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- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- simple past of overlie
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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- run on a block system
- shape by using a block
- shape into a block or blocks
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
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- (programming) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.
- Documentary evidence and sources.
- (non-native speakers' English) A documentary.
- (computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
- Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
- confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence
- program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs
- documentary validation
noun
- (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
- (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
- (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
- (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
- the face or front of a building
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
noun
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
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- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
verb
- (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- To define the scope of something.
- (informal) To examine under a microscope.
- (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
noun
- (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
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- (computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
- beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
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- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- (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.
- 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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- (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, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (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)
noun
- (computing) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
- (rail transport) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
- A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
- A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
- (US, Canada) A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
- An animal's litter box.
- (US, military, slang, usually "The Sandbox") The Middle East.
- mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
- a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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- limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
- make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
- (Philippines) To recuse.
- (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
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- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
verb
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
noun
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
verb
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
- A large or substantial portion of something.
- A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
- a substantial amount
- a compact mass
verb
- (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- (transitive) To remove a chunk from.
- (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
- (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
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- (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
- (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
- (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
- (intransitive or transitive) (colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate.
- prevent employees from working during a strike
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- (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- (hydrology) A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
- (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
- electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
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- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- (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.
- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (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.
- 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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- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
- A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
- an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
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- (object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
- (object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
- (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
- (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
- (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
- the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other or have links with each other
- (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system
- (chemistry) a surface forming a common boundary between two things (two objects or liquids or chemical phases)
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
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verb
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- having a specific function or scope
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose
- for a special service or occasion
- first and most important
- added to a regular schedule
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- (by extension, derogatory, often offensive, comparable) Stupid, lacking intelligence.
- (euphemistic, not comparable) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
- (military) Of or related to unconventional warfare.
- Of particular value or interest; dear; beloved.
- Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
- Infused with a drug, especially marijuana; being an edible.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Of, being, or pertaining to sexual intercourse or the genitals.
- (law) Appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
noun
- a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising
- a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
- a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
- (journalism) A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- A racehorse predicted to win; a sure thing.
- (broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A meal offered only at a certain time by a restaurant, not as a standing fixture of the menu; often, one of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price; also often a dish at a nondiscounted price that is seasonal or otherwise exciting or unusual.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- (pinball) An award, typically a free game, that is made available to the player upon reaching or completing a major objective in a pinball game.
- (British, colloquial) A special constable.
- (journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered; the thing thus sold.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- One of certain mixed-breed dogs.
- (theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
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adj
- narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
- relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
- suggestive of the isolated life of an island
- (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
- (linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
- Of or being, pertaining to, situated on, or resembling an island or islands.
- Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
- (biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
- Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
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- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- simple past of overlie
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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- (programming) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.
- Documentary evidence and sources.
- (non-native speakers' English) A documentary.
- (computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
- Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
- confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence
- program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs
- documentary validation
noun
- (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
- (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
- (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
- (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
- the face or front of a building
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
noun
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
noun
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
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- (computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
- beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
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- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- (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.
- 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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- (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, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (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)
noun
- (computing) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
- (rail transport) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
- A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
- A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
- (US, Canada) A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
- An animal's litter box.
- (US, military, slang, usually "The Sandbox") The Middle East.
- mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
- a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
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- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
noun
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
verb
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
- A large or substantial portion of something.
- A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
- a substantial amount
- a compact mass
verb
- (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- (transitive) To remove a chunk from.
- (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
- (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
noun
- (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- (hydrology) A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
- (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
- electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
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- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
- A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
- an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
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noun
- (object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
- (object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
- (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
- (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
- (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
- the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other or have links with each other
- (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system
- (chemistry) a surface forming a common boundary between two things (two objects or liquids or chemical phases)
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
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- run on a block system
- shape by using a block
- shape into a block or blocks
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- run on a block system
- shape by using a block
- shape into a block or blocks
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
verb
- (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- To define the scope of something.
- (informal) To examine under a microscope.
- (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
noun
- (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
verb
- limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
- make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
- (Philippines) To recuse.
- (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
noun
- (computing) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
- (rail transport) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
- A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
- A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
- (US, Canada) A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
- An animal's litter box.
- (US, military, slang, usually "The Sandbox") The Middle East.
- mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
- a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
verb
verb
- (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
- (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
- (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
- (intransitive or transitive) (colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate.
- prevent employees from working during a strike
noun
adj
adj
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- (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.
- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (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.
- 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
noun
verb
adj
- having a specific function or scope
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose
- for a special service or occasion
- first and most important
- added to a regular schedule
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- (by extension, derogatory, often offensive, comparable) Stupid, lacking intelligence.
- (euphemistic, not comparable) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
- (military) Of or related to unconventional warfare.
- Of particular value or interest; dear; beloved.
- Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
- Infused with a drug, especially marijuana; being an edible.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Of, being, or pertaining to sexual intercourse or the genitals.
- (law) Appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
noun
- a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising
- a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
- a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
- (journalism) A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- A racehorse predicted to win; a sure thing.
- (broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A meal offered only at a certain time by a restaurant, not as a standing fixture of the menu; often, one of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price; also often a dish at a nondiscounted price that is seasonal or otherwise exciting or unusual.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- (pinball) An award, typically a free game, that is made available to the player upon reaching or completing a major objective in a pinball game.
- (British, colloquial) A special constable.
- (journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered; the thing thus sold.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- One of certain mixed-breed dogs.
- (theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
verb
adj
- narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
- relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
- suggestive of the isolated life of an island
- (anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
- (linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
- Of or being, pertaining to, situated on, or resembling an island or islands.
- Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
- (biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
- Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.