throw

en-verb

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)
throw (infinitive)

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 warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

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

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.


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.

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


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.


clear

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).


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.


clean

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

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

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


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)


float

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.

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.


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


near

en-adj

near (comparative nearer, superlative nearest)

nearer (comparative)
nearest (superlative)

off

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

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

cog

a near pointer

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


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.


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


low

en-adj

low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)

lower (comparative)
lowest (superlative)

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.

laag

in a position comparatively close to the ground

слаб

lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak

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.


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.


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.)


short

→ Cantonese: short

→ Italian: short

→ Japanese: ショート (shōto)

→ Mandarin: 秀逗 (xiùdou)

→ Hakka: 秀逗 (sió-tò)

→ Maltese: xort

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

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


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

far heap; far memory; far pointer

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


pull

en-verb

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”

-ʊl (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.


life

en-noun

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")

ህይወት

the essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being

existence

essence of manifestation and foundation of being

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.


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.


run

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

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

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

der

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

the course of true love never did run smooth

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

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

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry


run

rise

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

rise

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

This was my first successful run without losing any health.

That NPC bugged out and killed my run.

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

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

partida

video games: playthrough, session of play


black hole

desc

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

→ Japanese: ブラックホール (burakku hōru)

→ Korean: 블랙홀 (beullaekhol)

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

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

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


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-West Germanic *klukkjan, 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.


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.


scrub

en-noun

scrub (countable and uncountable, plural scrubs)

Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.

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


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

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

veld

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

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

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

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

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

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

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

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


crown

en-verb

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

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

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

doublet

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

ampua päähän

video games: to shoot in the back of the head


live

en-adj

live (comparative more live, superlative most live)

more live (comparative)
most live (superlative)

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

1996, Richard Jones, Rafael Lins, Garbage Collection, →ISBN, page 4:

Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.

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


lift

en-verb

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, →ISBN:

(category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.18)

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

nostaa

programming: to transform into a different context


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.


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, →ISBN, 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.


pub

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

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


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.


party

→ Bulgarian: парти (parti)

desc

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

→ Dhivehi: ޕާޓީ (pāṭī)

→ Japanese: パーティー (pātī)

→ Korean: 파티 (pati)

→ Maori: pāti

→ Malay: parti

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

→ Russian: парти (parti)

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

حِزْب

business in the front, party in the back

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

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

joukko

online gaming: player characters organized into a single group

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

joukko

video games: group of characters controlled by the player


party

en-verb

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

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

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

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


box

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

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

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

cog

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

koteloida

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


list

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

cog

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

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

programming language
programming language

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

llista

computing: codified representation of a list


quiet

en-adj

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

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

From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".

a quiet install

(software) Requiring little or no interaction.


evil

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

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

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

cog

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

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


mask

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

maski

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

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


localize

en-verb

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

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

From local + -ize. Compare French localiser.

We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.

en:adapt to a particular place, transitively

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

локализирам

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

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

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


localization

en-noun

localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)

/ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.

გაქართულება

specifically meaning localization to Georgian only

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

localització

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

översättning c (applicable to translation)

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


rupee

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

paisa (1

modern Indian, Nepali, & Pakistani currencies

(video games) The primary currency of Hyrule.


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

sintetizues

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

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


context

en-noun

context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)

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


fighter

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

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

2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 59:

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


kernel

→ Japanese: カーネル (kāneru)

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

der

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


video game

en-verb

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

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

/ˈvɪdiːəʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/

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

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

And Mouse hacked and video gamed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


APL

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

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

1988, Timothy Budd, An APL Compiler, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:

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


MP

en-noun

MP (countable and uncountable, plural MPs)

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


MP

(video games) Initialism of multiplayer.


PHP

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

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


GB

(Internet slang) Initialism of God bless.


view

model

antonym(s) of “part of computer program”

→ Japanese: ビュー (byū)

→ Korean: 뷰 (byu)

→ Persian: ویو (viyu)

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

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

view

computing: user interface part of program


PS

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation.


PS

PS (countable and uncountable, plural PSes or PSs)


NES

NES (countable and uncountable, plural NESes)

Nintendo Entertainment System
w:Nintendo Entertainment System

(video games) Initialism of Nintendo Entertainment System.


quest

→ Macedonian: квест (kvest)

→ Russian: квест (kvest)

→ Ukrainian: квест (kvest)

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

der

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

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


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)

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

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

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

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

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


ABC

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


kata

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

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

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

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


magic

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

der

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

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


STS

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:SharePoint

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

SharePoint Team Services

(software) Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.


ping

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

inh

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


dummy

мор

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

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

(programming) An unused parameter or value.


CD

en-noun

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

Coordinate term: CI

continuous delivery
continuous delivery#English

(software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.


alpha

alpha (countable and uncountable, plural alphas)

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

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

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

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


FF

(video games) Initialism of Final Fantasy.


void

→ Welsh: foed

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

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

2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns:

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

2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development:

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


CBS

(software) Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.


dino

(video games, slang) A long-time participant in a multi-user dungeon.


tank

→ Afrikaans: tenk

→ Albanian: tank

→ Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)

→ Asturian: tanque

→ Azerbaijani: tank

→ Bashkir: танк (tank)

→ Belarusian: танк (tank)

→ Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭêṅko)

→ Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)

→ Buryat: танк (tank)

→ Catalan: tanc

→ Chechen: танк (tank)

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)

→ Chuvash: танк (tank)

→ Czech: tank

→ Danish: tank

→ Dutch: tank

→ Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)

→ Eastern Mari: танк (tank)

→ Estonian: tank

→ Fiji Hindi: tanki

→ Finnish: tankki

→ French: tank

→ Galician: tanque

→ Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)

→ German: Tank

→ Greek: τανκ (tank)

→ Greenlandic: tanki

→ Hebrew: טנק (tank)

desctree

→ Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
→ Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)

→ Indonesian: tank

→ Italian: tank, tanca

→ Japanese: タンク (tanku)

→ Kazakh: танк (tank)

→ Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)

→ Kumyk: танк (tank)

→ Kyrgyz: танк (tank)

→ Latvian: tanks

→ Lezgi: танк (tank)

→ Lithuanian: tankas

→ Macedonian: тенк (tenk)

→ Malay: tank

→ Maori: taika

→ Norwegian: tank, tanks

→ Ossetian: танк (tank)

→ Persian: تانک (tânk)

desc

→ Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)

→ Quechua: tanki

→ Romanian: tanc

→ Romansch: tanc

desctree

→ Russian: танк (tank), танкъ (tank) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: տանկ (tank)
→ Kazakh: танк (tank)
→ Mongolian: танк (tank)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: танк (tank)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тенк

Latin script: tenk

→ Sidamo: tanke

→ Slovak: tank

→ Slovene: tank

→ Swahili: tangi

→ Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)

→ Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)

→ Tatar: танк (tank)

→ Tokelauan: tane

→ Turkish: tank

→ Turkmen: tank

→ Ukrainian: танк (tank)

→ Upper Sorbian: tank

→ Urdu: ٹینک (ṭaink)

→ Uzbek: tank

→ Vietnamese: xe tăng

→ Walloon: tank

→ Welsh: tanc

→ Yakut: тааҥка (taañka)

→ Yiddish: טאַנק (tank)

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language such as Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

der

The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.

(roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).


tank

en-verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

tanks (present singular third-person)
tanking (participle present)
tanked (participle past)
tanked (past)

(video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.

pansre

video games: to attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

(uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game

(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.


daily

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

(video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game


AAA

(video games) A high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.


CC

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

(video games) Initialism of crowd control.


lambda

From Ancient Greek λάμβδα (lámbda). Doublet of lamed.

lambda expression
lambda expression#English

(programming) Short for lambda expression.

(programming) Short for lambda function.


(video games) Initialism of PlayStation 2.

(software, publishing, typography) Abbreviation of PostScript Level 2.


platinum

en-verb

platinum (third-person singular simple present platinums, present participle platinuming, simple past and past participle platinumed)

platinums (present singular third-person)
platinuming (participle present)
platinumed (participle past)
platinumed (past)

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.

I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.

(computer games) To attain all of the achievements in a game, on certain PlayStation consoles.


class

en-noun

class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)

→ Assamese: ক্লাছ (klas)

desc

→ Bengali: ক্লাস (klaś), কেলাস (kelaś) — nonstandard

q

or from French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">classe</i>

→ Gulf Arabic: كلاس (klās) (or from French classe)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: क्लास (klās)

Urdu: کلاس

→ Japanese: クラス (kurasu)

→ Korean: 클래스 (keullaeseu)

→ Nepali: क्लास (klās)

→ Scottish Gaelic: clas

→ Thai: คลาส (kláas)

→ Yoruba: kíláàsì

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.

class action

class-action, class action lawsuit, class suit

an abstract base class

(object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.

klas

object-oriented programming: set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior


atom

→ Swahili: atomi

From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). Atoms are so named because historically the notion was that they were indivisible, given that chemically they are indeed so; the splitting of atoms awaited a later era of science and technology, and nonchemical means.

atoom

historical: theoretical particle of matter

atom

mathematics: member of a Boolean algebra

बूलियन बिजगणितीय प्रणालीतील एक घटक

(computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.


AI

en-noun

AI (countable and uncountable, plural AIs)

Audio (US)

(video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.


PG

Prince George's County
Prince George's County#English


artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial intelligences)

Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956.

kunsmatige intelligensie

intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity

ሠው ሰራሽ ዕውቀት

śäw säraš ʿəwḳät

artificially intelligent → artificially intelligently

The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.

2013 March 19, “Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 review – scope for improvement”, in The Metro (UK):

Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, man-made) entity.

(video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI.


emu

Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

2005 February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet), message-ID <9XkTd.5830$Ba3.2608@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>:

(computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.


FX

(slang, video games, film, television) Alternative form of F/X (“special effects”)


strafe

en-verb

strafe (third-person singular simple present strafes, present participle strafing, simple past and past participle strafed)

strafes (present singular third-person)
strafing (participle present)
strafed (participle past)
strafed (past)

From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.

Strafe — Press the Alt key and the left or right Arrow key to slide side to side instead of turning left or right.

1992, id Software, Wolfenstein 3D (game manual), page 4

If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.

2001, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games:

A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.

2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide:

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(intransitive, video games) To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).


strafe

We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.

2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts:

(video games) A sideways movement without turning.


MM

Majora's Mask
w:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

(video games) Initialism of Majora's Mask.


launder

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

launders (present singular third-person)
laundering (participle present)
laundered (participle past)
laundered (past)

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).

(programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.


lexicon

William Fulke
lexicon
lexicon (disambiguation)

Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.

der

λεξικὸν βιβλίον

(programming) The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)


generator

/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”).

When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]

2016, Paul Barry, Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 508:

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

(programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.


sash

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.


own

en-verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

owns (present singular third-person)
owning (participle present)
owned (participle past)
owned (past)

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.


machine translation

en-noun

machine translation (countable and uncountable, plural machine translations)

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(computing, programming) The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.

2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182:

(programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.


power-up

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Calque of Japanese パワーアップ (pawā-appu), equivalent to English power + up

(video games) An item that alters the game in a positive way once that item is used.


fork

Sranan Tongo: forku

→ Dutch: fork

→ Japanese: フォーク (fōku)

→ Kannada: ಫೋರ್ಕ್ (phōrk)

→ Korean: 포크 (pokeu)

→ Maori: paoka

→ Tamil: போர்க் (pōrk)

→ Telugu: ఫోర్క్ (phōrk)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

tienhaara

figurative: point in time of making a decision

afsplitsing

computer science: splitting of a process

odnož

computer science: copying and separately developing a project

bifurcació

computer science: a separately developed project based upon a copy of an existing project

a three-prong spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

(figuratively, by abstraction, from a physical fork) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.

(software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.

LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

(software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.


fork

en-verb

fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)

forks (present singular third-person)
forking (participle present)
forked (participle past)
forked (past)

For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.

2007, Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh, Open Source: Technology and Policy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21:

Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.

2015, Christian Bird et al., editors, The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 77:

(transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.

(transitive, intransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.

afsplitsen

computer science: to copy and separately develop a software project

In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.

2015, Sajal Debnath, Mastering PowerCLI, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 27:

(transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.


bless

bless (third-person singular simple present blesses, present participle blessing, simple past and past participle blest or blessed)

blesses (present singular third-person)
blessing (participle present)
blest (participle past)
blest (past)
blessed (participle past)
blessed (past)

Sranan Tongo: blesi, bresi

From Middle English blessen, from Old English bletsian (“to consecrate (with blood)”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdisōn (“to sprinkle, mark or hallow with blood”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþą (“blood”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). Cognate with Old Norse bleza (“to bless”) (whence Icelandic blessa), Old English blēdan (“to bleed”). More at bleed. Equivalent to blood + -se.

der

(Perl programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

Perl programming; past tense only blessed; Perl programming; past tense only blessed


attribute

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

(computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.

atribut

computing: the applicable option selection

Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.

2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell, page 536:

(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.


sweat

en-noun

sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)

Sranan Tongo: sweti

Torres Strait Creole: swet

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.

inh

Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.

2021 October 13, Zachary Roberts, “How exactly are 'sweats' ruining Fortnite? Addressing the never ending try-hards vs casual debate”, in Sportskeeda:

(video games, slang) An extremely or excessively competitive player.


sweat

en-verb

sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past sweated or sweat, past participle sweated or (archaic) sweaten)

sweats (present singular third-person)
sweating (participle present)
sweated (past)
sweat (past)
sweated (participle past)
sweaten (archaic participle past)

From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.

There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.

With skill-based matchmaking, he wrote, "you have to sweat 100 percent of the time." They contend their audiences want to see them pull off amazing victories, not struggle endlessly against other top players.

2022 May 27, Ethan Davison, “Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t.”, in The Washington Post:

(video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.


arrow

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

der

(programming) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.


console converter

en-noun

console converter (plural console converters)

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(video games) A peripheral used to bypass regional lockout on a video game console, allowing imported video games to be played on domestic video game consoles, but without circumventing copy protection.


regional lockout

regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)

Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.

(video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

地方停工

prevents the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device


Yoshi

From Japanese ヨッシー (Yosshī, “Yoshi, the Super Mario Bros. dinosaur character”), 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし.


crash

en-verb

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

crashes (present singular third-person)
crashing (participle present)
crashed (participle past)
crashed (past)

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

binnenvallen

slang: to turn up without having been invited

If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.

(computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.

Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

(computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.


vector

Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.

wektor

To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]

2004, Jesse Liberty, Bradley L. Jones, Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, page 694:

(programming) A kind of dynamically resizable array.


pot

(roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.


factory

Tok Pisin: faktori

Welsh: ffatri

From factor + y.
Compare Middle French factorie; Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria, Dutch factorij.

The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine:

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

tehdas

in computing, a function or method that creates objects


needle

From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), German nähen (“sew”), Danish nål (“needle”), Norwegian nål (“needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.

cog

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

Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.

2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39:

needle in a haystack
needle in a haystack

(programming) A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

2004, Curt, “Can I use IF statements, and still use switches?”, in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields (Usenet):

(computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.


video game console

en-noun

video game console (plural video game consoles)

(video games) A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.


Java

Borrowed from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

der

(computer languages) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.

1996 October 6, Timothy Litwiller, “HOW TO MAKE A JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?

1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

1997 January 7, Kenneth Roddy, “Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads”, in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows (Usenet):

I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens.

1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

2003 April 8, mpaulopes, “Passing values to a Java popup windows”, in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion (Usenet):

(computer languages, proscribed) JavaScript (by confusion with Java).


publish

en-verb

publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)

publishes (present singular third-person)
publishing (participle present)
published (participle past)
published (past)
publish (infinitive)

private

From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.

der

(programming) To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).


translator

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

(computing, chiefly historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.

(computing) A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.


well

From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallijā, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; wind; roll”).
Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”).

cog

wool (interjection or unstressed, some accents)

the jug goes to the well until it breaks

the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.

2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul:

(video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.


electronic game

en-noun

electronic game (plural electronic games)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-electronic game.wav

(video games) A game played on an electronic device.


ERP

ERP (countable and uncountable, plural ERPs)

enterprise resource planning
w:enterprise resource planning

(uncountable, finance, software) Initialism of enterprise resource planning.


ESRB

Entertainment Software Rating Board
w:Entertainment Software Rating Board

(video games) Initialism of Entertainment Software Rating Board.


union

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)

→ Bengali: ইউনিয়ন (iuniẏon) (learned)

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.

der

Unions are useful in those cases where you need to keep track of a value that can be represented as different data types during the lifetime of the program.

2008, Kris Bell, Lars Ivar Igesund, Sean Kelly, Learn to Tango with D, page 58:

(countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.


glitch

en-noun

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.

How to reach 8.555 ー The glitch
You need to have Wrex alive and sabotage the cure. Without the glitch, Wrex will discover the lie and try to kill you after Priority: Citadel II when you try to go back to the Normandy. Triggering this scene will remove Wrex and the Clan Urdnot in the war assets list
The glitch is easy, when you want to leave the Citadel, simply go to a fast travel shuttle, then in a DLC area (Dr. Bryson's Lab or Silversun Strip)
Then again the shuttle, and go back to the Normandy from here

2021 September 4, Paarnahkrin, “8.550 War Assets - How to achieve the highest possible score”, in Steam Community, archived from the original on 2021-12-07, Paarnahkrin's Guides:


glitch

en-verb

glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)

glitches (present singular third-person)
glitching (participle present)
glitched (participle past)
glitched (past)

His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

(intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.


wart

From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta and Danish vorte.

Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.

1998, Chris Ahlstrom, “Hungarian notation”, in microsoft.public.vc.language (Usenet):

Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

2002, Linonut, “Computer Science”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

(programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.


PSX

(video games, dated) The original PlayStation, first released 1994.

(video games) The PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive (2003).


spam

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

(transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.


Delphi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí).

A programming language dialect based on Pascal.


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Unrelated to shin.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”).

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

skini

alternate appearance for a 3D character model in a video game


Python

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.

(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.


static

Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.

A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.

1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’:

A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.

1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++:

Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.

2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs:

(programming) Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.

статичен

programming: computed, created or allocated before the program starts running

(object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

staattinen

object-oriented programming: defined for the class itself


static

en-noun

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149:

(countable, programming) A static variable.


borrow

borrow (countable and uncountable, plural borrows)

From Middle English borwen, borȝien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.

cog

If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).

2018, Daniel Arbuckle, Rust Quick Start Guide:

(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.


template

Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).

(object-oriented programming) A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.

шабло́н

object-oriented programming: partially defined class/function


tie

en-verb

tie (third-person singular simple present ties, present participle tying, simple past and past participle tied)

ties (present singular third-person)
tying (participle present)
tied (participle past)
tied (past)

From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.

der

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition, page 814:

(programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.