"prebuffer" meaning in English

See prebuffer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: prebuffers [present, singular, third-person], prebuffering [participle, present], prebuffered [participle, past], prebuffered [past]
Etymology: pre- + buffer Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|buffer}} pre- + buffer Head templates: {{en-verb}} prebuffer (third-person singular simple present prebuffers, present participle prebuffering, simple past and past participle prebuffered)
  1. (computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for prebuffer meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "buffer"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + buffer",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + buffer",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prebuffers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prebuffer (third-person singular simple present prebuffers, present participle prebuffering, simple past and past participle prebuffered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback."
      ],
      "id": "en-prebuffer-en-verb-3KOyB9OE",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "buffer",
          "buffer"
        ],
        [
          "playback",
          "playback"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prebuffer"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "buffer"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + buffer",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + buffer",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prebuffers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prebuffered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prebuffer (third-person singular simple present prebuffers, present participle prebuffering, simple past and past participle prebuffered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with pre-",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "buffer",
          "buffer"
        ],
        [
          "playback",
          "playback"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prebuffer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.