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RAM
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noun
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A group of computers that work together.
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- A clusterfuck.
- A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- A group of consonants.
- A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- A secundal chord of three or more notes.
verb
noun
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- a vast multitude
- an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
- archaic terms for army
- any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event
- (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
- the owner or manager of an inn
verb
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- social skill
verb
- speak to
- give a speech to
- put an address on (an envelope)
- direct a question at someone
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- access or locate by address
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- speak to someone
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
noun
- (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet
- (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust
- a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the act of referring or consulting
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
verb
noun
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
noun
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
adj
adv
noun
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
verb
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
noun
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- The background of the shield.
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- The extent of a given perception.
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- The background of the flag.
- The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- The outfield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
verb
- To answer; to address.
- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To execute research (in the field).
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- To deploy in the field.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- To defeat.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
- section
- a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- a field of economic activity
- A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector
- an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
- zone (designated area).
- one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
- an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
noun
- A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- A coffin.
- The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- The vagina.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- A predicament or trap.
- A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
- A prison cell.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- Preceded by the: television.
- A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- The penalty area.
- Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
verb
- To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
- To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- To strike with the fists; to punch.
- To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
noun
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Physical course; way.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- The pitch.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Sound stored on a record.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
verb
- To create music using tracker software.
- To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- To traverse; to move across.
- To create a musical recording (a track).
- To exhibit good cognitive function.
- To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- To tow.
- To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- To follow the tracks of.
- To move.
- To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
noun
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
verb
- To make less acute or perceptive.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- To make obscure.
- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
noun
- the capability that allows the substitution of one subsystem (storage facility), or of one functional unit (e.g., hardware, software), for the originally designated system or functional unit in a relatively transparent manner, without loss of information and without the introduction of errors.
- The state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or work together in combination without problems or conflict.
- the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.
- the continuity or good fit of material or members or components while being deformed.
- the ability to execute a given program on different types of computers without modification of the program or the computers. See backward compatibility and forward compatibility.
noun
- A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- A trade union; a workers' union.
- An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- The act or state of marriage.
- The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
verb
adj
noun
- A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
- A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.
- A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
verb
noun
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- the act of providing approval and support
noun
- (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- an architectural product or work
- the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
- the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
noun
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
verb
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- enroll to vote
- be aware of
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- show in one's face
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- send by registered mail
- enter into someone's consciousness
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- The start/finish line.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
verb
adj
- Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- More remote of two.
- Long.
- Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
- Remote in time.
- Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
- Distant; remote in space.
noun
- A litter of piglets; a farrow.
- Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
verb
adv
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