English words for '(computing) A variable used to configure the operating system environment.'
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noun
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
- (computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- the totality of surrounding conditions
- the area in which something exists or lives
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- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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- (computing) A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software.
- the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system
- A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- (politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
- (transport) A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
- (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
- (footwear, in the plural) Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).
- (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of car platform (“a set of components shared by several vehicle models”).
- (Myanmar) A sidewalk.
- A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
- (figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
- (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
- (Internet) A software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, or cloud computing.
- a raised horizontal surface
- a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
- a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
- any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
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- (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.
- (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
- (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
- (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
- (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
- (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
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- (computing) A particular invocation of an operating-system-provided system-call function.
- (computing) A function provided by an operating system to allow userspace programs access to privileged features, such as accessing the system's hardware.
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor
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- (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
- The Universe.
- A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
- (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
- (with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
- (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
- A very large extent of country.
- (by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
- An individual or group perspective or social setting.
- In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
- (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
- (countable) (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
- (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
- (informal) A great amount, a lot.
- (with "a") Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
- (metonymic, with "the") A majority of people.
- (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
- everything that exists anywhere
- people in general considered as a whole
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- a part of the earth that can be considered separately
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
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- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- to distribute systematically or strategically
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- (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- (databases) A primary key.
- (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it
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- (computing) A software component designed to support the execution of computer programs.
- (computing) The amount of time during which a program is executing.
- (computing) The stage during which a program is executing.
- (media) The length of a film, television program or audio track in minutes, usually with end credits included
noun
- (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- A waitress or waiter.
- A tray for dishes.
- (tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.
- (Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- A spoon for serving food.
- (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- (social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- (court games) the player who serves to start a point
- utensil used in serving food or drink
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
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- (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- Belonging to one by birth.
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
- (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- as found in nature in the elemental form
- characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
- characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
- belonging to one by birth
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- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
- (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
- A native speaker.
- A native plant or animal.
- a person born in a particular place or country
- indigenous plants and animals
- an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
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- (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
- The place where something happens.
- (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
- the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
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- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
- A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
- A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
- a standard by which something can be measured or judged
- a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
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- (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- (multiplicity) A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
- A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
- (politics) A socioeconomic formation.
- (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- (derogatory, preceded by the, often capitalized) The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- (astronomy) A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.
- (roleplaying games) A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
- (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- (countable, uncountable) A method or way of organizing or planning.
- (philosophy) A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
- a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
- the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
- instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
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- (computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.
- (law) Initialism of proof of service.
- (vulgar, of a person or thing) Initialism of piece of shit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
- Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
- (retail) Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
- (linguistics) Initialism of part of speech.
- (navigation, aviation) Initialism of position and orientation system.
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- (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
- The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
- Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
- (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated
- A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
- (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
- an electronic memory device
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- something that is remembered
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
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- (slang) Computing.
- (chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
- Abbreviation of silicon chip.
- (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
- (slang) A computer processor.
- a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
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- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
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- (computing) A computer program.
- (politics) A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
- (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- a radio or television show
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- an integrated course of academic studies
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
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- (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
- (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
- (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
- (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
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- (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- A command performance.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- An order to do something.
- (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- the power or authority to command
- availability for use
- a position of highest authority
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- (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
- (ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- (ambitransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- look down on
- make someone do something
- demand as one's due
- be in command of
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- a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
- a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
- a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
- a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
- nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- street names for cocaine
- ten 10s
- (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
- (slang) Cocaine.
- Abbreviation of consonant.
- (US, slang) One hundred dollars; a c-note.
- (slang, vulgar) Cunt.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of center.
- Abbreviation of century.
- (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
- (education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
- (entomology) Abbreviation of costa.
- (UK politics, in election results) Abbreviation of Conservative.
- (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
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- (computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
- (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel of a locomotive.
- A mallet.
- A person who drives livestock: a drover.
- A tamping iron.
- Something that drives something else.
- (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
- (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- (engineering) Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
- (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- (nautical) A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- One who drives something.
- A factor contributing to something; a cause.
- A screwdriver, a nutdriver, or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetters.
- the operator of a motor vehicle
- a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
- a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
- someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
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- (computing) A desktop computer.
- (computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.
- The top surface of a desk.
- (computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
- (computing, graphical user interface, synecdochic) The wallpaper of this interface.
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- the top of a desk
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- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
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- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
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- (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- (by extension) To build or put together (something) by first building or putting together the tools, building blocks, ideas, etc., necessary to build (the thing).
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program.
- help oneself, often through improvised means
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- (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- (figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on
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- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
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- (computing, operating systems) A general purpose programming language and operating system descended from Modula-2, developed in the late 1980s.
- A minor city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.
- A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- (astronomy, moons) The outermost major moon of Uranus.
- A town and local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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- (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
- (UK, education, historical) One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
- (British) A wet-cell storage battery.
- (cryptography) A one way membership function.
- (literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.
- (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
- (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
- (finance) A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price, which the buyer is obligated to buy.
- (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
- (engineering, hydraulics) A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).
- a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
- (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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- (computing, figurative) A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
- (now historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
- A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
- (Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
- A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
- An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
- A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
- a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
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- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
- (computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- the totality of surrounding conditions
- the area in which something exists or lives
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- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
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- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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- (computing) A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software.
- the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system
- A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- (politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
- (transport) A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
- (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
- (footwear, in the plural) Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).
- (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of car platform (“a set of components shared by several vehicle models”).
- (Myanmar) A sidewalk.
- A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
- (figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
- (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
- (Internet) A software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, or cloud computing.
- a raised horizontal surface
- a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
- a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
- any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
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- (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.
- (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
- (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
- (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
- (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
- (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
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- (computing) A particular invocation of an operating-system-provided system-call function.
- (computing) A function provided by an operating system to allow userspace programs access to privileged features, such as accessing the system's hardware.
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor
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- (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
- The Universe.
- A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
- (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
- (with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
- (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
- A very large extent of country.
- (by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
- An individual or group perspective or social setting.
- In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
- (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
- (countable) (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
- (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
- (informal) A great amount, a lot.
- (with "a") Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
- (metonymic, with "the") A majority of people.
- (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
- everything that exists anywhere
- people in general considered as a whole
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- a part of the earth that can be considered separately
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
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- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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- (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- (databases) A primary key.
- (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it
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- (computing) A software component designed to support the execution of computer programs.
- (computing) The amount of time during which a program is executing.
- (computing) The stage during which a program is executing.
- (media) The length of a film, television program or audio track in minutes, usually with end credits included
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- (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- A waitress or waiter.
- A tray for dishes.
- (tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.
- (Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- A spoon for serving food.
- (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- (social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- (court games) the player who serves to start a point
- utensil used in serving food or drink
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
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- (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
- The place where something happens.
- (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
- the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
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- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
- A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
- A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
- a standard by which something can be measured or judged
- a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
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- (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- (multiplicity) A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
- A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
- (politics) A socioeconomic formation.
- (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- (derogatory, preceded by the, often capitalized) The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- (astronomy) A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.
- (roleplaying games) A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
- (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- (countable, uncountable) A method or way of organizing or planning.
- (philosophy) A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
- a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
- the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
- instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
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- (computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.
- (law) Initialism of proof of service.
- (vulgar, of a person or thing) Initialism of piece of shit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
- Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
- (retail) Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
- (linguistics) Initialism of part of speech.
- (navigation, aviation) Initialism of position and orientation system.
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- (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
- The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
- Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
- (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated
- A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
- (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
- an electronic memory device
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- something that is remembered
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
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- (slang) Computing.
- (chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
- Abbreviation of silicon chip.
- (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
- (slang) A computer processor.
- a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
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- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
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- (computing) A computer program.
- (politics) A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
- (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- a radio or television show
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- an integrated course of academic studies
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
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- (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
- (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
- (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
- (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
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- (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- A command performance.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- An order to do something.
- (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- the power or authority to command
- availability for use
- a position of highest authority
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- (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
- (ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- (ambitransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- look down on
- make someone do something
- demand as one's due
- be in command of
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- a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
- a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
- a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
- a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
- nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- street names for cocaine
- ten 10s
- (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
- (slang) Cocaine.
- Abbreviation of consonant.
- (US, slang) One hundred dollars; a c-note.
- (slang, vulgar) Cunt.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of center.
- Abbreviation of century.
- (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
- (education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
- (entomology) Abbreviation of costa.
- (UK politics, in election results) Abbreviation of Conservative.
- (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
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- (computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
- (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel of a locomotive.
- A mallet.
- A person who drives livestock: a drover.
- A tamping iron.
- Something that drives something else.
- (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
- (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- (engineering) Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
- (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- (nautical) A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- One who drives something.
- A factor contributing to something; a cause.
- A screwdriver, a nutdriver, or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetters.
- the operator of a motor vehicle
- a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
- a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
- someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
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- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
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- (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
- (UK, education, historical) One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
- (British) A wet-cell storage battery.
- (cryptography) A one way membership function.
- (literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.
- (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
- (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
- (finance) A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price, which the buyer is obligated to buy.
- (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
- (engineering, hydraulics) A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).
- a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
- (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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- (computing, figurative) A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
- (now historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
- A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
- (Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
- A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
- An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
- A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
- a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
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- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- to distribute systematically or strategically
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- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
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- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
verb
- (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- (by extension) To build or put together (something) by first building or putting together the tools, building blocks, ideas, etc., necessary to build (the thing).
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program.
- help oneself, often through improvised means
noun
- (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- (figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on
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adj
- (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- Belonging to one by birth.
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
- (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- as found in nature in the elemental form
- characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
- characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
- belonging to one by birth
noun
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
- (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
- A native speaker.
- A native plant or animal.
- a person born in a particular place or country
- indigenous plants and animals
- an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
adj
noun
- (computing) A desktop computer.
- (computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.
- The top surface of a desk.
- (computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
- (computing, graphical user interface, synecdochic) The wallpaper of this interface.
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- the top of a desk