English words for '(computing) A machine-readable two-dimensional barcode used primarily to code website addresses.'
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noun
noun
- a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
- (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
- the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
- a way of entering or leaving
- the act of approaching or entering
- the right to enter
- (uncountable, Scotland) Complicity or assent.
- (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
- (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- (countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
- (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
verb
noun
- Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
- (genetics) A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
- (self-harm, slang) An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.
noun
noun
- Alternative form of bio-code.
- A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.
- Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.
- An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.
- The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.
- A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.
verb
noun
- (Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
- (linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
- A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul.
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
noun
- (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
- (slang) A cucoloris.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
- (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
- (slang, vulgar, euphemistic) The vulva.
- (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
- (slang, vulgar, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.
- (informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
- a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
- the cook on a ranch or at a camp
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
adj
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
noun
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
noun
- A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
- The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 − W₁ − L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
- A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
- (nuclear physics) The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
- (by extension) The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
- A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
- A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
- the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- (golf, Scotland) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
- (computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- (Commonwealth, politics) A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
- (networking, Internet) A string of characters identifying a node or range of nodes on a network (especially the Internet), such as an e-mail address, IP address or URL.
- The location of a property.
- (diplomacy, politics) A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
- A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
verb
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- give a speech to
- speak to
- access or locate by address
- speak to someone
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- put an address on (an envelope)
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
- direct a question at someone
- (transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
- (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- (transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
- (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
- (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
- (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
- (transitive, golf, Scotland) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
- (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- the act of referring or consulting
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- 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
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (often attributive) A reference work.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
verb
noun
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
- (computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.
- (computer science) A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.
noun
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
- a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
- (programming) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.
noun
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
verb
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
noun
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- A person who lives in or near a given place.
- (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
adj
- (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (algebra, of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_p (M_p) for all prime ideals p of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_m (M_m) for all maximal ideals m of R.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- From or in a nearby location.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
adv
verb
- use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
- get or gather together
- put together out of existing material
- (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
- (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
noun
noun
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
verb
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (cryptography) To encode.
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
noun
- A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
- A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
- A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
- A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
- A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
- One who scans.
- an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
- someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
- a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition
verb
noun
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
noun
name
- (historical, World War II) Initialism of Emergency Rescue Committee.
- Initialism of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (“Republican Left of Catalonia”).
- Initialism of European Rugby Cup.
- Initialism of Emacs Relay Chat.
- Initialism of European Rally Championship.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Energy Regulatory Commission.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
- (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
- the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
- a way of entering or leaving
- the act of approaching or entering
- the right to enter
- (uncountable, Scotland) Complicity or assent.
- (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
- (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- (countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
- (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
verb
noun
- Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
- (genetics) A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
- (self-harm, slang) An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.
noun
noun
- Alternative form of bio-code.
- A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.
- Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.
- An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.
- The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.
- A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.
verb
noun
- (Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
- (linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
- A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul.
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
noun
- (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
- (slang) A cucoloris.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
- (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
- (slang, vulgar, euphemistic) The vulva.
- (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
- (slang, vulgar, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.
- (informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
- a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
- the cook on a ranch or at a camp
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
noun
- A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
- The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 − W₁ − L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
- A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
- (nuclear physics) The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
- (by extension) The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
- A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
- A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
- the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- (golf, Scotland) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
- (computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- (Commonwealth, politics) A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
- (networking, Internet) A string of characters identifying a node or range of nodes on a network (especially the Internet), such as an e-mail address, IP address or URL.
- The location of a property.
- (diplomacy, politics) A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
- A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
verb
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- give a speech to
- speak to
- access or locate by address
- speak to someone
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- put an address on (an envelope)
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
- direct a question at someone
- (transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
- (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- (transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
- (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
- (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
- (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
- (transitive, golf, Scotland) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
- (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- the act of referring or consulting
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- 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
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (often attributive) A reference work.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
verb
noun
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
- (computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.
- (computer science) A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.
noun
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
- a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
- (programming) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.
noun
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
verb
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
noun
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- A person who lives in or near a given place.
- (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
adj
- (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- (algebra, of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_p (M_p) for all prime ideals p of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_m (M_m) for all maximal ideals m of R.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- From or in a nearby location.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
adv
noun
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
verb
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (cryptography) To encode.
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
noun
- A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
- A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
- A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
- A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
- A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
- One who scans.
- an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
- someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
- a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition
noun
name
- (historical, World War II) Initialism of Emergency Rescue Committee.
- Initialism of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (“Republican Left of Catalonia”).
- Initialism of European Rugby Cup.
- Initialism of Emacs Relay Chat.
- Initialism of European Rally Championship.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Energy Regulatory Commission.
noun
verb
verb
- use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
- get or gather together
- put together out of existing material
- (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
- (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
noun
verb
noun
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
adj
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
noun
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system