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- A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
- A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
- One that provides a facility for an event.
- A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
- (multiplicity) The primary member of a system, typically the member who fronts most often.
- One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
- (Christianity) The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
- A large number of items; a large inventory.
- (computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
- A person or organization responsible for running an event.
- (ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
- (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- archaic terms for army
- a vast multitude
- any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event
- the owner or manager of an inn
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
- an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
- a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
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- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
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- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
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- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
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- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
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- (computing) Initialism of remote access service.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of reasonable articulable suspicion.
- (firearms) Abbreviation of rail accessory system.
- Initialism of retinoic acid syndrome
- (linguistics) Initialism of redundant acronym syndrome.
- (neurology) Initialism of reticular activating system.
- (military, nautical) Initialism of replenishment at sea.
- (medicine) Initialism of renin-angiotensin system.
- the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
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- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
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- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
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- (computing, countable) Initialism of remote-access Trojan.
- (philosophy, uncountable) Initialism of relevant alternatives theory.
- (public transportation, countable) Initialism of Rapid Area Transit.
- (aviation, countable) Initialism of ram air turbine.
- (medicine, countable) Initialism of rapid antigen test.
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- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
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- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
- (algebra, of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_p (M_p) for all prime ideals p of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_m (M_m) for all maximal ideals m of R.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- From or in a nearby location.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
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- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- A person who lives in or near a given place.
- (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
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- (transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
- (transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
- (transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
- (transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
- (transitive) To carry away.
- cause to spread in another part of the world
- sell or transfer abroad
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
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- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
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- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- The act of wrapping
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
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- (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
- The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
- An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
- (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- (card games) A card used to substitute for another card, when the latter is not available.
- (video games slang) Clipping of proximity mine.
- The authority to act for another, especially when written.
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
- a person authorized to act for another
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- (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
- furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
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- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- create by hammering
- move ahead steadily
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- make something, usually for a specific function
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
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- (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.
- Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
- not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
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- (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
- (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
- (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
- (transitive) To tell (a joke).
- (transitive) To open slightly.
- (intransitive, transgender slang) To realize that one is transgender.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
- (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
- (intransitive) To form cracks.
- (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- (mid 2020s slang) To have sex with, especially penetrative sex.
- (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
- cause to become cracked
- break partially but keep its integrity
- tell spontaneously
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- pass through (a barrier)
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- (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- (Cumbria, Northern UK) A chat.
- (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- A narrow opening.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- a long narrow cleft
- the act of cracking something
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- a usually brief attempt
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a narrow opening
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a sudden sharp noise
- witty remark
- a chance to do something
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- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to drop or sink
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
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- (computing, of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
- Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
- (geometry) Meeting in one point.
- Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
- Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
- Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
- Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
- occurring or operating at the same time
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- One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
- One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
- One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
- One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
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- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- Dietary fiber.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
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- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- Dietary fibre.
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
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- (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”).
- (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (countable) The form of toboggan used in this sport.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- something reduced to its minimal form
- a scandal that is kept secret
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
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- (transitive) To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database.
- (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
- (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
- (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.
- operate a dial to select a telephone number
- choose by means of a dial
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- A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
- A sundial.
- Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
- A miner's compass.
- A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
- the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
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- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
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- (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- An act of delegating.
- A group of delegates.
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- a group of representatives or delegates
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- (espionage) Relying on publicly available information (open sources).
- (software) Of or relating to software where the source code is freely available and licensed in a manner that permits modification and redistribution.
- (by extension) Describing any product whose composition or method of manufacturing is public knowledge and not proprietary.
- of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
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- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- a small piece
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- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
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- (computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
- A town in Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
- (Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
- (soccer) The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
- A ghost town in Utah.
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- (computing) Initialism of remote access service.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of reasonable articulable suspicion.
- (firearms) Abbreviation of rail accessory system.
- Initialism of retinoic acid syndrome
- (linguistics) Initialism of redundant acronym syndrome.
- (neurology) Initialism of reticular activating system.
- (military, nautical) Initialism of replenishment at sea.
- (medicine) Initialism of renin-angiotensin system.
- the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
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- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
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- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
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- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
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- (computing, countable) Initialism of remote-access Trojan.
- (philosophy, uncountable) Initialism of relevant alternatives theory.
- (public transportation, countable) Initialism of Rapid Area Transit.
- (aviation, countable) Initialism of ram air turbine.
- (medicine, countable) Initialism of rapid antigen test.
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- (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
- furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
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- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- create by hammering
- move ahead steadily
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- make something, usually for a specific function
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
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- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- Dietary fiber.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
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- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- Dietary fibre.
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
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- (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”).
- (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (countable) The form of toboggan used in this sport.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- something reduced to its minimal form
- a scandal that is kept secret
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
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- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
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- (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- An act of delegating.
- A group of delegates.
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- a group of representatives or delegates
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- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- a small piece
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- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
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- (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
- The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
- An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
- (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- (card games) A card used to substitute for another card, when the latter is not available.
- (video games slang) Clipping of proximity mine.
- The authority to act for another, especially when written.
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
- a person authorized to act for another
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- A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
- A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
- One that provides a facility for an event.
- A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
- (multiplicity) The primary member of a system, typically the member who fronts most often.
- One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
- (Christianity) The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
- A large number of items; a large inventory.
- (computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
- A person or organization responsible for running an event.
- (ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
- (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- archaic terms for army
- a vast multitude
- any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event
- the owner or manager of an inn
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
- an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
- a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
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- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
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- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
verb
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
noun
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
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- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
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- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
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- (transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
- (transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
- (transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
- (transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
- (transitive) To carry away.
- cause to spread in another part of the world
- sell or transfer abroad
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
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- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
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- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- The act of wrapping
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
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- (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
- The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
- An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
- (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- (card games) A card used to substitute for another card, when the latter is not available.
- (video games slang) Clipping of proximity mine.
- The authority to act for another, especially when written.
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
- a person authorized to act for another
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- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
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- (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
- (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
- (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
- (transitive) To tell (a joke).
- (transitive) To open slightly.
- (intransitive, transgender slang) To realize that one is transgender.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
- (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
- (intransitive) To form cracks.
- (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- (mid 2020s slang) To have sex with, especially penetrative sex.
- (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
- cause to become cracked
- break partially but keep its integrity
- tell spontaneously
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- pass through (a barrier)
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- (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- (Cumbria, Northern UK) A chat.
- (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- A narrow opening.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- a long narrow cleft
- the act of cracking something
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- a usually brief attempt
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a narrow opening
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a sudden sharp noise
- witty remark
- a chance to do something
verb
- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to drop or sink
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
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- (transitive) To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database.
- (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
- (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
- (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.
- operate a dial to select a telephone number
- choose by means of a dial
noun
- A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
- A sundial.
- Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
- A miner's compass.
- A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
- the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
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- (espionage) Relying on publicly available information (open sources).
- (software) Of or relating to software where the source code is freely available and licensed in a manner that permits modification and redistribution.
- (by extension) Describing any product whose composition or method of manufacturing is public knowledge and not proprietary.
- of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
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- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
- (algebra, of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_p (M_p) for all prime ideals p of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_m (M_m) for all maximal ideals m of R.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- From or in a nearby location.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
adv
noun
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- A person who lives in or near a given place.
- (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
adj
- (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.
- Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
- not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
adj
- (computing, of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
- Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
- (geometry) Meeting in one point.
- Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
- Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
- Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
- Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
- occurring or operating at the same time
noun
- One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
- One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
- One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
- One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.