selection

en-noun

selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)

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

der

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


camper

first-person shooting
first-person shooter

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

kämppäri

video games: person who stays in one spot


boxing

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

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

käärintä

automatic conversion of value types to objects


spaghetti

en-noun

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

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

مَعْكَرُونَة

type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings

spagetti

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

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

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


EDT

(software) An editor on the VMS operating system.


EDT

en-noun

EDT (countable and uncountable, plural EDTs)

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

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

(programming) Initialism of enumerated data type.


range

Japanese: レンジ (renji)

Korean: 레인지 (reinji)

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

der

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

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


scripting language

en-noun

scripting language (plural scripting languages)

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

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


delay

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

→ Portuguese: delay

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

cog

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


ninja

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

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

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

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

2024 March 5, @HikikomoriMedia, Twitter:

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

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


ninja

en-verb

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

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

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

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


define

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

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

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

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

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

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

define-makro

macro that replaces one text string with another


mat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

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

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

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

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


LC

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)


kite

en-verb

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

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

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

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

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

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

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

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

The wind kited us toward shore.

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

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

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

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

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


software engineer

en-noun

software engineer (plural software engineers)

Back-formation from software engineering.

backformation

One who designs and implements software solutions.

програми́ст

one who designs and implements software solutions


loot

→ Portuguese: loot

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

poen

slang: money, especially illicitly acquired

Loot, plunder, pillage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


loot

en-verb

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

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

⇒ Portuguese: lootear

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


industry

en-noun

industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)

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

cog

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

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

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


freeware

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

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

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


RP

en-noun

RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)

(video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.


simulation

simulation (countable and uncountable, plural simulations)

→ Japanese: シミュレーション (shimyurēshon)

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

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

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


property

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

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

خَاصَّة

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

characteristic

attribute or abstract quality of an object

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

(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.

propietat

computing: an editable parameter associated with an application

egenskab c (property often used untranslated)


record

→ Portuguese: recorde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

programming language
programming language

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

tietue

if distinct from structs, the latter are called arvoluokka


perk

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


adware

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


spyware

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

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

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


existential

From Late Latin existentialis, from existentia.

Coordinate term: generic

existential type
existential type#English

(programming) Ellipsis of existential type.


hacker

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

hacker

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

ха́кер

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

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

hakkeri

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


visibility

en-noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

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

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


CORBA

software engineering
software engineering

Object Request Broker
object request broker#English

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


level

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

→ German: Level

→ Irish: leibhéal

desctree

→ Japanese: レベル (reberu)
→ Korean: 레벨 (rebel)

→ Welsh: lefel

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

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

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

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

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

級 /级

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


level

en-verb

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

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

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

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


conquest

en-noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

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

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

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

lipunvaltaus

competitive mode in first-person shooter games


melee

en-verb

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

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

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

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


model

desc

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

→ Cebuano: model

→ Japanese: モデル

→ Korean: 모델 (model)

→ Mandarin: 模特兒 /模特儿, 麻豆 (neologism)

→ Swahili: modeli

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

عارض أزياء

ʕāriḍ ʔazyāʔ

software architecture
software architecture

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


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

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

Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.

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

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

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


compile

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


compile

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

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

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

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


orthogonal

/ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/

/ɔɹˈθɑɡ.ə.nəl/

By surface analysis, ortho- + -gon + -al. From French orthogonal, in turn from Medieval Latin orthogōnālis and Latin orthogōnius (“right-angled”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios, “rectangular”).

der

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

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

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

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


team

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

cog

(video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.


comment

en-noun

comment (countable and uncountable, plural comments)

→ Armenian: քոմենթ (kʻomentʻ)

→ Japanese: コメント (komento)

→ Korean: 코멘트 (komenteu)

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

der

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

комента́р

programming: remark not affecting behavior


comment

en-verb

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

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

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

der

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

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

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


decay

en-noun

decay (countable and uncountable, plural decays)

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

der

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


decay

en-verb

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

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

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


lag

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

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

→ Swedish: lagga

My phone is starting to lag.

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


hazard

en-noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

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

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


monad

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

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

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

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


scrim

As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.

2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"

(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.


scrim

en-verb

scrim (third-person singular simple present scrims, present participle scrimming, simple past and past participle scrimmed)

scrims (present singular third-person)
scrimming (participle present)
scrimmed (participle past)
scrimmed (past)

Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.

2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion:

(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.


hub

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.


aspect

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

suunta

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

takoto

of the position of land in relation to the sun

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


unary

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From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

Negation is a unary operation.

Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X.

1990, Dominic A. Clark, “Verbal uncertainty expressions: A critical review of two decades of research”, in Current Psychology, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, page 229:

On the other hand, blank spaces should not be used for unary operators such as unary minus (−), address of (&), indirection (*), member access (.), increment (++), and decrement (−−).

2011, Robert Green, Henry Ledgard, “Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 54, number 12, →DOI:

(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

unární

mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument


rune

→ Mandarin: 盧恩 /卢恩 (lú'ēn)

Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.

Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.

2016, Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, Apress, →ISBN, page 12:

(programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.

2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House, →ISBN:

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

Mod

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game

(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

(video games) To install or create a mod.


assert

assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)

asserts (present singular third-person)
asserting (participle present)
asserted (participle past)
asserted (past)

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

(programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).


assertion

en-noun

assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)

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From Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio.

The user should be absolutely confident that the error issued is a real design error. In other words, a user should be confident that his assertion code is correct and that the assertion failure is not a false condition.

2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions, page 284:

(programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

aserto

programming: statement asserting a true condition


concatenation

concatenation (countable and uncountable, plural concatenations)

Borrowed from Latin concatenātiō. Related to chain.

kroĉo

programming: joining two or more character strings

concaténation

programming: result of joining two or more character strings

(programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.

(programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.


continuation

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.
Morphologically continue + -ation

Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression.

1986, “MIT/GNU Scheme 10.1.11”, in The GNU Operating System:

(programming) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.


pew

(video games, childish) Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun, particularly a blaster in science fiction.


encapsulation

encapsulation (countable and uncountable, plural encapsulations)

(programming, object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).

zapouzdření

object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state


enumeration

/ɪˌnjuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

/ɪˌnuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

In Ada, enumeration literals are allowed to appear in more than one declaration in the same referencing environment.

2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 261:

(programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.


crate

From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.

der

And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules.

2017, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 166:

(programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.


evaluation

en-noun

evaluation (countable and uncountable, plural evaluations)

From Middle French évaluation.
Morphologically evaluate + -ion

(computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

evaluaatio

substitution of a variable with its value


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.


crater

en-verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

craters (present singular third-person)
cratering (participle present)
cratered (participle past)
cratered (past)

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).


hydration

en-noun

hydration (usually uncountable, plural hydrations)

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From hydrate + -ion. The programming terms come from the concept of data lake.

(object-oriented programming) The process of populating an object with data loaded from a data source.


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

(video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.


char

Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.

Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.

1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals:

Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.

1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++:

When a 32-bit int value is stored to a 16-bit char variable, information can be lost if the 16 most significant bits are not zeroes in the int value.

2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#:

Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.

2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++:

.NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.

2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25

(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).


invocation

en-noun

invocation (countable and uncountable, plural invocations)

From Middle English invocacioun, from Old French invocacion, from Latin invocatio, invocationem.

(programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.

hívás

(programming) act of invoking, such as a function call


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


introspection

introspection (countable and uncountable, plural introspections)

From Latin intrōspectiō, noun of action (with -iō) from past-participle (intrōspectus) stem of intrōspiciō (“to look into, look at, examine, observe attentively”), from intro- (“inward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look at”). By surface analysis, introspect + -ion.

type introspection
type introspection#English

(object-oriented programming) Clipping of type introspection.


molly

Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:

(video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.


racy

en-adj

racy (comparative racier, superlative raciest)

racier (comparative)
raciest (superlative)

From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y.

suffix

These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)

2014, Pete Goodliffe, Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code:

We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.

2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems:

(programming) Involving a data race or a race condition.


grep

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.


grep

en-verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

greps (present singular third-person)
grepping (participle present)
grepped (participle past)
grepped (past)

You can't grep dead trees.

Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]

2019, Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos, Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure […] , 2nd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 293:

(computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

(by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).


growl

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

growls (present singular third-person)
growling (participle present)
growled (participle past)
growled (past)

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill.
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

(intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.


sequential

(programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.


grief

en-verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

griefs (present singular third-person)
griefing (participle present)
griefed (participle past)
griefed (past)

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

der

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.


primitive

From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.

(programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.

A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory

2021, Arti Noor, Abhijit Sen, Gaurav Trivedi, Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems: ETTIS 2021, page 26:

(programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.


gap

en-verb

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


robust

en-adj

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

more robust (comparative)
robuster (comparative uncommon)
most robust (superlative)
robustest (superlative uncommon)

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robust association of massive baryonic objects

(software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.


splice

en-verb

splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle spliced)

splices (present singular third-person)
splicing (participle present)
spliced (participle past)
spliced (past)

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

(software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.


scan

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

der

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.


slime

en-noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

→ French: slime

→ Japanese: スライム (suraimu)

→ Korean: 슬라임 (seullaim)

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

der

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.


subscribe

en-verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

subscribes (present singular third-person)
subscribing (participle present)
subscribed (participle past)
subscribed (past)

From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.

If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

(intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.


taint

From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.

Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]

2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)

(programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.


taint

taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)

taints (present singular third-person)
tainting (participle present)
tainted (participle past)
tainted (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.


slice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

der

(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

inh

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.

玩家

video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester


untie

en-verb

untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

unties (present singular third-person)
untying (participle present)
untied (participle past)
untied (past)

From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.

After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 151:

(programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.


spike

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

шпайкове

informal: running shoes with spikes in the soles

An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.

2017, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First Agile […] , O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:

(software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.


telegraph

André François Miot de Mélito
Claude Chappe
telegraph
telegraph (disambiguation)

Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).

af

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.


assrun

en-verb

assrun (third-person singular simple present assruns, present participle assrunning, simple past assran, past participle assrun)

assruns (present singular third-person)
assrunning (participle present)
assran (past)
assrun (participle past)

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From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.

One of your players assran me at every opportunity.

You were assrunning for the whole game.

(US, video games, slang) To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.


release

en-noun

release (countable and uncountable, plural releases)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

отцепване

a device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required

(software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.

вы́пуск

software: distribution of a computer software product


stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).

I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.


decorate

en-verb

decorate (third-person singular simple present decorates, present participle decorating, simple past and past participle decorated)

decorates (present singular third-person)
decorating (participle present)
decorated (participle past)
decorated (past)

From Latin decoratus, past participle of decorare (“to adorn, distinguish, honor”), from decus (“ornament, grace, dignity, honor”), akin to decor (“elegance, grace, beauty, ornament”), from decet (“adorn, befit”).

It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

(programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.


beastmaster

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(video games) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.


pointless

en-adj

pointless (comparative more pointless, superlative most pointless)

more pointless (comparative)
most pointless (superlative)

From Middle English pointles, poynteles, poyntlees; equivalent to point + -less.

(programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.


assembly language

en-noun

assembly language (countable and uncountable, plural assembly languages)

A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language.

(computer languages) A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.


source code

source code (usually uncountable, plural source codes)

(programming) Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.

bronkode

human-readable instructions in a programming language


splat

It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function […]

2019, David Powers, PHP 7 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, page 64:

(programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....


code review

code review (countable and uncountable, plural code reviews)

After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.

How did that get through two separate code reviews?

For small projects, code reviews can be used to ensure that software implementations adhere to the detailed designs.

2008, Anthony J. Lattanze, Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 355:

(software engineering) The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.


code review

en-verb

code review (third-person singular simple present code reviews, present participle code reviewing, simple past and past participle code reviewed)

code reviews (present singular third-person)
code reviewing (participle present)
code reviewed (participle past)
code reviewed (past)

Did anyone code review that class before it went into the shipping version?

These changes are code-reviewed by other team members and merged to the main branch upon approval.

2021, Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, Jesse Suen, GitOps and Kubernetes […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:

(transitive, software engineering) To perform a code review on.


beautify

beautify (third-person singular simple present beautifies, present participle beautifying, simple past and past participle beautified)

beautifies (present singular third-person)
beautifying (participle present)
beautified (participle past)
beautified (past)

From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).


stacked

en-adj

stacked (comparative more stacked, superlative most stacked)

more stacked (comparative)
most stacked (superlative)

The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.

2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine:

(sports, video games, of a team) Having many skilled players.

(title)

2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube:

(video games) Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.


SF

(video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.


assembler

en-noun

assembler (countable and uncountable, plural assemblers)

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

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

(programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.

I wrote that program in assembler.

(computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.

асемблер

program that converts assembly language to machine code


standards compliant

Other vendors' products may be cheaper, but ours are standards compliant.

(software engineering) Fully supporting all relevant published standards.


buzzword compliance

Ironic parallel with standards compliance.

The UDDI-over-Bluetooth support is only in there for buzzword compliance.

(uncountable, software engineering) The practice of ensuring that a product supports a set of features considered important for marketing, regardless of whether they are valuable features.


buzzword compliant

en-adj

buzzword compliant (comparative more buzzword compliant, superlative most buzzword compliant)

more buzzword compliant (comparative)
most buzzword compliant (superlative)

Our latest release is 100% buzzword compliant.

(software engineering) Supporting all features considered important by marketing, regardless of their actual value.


garbage collect

en-verb

garbage collect (third-person singular simple present garbage collects, present participle garbage collecting, simple past and past participle garbage collected)

garbage collects (present singular third-person)
garbage collecting (participle present)
garbage collected (participle past)
garbage collected (past)

(programming) To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.

(programming, transitive) To destroy (an object that is no longer in use) during the process of garbage collection


garbage collection

en-noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.

[2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135:

Generational garbage collection has proved to be a highly effective organisation, offering significant performance improvements for a wide range of applications.

2016, Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss, The Garbage Collection Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.


formal

formal (countable and uncountable, plural formals)

From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.


GC

GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)

garbage collection
garbage collection#English

(programming)
Initialism of garbage collection.

garbage collector
garbage collector#English

(programming)
Initialism of garbage collector.


GC

(programming) Initialism of garbage collect.


garbage collector

garbage collector (plural garbage collectors)

2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135:

(programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.


crunch

en-verb

crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)

crunches (present singular third-person)
crunching (participle present)
crunched (participle past)
crunched (past)

From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.

جَرَشَ

to crush something with a noisy crackling sound

(software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.


crunch

(software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.


temporary

/ˈtɛmpəɹəɹi/

/ˈtɛmpəˌɹɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).

(programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.


foobar

Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable#English

(programming) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.


pug

(online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)


temp

That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]

2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162:

(programming, informal) A temporary storage location.


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.

Don't convert between Unicode and other code pages/character sets. If you follow these two rules, you'll run into few I18N-related security issues; in fact, you can jump to the next chapter if these two rules hold true for your application!

2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 440:

After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”. A typical task is identifying all the places where a (Unicode) string needs to be turned into an i18n message or where the appropriate TAL […]

2008, Philipp Weitershausen, Web Component Development with Zope 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145:

AngularJS comes with support for I18n and L10n for date, number, and currency. No surprises here!

2015, Chandermani, AngularJS by Example, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 389:

(software engineering) Abbreviation of internationalization.


internationalization

en-noun

internationalization (countable and uncountable, plural internationalizations)

(software engineering) The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and ensuring support of non-Latin character sets, languages, and regions.

國際化 /国际化

software: act of making something suitable for international markets


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿 /驾驶杆

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipping (participle present)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.

Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).


explode

en-verb

explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)

explodes (present singular third-person)
exploding (participle present)
exploded (participle past)
exploded (past)
explode (infinitive)

First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790). The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.

The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.

2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL:

(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.


Haskell

* The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982).
* As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell. Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin.
* As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above.
* As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.

named-after

By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.

2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

(computer languages) A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.


summon

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).

Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.

2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant:

(video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.


simmer

(informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.


greedy

en-adj

greedy (comparative greedier, superlative greediest)

greedier (comparative)
greediest (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: gridi

From Middle English gredy, from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (“greedy, hungry, eager”) (cognate West Saxon form grǣdiġ), from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *grēdaz, *grēduz, *grēdô (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-. Equivalent to greed + -y.
Cognate with Old Saxon grādag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German grātag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags, “hungry”). Sanskrit गृद्धि (gṛddhi, “greed”) is a false cognate.

inh

This regular expression performs a greedy match.

(regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.


invariant

en-adj

invariant (comparative more invariant, superlative most invariant)

more invariant (comparative)
most invariant (superlative)

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(programming) Neither covariant nor contravariant.


invariant

(programming) Ellipsis of class invariant.


playground

From play + ground. Compare Middle English playstede (“playground”) from Old English pleġstede.

application programming interface
application programming interface

(programming) A sandbox for testing calls to an application programming interface.


tipster

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Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.

Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.

1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42:

Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).

1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(video games, informal) One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.


ez

LOL too ez. ur so bad

Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s

2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

this game is too ez

2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

(text messaging, especially video games) Abbreviation of easy.


item

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

(by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.

寶物 /宝物

video games: object that can be picked up for later use


assembly

en-noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.

Sheets of water poured over the car, making visibility all but nil. Suddenly the windshield wiper, not just the blade but the entire assembly, blew off.

1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:

A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

assembly language
assembly language#English

(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.

assembly-kieli

short for assembly language — see also assembly language

(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.


prelude

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.

der

In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 232:

(programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.


module

Borrowed from French module, from Latin modulus (“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”), diminutive of modus (“measure”) (whence mode). Doublet of modulus and mold.

Class modules are similar to form modules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).

2001, Phil Jones, Visual Basic: A Complete Course, page 254:

When there is more than one protected module in memory, the rules for accessing the code and data sections of a given module treat all the other modules as if they were unprotected memory.

2013, Helmut Reimer, Norbert Pohlmann, Wolfgang Schneider, ISSE 2013 Securing Electronic Business Processes, page 244:

(programming) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.


clickwrap license

en-noun

clickwrap license (plural clickwrap licenses)

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The second example, the so-called “clickwrap” license, is more likely to create an enforceable contract. In this variation, the user is required to view, however fleetingly, the terms of the license and to take some affirmative action to agree to its terms, such as by clicking a button that says “Yes, I have read this license and I agree to its terms,” before accessing the licensed software.

2004, Andrew M. St. Laurent, Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 150:

Like the more familiar “clickwrap” license, which we encounter every time we download a software update or buy an item on the Internet, this license employs the law of contract to limit the use of an invention by others.

2012, Kal Raustiala, Christopher Sprigman, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(software) A license which is implicitly agreed to when the user clicks on a particular user interface element, such as a button or link.


deathmatch

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.

2023 August 5, Shay Robson, “Valorant players plead with Riot for overdue Deathmatch rework”, in Dexerto:

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.


deathmatch

en-verb

deathmatch (third-person singular simple present deathmatches, present participle deathmatching, simple past and past participle deathmatched)

deathmatches (present singular third-person)
deathmatching (participle present)
deathmatched (participle past)
deathmatched (past)

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!

(video games, transitive) To compete against in a deathmatch.

(video games, intransitive) To take part in deathmatch gaming.


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.

Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned^([sic]) of it :-)

2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):

At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.


transient

From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”).

The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.

1978, Computerworld, volume 12, number 25, page 26:

These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.

1990, Gary A. Stotts, DOS/VSE: Introduction to the Operating System, page 102:

Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.

2020, Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby, Professional WordPress Plugin Development, page 102:

(programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.


variant

en-adj

variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)

more variant (comparative)
most variant (superlative)

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Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).

(programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.


variant

(programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

variant-muuttuja

computing: variable that can hold several data types


binding

From Middle English byndynge; equivalent to bind + -ing.

(programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.

sitominen

programming: association of a named item with an element of a program

The Python binding is automatically generated.

programming language
programming language

(programming) The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.


robustify

en-verb

robustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

robustifies (present singular third-person)
robustifying (participle present)
robustified (participle past)
robustified (past)

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The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.

(software, statistics) To make more robust, that is, more tolerant of unexpected events.


scaffolding

en-noun

scaffolding (usually uncountable, plural scaffoldings)

Inherited from Middle English scaffaldyng, skaffaldyng, equivalent to scaffold + -ing.

inh+

(programming) Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


CASE

(computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.


stun

en-verb

stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)

stuns (present singular third-person)
stunning (participle present)
stunned (participle past)
stunned (past)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, English astonish.

cog

The monsters stun when you jump on them.

(intransitive, video games) To enter a stunned state.


nagware

(computing, slang) Software that displays a message requesting that the user register it.


shareware

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From share + -ware; popularized by Bob Wallace

(software) A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.


sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.


selfish

en-adj

selfish (comparative more selfish or (proscribed) selfisher, superlative most selfish or (proscribed) selfishest)

more selfish (comparative)
selfisher (comparative proscribed)
most selfish (superlative)
selfishest (proscribed superlative)

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.

(video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.


continue

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.

2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, →ISBN, page 48:

Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.

2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, →ISBN, page 128:

(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.


speculation

en-noun

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

Etymology tree
Middle English speculation
English speculation
From Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiō, speculātiōnem, from Latin speculor.
Morphologically speculate + -ion

etymon

Creating a work with the hope of selling it

(programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.