English words for '(databases) A process or algorithm that denormalizes.'
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noun
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
name
verb
- (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
- (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
- (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
- (mathematics, transitive) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- (mathematics, transitive) To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum.
- become normal or return to its normal state
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
noun
- (databases) A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.
- (economics, political science) A set of ideas to explain the inequalities between developed countries and developing countries, originally conceived in the context of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, stressing the interdependence of those countries in a capitalist global economy.
noun
- (databases) Initialism of database.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined benefits.
- (US, military) Initialism of depot brigade.
- (television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.
- (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
- (cricket) Initialism of dot ball.
- Initialism of diplomatic bag.
- Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of dead body.
name
- (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
- (in place name histories) Initialism of Domesday Book.
- (stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
- (classics) Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
verb
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
adj
noun
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- One who scrubs.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
noun
- (databases) Initialism of database analyst.
- Initialism of dibenzylideneacetone.
- Initialism of daily benefit amount.
- (databases) Initialism of database administrator.
- (business) Initialism of doctorate of business administration.
- (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
phrase
noun
name
noun
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- the finger next to the thumb
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
verb
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
- To measure by an associated value.
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
- (mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.
- adjust through indexation
- list in an index
- provide with an index
noun
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- The plant chard.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
verb
noun
- (uncountable, databases) Initialism of Database Management System.
- (uncountable, telephony, rare) Initialism of Donors Message Service.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of DiMethyl Sulfide.
- (countable, military) Initialism of Destroyer MineSweeper.
- (uncountable, telephony) Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.
- (uncountable, automotive) Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of Document Management System.
- (uncountable, geometry) Initialism of Degree-Minute-Second (a method of writing angles).
- (uncountable, material science) Initialism of Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy.
name
noun
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indirect suggestion
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
intj
verb
noun
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
noun
- (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- (grammar) An argument whose semantic role determines the choice of a verbal affix, in certain Austronesian languages.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
- (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- (music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon).
- (intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.
- (transitive) To cause, to precipitate, to bring (something) about in response or as a result.
- (transitive, figurative) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (a person).
- release or pull the trigger on
- put in motion or move to act
noun
- (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- Something which is real.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
- a concept whose truth can be proved
- a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- an event known to have happened or something known to have existed
intj
noun
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
- The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
- A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
- (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
- (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
- an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
- a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
verb
noun
- (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
- (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
- (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
- a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
- the way two individuals relate to each other
verb
- (transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
- (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- (transitive) To experience.
- (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
- (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
- (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- know how to do or perform something
- be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- perceive as familiar
- know the nature or character of
- accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
- have sexual intercourse with
- have fixed in the mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
- be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
noun
particle
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
- (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- (intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
- come into being; become reality
noun
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
- (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
- A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
- (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
verb
noun
- (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
- (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
- (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
verb
- (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
- (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
- engage in or perform
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- make a set of changes permanent
- make an investment
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- confer a trust upon
noun
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
name
noun
- (databases) A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.
- (economics, political science) A set of ideas to explain the inequalities between developed countries and developing countries, originally conceived in the context of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, stressing the interdependence of those countries in a capitalist global economy.
noun
- (databases) Initialism of database.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined benefits.
- (US, military) Initialism of depot brigade.
- (television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.
- (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
- (cricket) Initialism of dot ball.
- Initialism of diplomatic bag.
- Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of dead body.
name
- (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
- (in place name histories) Initialism of Domesday Book.
- (stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
- (classics) Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
noun
- (databases) Initialism of database analyst.
- Initialism of dibenzylideneacetone.
- Initialism of daily benefit amount.
- (databases) Initialism of database administrator.
- (business) Initialism of doctorate of business administration.
- (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
phrase
noun
name
noun
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- the finger next to the thumb
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
verb
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
- To measure by an associated value.
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
- (mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.
- adjust through indexation
- list in an index
- provide with an index
noun
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- The plant chard.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
verb
noun
- (uncountable, databases) Initialism of Database Management System.
- (uncountable, telephony, rare) Initialism of Donors Message Service.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of DiMethyl Sulfide.
- (countable, military) Initialism of Destroyer MineSweeper.
- (uncountable, telephony) Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.
- (uncountable, automotive) Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of Document Management System.
- (uncountable, geometry) Initialism of Degree-Minute-Second (a method of writing angles).
- (uncountable, material science) Initialism of Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy.
name
noun
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indirect suggestion
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
intj
verb
noun
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
noun
- (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- (grammar) An argument whose semantic role determines the choice of a verbal affix, in certain Austronesian languages.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
- (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- (music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon).
- (intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.
- (transitive) To cause, to precipitate, to bring (something) about in response or as a result.
- (transitive, figurative) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (a person).
- release or pull the trigger on
- put in motion or move to act
noun
- (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- Something which is real.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
- a concept whose truth can be proved
- a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- an event known to have happened or something known to have existed
intj
noun
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
- The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
- A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
- (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
- (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
- an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
- a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
verb
noun
- (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
- (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
- (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
- a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
- the way two individuals relate to each other
noun
adj
noun
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
- (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
- A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
- (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
verb
noun
- (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
- (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
- (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
verb
- (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
- (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
- engage in or perform
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- make a set of changes permanent
- make an investment
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- confer a trust upon
verb
- (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
- (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
- (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
- (mathematics, transitive) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- (mathematics, transitive) To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum.
- become normal or return to its normal state
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
verb
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
adj
noun
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- One who scrubs.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
verb
- (transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
- (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- (transitive) To experience.
- (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
- (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
- (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- know how to do or perform something
- be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- perceive as familiar
- know the nature or character of
- accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
- have sexual intercourse with
- have fixed in the mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
- be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
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particle
verb
- (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
- (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- (intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
- come into being; become reality
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