en-noun

concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)

Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernō, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concernō (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cernō (“distinguish”).

der

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.

2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148

(programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.


XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
w:Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.)


GNU

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌɛnˈjuː/

Coined by Richard Stallman in 1983 as a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”, following convention of naming programs similar to or inspired by existing programs as “(New Name) Is Not (Old Name)”; compare Xinu.
Specifically influenced by lack of English words of form ?nu (“?NU is Not Unix”), that gnu is the alphabetically first (and in fact only) English word of the form ?nu (“?’s Not Unix”), that gnu was perceived as a humorous word, and the existence of the song The Gnu.

The Free Software Foundation's project to develop a free UNIX-like operating system, including the legal framework, such as the source code and documentation licenses.


SGML

[…] a navigator pane can be established using either markup from the stylesheet or the hierarchical SGML file structure.

2012, Peter Flynn, Understanding SGML and XML Tools

Standard Generalized Markup Language
w:Standard Generalized Markup Language

(software) Initialism of Standard Generalized Markup Language.


tell

From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.

cog

(Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.


AOL

aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented language#English

(computing) Initialism of aspect-oriented language.


slide

→ Czech: slajd

→ Japanese: スライド (suraido)

→ Persian: اسلاید (eslâyd)

→ Polish: slajd

→ Portuguese: slide

From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).

cog

I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.

(by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.


XML

'XmL_3rr0R~/?$-HELP.i.am.trapped.in.the.newsbar!.^'

(Can we date this quote?), Ndemic Creations, Plague Inc., Android, scene: News item

Extensible Markup Language
Extensible Markup Language#English

(computer languages, file format) Initialism of Extensible Markup Language (a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.)


depth

en-noun

depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).

(computing, colors) the total palette of available colors

(cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.


kek

ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu) is the childish Korean equivalent of the English "haha". Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek".

Now Freakie boy, for a tasty doggie biscuit, can you try saying that again without any grammatical error?

2007 October 13, The Cynic [username], “Re: Nobel Peace belong to me.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet)

Top kek.
I can't believe Apple would derp like THAT, at least the Apple of the mid-1980s.

2013 December 11, Steve Nickolas, “Re: 1984 Apple IIe Owner's Manual”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

> "an hour or two a day" "chasing old Checkmate posts."
>
>kek

2014 February 19, Checkmate [username] (quoting [Tor] Friendly Neighborhood Vote> Wrangler Emeritus [username]), “Checkmate's Discount House of Spatulas”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet)

(Internet slang, video games) Used to indicate laughter or humour.


JS

(computing, Internet) Initialism of JavaScript.


hit

en-verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

hits (present singular third-person)
hitting (participle present)
hit (past)
hat (dialectal obsolete past)
het (dialectal past rare)
hit (participle past)
hitten (archaic dialectal participle past rare)

miss

antonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

cog

don't let the door hit you on the way out

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.

(transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.


hit

→ Catalan: hit

→ Czech: hit

→ Danish: hit

→ French: hit

→ Dutch: hit

→ Japanese: ヒット (hitto)

→ Polish: hit

→ Portuguese: hit

→ Russian: хит (xit)

→ Spanish: hit

→ Swedish: hit

хіт

success, especially in the entertainment industry

папада́нне

collision of a projectile with the target

(computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

попаде́ние

computing, Internet: positive result of a search

My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.


string

en-noun

string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)

Tok Pisin: string

→ Dutch: string

→ Finnish: stringit

→ French: string

→ German: String

desc

מחרוז//מַחְרֹזֶת

→ Hebrew: מחרוז／מַחְרֹזֶת (makhrózet) (semantic loan)

→ Japanese: ストリング (sutoringu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: streng (semantic loan)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: streng (semantic loan)

→ Polish: stringi

→ Portuguese: estrém; string

→ Swedish: string

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

cog

στραγγαλόομαι

弦

any similar long, thin and flexible object

弓弦

ゆづる, yuzuru, ゆみづる, yumizuru, ゆんづる, yunzuru

(countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

Confederate States
Confederate States#English

(historical, nautical, military) Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).

Confederate States Ship

One needs only to decide upon a series of rules to define the functionality of a CSS and then to decide how to implement that sheet, either directly within their HTML document, or by using an externally linked file.

2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 162

A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented.

2013, Frania Hall, The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries, Routledge, page 22

Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.

2014, Alberto Souza, Practical Play Framework: Focus on What Is Really Important, Editora Casa do Código

Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for <h1> to "IndianRed".

2021, Prashant Joshi, Introduction to IT Systems, Khanna Book Publishing Co. (P) Ltd., published 2022, page 110

cascading style sheet
cascading style sheet#English

(web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.


CSS

style sheet language
style sheet language

(web design) Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.


spaceship

* space + ship
* (programming operator): From its resemblance to the shape of a flying saucer.

The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.

1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.

2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance, page 433

Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move[…]

2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 126

(cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.

If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order[…]

2012, Randal Schwartz, Brian Foy, Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl, page 142

programming language
programming language

(programming) The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.


ROM

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

read-only memory
read-only memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of read-only memory.

(video games) A software image of read-only memory (as of a game cartridge) used in emulation.


basket

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

unk

obscure

buslo

a large, deep basket used especially in marketing

pangnan

a small basket used by fishermen or to hold flowers or fruit

(Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

զամբյուղ

notional place to store items before ordering them online


distribution

en-noun

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).

a Linux distribution

(software) A set of bundled software components.

distro

software: set of bundled software components — see also distro


branch

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.

unk

unknown

fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch

the highest branch is not the safest roost

(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

haara

computer architecture: conditional sequence of code

(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.


branch

en-verb

branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)

branches (present singular third-person)
branching (participle present)
branched (participle past)
branched (past)

unk

unknown

(intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

разклонявам се

to jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement


split

→ Irish: spliota

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

cog

In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

(athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.

banyes

bowling: pattern with missing intermediate pins


spin

en-verb

spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past participle spun or (nonstandard) spinned)

spins (present singular third-person)
spinning (participle present)
spun (past)
span (past uncommon)
spinned (nonstandard past)
spun (participle past)
spinned (nonstandard participle past)

From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.

(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.


anchor

→ Chuukese: angko

From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora.

(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.


throw

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
throwed (nonstandard past)
thrown (participle past)
throwed (nonstandard participle past)
threw (nonstandard participle past)

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced Middle English werpen.

hedh

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

heitellä

repeatedly, continuously and/or indifferently

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

throw nickels around like manhole covers

throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

trust someone as far as one could throw them

If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.

(transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

antaa

computing: to send an error to an exception-handling mechanism

The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.

Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games', Guardian Unlimited

(sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.


boat

Belizean Creole: boat

→ Esperanto: boato

→ Dhivehi: ބޯޓު (bōṭu)

→ Fijian: boto

→ Hijazi Arabic: بوت (bōt)

→ Japanese: ボート (bōto)

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)

→ Sinhalese: බෝට්ටුව (bōṭṭuwa)

→ Swahili: boti

→ Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)

→ Tahitian: poti

Tok Pisin: bot

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations.

1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The program is represented as a string of boats (1s) and blocks (0s).

2004 May 24, Paul Chapman, “A Prototype Programmable Universal Constructor for Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

For many stable patterns, by the way, there are other input glider lanes where the gliders are caught and turned into boats, which are then cleanly deleted by another glider coming in on the same lane.

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

(cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.


shape

en-noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.

inh

(programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.


cheap

en-adj

cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)

cheaper (comparative)
cheapest (superlative)

→ Cantonese: cheap (cip¹)

→ Ido: chipa

→ Esperanto: ĉipa

→ Japanese: チープ (chīpu)

→ Malayalam: ചീപ്പ് (cīppŭ)

→ Maltese: ċip

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kjip

desc

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kjip, kip (pre-2005)

→? Portuguese: (Brazil) xepa

→ Shona: -chipa

→ Chichewa: -tchipa

→⇒ Tagalog: tsipipay, chipipay

→ Xhosa: tshiphu

Inherited from Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English cēap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ċēapian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaupōn (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caupō (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman. For sense evolution to "inexpensive," compare bargain or French bon marché.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”); also borrowed as Finnish kauppa (“shop, trade”), Russian купить (kupitʹ, “to purchase”), Old Church Slavonic коупити (kupiti, “to purchase”), Bulgarian ку́пя (kúpja, “to purchase”), Serbo-Croatian купити (“to purchase”), Czech koupit (“to purchase”), Polish kupić (“to purchase”).

cog

the algorithm is cheap to compute

(computing) Taking little of system time or resources.


drawer

From draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.

/ˈdɹɔː.ə(ɹ)/

/ˈdɹɔːɹə(ɹ)/

(graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.


modem

→ Armenian: մոդեմ (modem)

→ Catalan: mòdem

→ Dutch: modem

→ Esperanto: modemo

→ Finnish: modeemi

→ French: modem

→ German: Modem

→ Hebrew: מודם (módem)

→ Hungarian: modem

→ Ido: modemo

→ Japanese: モデム (modemu)

→ Korean: 모뎀 (modem)

→ Norman: modem

→ Polish: modem

→ Portuguese: modem

→ Russian: моде́м (modém)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: модем

Latin script: modem

→ Spanish: módem

→ Swedish: modem

→ Turkish: modem

→ Vietnamese: modem

(computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.

modem

device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals


following

Coordinate term: follower

When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him.

2014, Zhengbiao Guo, Zhitang Li, Hao Tu, Da Xie, “Weibo: An Information-Driven Online Social Network”, in Marina L.Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, editors, Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8360), Springer, part I (Neural and Social Networks), page 6

A follower can follow any other users and receive any kind of tweets from his or her followings.

2017, Konglin Zhu, Xiaoming Fu, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Jan Nagler, “Population Growth in Online Social Networks”, in Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo, Margarete Boos, editors, Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies, CRC Press, section 3 (The Data), subsection 1 (Three Online Social Networks)

She scrolled through her [Chloe’s] page and liked a few of her pictures that were like candy to her eyes before thoroughly checking her followings. She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.

2020, Jay Janzee, Don’t Get Too Close, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, page 79

(social media) An account which is followed.


cheese

en-verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

cheeses (present singular third-person)
cheesing (participle present)
cheesed (participle past)
cheesed (past)

(video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

rush

use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game


plenum

From Latin plēnum, noun use of neuter of plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.

sl

(computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.


control

en-noun

control (countable and uncountable, plural controls)

From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

der

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl).

fenestraĵo

graphical user interface: an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box


brick

en-noun

brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)

⇒ Welsh: brics

From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.

gloss

"cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">brik</i>

cog

(computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

тухла

a heavy electronic device that has become obsolete


brick

en-verb

brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)

bricks (present singular third-person)
bricking (participle present)
bricked (participle past)
bricked (past)

unbrick

technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state

My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.

(transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.

Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device.

2002 October 15, Mike Leeson, “How to write protect nk.bin”, in microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder (Usenet), retrieved 2016-02-25, message-ID <OHm5#hLdCHA.2592@tkmsftngp09>

installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.

2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, in Linux.com

Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown.

2016, Alex Hern, “Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company”, in The Guardian

(intransitive, computing slang, of an electronic device) To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.


capture

en-noun

capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

bor+

After the match […], the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.

2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409

(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.


malleable

en-adj

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

more malleable (comparative)
most malleable (superlative)

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext


MDM

en-noun

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

master data management
master data management#English

(computing) Initialism of master data management.


dialogue

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

der

Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.

(computing, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of dialog.


pawn

en-verb

pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)

pawns (present singular third-person)
pawning (participle present)
pawned (participle past)
pawned (past)


effect

en-noun

effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)

Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

der

The effect of flying was most convincing.

The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.

2018, Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga, page 186

(cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")


cut

en-verb

cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past cut or (nonstandard) cutted, past participle cut or (archaic) cutten)

cuts (present singular third-person)
cutting (participle present)
cut (past)
cutted (nonstandard past)
cut (participle past)
cutten (archaic participle past)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

tondi

to cut out fabric to specific lengths and shapes to make clothes

klippa bort

remove a portion during editing of a tape

cut the ground from under someone's feet

one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut

you could cut the atmosphere with a knife

Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.

(transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.

knip

computing: to remove and place in memory


cut

en-noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

leikkaus

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

(graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.

leikkaus

That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.

(Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.


join

en-verb

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)

joins (present singular third-person)
joining (participle present)
joined (participle past)
joined (past)
join (infinitive)

From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.

der

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.

(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.


join

(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]

2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference

(computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.


body

en-noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”)).

有黏性

comparative viscosity, solidity or substance

body-focused repetitive behavior disorder

In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

(programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.


vacuum

en-verb

vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)

vacuums (present singular third-person)
vacuuming (participle present)
vacuumed (participle past)
vacuumed (past)

From Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).

transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner

نَظَّفَ بِالْمَكْنَسَة الْكَهْرَبَائِيَّة

But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.

2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, page 337

(transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.


bridge

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.

(computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.

ponto

(computing) device which connects computer buses

The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on.

2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful

(programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.

The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.

(networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.

(graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.


bridge

en-verb

bridge (third-person singular simple present bridges, present participle bridging, simple past and past participle bridged)

bridges (present singular third-person)
bridging (participle present)
bridged (participle past)
bridged (past)

(computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.

橋接

computing, communication: to connect with a bridge


float

float (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)

floats (present singular third-person)
floating (participle present)
floated (participle past)
floated (past)

From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flotje (“to float”), West Frisian flotsje (“to float”), Dutch vlotten (“to float”), Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), German flötzen, flößen (“to float”), Swedish flotta (“to float”), Icelandic fljóta, Old English flēotan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ). Compare flow, fleet.

ভাসানো

to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density

To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.

2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page 290

(computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.


float

sierwa

trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade

That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.

If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214

floating-point number
floating-point number

(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.

Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]

2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36

When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.

2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93

(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.


blade

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

teh

typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or other cutting tool


energy

en-noun

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

→ Cebuano: enerdyi

→ Japanese: エナジー (enajī)

→ Korean: 에너지 (eneoji)

From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.

coin

(roleplaying games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games


ether

Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether.

2018, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps, O'Reilly Media

(cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether


stick

en-noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

→ Catalan: estic

→ Italian: stick

→ Korean: 스틱 (seutik)

→ Portuguese: stique, estique

→ Sranan Tongo: tiki

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.

der

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.

2007 May 1, Alex Fethiere, “Business Traveler”, in Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive


chan

I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

1997, Dominic Donegan, “Is there a #nethack chan on IRC?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

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

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


chan

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

more niche chans


push

en-verb

push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)

pushes (present singular third-person)
pushing (participle present)
pushed (participle past)
pushed (past)
push (infinitive)

draw

antonym(s) of “apply a force to something so it moves away”

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47

(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

työntää

computing: to add a data item to the top of a stack

Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.

2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968

(computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.

työntää

computing: to publish an update, etc. by transmitting it to other computers


push

en-noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.

server push; a push technology

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.


bitter

However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them.

1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 49, page 21

The company believes that the 32-bit market will almost equal that of 16-bitters by the end of the decade. Chip maker Zilog Inc., not a major player in the 16-bit arena, is even more bullish about 32-bitters as it readies its own version for market.

1984, Electronic Business, volume 10, page 154

(computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).


round

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.

раздаване

card games: moment from the deal until the players are finished with the cards

When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.

1981, Tom Hirschfeld, How to Master the Video Games, page 88

(video games) A stage or level of a game.

A stage, level, set of events in a game
A stage or level of a game.


attachment

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


rabbit

rabbit (countable and uncountable, plural rabbits)

From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“seal", also "rabbit”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later Low German Rubbe (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey).

onomatopoeic

imitative

gl

"rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">rob</i> (“seal", also "rabbit”)

(computing theory) A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.


sleep

en-verb

sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)

sleeps (present singular third-person)
sleeping (participle present)
slept (participle past)
slept (past)

Sranan Tongo: sribi

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan, a variant of slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.

(computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.

Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.

2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard, page 91

(computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.


federation

en-noun

federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)

desc

ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း

→ Burmese: ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း (hpaida.re:hrang:)

/ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪʃn̩/

Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.

(computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.


narrow

en-adj

narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)

narrower (comparative)
narrowest (superlative)

From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic narrow- (“njörva-”, in compounds).

cog

a narrow character; a narrow stream

(computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.


narrow

en-verb

narrow (third-person singular simple present narrows, present participle narrowing, simple past and past participle narrowed)

narrows (present singular third-person)
narrowing (participle present)
narrowed (participle past)
narrowed (past)

From Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.

to narrow an int variable to a short variable

(transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.


engine

→ Afrikaans: enjin

→ Bengali: ইঞ্জিন (injin)

→ Hindi: इंजन (iñjan)

→ Japanese: エンジン

→ Hakka: 引擎 (ên-chín)

→ Min Nan: 引擎 (ia̋n-jín)

→ Malay: enjin

Indonesian: enjin

→ Scottish Gaelic: einnsean

→ Swahili: injini

→ Shanghainese: 引擎 (in¹-jin⁶)

→ Chinese: 引擎 (yǐnqíng)

From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

der

a graphics engine

a physics engine

(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).


flow

en-noun

flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)

From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.

coin

login flow

search flow

I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signup flow, and I'm wondering [...]

2015, Dan, “Best practices for tracking progress through a sign up flow”, in snowplow-user mailing list

(software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.


flow

en-verb

flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)

flows (present singular third-person)
flowing (participle present)
flowed (participle past)
flowed (past)

From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.

(transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.


volume

en-noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

том

computing: accessible storage area with a single file system


plasma

plasma (countable and uncountable, plural plasmas or plasmata)

Ancient Greek language
Late Latin language
plasma

From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).

der-lite

human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity

Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?

1999, Rage Matrix, “Coding plasma demos....HELP!”, in comp.programming (Usenet)

However, it displayed some unique copper magic routines and plasma effects.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 126

This creates the classic 'plasma' effect seen in many demoscene videos.

Jonathan Weinel, Explosions in the Mind (page 139)

(computer graphics, demoscene) A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.


random access memory

en-noun

random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)

(computing, electronics) Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

computer memory in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed — see also RAM

随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì


read-only memory

read-only memory (countable and uncountable, plural read-only memories)

(computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.

միայն կարդալու հիշողություն

memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates


doujinshi

doujinshi (countable and uncountable, plural doujinshi or doujinshis)

Borrowed from Japanese 同人誌 (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同人 (dōjin, “a group for the same interest”) + 誌 (shi, “a magazine or a pamphlet”).

compound

(anime, manga, video games) A fan-produced work, especially a manga, anime, or video game.


if

From Middle English if, yif, yef, from Old English ġif (“if”), from Proto-West Germanic *jabu, *jabē, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”). Cognate with Scots gif (“if, whether”), Saterland Frisian af, of (“if, whether”), West Frisian oft (“whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), Middle Low German ef, if, af, of ("if; whether"; > German Low German of), German ob (“if, whether”), Icelandic ef (“if”).

gloss

"if; whether"; > German Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds-de">of</i>

If A, then B, else C.

(computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).


coalesce

en-verb

coalesce (third-person singular simple present coalesces, present participle coalescing, simple past and past participle coalesced)

coalesces (present singular third-person)
coalescing (participle present)
coalesced (participle past)
coalesced (past)

/ˌkəʊ.əˈlɛs/

From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).

You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.

2018, Allen G. Taylor, SQL For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons

(databases, SQL) To convert a null value to a defined value.


display

en-noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

desctree

→ Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
→ Kazakh: дисплей (displei)

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

der

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

(computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.


annotation

en-noun

annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)

/ˌænəˈteɪʃən/

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.

(computing) Metadata added to a document or program.


cloud

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

cog

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18

(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.


batch

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

խմբաքանակ

quantity of baked goods made at one time

The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.


batch

en-verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

batches (present singular third-person)
batching (participle present)
batched (participle past)
batched (past)

The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.


wide

en-adj

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

wider (comparative)
widest (superlative)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

compound

a wide character; a wide stream

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.


flame

en-noun

flame (countable and uncountable, plural flames)

From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.

der

Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.

1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Usenet Newsgroups, Alpha Books, page 39

(Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.


flame

en-verb

flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)

flames (present singular third-person)
flaming (participle present)
flamed (participle past)
flamed (past)

I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

I wish you had the nerve to put your own name on that article, rather than logging into a public account to do it. I would have prefered to respond to you personally, rather than burden the net with my flaming, particularly since opinions like yours are best left ignored. But I feel I must respond to this one.

1983 October 20, Joe Ziegler, net.motss (Usenet)

This was one of the highest points of the show for me. Playin' followed, with a nice jam afterwards. After that, Jerry wandered into Crazy Fingers. (I had been hoping for Terrapin...oh well. Crazy Fingers seems to highlight Jerry's ability to come in late and tentative on lyrics. I'm sure I'll get flamed, since lots of folks seem to worship CF.)

1989 June 29, Neil McAvoy [Wing Attack Plan R], rec.music.gdead (Usenet)

If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

2001, w:Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.

2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

blusse

to post a critical or abusive message on the Internet


handle

desctree

→ Japanese: ハンドル (handoru)
→ Hokkien: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh)
→ Sakizaya: handulu

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

This article describes how to find the module name from the window handle.

A handle for a type instance is similar to an open file descriptor; it is used to reference that type instance when performing operations on it.

1989, Petrus Maria Gerardus Apers, Gio Wiederhold, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very Large Data, page 383

By contrast, when a host function creates a handle for a nested function and returns that handle to a calling program, the host function's workspace is created and remains in existence for as long as the function handle remains in existence.

2008, Stephen J. Chapman, MATLAB programming for engineers, page 354

(computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.

句柄

computing: reference to an object or structure


low

en-adj

low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)

lower (comparative)
lowest (superlative)

high

antonym(s) of “in a position comparatively close to the ground”

From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.

слаб

lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak

low-toned

of a loudness, suggesting a lower amplitude

could eat the arse out of a low flying duck

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.

(video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.


clear

en-verb

clear (third-person singular simple present clears, present participle clearing, simple past and past participle cleared)

clears (present singular third-person)
clearing (participle present)
cleared (participle past)
cleared (past)

From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.

raivata

to remove in order to make something else unobstructed

I cleared the first level in 36 seconds.

(transitive, video games) To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).

to clear an array;  to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value

(transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.

To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.

2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page 290

(transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.


clear

It took me weeks to achieve a one-credit clear (1CC).

(video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.


profile

en-noun

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.

(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.

profiel

space with personal information in software or Internet systems


profile

en-verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)

profiles (present singular third-person)
profiling (participle present)
profiled (participle past)
profiled (past)

[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

(computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.


wedge

wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)

wedges (present singular third-person)
wedging (participle present)
wedged (participle past)
wedged (past)

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

(computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.


long

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.

A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.


sugar

en-noun

sugar (countable and uncountable, plural sugars)

Tok Pisin: suga

→ Abenaki: sogal

→ Cree: ᓲᑳᐤ (sookaaw)

→ Fijian: suka

→ Gilbertese: tioka

→ Inuktitut: ᓱᑲᒃ (sokak)

→ Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from French)

→ Maori: huka

→ Marshallese: juga

→ Samoan: suka

→ Shona: shuga

→ Sotho: tswekere

→ Tlingit: shóogaa

→ Tongan: suka

→ Tsonga: chukela

→ Tswana: sukiri

→ Unami: shukël (or from Dutch)

→ Wallisian: suka

→ Zulu: ushukela

Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
sugar

From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /šakar/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.

շաքար

generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

modified Sheather's sugar flotation method

However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.

2005, Bruce Ian Mills, Theoretical Introduction to Programming, page 180


sugar

en-verb

sugar (third-person singular simple present sugars, present participle sugaring, simple past and past participle sugared)

sugars (present singular third-person)
sugaring (participle present)
sugared (participle past)
sugared (past)

You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]

2002, Jonathan Bromley, “Fixed point arithmetic”, in comp.arch.fpga (Usenet)

Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.

2006, Neil Madden, “Re: Closures”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet)

(programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.


World Wide Web Consortium
w:World Wide Web Consortium

(software, Internet) Initialism of World Wide Web Consortium.


asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

(software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.

resurssi

software: any component, etc. that can be leveraged or reused


pull

pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)

pulls (present singular third-person)
pulling (participle present)
pulled (participle past)
pulled (past)

push

antonym(s) of “apply force to (something) so it comes towards one”

pool (accents with foot–goose merger or full–fool merger)

Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).

cog

it's not the whistle that pulls the train

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.

2003 April 9, Richard Lawson, “Monual's Willful Ignorance”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.

2004 October 18, Stush, “Re: focus pull”, in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot (Usenet)

This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.

2005 August 2, Brian, “Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….

2007 April 10, John Salerno, “Re: Managing the Command Buttons”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.

2008 August 18, Mark (newsgroups), “Re: I'm a priest now!”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

non-player character
non-player character

(video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.

(computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.


pull

en-noun

pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)

button

antonym(s) of “device meant to be pulled”

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

server pull

pull technology

(Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.

pull

internet: situation where a client sends out a request for data


domain

range

antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

интервал на съществуване

(mathematics) the set on which a function is defined

2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

(computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

(computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

(computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.


grooming

en-noun

grooming (usually uncountable, plural groomings)

Child grooming
Groom (disambiguation)#Grooming

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog. (Now increasingly termed refinement instead.)


life

life (usually uncountable, plural lives)

death

antonym(s) of “the state that precedes death”

From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.

cog

живо́т m (živót) (archaic, poetic, now means "belly")

Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25

(video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.


upcast

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

(computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.


upcast

en-verb

upcast (third-person singular simple present upcasts, present participle upcasting, simple past and past participle upcast or upcasted)

upcasts (present singular third-person)
upcasting (participle present)
upcast (participle past)
upcast (past)
upcasted (participle past)
upcasted (past)

(transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.


cylinder

→ Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)

→ Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.

(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.


far

en-adj

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

farther (comparative)
further (comparative)
farthest (superlative)
furthest (superlative)
farthermost (superlative)
furthermost (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

if you go far enough left, you get your guns back

the apple does not fall far from the stem

the apple does not fall far from the tree

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail

trust someone as far as one could throw them

far heap; far memory; far pointer

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


array

en-noun

array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)

From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.

cog

(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.


prefix

Borrowed from Middle French prefixer (verb) resp. Late Latin praefixum (noun), both from Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix.

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

(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.

prefiks

computing: initial segment of a string of characters


hand-held

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.


clutch

en-verb

clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)

clutches (present singular third-person)
clutching (participle present)
clutched (participle past)
clutched (past)

From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).

gloss

For quotations using this term, see Citations:clutch.

(video games) To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.

(video games, by extension) To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.


Wiktionarian

An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430

Wiktionary contributors are called Wiktionarians.

2012, Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, editors, Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press, page 271

Wiktionary is compiled through a collaborative process by a large community of Web users, in this context called Wiktionarians.

2013, Robert Lew, “User-generated content (UGC) in online English dictionaries”, in OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik, number § 5.1

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


organizer

/ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/

I'll add that meeting to my organizer.

(computing) A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.


log in

en-verb

log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

logs in (present singular third-person)
logging in (participle present)
logged in (participle past)
logged in (past)

By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.

I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.

войти́

в систему v sistému


cryptography

en-noun

cryptography (usually uncountable, plural cryptographies)

[kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː]

We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.

1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English)

The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.


flash

en-verb

flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)

flashes (present singular third-person)
flashing (participle present)
flashed (participle past)
flashed (past)

In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.

(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).

uudelleenkirjoittaa

computing: to write to the memory of an updatable component


flash

en-noun

flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)

aeon

antonym(s) of “very short amount of time”

→ Catalan: flaix

→ Polish: flesz

onomatopoeic

imitative

The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.

(computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.


ring

→ French: ring
→ Romanian: ring

→ Hungarian: ring

→ Italian: ring

→ Japanese: リング

→ Polish: ring

→ Serbo-Croatian: ring

→ Spanish: ring

→ Turkish: ring

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink.
cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas

Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.

2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100

Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.

2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation, page 70

(computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

single point of failure
single point of failure

(networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.


dirty

en-adj

dirty (comparative dirtier, superlative dirtiest)

dirtier (comparative)
dirtiest (superlative)

From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.

Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.

Notice that an asterisk has been added to the filename in the edit window tabs. This is a simple reminder that the file is “dirty” and needs saving.

2008, Stephen R. G. Fraser, Real World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System, page 105

(computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.

muokattu

computing: containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory


p

HD video may contain 720 or 1080 vertical progressive scan lines (720p or 1080p), 1080 interlaced lines (1080i), and is capable of displaying a 16:9 image and output digital audio.

2010, Benny Bing, 3D and HD Broadband Video Networking, page 59

progressive scan
progressive scan#English

(video compression) Abbreviation of progressive scan.


p

I'm doing p good, how are you?

There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole think SU27 is p bad!).

1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim/msg/8ebf7044a96c18e5

(Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)


door

Belizean Creole: doa

Sranan Tongo: doro

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.

a creaking door hangs long on its hinges

at church every time the doors swing open

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

don't let the door hit you on the way out

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.


mock

marque (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

cog

You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.

2013, Jeff Langr, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development

Mocks replace the objects with which your methods under test collaborate, thus offering a layer of isolation.

2020, Cătălin Tudose, JUnit in Action, 3rd edition, Simon and Schuster, page 139

(software engineering) A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object., as used in unit testing.


mock

en-verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

mocks (present singular third-person)
mocking (participle present)
mocked (participle past)
mocked (past)

They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.

2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233

(software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.


lift

lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)

lifts (present singular third-person)
lifting (participle present)
lifted (past)
lift (obsolete past rare regional)
lifted (participle past)
lift (obsolete participle past rare regional)
yleft (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)).

der

Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.

2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 2, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly

(programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

nostaa

programming: to transform into a different context