English words for '(Internet) Initialism of Explicit Congestion Notification.'
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verb
noun
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
noun
- (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.
- (emergency services) Initialism of death on scene.
- (sciences) Initialism of density of states.
- (military) Initialism of date of separation.
- (computing) Initialism of disk operating system
- (education) Initialism of director of studies.
- (military) Initialism of date of service.
- an operating system that is on a disk
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noun
adj
name
verb
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
noun
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
name
noun
- (networking) Latency.
- (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.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (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.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (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
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
name
adj
noun
noun
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
verb
noun
name
- (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
- (Finnish politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
- (Singaporean politics) Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
- (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.
- (Internet) Initialism of instant message.
- Initialism of idea management.
- (computing) Initialism of information management.
- (aviation) Initialism of inner marker.
- (business) Initialism of innovation management.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of International Master.
- (business) Initialism of information memorandum.
- (swimming) Initialism of individual medley.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
noun
- (transport) Initialism of active traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of advanced traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of available ton mile.
- (pornography, vulgar) Initialism of ass to mouth.
- (banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.
- (astronomy) Initialism of amateur telescope maker.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic management.
- (computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.
- (telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.
- (business) Initialism of at the market, see at-the-market offering.
- (slang, by extension) Any source of a large amount of money.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic movement.
- a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data
- an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
phrase
noun
- (public safety) Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- (computing, engineering) Acronym of computer-aided design.
- (medicine, cardiology) Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- (computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- (medicine) Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- (import/export) Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- (computing) Initialism of control alt delete.
- (medicine) Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
- software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
noun
name
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
adv
phrase
verb
noun
name
noun
name
noun
- (telecommunications) Initialism of real-time communications.
- (UK, emergency services) Initialism of road traffic collision.
- (Philippines, law) Initialism of Regional Trial Court.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time control.
- (electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.
- (computing) Initialism of rational team concert.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time computing.
name
noun
- (networking) Initialism of collision detection.
- (immunology, biochemistry) Initialism of cluster of differentiation.
- (business) Initialism of corporate design, specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI.
- Initialism of compact disc.
- (video games) Abbreviation of cooldown.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of Crohn's disease.
- (UK, law) Initialism of controlled drug.
- (physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Initialism of circular dichroism.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.
- Initialism of cross-dressing.
- (business) Initialism of creative director, head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
- Initialism of cross-dresser.
- (nautical) Initialism of chart datum.
- (finance) Abbreviation of certificate of deposit.
- a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
- a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
verb
noun
- (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
- (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
- (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.
- (by extension, often video games) A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
- A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
- unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
verb
- (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
- (transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.
- (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
- send unwanted or junk e-mail
noun
- (Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.
- (knitting) Initialism of wrong side.
- (music) Initialism of wavetable synthesis; a method used to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer.
- Initialism of Writer to the Signet
- (baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.
- Initialism of watersports (sexual practice).
- (law, Scotland) Initialism of writer to the signet.
adj
name
noun
name
name
noun
noun
- (California, government) Initialism of congestion management agency.
- (China, meteorology, uncountable) Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
- (Canada, countable) Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
- (UK, countable) Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
- (US, military) Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
- (Canada, countable) Initialism of certified management accountant.
name
noun
- (computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
- A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
verb
noun
- (communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.
- (uncountable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).
name
name
adj
- Initialism of thienyl cyclohexylpiperidine: tenocyclidine, a disassociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic properties. (Compare PCP.)
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of to complete party (followed by total number in group. Code used in OSI to advise an airline that other passengers are travelling with a person but are booked separately)
noun
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet service provider (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)
- (rocket engineering) Iₛₚ, the specific impulse of a rocket engine
- (programming) Initialism of interface segregation principle, one of the five SOLID principles of programming.
- (astronomy) Initialism of interstellar polarization.
name
- Initialism of Packet Clearing House, an Internet infrastructure support organization.
- Initialism of Portcullis House, a parliamentary building in London.
- Initialism of Platform Controller Hub.
- Initialism of Pacific Coast Highway, segments of California State Route 1.
- Initialism of Patrimoine canadien/Canadian Heritage, the Department of Canadian Heritage
noun
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
noun
name
noun
- (computing) Initialism of policy-based routing.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of physically based rendering.
- (nuclear physics, engineering) Initialism of pebble-bed reactor.
- (military, nautical, law enforcement) Initialism of patrol boat, rigid, a type of river patrol boat used by the US Navy during the Vietnam War.
- (botany, agriculture, horticulture) Initialism of plant breeders' rights.
- (firearms) Initialism of point-blank range.
- (firearms) Initialism of plastic baton round, a type of non-lethal projectile more commonly known as the plastic bullet.
- (ecology) Initialism of potential biological removal.
name
name
noun
noun
- (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.
- (emergency services) Initialism of death on scene.
- (sciences) Initialism of density of states.
- (military) Initialism of date of separation.
- (computing) Initialism of disk operating system
- (education) Initialism of director of studies.
- (military) Initialism of date of service.
- an operating system that is on a disk
name
noun
adj
name
noun
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
name
noun
- (networking) Latency.
- (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.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (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.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (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
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
verb
noun
name
- (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
- (Finnish politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
- (Singaporean politics) Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
- (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.
- (Internet) Initialism of instant message.
- Initialism of idea management.
- (computing) Initialism of information management.
- (aviation) Initialism of inner marker.
- (business) Initialism of innovation management.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of International Master.
- (business) Initialism of information memorandum.
- (swimming) Initialism of individual medley.
adj
verb
noun
- (transport) Initialism of active traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of advanced traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of available ton mile.
- (pornography, vulgar) Initialism of ass to mouth.
- (banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.
- (astronomy) Initialism of amateur telescope maker.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic management.
- (computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.
- (telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.
- (business) Initialism of at the market, see at-the-market offering.
- (slang, by extension) Any source of a large amount of money.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic movement.
- a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data
- an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
phrase
noun
- (public safety) Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- (computing, engineering) Acronym of computer-aided design.
- (medicine, cardiology) Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- (computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- (medicine) Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- (import/export) Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- (computing) Initialism of control alt delete.
- (medicine) Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
- software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
noun
name
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
adv
phrase
verb
verb
noun
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
noun
name
noun
name
noun
- (telecommunications) Initialism of real-time communications.
- (UK, emergency services) Initialism of road traffic collision.
- (Philippines, law) Initialism of Regional Trial Court.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time control.
- (electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.
- (computing) Initialism of rational team concert.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time computing.
name
noun
- (networking) Initialism of collision detection.
- (immunology, biochemistry) Initialism of cluster of differentiation.
- (business) Initialism of corporate design, specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI.
- Initialism of compact disc.
- (video games) Abbreviation of cooldown.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of Crohn's disease.
- (UK, law) Initialism of controlled drug.
- (physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Initialism of circular dichroism.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.
- Initialism of cross-dressing.
- (business) Initialism of creative director, head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
- Initialism of cross-dresser.
- (nautical) Initialism of chart datum.
- (finance) Abbreviation of certificate of deposit.
- a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
- a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
verb
noun
- (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
- (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
- (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.
- (by extension, often video games) A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
- A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
- unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
verb
- (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
- (transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.
- (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
- send unwanted or junk e-mail
noun
- (Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.
- (knitting) Initialism of wrong side.
- (music) Initialism of wavetable synthesis; a method used to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer.
- Initialism of Writer to the Signet
- (baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.
- Initialism of watersports (sexual practice).
- (law, Scotland) Initialism of writer to the signet.
adj
name
noun
name
noun
- (California, government) Initialism of congestion management agency.
- (China, meteorology, uncountable) Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
- (Canada, countable) Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
- (UK, countable) Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
- (US, military) Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
- (Canada, countable) Initialism of certified management accountant.
name
noun
- (computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
- A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
verb
noun
- (communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.
- (uncountable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).
name
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet service provider (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)
- (rocket engineering) Iₛₚ, the specific impulse of a rocket engine
- (programming) Initialism of interface segregation principle, one of the five SOLID principles of programming.
- (astronomy) Initialism of interstellar polarization.
noun
name
noun
- (computing) Initialism of policy-based routing.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of physically based rendering.
- (nuclear physics, engineering) Initialism of pebble-bed reactor.
- (military, nautical, law enforcement) Initialism of patrol boat, rigid, a type of river patrol boat used by the US Navy during the Vietnam War.
- (botany, agriculture, horticulture) Initialism of plant breeders' rights.
- (firearms) Initialism of point-blank range.
- (firearms) Initialism of plastic baton round, a type of non-lethal projectile more commonly known as the plastic bullet.
- (ecology) Initialism of potential biological removal.
name
verb
noun
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
verb
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
verb
noun
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
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