OS

I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.

Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]

2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems:

A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]

2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference:

In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide:

operating system
operating system#English

(software) Initialism of operating system.


fnord

A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(programming) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.


BC

en-noun

BC (countable and uncountable, plural BCs)

Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.

This would be a BC-breaking change.

backward compatibility
backward compatibility#English

(software) Initialism of backward compatibility.


achievement

achievement (countable and uncountable, plural achievements)

From Middle French achevement (compare Modern French achèvement), from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”); equivalent to achieve + -ment. The heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment.

Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.


dialect

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “I speak”); by surface analysis, dia- + -lect.

der

Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.

programming language
programming language

(computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.


craft

en-verb

craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)

crafts (present singular third-person)
crafting (participle present)
crafted (participle past)
crafted (past)

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

cog

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

crafter

to combine different items to form a new one.


DOD

(scrum, software) Initialism of definition of done.


verb

From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.

You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.

1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321:

The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.

2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:

(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.


BM

en-noun

BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)

Fans know IdrA for his BM — Bad Manners.

2014, Doug Hendrie, AmalgaNations: How Globalisation Is Good:

(video games) Initialism of bad manners.


BM

en-verb

BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)

BMs (present singular third-person)
BMing (participle present)
BMed (participle past)
BMed (past)


operating system

en-noun

operating system (plural operating systems)

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

This operating system enjoys little market share but the software is open source and free, and it performs as just as well as the leading competitor's.

(computing, software) Software for controlling the allocation and use of various hardware resources (memory, CPU time, disk space, input and output devices) to tasks and remote terminals.

ഓപറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം

ōpaṟēṟṟiṅṅŭ sisṟṟaṁ


HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.


definition

definition (countable and uncountable, plural definitions)

From Middle English diffinicioun, from Middle French definition, from Latin dēfīnītiō, from dēfīniō. Equivalent to define + -ition.

(programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).


libre

Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty, free; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the Spanish libre (“free: not enslaved or imprisoned; without obligation; unconstrained by distrust or timidity; not containing, without”), from the same Latin etymon as above.

bor

One more point leads toward Free Software in education: when students get jobs, they prefer to use tools they learned at school in order to minimize extra learning efforts. This fact should lead colleges to teach only those tools not owned by anyone—those that are libre.

1999 February, Alessandro Rubini, “Software Libre and Commercial Viability”, in Marjorie Richardson, editor, Linux Journal: The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community, number 58, Seattle, Wash.: Specialized System Consultants, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1:

The great potential of libre software for development and social inclusion has long been emphasized. The cost aspect of it, though it might act as a driver, is only one limited aspect of the benefits of libre software in developing countries, deprived regions, or urban areas. The empowerment of persons and groups to not only use technology, but understand it, at the level and rhythm that fits them, with the resulting ability to become active contributors and to innovate are the essence of libre software.

2005, Philippe Aigrain, “Libre Software Policies at the European Level”, in Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim R. Lakhani, editors, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 454–455:

The formal definition of Open Access, however, does require re-use rights to enable the article to be re-used in various ways (text-mined, translated into other languages, used in part in other products, etc.), [...]. This is what is known as ‘libre’ Open Access. ‘Libre’ Open Access does not yet constitute the bulk of Open Access literature. In institutional repositories the majority of articles are of the ‘gratis’ type, though a small proportion carry an appropriate (usually Creative Commons) licence and are ‘libre’.

2012, Alma Swan, “Section 3. The Importance of Open Access.”, in Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access (Open Guidelines Series), Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, →ISBN, section 3.2 (Levels of Open Access), page 25, column 2:

Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is a software that is both a free software and an open source. FOSS is a computer software that is available in source code (open source) form and that can be used, studied, copied, modified, and redistributed without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained (free or libre). Free software, software libre, or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained and that manufacturers of consumer products incorporating free software provide that software as source code.

2014, Joshua M. Pearce, “Introduction to Open-source Hardware for Science”, in Open-source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Elsevier, →ISBN, section 1.2 (What is Open Source?), pages 1–2:

(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.


lens

en-noun

lens (plural lenses or (obsolete) lens or (rare) lentes)

lenses (plural)
lens (obsolete plural)
lentes (plural rare)

→ Bengali: লেন্স (lenś)

→ Turkish: lens

Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).

semantic loan

(programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.


avatar

→ Japanese: アバター

Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper

First use appears c. 1784, in The Hindu Wife; or, The Enchanted Fruit, by William Jones. Borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”). In the computing sense, some use appeared in video games in the 1980s, such as the online roleplaying game Habitat (1985) by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)), and the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989). Also popularized by the novel Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

أَفَاتَار

The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.

1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry:

Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.

2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times:

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulation

(Internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

Coordinate term: icon

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulacrum

(Internet, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones.


adverb

From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words. By surface analysis, ad- + verb.

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.


season

→ Japanese: シーズン (shīzun)

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).

temps

(obsolete) an extended, undefined period of time

(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.


SMS

/ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

(video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

(video games) Synonym of mob (“non-player character”)


bot

Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.

2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:

(video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

"That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."

2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer:

(video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.


bot

en-verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

bots (present singular third-person)
botting (participle present)
botted (participle past)
botted (past)

Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

(video games) To use a bot, or automated program.


add

add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)

adds (present singular third-person)
adding (participle present)
added (participle past)
added (past)
add (infinitive)

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).

Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.

(intransitive, video games) To summon minions or reinforcements.

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.


add

When the player has fought the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.

(video games) An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.


free

en-adj

free (comparative freer or more free, superlative freest or most free)

freer (comparative)
more free (comparative)
freest (superlative)
most free (superlative)

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“pleased, loved”), from *preyH- (“to please, love”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-, and is cognate with German freien, Dutch vrijen, Czech přát, Serbo-Croatian prijati, Polish sprzyjać.

inh

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

OpenOffice is free software.

en:unconstrained, socially
en:of software, licensed in an open way

(software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

lejuar

software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement

en:unconstrained, socially
en:of software, intended for release

(software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

(programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.


free

en-verb

free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)

frees (present singular third-person)
freeing (participle present)
freed (participle past)
freed (past)

There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.

2002, Jesse Liberty, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, page 148:

(transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

vapauttaa

programming: to relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system


inc

(programming) Abbreviation of increment.


FIFA

(video games, trademark) A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.


offset

From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).

cog

An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.

(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.


accumulator

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

The contents of the memory location and accumulator are NOT altered, but the Negative, Zero and Carry flags are conditioned according to the result of the subtraction.

1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 139:

The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value.

2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:

(programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

accumulator

computer science: register for holding intermediate results


retrovirus

From retro- + virus, from its reverse direction of replication.

(computer security) A computer virus that seeks to attack antivirus programs in an attempt to avoid detection.


skill

en-verb

skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)

skills (present singular third-person)
skilling (participle present)
skilled (participle past)
skilled (past)

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.


wall

en-verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

walls (present singular third-person)
walling (participle present)
walled (participle past)
walled (past)

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

cog

I walled her. She's low [health].

(video games, slang, transitive) To wallbang.


world

whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger)

whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)

From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Superseded Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).

inh

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?

There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.

(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.


zipper

→ Cebuano: siper

→ Esperanto: zipo

→ French: zipper

→ Japanese: ジッパー (jippā)

→ Korean: 지퍼 (jipeo)

→ Portuguese: zíper

→ Spanish: zíper

→ Tagalog: siper

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

(programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).


map

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.

I don't want to play this map again!

On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.

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

(board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.


index

en-noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

indexes (plural)
indices (plural)
index's (obsolete plural)

⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)

→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

der

(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.

индекс

programming: key indicating location of data


die

en-verb

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

dies (present singular third-person)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
died (past)
die (infinitive)

→ Vietnamese: đai

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437:

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

(uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.

1995, “Slobzone”, in Coming Soon! magazine (video game review):

Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.

2009, Brian Sulpher, 9:15–9:30 from the start, in Onto Doom And Gloom (video game playthrough), via youtube:

Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

(video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.


port

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259:

(computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.

كَيَّفَ

computing: to adapt a program so that it works on a different platform


point

en-noun

point (countable and uncountable, plural points)

→ Cantonese: point

→ Indonesian: poin

→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)

→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”)); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.

kärki

position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force

decimal point

not used when reading decimal fractions aloud

The one with the most points will win the game.

A small discrete division or individual feature of something.

(sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.

punt

This attack deals 320 points of damage.

Defeating the boss grants 60 experience points.

(video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.


VB

(computer languages) Initialism of Visual Basic


board

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

inh

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94:

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23:

(video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.


abstract

en-adj

abstract (comparative more abstract or abstracter, superlative most abstract or abstractest)

more abstract (comparative)
abstracter (comparative)
most abstract (superlative)
abstractest (superlative)

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.


Hungarian

/hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/

The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.

2009, Michael Ekedahl, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008:

(computing, programming) Of or relating to Hungarian notation.


Quaker

Quake + -er, but likely inspired by the original noun.

(video games) One who plays any Quake games.


new

en-verb

new (third-person singular simple present news, present participle newing, simple past and past participle newed)

news (present singular third-person)
newing (participle present)
newed (participle past)
newed (past)

From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
cognates
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (now, “new”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.


conditional

From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.

if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.

(programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.


symbol

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, put”).

der

(programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.


tick

From Middle English *tik, tek, tyche (“light touch, tap”), from the verb (see Etymology 3 below). Compare Dutch tik (“a pat, tap”), Middle High German zic (“a slight touch”).

cog

(video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.


advice

en-noun

advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Displaced native Old English rǣd.

(countable, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.


future

future (countable and uncountable, plural futures)

From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.

noncog

(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.


picture

Krio: pikchɔ

→ Welsh: pictiwr

/ˈpɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.

der

The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.

1997, John Barnes, Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page 390:

To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]

1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence, Mastering COBOL Programming, page 20:

(programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.


gold

From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.

The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.

2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10:

He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.

I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.

2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221:

(programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.


computer language

en-noun

computer language (plural computer languages)

(programming) A language that is used internally by computers, including programming languages, machine languages, query languages, markup languages etc.


update

ajan tasalla pitäminen

action of advising someone so that they are up to date

Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM.

I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop.

A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.


parent

en-verb

parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)

parents (present singular third-person)
parenting (participle present)
parented (participle past)
parented (past)

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).

(programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.


expression

en-noun

expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressiō, expressiōnem (“a pressing out”).
Morphologically express + -ion.

der

(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.

uitdrukking

(computing) a piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value


hack

en-verb

hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)

hacks (present singular third-person)
hacking (participle present)
hacked (participle past)
hacked (past)

Spanish: jaquear

From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”).
The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).

اِخْتَرَقَ

to gain illegal access to a computer network

That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.

(intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.


SQL

Structured Query Language
w:Structured Query Language

(computer languages, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language.

SQL

pronounced эс-ку-э́ль (es-ku-élʹ) or эс-кью-э́л (es-kʹju-él)


buff

en-noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

(video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.


buff

en-verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

buffs (present singular third-person)
buffing (participle present)
buffed (participle past)
buffed (past)

The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.

I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.

(video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.


RS

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
w:Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.


luck

en-noun

luck (usually uncountable, plural lucks)

→ Welsh: lwc

From Middle English luk, lukke, related to Old Frisian luk (“luck”), West Frisian gelok (“luck”), Saterland Frisian Gluk (“luck”), Dutch geluk (“luck, happiness”), Low German luk (“luck”), German Glück (“luck, good fortune, happiness”), Danish lykke (“luck”), Swedish lycka (“luck”), Icelandic lukka (“luck”). According to the OED, it may be related to lock.
A loanword into English in the 15th century (probably as a gambling term) from Middle Dutch luc, a shortened form of gheluc (“good fortune”), whence Modern Dutch geluk.
Middle Dutch luc, gheluc has parallels with Middle High German lücke, gelücke (Modern German Glück). The word occurs only from the 12th century, apparently first in Rhine Frankish. Perhaps from a Frankish *galukki. The word enters standard Middle High German during the 13th century, and spreads to English and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages. Its origin seems to have been regional or dialectal, and there were competing German words such as gevelle or schick, or the Latinate fortūne from Latin fortūna. Its etymology is unknown, although there are numerous proposals as to its derivations from a number of roots.
Use as a verb in American English is late (1940s), but there was a Middle English verb lukken (“to chance, to happen by good fortune”) in the 15th century.

cog

The creators of tool-assisted speedruns often manipulate luck to get the most favorable results in order to save the most time.

random number generator
random number generator#English

(video games, computing) The results of a random number generator.


PE

(software) Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).

Preinstallation Environment
w:Windows Preinstallation Environment

(software) Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.

In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]

2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)

Portable Executable
portable executable#English

(software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).


ES

Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.

2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 652:

If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.

2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

(computer languages) Initialism of ECMAScript.


AP

en-noun

AP (countable and uncountable, plural APs)

(countable, video games) Initialism of action point.


child

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

children (plural)
childer (archaic dialectal plural)

adult

antonym(s) of “person below the age of adulthood”

parent

antonym(s) of “data item, process or object in a subordinate role”

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

der

[ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯.ɫ̩d]

[t͡ʃəɪ̯(ə)ɫd]

offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter

call someone everything but a child of God

it is a wise child that knows his own father

(mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.


CI

en-noun

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

Coordinate term: CD

software engineering
software engineering

continuous integration
continuous integration#English

(software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.


PB

PB (countable and uncountable, plural PBs)

(sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.


IL

(video games, speedrunning, initialism) Individual-level.


NS

(video games, first-person shooters) nice shot


turtle

en-verb

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

turtles (present singular third-person)
turtling (participle present)
turtled (participle past)
turtled (past)

Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

(video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.


CS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(computer games) Initialism of Counter-Strike: a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games that began in 1999.


GA

en-noun

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

general availability
general availability#English

(chiefly software) Initialism of general availability.

genetic algorithm
genetic algorithm#English

(software) Initialism of genetic algorithm.


SP

SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)

(video games, mostly role-playing games) synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements. Common examples of meanings of the abbreviation include but are not limited to: skill point, special point, spirit point, and spell point.


ML

(computing) Initialism of Markup Language.

The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming. In the first of these a program may be written without typing at all. Then a compiler should check whether a type can be assigned to the program. This will be the case if the program is correct. A well-known example of such a language is ML, see Milner (1984). The style of typing is called 'implicit typing'. The other paradigm in programming is called 'explicit typing' and corresponds to the Church version of typed lambda calculi. Here a program should be written together with its type. For these languages type-checking is usually easier, since no types have to be constructed. Examples of such languages are ALGOL 68 and PASCAL. Some authors designate the Curry systems as 'lambda calculi with type assignment and the Church systems as 'systems of typed lambda calculus'.

1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl^([ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/HBK.ps]), retrieved 2012-07-15:

ML programming language
w:ML (programming language)

(computer languages) Initialism of MetaLanguage (the ML programming language)


KS

en-verb

KS (third-person singular simple present KSs, present participle KSing, simple past and past participle KSed)

KSs (present singular third-person)
KSing (participle present)
KSed (participle past)
KSed (past)

(online gaming) Initialism of kill steal.


ME

United States of America
United States of America

Abbreviation of Maine, a state of the United States of America.


CA

Computer Associates
w:Computer Associates

(software, computing) Initialism of Computer Associates, an American software company.


case

→ Swedish: case n

From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).

der

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.

Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.

2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus, page 275:

(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.


semaphore

en-noun

semaphore (countable and uncountable, plural semaphores)

/ˈsɛm.əˌfɔː/

/ˈsɛm.əˌfɔɹ/

The noun is borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”) + French -phore (from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier)). By surface analysis, sema- + -phore.
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

The thread increments the semaphore to prevent other threads from entering the critical section at the same time.

Several synchronization techniques have been proposed and many of them have been adopted by parallel and distributed operating systems or parallel programming platforms. [...] Semaphores represent another synchronization technique that is mainly used by traditional stand-alone operating systems.

1996, P. Theodoropoulos, G. Manis, P. Tsanakas, G. Papakonstantinou, “Extending Synchronization PVM Mechanisms”, in Arndt Bode, Jack Dongarra, Thomas Ludwig, Vaidy Sunderam, editors, Parallel Virtual Machine – EuroPVM ’96: Third European PVM Conference, Munich, Germany, October 7–9, 1996: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 1156), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 315:

A semaphore makes sure that the different processes don't step on each other's toes when they access the shared memory segment. Before a process can use the segment, it needs to get control of the semaphore. When it's done with the segment, it releases the semaphore for another process to grab.

2003, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, “Variables”, in Paula Ferguson, editor, PHP Cookbook, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, section 5.6 (Sharing Variables across Processes), page 124:

It is up to the programmer to ensure that if one thread updates multiple dependent memory locations (for example, writing a string, or updating a table) that another thread might read, some protection is put in place to ensure that the two threads don't update and read at the same time. [...] Several techniques are used by programmers to prevent this, including locks, semaphores, and mutexes.

2012, Timothy Mangan, “L1/L2/L3 Memory Cache”, in Windows System Performance through Caching: 15 Ways Caching Improves System Performance (Inside the OS Series), Canton, Mass.: TMurgent Technologies, →ISBN, page 22:

(programming) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.

semafor

mechanism used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time


NE

(software) Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).


MC

(video games, informal) Initialism of Minecraft.


PR

en-noun

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)

(software engineering) Initialism of pull request.


SD

(video games) Initialism of self-destruct.


polyglot

/ˈpɑlɪˌɡlɑt/

Book of Genesis
Complutensian Polyglot Bible
Targum Onkelos

PIE word
 *glōgʰs
Borrowed from Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), alternative form of Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος (polŭ́glōssos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), from πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s, “a lot of, many”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + Attic Greek γλῶττα (glôtta), Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs (“tip of corn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns). The English word is analysable as poly- + -glot.
Noun sense 1 (“publication in several languages”) is probably derived from Late Latin polyglottus, from Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos): see above.

der

πολῠ́γλωσσος

programming language
programming language

(programming) A program written to be valid in multiple programming languages.


car

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

acronym

Holonym: cons

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

(programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.


jump

en-verb

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

jumps (present singular third-person)
jumping (participle present)
jumped (participle past)
jumped (past)
jump (infinitive)

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

jump down

cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.

2008, Garry Robinson, Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security:

(intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.


jump

Brill Publishers
hydraulic jump
jump cut
jump discontinuity
jump instruction

onomatopoeic

imitative

قَفْزَة

instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.


boss

→ Cantonese: 波士 (bo¹ si⁶⁻²)

→ Danish: boss

→ French: boss

→ Indonesian: bos

→ Italian: boss

→ Japanese: ボス (bosu)

→ Korean: 보스 (boseu)

From Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-West Germanic *baswō, from Proto-Germanic *baswô (“uncle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *ba-, *bō- (“father, older male relative”), source also of the English terms babe, boy, bub, bully. Cognate with Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”), hence Saterland Frisian Boas (“boss”), Old High German basa (“father's sister, cousin”), hence German Base (“aunt, cousin”). Originally a term of respect used to address an older relative. Later, in New Amsterdam, it began to mean a person in charge who is not a master. The representation of Dutch -aa- by English -o- is due to the older unrounded pronunciation of this letter, which is still used in North America and parts of Ireland, but was formerly found in some British accents as well. The video game sense is borrowed from Japanese ボス (bosu), in turn from English boss.

cog

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

vastus

in a game without other kinds of enemies


argument

en-noun

argument (countable and uncountable, plural arguments)

From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin argūmentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”), from arguere (“to argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false”) + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“silver, white; glittering”), or from Hittite [script needed] (arkuwā(i)-, “to make a plea, state one’s case”). The English word is analysable as argue + -ment. Doublet of argumentum.
Displaced native Old English racu and ġeflit.

der

/ˈɑːɡjʊmənt/

/ˈɑɹɡjʊmənt/

argument

fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason

وَسِيط

variable that is being passed to a function

Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.

A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.

A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.


idiom

idioms (plural)
idiomata (plural)
used uncountably (sometimes)

From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”).

I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]

2005, Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, →ISBN, page 100:

A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.

(programming) A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.


dub

I haven't had a dub in a few games.

Clipping of double-u.
(video games, Internet slang) A win.


canary

en-verb

canary (third-person singular simple present canaries, present participle canarying, simple past and past participle canaried)

canaries (present singular third-person)
canarying (participle present)
canaried (participle past)
canaried (past)

From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).

der

(software engineering) To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.


ISP

interface segregation principle
interface segregation principle#English

(programming) Initialism of interface segregation principle. (one of the five SOLID principles of programming.)


slug

Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

inh

Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.

2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

(web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.


perfect

From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). Spelling modified 15c. to conform to Latin etymology. Doublet of parfait.
Displaced native Old English fulfremed.

Awarded for scoring all Perfects in the Dominator rank!

2007, Barbara Smith, Chad Yancey, Video Game Achievements and Unlockables, page 17:

[…] a table of all the ratings that each player has achieved, giving you several scoring options based on player feedback (I simply record the number of perfects).

2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers-- in the Library?!:

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.


re

gg [good game], no re

(video games, slang) Clipping of rematch.


safe

en-adj

safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)

safer (comparative)
more safe (comparative)
safest (superlative)
most safe (superlative)

→ Japanese: セーフ

From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).

der

(programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.


activate

en-verb

activate (third-person singular simple present activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)

activates (present singular third-person)
activating (participle present)
activated (participle past)
activated (past)

(transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.


lane

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

cog

(video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.


busted

en-adj

busted (comparative more busted, superlative most busted)

more busted (comparative)
most busted (superlative)

From bust + -ed. See bust (Etymology 1).

While not all of his matches went well, the streamer insisted aim assist was busted.

2022 March 25, Jason Parker, “"I'm not even aiming!": xQc says controller aim assist is broken in Fortnite”, in Sportskeeda:

(video games, slang) Extremely overpowered.


friend

stranger

antonym(s) of “person with whom you are acquainted”

enemy

antonym(s) of “person who provides assistance”

Jamaican Creole: fren

Krio: frɛn

→ Cantonese: friend (fen¹)

→ Finnish: frendi

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: frȅnd

Cyrillic script: фре̏нд

→ Spanish: friend

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving[-one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free + -nd.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Other cognates include Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).

kámo

(sarcastic) form of address used to warn someone

with friends like these who needs enemies

But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary.

In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend.

To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word friend precedes the function prototype[…]

2008, D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design:

(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.


save

en-verb

save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)

saves (present singular third-person)
saving (participle present)
saved (participle past)
saved (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).

etymon

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

حَفِظَ

computing: to write a file to a storage medium


dimension

en-verb

dimension (third-person singular simple present dimensions, present participle dimensioning, simple past and past participle dimensioned)

dimensions (present singular third-person)
dimensioning (participle present)
dimensioned (participle past)
dimensioned (past)

Dimension an array to hold only as much data as you intend to put into it.

2002, James D. Foxall, Wendy Haro-Chun, SAMS Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours, page 268:

(transitive, programming) To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.


environment

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ + -ment. Compare French environnement.

(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.


chat

en-noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?

Chat, is this prime minister serious?

2024 September 11, Fatima Payman, 00:48 from the start, in Skibidi Senator Payman + 100,000 aura (video), archived from the original on 2024-09-12:

(Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

(metonymically, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.


graduate

en-verb

graduate (third-person singular simple present graduates, present participle graduating, simple past and past participle graduated)

graduates (present singular third-person)
graduating (participle present)
graduated (participle past)
graduated (past)

/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/

/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪt/

From Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).

sl

We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.

(transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.


broken

en-adj

broken (comparative more broken, superlative most broken)

more broken (comparative)
most broken (superlative)

From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”).
Morphologically broke + -n.

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

This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

(software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.

malgirbat

of software: badly designed or implemented

This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.

(sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.


bind

en-verb

bind (third-person singular simple present binds, present participle binding, simple past bound or (nonstandard) binded, past participle bound or (nonstandard) binded or (archaic, rare) bounden or (obsolete) ybound or (obsolete) ybounden)

binds (present singular third-person)
binding (participle present)
bound (past)
binded (nonstandard past)
bound (participle past)
binded (nonstandard participle past)
bounden (archaic participle past rare)
ybound (obsolete participle past)
ybounden (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.

bindi

transitive, programming to process object modules into a program

We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".

2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, page 33:

You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj[…]

2009, Robert Pickering, Beginning F#, page 123:

(transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

(transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.


override

en-verb

override (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden)

overrides (present singular third-person)
overriding (participle present)
overrode (past)
overridden (participle past)

/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.

How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.

(object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

sobreescriure

(software) To define a new behaviour of a method


override

/ˈəʊ.vəˌɹaɪd/

(object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.


grind

grind (third-person singular simple present grinds, present participle grinding, simple past and past participle ground or grinded)

grinds (present singular third-person)
grinding (participle present)
ground (participle past)
ground (past)
grinded (participle past)
grinded (past)
grind (infinitive)
grind (infinitive)

From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).

the mill cannot grind with water that is past

These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them to grind for resources.

The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.

Similarly, nearly all massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), such as Dungeons & Dragons Online, feature grind: Players repeat tasks, or often “quests”, to gain in-game currency to spend on weapons or other ancillary items.

2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, →ISBN, page 38:

To extend the variety past that, you'll need to unlock new units in each class, meaning you have to grind through the rather lengthy process of using every one of your class’ weapons and skills significantly across several matches.

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

(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.


apparatus

en-noun

apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati)

apparatuses (plural)
apparatusses (plural)
apparatus (plural)
apparatûs (plural rare)
apparatūs (plural rare)
apparati (hypercorrect plural rare)

/æp.əˈɹɑː.təs/

Borrowed from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.

Rube Goldberg machine
Rube Goldberg machine

(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”


overlay

/ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put.

1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version:

(programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.


train

en-verb

train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)

trains (present singular third-person)
training (participle present)
trained (participle past)
trained (past)

[t̠ɹ̠̊˔e̞ɪn]

From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.

der

I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.

2000, Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link, “WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet):

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

(transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).


eat

en-verb

eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)

eats (present singular third-person)
eating (participle present)
ate (past)
et (dialectal past)
eat (obsolete past)
eaten (participle past)
etten (dialectal participle past)
eat (infinitive)

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

æde

used for animals and ill-mannered people

vreten

used for animals; vulgar when applied to people

தின்

used for animals, somewhat impolite when applied to people

could eat the arse out of a low flying duck

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet

the proof of the pudding is in the eating

A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.

2005, Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, John J. Croft IV, Professional ADO.NET 2, page 246:

(transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.


pin

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

pins (present singular third-person)
pinning (participle present)
pinned (participle past)
pinned (past)

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

cog

When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.

[…] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.

2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244:

(programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.


actor

→ Scottish Gaelic: actair

→ Welsh: actor

Inherited from Middle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act + -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”).

(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

role

entity performing a role in use case analysis


face

→ Danish: fjæs

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: fjes

Norwegian Nynorsk: fjes

→ Swedish: fejs, fjäs

→ Wu: 番斯 (¹fe-sy)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.

noncog

talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening

When playing aggro decks, hit face whenever you can; it's not worth spending your resources to try to control the board.

(video games, TCGs, uncountable) The player character, especially as opposed to minions or other entities which might absorb damage instead of the player character.


volatile

en-adj

volatile (comparative more volatile, superlative most volatile)

more volatile (comparative)
most volatile (superlative)

[ˈvɑ.lə.ɾɫ̩]

From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).

uder

This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result.

2010, Jon Jagger, Nigel Perry, Peter Sestoft, Annotated C# Standard, page 467:

(programming, of a variable etc.) Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.


volatile

[ˈvɑ.lə.ɾɫ̩]

Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.

2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:

(programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.


unwind

en-verb

unwind (third-person singular simple present unwinds, present participle unwinding, simple past and past participle unwound)

unwinds (present singular third-person)
unwinding (participle present)
unwound (participle past)
unwound (past)

From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).

inh

If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62:

(transitive, programming) To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.


brush

en-noun

brush (countable and uncountable, plural brushes)

From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.

der

(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.


camera

en-noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)

cameras (plural)
cameræ (plural rare)
camerae (plural rare)

Tok Pisin: kamera

→ Arabic: كاميرا (kāmērā)

→ Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)

→ Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera)

→ Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)

→ Catalan: càmera

→ French: caméra
→ Turkish: kamera

→ Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)

→ Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)

→ Hungarian: kamera

→ Irish: ceamara

→ Hausa: kyamara

desctree

→ Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
→ Hokkien: kha-mé-lah

→ Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)

→ Korean: 카메라 (kamera)

→ Luhya: ekamera

→ Manx: camerey

→ Malay: kamera

→ Maori: kāmera

→ Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)

→ Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)

→ Norman: caméra, quéméreu

→ Occitan: camerà

→ Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)

→ Pashto: کامره (kāmrá), کېمره (kemrá)

→ Persian: کامرا (kâmerâ)

→ Romanian: cameră

→ Scottish Gaelic: camara

→ Swahili: kamera

→ Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)

→ Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)

→ Urdu: کیمرہ (kaimra)

→ Welsh: camera

→ Yoruba: kámẹ́rà

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

der

If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:

I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete:

(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.


cheese

en-verb

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

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

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

rush

use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game


hold

Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).

der+

A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.

1983, New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)

SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.

1987?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)


hit

en-verb

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

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

miss

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

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

cog

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

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

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

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


concern

en-noun

concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)

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

der

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

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

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


kek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


spaceship

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

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

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

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

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


shape

en-noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

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

cog

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


XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
w:Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

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


SGML

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

2012, Peter Flynn, Understanding SGML and XML Tools:

Standard Generalized Markup Language
w:Standard Generalized Markup Language

(software) Initialism of Standard Generalized Markup Language.


XML

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

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

Extensible Markup Language
Extensible Markup Language#English

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


JS

(computing, Internet) Initialism of JavaScript.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

Confederate States
Confederate States#English

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

Confederate States Ship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cascading style sheet
cascading style sheet#English

(web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.


CSS

style sheet language
style sheet language

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


ROM

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

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


bridge

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

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

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

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

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

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


body

en-noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

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

der

body-focused repetitive behavior disorder

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

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


split

→ Irish: spliota

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

cog

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">splatten</i> (“to split”)

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

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

banyes

bowling: pattern with missing intermediate pins


spin

en-verb

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

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

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

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


distribution

en-noun

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

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

a Linux distribution

(software) A set of bundled software components.

distro

software: set of bundled software components — see also distro


string

string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)

Tok Pisin: string

→ Dutch: string

→ Finnish: stringit

→ French: string

→ German: String

desc

מחרוז//מַחְרֹזֶת

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

→ Japanese: ストリング (sutoringu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: streng (semantic loan)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: streng (semantic loan)

→ Polish: stringi

→ Portuguese: estrém; string

→ Swedish: string

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

cog

στραγγαλόομαι

弦

any similar long, thin and flexible object

弓弦

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

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