English words for '(development, software) Alternative spelling of software lifecycle.'
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noun
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- Abbreviation of software.
- (electronics) Initialism of short wave.
- Initialism of social work.
- Initialism of search warrant.
- Initialism of street workout.
- Initialism of sex worker.
- Initialism of start weight.
- Initialism of sex work.
- Initialism of southwest.
- the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
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name
verb
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- (pathology) Initialism of progressive supranuclear palsy.
- (biochemistry, organic chemistry) Initialism of phenolsulfonphthalein.
- (video games) Initialism of PlayStation Portable.
- (online retail) Initialism of pre-shipment photo.
- (computing) Initialism of Program Segment Prefix.
- (physiology) Initialism of postsynaptic potential.
adj
- (software) Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- (figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- (biology) Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- (computer networking) In the direction from the client to the server.
- (oil industry) Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- in the direction against a stream's current
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verb
name
- (software, computing) Initialism of Computer Associates, an American software company.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of Classical Arabic
- (Canadian politics) Initialism of Canadian Alliance, Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, Reform-Conservative Alliance Party.
- Abbreviation of Canada: a country in North America.
- Abbreviation of California: a state of the United States.
- (sports, cricket) Abbreviation of Cricket Australia, the governing body of cricket in Australia.
- (Philippines) Abbreviation of Clark Airbase.
- (Philippines) Abbreviation of Commission on Appointments.
noun
- (computing) Initialism of certificate authority.
- (US, nautical) Initialism of armored cruiser, a type of warship.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of cyanoacrylate.
- (UK, law) Initialism of Companies Act.
- (TTY/TDD) Initialism of communications assistant.
- Initialism of central authority.
- (cellular automata) Initialism of cellular automaton.
- (linguistics, uncountable) Initialism of conversation analysis.
- Initialism of closed access, as opposed to open access.
- (Japan) Initialism of cabin attendant.
- (US, nautical) Initialism of heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship.
- (Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, accounting) Initialism of chartered accountant.
- (US, military) Initialism of civil affairs, a military occupational specialty or branch.
noun
- (software engineering, in compounds) A design pattern.
- (Singapore, informal) A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
- (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
- (computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
- A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
- (cellular automata) A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe.
- The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
- A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
- (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
- (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
- A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
- (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
- A representative example.
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
- (Ireland, Roman Catholicism) The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
- (MLE) Any arrangement or agreement, or way of conducting business.
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
- the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
- a decorative or artistic work
- a model considered worthy of imitation
- a perceptual structure
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- something regarded as a normative example
adj
verb
- To assault.
- (transitive) To serve as an example for.
- To have sex with.
- To teach someone a lesson.
- (hunting, transitive) To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
- To do or perform an activity
- To follow an example.
- To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
- To fit into a pattern.
- To apply a pattern.
- (MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.
- To arrange the sale or supply of something, especially illegal drugs.
- form a pattern
- plan or create according to a model or models
name
- (software) Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
- (software) Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
- Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
- Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
- (software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
- Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
noun
- (business) Initialism of professional engineer.
- (business, law) Initialism of permanent establishment.
- (electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyethylene.
- (education) Initialism of preliminary examination.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyether.
- (medicine) Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
- (finance) Initialism of private equity.
- (medicine) Initialism of premature ejaculation.
- (education) Initialism of physical education.
noun
- (software engineering) A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
- (software engineering) A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
- (engineering, generally) A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.
noun
- (software engineering) Initialism of business-driven development.
- (computing theory) Initialism of binary decision diagram.
- (medicine) Initialism of body dysmorphic disorder.
- (numerical analysis) Initialism of balancing domain decomposition.
- (software engineering) Initialism of behavior-driven development.
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
- (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.
- (computing) A computer program.
- 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
noun
adj
- (chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
- Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; loose-jointed.
- Characterised by quick motion.
- moving quickly and lightly
- mentally quick
noun
- (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
- A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.
- An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
- a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
adj
- Of or relating to an epic.
- (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
- (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
- Extremely impressive or remarkable.
- Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
- constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic
- very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
verb
noun
noun
- (computing) A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
- (dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
- A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
- A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
- A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
- someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)
- photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film
phrase
name
noun
- (software) A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- (statistics, computing) An adjustment of parametres in a model, or the rule by which they are adjusted.
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
- An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
- information or data that updates
- the act of bringing someone or something up to date
verb
adj
- (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- (engineering) Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- Of or resembling a monolith.
- characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity
noun
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
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noun
noun
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- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
- to distribute systematically or strategically
noun
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- a conventional or formulaic conception or image
adj
verb
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
noun
- (business, software) Initialism of independent software vendor (organization specializing in making and selling software; a software publisher)
- (military) Initialism of infantry squad vehicle An unarmored wheeled troop transport land vehicle
- (linguistics, lexicography) Initialism of international scientific vocabulary.
name
noun
- (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- (databases) A primary key.
- (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it
noun
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- Abbreviation of software.
- (electronics) Initialism of short wave.
- Initialism of social work.
- Initialism of search warrant.
- Initialism of street workout.
- Initialism of sex worker.
- Initialism of start weight.
- Initialism of sex work.
- Initialism of southwest.
- the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
adj
name
verb
noun
- (software engineering, in compounds) A design pattern.
- (Singapore, informal) A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
- (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
- (computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
- A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
- (cellular automata) A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe.
- The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
- A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
- (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
- (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
- A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
- (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
- A representative example.
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
- (Ireland, Roman Catholicism) The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
- (MLE) Any arrangement or agreement, or way of conducting business.
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
- the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
- a decorative or artistic work
- a model considered worthy of imitation
- a perceptual structure
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- something regarded as a normative example
adj
verb
- To assault.
- (transitive) To serve as an example for.
- To have sex with.
- To teach someone a lesson.
- (hunting, transitive) To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
- To do or perform an activity
- To follow an example.
- To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
- To fit into a pattern.
- To apply a pattern.
- (MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.
- To arrange the sale or supply of something, especially illegal drugs.
- form a pattern
- plan or create according to a model or models
noun
- (software engineering) A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
- (software engineering) A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
- (engineering, generally) A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.
noun
- (software engineering) Initialism of business-driven development.
- (computing theory) Initialism of binary decision diagram.
- (medicine) Initialism of body dysmorphic disorder.
- (numerical analysis) Initialism of balancing domain decomposition.
- (software engineering) Initialism of behavior-driven development.
noun
adj
- (chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
- Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; loose-jointed.
- Characterised by quick motion.
- moving quickly and lightly
- mentally quick
noun
- (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
- A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.
- An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
- a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
adj
- Of or relating to an epic.
- (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
- (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
- Extremely impressive or remarkable.
- Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
- constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic
- very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
noun
- (computing) A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
- (dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
- A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
- A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
- A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
- someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)
- photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film
noun
- (software) A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- (statistics, computing) An adjustment of parametres in a model, or the rule by which they are adjusted.
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
- An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
- information or data that updates
- the act of bringing someone or something up to date
verb
noun
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
- to distribute systematically or strategically
noun
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- a conventional or formulaic conception or image
adj
verb
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
noun
- (business, software) Initialism of independent software vendor (organization specializing in making and selling software; a software publisher)
- (military) Initialism of infantry squad vehicle An unarmored wheeled troop transport land vehicle
- (linguistics, lexicography) Initialism of international scientific vocabulary.
name
noun
- (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- (databases) A primary key.
- (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it
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
- (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.
- (computing) A computer program.
- 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
noun
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
verb
noun
adj
- (software) Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- (figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- (biology) Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- (computer networking) In the direction from the client to the server.
- (oil industry) Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- in the direction against a stream's current
adv
noun
verb
adj
- (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- (engineering) Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- Of or resembling a monolith.
- characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity