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noun
- A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
- A user of a ping program; one who pings.
- (slang) An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes.
- A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
- A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
- a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar
verb
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make a short high-pitched sound
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- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- (networking) Latency.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
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- (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
- Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
- Condition of being sought after.
- A formal message requesting something.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- the verbal act of requesting
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- (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
- (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
- (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- a boat for carrying mail
- (computer science) a message or message fragment
- a small package or bundle
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- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
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- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Alternative form of email.
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- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
- (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
- (countable, informal) An email address.
- (countable) A message being sent through email.
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- (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
- a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
- a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves
- (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
- Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
- (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
- A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
- A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
- (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
- A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
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- (computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.
- An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
- A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.
- A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.
- A machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.
- a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions
- someone who broadcasts on radio or television
adj
- (computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.
- (figurative) Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
- Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).
- (biology) Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
- in the direction of a stream's current
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- (computer networking) In the direction from the client to the server.
- (figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- (biology) Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- (software) Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- (oil industry) Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- in the direction against a stream's current
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- (computing) A device communicating over a network; a host.
- (historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
- (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
- A ground transportation depot.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (biology) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A military base.
- (US) A gas station, service station.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- Standing; rank; position.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where some object is provided.
- (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
- a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
- proper or designated social situation
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
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- (computing) An instant messenger program.
- (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- One who brings messages.
- (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
- (figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
- (bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
- The secretary bird.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- a person who carries a message
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- (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress.
- A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
- A jump on one leg.
- A short jump.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- (Internet) Synonym of half-op.
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
verb
- (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
- (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
- (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- (informal) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- (intransitive) To gather hops.
- jump lightly
- traverse as if by a short airplane trip
- jump across
- make a jump forward or upward
- move quickly from one place to another
- travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
verb
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
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- being in progress now
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
- (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- Connected to the Internet.
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
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- a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
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- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
verb
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
noun
- (computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
- a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- the act of attaching or affixing something
- a supplementary part or accessory
- a connection that fastens things together
- the act of fastening things together
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- (computing) A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) A person who masturbates.
- One who tosses or throws something.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, slang) An objectionable person, often somewhat obnoxious in demeanour.
- terms of abuse for a masturbator
- someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward)
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- a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy
- a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
- Synonym of radiograph (“an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph”).
- (telegraphy, historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”).
- (radio, historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”).
noun
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The postal service or system in general.
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
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- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
verb
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
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- (computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something; used with at.
- (intransitive) To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.
- (transitive) To perceive vaguely.
- (slang, chiefly UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- (transitive) To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- (ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- inhale audibly through the nose
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
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- (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
- (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
- (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- Eye dialect spelling of root.
- divert in a specified direction
- send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
- send via a specific route
noun
- (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
- (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- (rail transport) A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.
- (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- an established line of travel or access
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
verb
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
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- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
noun
- someone who transmits a message
- set used to broadcast radio or tv signals
- any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
- An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.
- One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
adj
- (computing) Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
- (of a person) Easy in conversation, chatty.
- Capable of engaging in conversation.
- Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
- characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
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- Data and Computer Communications.
- Initialism of Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse.
- Design Computing and Cognition.
- Data Compression Conference.
- Debian Cluster Components.
- Initialism of Doppelmayr Cable Car.
- Digital Content Creation.
- Direct Client-to-Client.
- Data Concentrator Card.
- Designing Correct Circuits.
- Digital Command Control.
- Digital Curation Centre.
- Digital Compact Cassette.
- Data Communications Committee.
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- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.
- Initialism of direct cable connection.
- (psychotherapy) Initialism of direct client contact.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of deputy chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (algebra) Initialism of descending chain condition.
noun
- A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
- A user of a ping program; one who pings.
- (slang) An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes.
- A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
- A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
- a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar
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- (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
- Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
- Condition of being sought after.
- A formal message requesting something.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- the verbal act of requesting
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- (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
- (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
- (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- a boat for carrying mail
- (computer science) a message or message fragment
- a small package or bundle
verb
noun
- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Alternative form of email.
verb
noun
- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
- (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
- (countable, informal) An email address.
- (countable) A message being sent through email.
verb
noun
- (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
- a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
- a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves
- (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
- Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
- (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
- A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
- A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
- (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
- A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
verb
noun
- (computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.
- An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
- A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.
- A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.
- A machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.
- a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions
- someone who broadcasts on radio or television
noun
- (computing) A device communicating over a network; a host.
- (historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
- (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
- A ground transportation depot.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (biology) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A military base.
- (US) A gas station, service station.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- Standing; rank; position.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where some object is provided.
- (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
- a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
- proper or designated social situation
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
verb
noun
- (computing) An instant messenger program.
- (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- One who brings messages.
- (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
- (figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
- (bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
- The secretary bird.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- a person who carries a message
verb
noun
- (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress.
- A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
- A jump on one leg.
- A short jump.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- (Internet) Synonym of half-op.
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
verb
- (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
- (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
- (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- (informal) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- (intransitive) To gather hops.
- jump lightly
- traverse as if by a short airplane trip
- jump across
- make a jump forward or upward
- move quickly from one place to another
- travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
verb
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- (networking) Latency.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
noun
- a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
verb
noun
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
noun
- (computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
- a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- the act of attaching or affixing something
- a supplementary part or accessory
- a connection that fastens things together
- the act of fastening things together
noun
- (computing) A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) A person who masturbates.
- One who tosses or throws something.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, slang) An objectionable person, often somewhat obnoxious in demeanour.
- terms of abuse for a masturbator
- someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward)
noun
- a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy
- a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
- Synonym of radiograph (“an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph”).
- (telegraphy, historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”).
- (radio, historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”).
noun
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The postal service or system in general.
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
verb
noun
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
verb
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
adv
prep
noun
- someone who transmits a message
- set used to broadcast radio or tv signals
- any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
- An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.
- One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
verb
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- (networking) Latency.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
noun
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
verb
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
verb
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
- (computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something; used with at.
- (intransitive) To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.
- (transitive) To perceive vaguely.
- (slang, chiefly UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- (transitive) To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- (ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- inhale audibly through the nose
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
intj
noun
verb
- (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
- (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
- (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- Eye dialect spelling of root.
- divert in a specified direction
- send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
- send via a specific route
noun
- (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
- (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- (rail transport) A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.
- (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- an established line of travel or access
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
verb
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
noun
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
noun
- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Alternative form of email.
verb
noun
- a message sent over the internet via the email system
- an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
- (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
- (countable, informal) An email address.
- (countable) A message being sent through email.
verb
adv
adj
- being in progress now
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
- (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- Connected to the Internet.
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
verb
adj
noun
adj
- (computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.
- (figurative) Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
- Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).
- (biology) Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
- in the direction of a stream's current
adv
verb
adj
- (computer networking) In the direction from the client to the server.
- (figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- (biology) Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- (software) Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- (oil industry) Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- in the direction against a stream's current
adv
noun
verb
adj
- (computing) Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
- (of a person) Easy in conversation, chatty.
- Capable of engaging in conversation.
- Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
- characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation