Parole in English per 'a computer system for making backups'
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verb
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give or bring back
- return to its original or usable and functioning condition
noun
verb
noun
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
adj
noun
- (law enforcement) Reinforcements.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
- A reserve or substitute.
- (music) Accompaniment.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.
- Corroboration.
- Any support or extra help.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- the act of providing approval and support
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
verb
verb
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
noun
- (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
- (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
- (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- light that streams
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- a long flag; often tapering
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
verb
noun
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
noun
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.
- (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
verb
- (US) To make into a mess.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To discard.
- (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- express a totally negative opinion of
- dispose of (something useless or old)
verb
- record data on a computer
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- record data on a computer
- contact in writing
- create code, write a computer program
- produce a literary work
- communicate or express by writing
- write music
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
- mark or trace words or symbols on a surface
- (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
- (ditransitive) To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.
- (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
- (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
- (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
- (intransitive) To be an author.
- (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
- (intransitive) To compose and send written information (to).
- (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
- To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
- To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
- (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
- (ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
noun
adj
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Misspelling of cachet.
verb
noun
- a secret store of valuables or money
- A hidden supply or fund.
- Misspelling of horde.
- (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
- A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- A hoarding (billboard).
- A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
verb
noun
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.
- (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden.
- (nonstandard, informal, slang) A mustache.
- (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) A place where drugs are stored.
- (countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
verb
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- cause to undergo combustion
- cause to burn or combust
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- feel hot or painful
- destroy by fire
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- create by duplicating data
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
- undergo combustion
noun
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- damage inflicted by fire
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
adj
- stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer
- being joined in close association
- plugged in
- wired together to an alarm system
- joined or linked together
- Having relationships; involved with others.
- Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.
- Intimate; having bonds of affection.
- (Canada, US) Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
- (mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
- (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
- (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
verb
noun
- (computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
- A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
- (theater) Ellipsis of jukebox musical.
- (computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
- a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin
verb
verb
- (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
- (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
- (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
- (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
- use up (resources or materials)
- eliminate completely and without a trace
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- wipe out the effect of something
- kill in large numbers
- remove from memory or existence
noun
verb
noun
verb
- store in a computer
- provide with computers
- control a function, process, or creation by a computer
- (transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.
- (intransitive) To become computerlike.
- (transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.
- (transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
verb
- transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data
- remove the load from (a container or vehicle)
- (telecommunications) To use a complementary network technology to deliver data originally targeted for cellular networks.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) To deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
- (transitive) To get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else.
- (transitive, rugby) To pass the ball.
- (transitive) To unload.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) To change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
noun
noun
- (computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.
- A vinyl record.
- One who plats/plaits or braids.
- A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
- A tray for serving foods.
- The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
- a large shallow dish used for serving food
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
noun
- A digital file structure (like the PS2 memory card system or smart card OS) that mimics this hierarchical, card-like organization for data storage.
- A method of organizing information using physical index cards in a container with dividers (like an old library catalog or a modern personal organizer); using individual cards for discrete records, sorted for quick retrieval, whether for household tasks, business contacts, or digital files.
verb
- (computing) To format a storage medium prior to use.
- To assign initial values to something.
- (computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.
- (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.
- assign an initial value to a computer program
- divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
verb
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give or bring back
- return to its original or usable and functioning condition
noun
noun
- (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
- (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
- (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- light that streams
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- a long flag; often tapering
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
noun
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.
- (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
verb
- (US) To make into a mess.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To discard.
- (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- express a totally negative opinion of
- dispose of (something useless or old)
verb
noun
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
verb
noun
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Misspelling of cachet.
noun
- (computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
- A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
- (theater) Ellipsis of jukebox musical.
- (computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
- a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin
verb
noun
- (computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.
- A vinyl record.
- One who plats/plaits or braids.
- A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
- A tray for serving foods.
- The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
- a large shallow dish used for serving food
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
noun
- A digital file structure (like the PS2 memory card system or smart card OS) that mimics this hierarchical, card-like organization for data storage.
- A method of organizing information using physical index cards in a container with dividers (like an old library catalog or a modern personal organizer); using individual cards for discrete records, sorted for quick retrieval, whether for household tasks, business contacts, or digital files.
verb
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give or bring back
- return to its original or usable and functioning condition
noun
verb
noun
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
verb
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
verb
noun
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
verb
- record data on a computer
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- record data on a computer
- contact in writing
- create code, write a computer program
- produce a literary work
- communicate or express by writing
- write music
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
- mark or trace words or symbols on a surface
- (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
- (ditransitive) To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.
- (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
- (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
- (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
- (intransitive) To be an author.
- (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
- (intransitive) To compose and send written information (to).
- (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
- To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
- To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
- (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
- (ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Misspelling of cachet.
verb
noun
- a secret store of valuables or money
- A hidden supply or fund.
- Misspelling of horde.
- (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
- A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- A hoarding (billboard).
- A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
verb
noun
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.
- (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden.
- (nonstandard, informal, slang) A mustache.
- (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) A place where drugs are stored.
- (countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
verb
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- cause to undergo combustion
- cause to burn or combust
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- feel hot or painful
- destroy by fire
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- create by duplicating data
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
- undergo combustion
noun
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- damage inflicted by fire
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
verb
- (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
- (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
- (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
- (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
- use up (resources or materials)
- eliminate completely and without a trace
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- wipe out the effect of something
- kill in large numbers
- remove from memory or existence
noun
verb
noun
verb
- store in a computer
- provide with computers
- control a function, process, or creation by a computer
- (transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.
- (intransitive) To become computerlike.
- (transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.
- (transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
verb
- transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data
- remove the load from (a container or vehicle)
- (telecommunications) To use a complementary network technology to deliver data originally targeted for cellular networks.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) To deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
- (transitive) To get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else.
- (transitive, rugby) To pass the ball.
- (transitive) To unload.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) To change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
noun
verb
- (computing) To format a storage medium prior to use.
- To assign initial values to something.
- (computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.
- (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.
- assign an initial value to a computer program
- divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
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adj
noun
- (law enforcement) Reinforcements.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
- A reserve or substitute.
- (music) Accompaniment.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.
- Corroboration.
- Any support or extra help.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- the act of providing approval and support
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
verb
adj
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
verb
adj
- stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer
- being joined in close association
- plugged in
- wired together to an alarm system
- joined or linked together
- Having relationships; involved with others.
- Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.
- Intimate; having bonds of affection.
- (Canada, US) Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
- (mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
- (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
- (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.