English words for '(computing, programming) A set of software patches.'
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- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
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- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
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- (computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.
- Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
- A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal
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- (figurative, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
- The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
- (aviation) The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
- The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
- (uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
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- (computing) A set of software tools or components.
- A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
- (India, politics) A set of guidelines or instructions.
- (by extension) A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
- (India, politics, derogatory) A set of instructions that is used to organize a protest.
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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 software tool for designing things.
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- A plotter or schemer.
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- someone who specializes in graphic design
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- (computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.
- The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
- (law enforcement, usually attributive) Concerning prevailing conditions in public, such as cleanliness, safety, and the pleasantness of the surroundings or lack thereof.
- your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)
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- (computing) To write software programs.
- 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.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
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- 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.
- (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 coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
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- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
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- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- Something that is useful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
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- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
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- (computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution.
- Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads.
- A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.
- (marketing) An incentive given to a dealer.
- Ellipsis of backhoe loader
- a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
- an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
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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 develop (software) by writing program code.
- (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.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
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- (computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
- Formulaic or hackneyed language.
- Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
- (UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
- A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
- A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
- (journalism) Syndicated material.
- (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.
- thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
- standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
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- (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
- (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
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- (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- An important or main item.
- (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- (film) Ellipsis of feature film.
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
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- The process of writing computer software code.
- The process of encoding or decoding.
- (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of number coding.
- An encoding.
- An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
- (mathematics) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
- act of writing in code or cipher
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- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
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- simple past of overlie
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
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- (software) A rewriting of computer code to improve its readability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour, thus making it easier to maintain; a refactoring.
- (mathematics) A second or subsequent factorization.
- (linguistics) A false etymology derived from rebracketing.
- A split into constituent parts after a previous combination.
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- (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- (television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- (informal) Any minibeast.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- Any insect.
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- (Maine) A lobster.
- (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- (printing) Synonym of union bug.
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
- (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- (chiefly LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
- insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
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- (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
- (informal, transitive) To annoy.
- (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- annoy persistently
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- (computing) A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
- A device that analyzes something and builds up a profile.
- A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
- A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
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- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
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- (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
- (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
- (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
- A translation from one language to another.
- (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
- A specific form or variation of something.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- something a little different from others of the same type
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
- manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
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- (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law) Child support.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
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- (transitive, computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
- (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
- (transitive, fandom slang) To win (or to be able to win) a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.
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- (climbing) A difficult route.
- (computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.
- (slang) Clipping of difference
- (video games, slang) Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.
- (mathematics) Clipping of differential
- (automotive) Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
- (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
- (fandom slang) Clipping of difficulty.
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- (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.
- (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
- A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
- A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
- (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
- A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
- a matching set of furniture
- a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
- the group following and attending to some important person
- apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
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- (computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.
- Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
- A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal
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- (computing) A set of software tools or components.
- A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
- (India, politics) A set of guidelines or instructions.
- (by extension) A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
- (India, politics, derogatory) A set of instructions that is used to organize a protest.
noun
- (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 software tool for designing things.
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- A plotter or schemer.
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- someone who specializes in graphic design
adj
noun
- (computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.
- The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
- (law enforcement, usually attributive) Concerning prevailing conditions in public, such as cleanliness, safety, and the pleasantness of the surroundings or lack thereof.
- your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)
noun
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
noun
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- Something that is useful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
adj
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
noun
- (computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution.
- Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads.
- A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.
- (marketing) An incentive given to a dealer.
- Ellipsis of backhoe loader
- a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
- an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
noun
- (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
verb
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- (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.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
noun
- (computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
- Formulaic or hackneyed language.
- Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
- (UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
- A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
- A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
- (journalism) Syndicated material.
- (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.
- thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
- standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
adj
verb
noun
- (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
- (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
verb
noun
- (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- An important or main item.
- (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- (film) Ellipsis of feature film.
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
verb
noun
- The process of writing computer software code.
- The process of encoding or decoding.
- (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of number coding.
- An encoding.
- An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
- (mathematics) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
- act of writing in code or cipher
adj
verb
noun
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- simple past of overlie
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
verb
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
noun
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
intj
noun
- (software) A rewriting of computer code to improve its readability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour, thus making it easier to maintain; a refactoring.
- (mathematics) A second or subsequent factorization.
- (linguistics) A false etymology derived from rebracketing.
- A split into constituent parts after a previous combination.
noun
- (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- (television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- (informal) Any minibeast.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- Any insect.
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- (Maine) A lobster.
- (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- (printing) Synonym of union bug.
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
- (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- (chiefly LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
- insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
verb
- (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
- (informal, transitive) To annoy.
- (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- annoy persistently
noun
- (computing) A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
- A device that analyzes something and builds up a profile.
- A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
- A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
noun
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
noun
- (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
- (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
- (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
- A translation from one language to another.
- (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
- A specific form or variation of something.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- something a little different from others of the same type
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
- manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
verb
noun
- (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law) Child support.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
noun
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.
- (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
- A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
- A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
- (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
- A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
- a matching set of furniture
- a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
- the group following and attending to some important person
- apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
verb
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
noun
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
intj
verb
noun
- (figurative, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
- The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
- (aviation) The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
- The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
- (uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (computing) To write software programs.
- 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.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
noun
- 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.
- (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 coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
noun
- (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
verb
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- (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.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
verb
- (transitive, computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
- (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
- (transitive, fandom slang) To win (or to be able to win) a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.
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noun
- (climbing) A difficult route.
- (computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.
- (slang) Clipping of difference
- (video games, slang) Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.
- (mathematics) Clipping of differential
- (automotive) Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
- (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
- (fandom slang) Clipping of difficulty.
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