English words for 'The use of a buffer.'
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verb
- To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
- add a buffer (a solution)
- (transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
- (video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
- (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
- protect from impact
adj
noun
- (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- (computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- (finance) A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
- (rail transport) The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
- (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
- (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- (mechanics) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
- a power tool used to buff surfaces
- (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
- an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
- (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
noun
- (computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
- A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
verb
verb
noun
- (mineralogy) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.
- (colloquial, attributive) The supposed material composing part of the body that is impervious to heat, or by extension other unpleasant sensations; especially hot or spicy food.
- (mineralogy) Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms
- a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
- (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- (public transport) A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.
- (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
- (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- any of several small Old World finches
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a female singer
- a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
adj
verb
noun
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
verb
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
verb
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
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adv
noun
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
noun
- (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
- (geology) An area of more or less uniform mineralization.
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
- (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
- A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
- (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- (more generally, of a binary relation R between A and B) The set A; The subset of A consisting of elements a of A such that there exists an element b in B with (a,b) in R.
- A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
- (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
- (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
- (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
- (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.
- (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
- (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
- the content of a particular field of knowledge
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
- a particular environment or walk of life
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
verb
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
noun
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adv
verb
verb
- (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
- (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.
- (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
- (transitive) To imitate.
- (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
- reproduce someone's behavior or looks
- reproduce or make an exact copy of
- make a replica of
- copy down as is
noun
- (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
- A particular instance of an issue of a periodical (e.g., magazine, journal, bulletin): a single printed impression or digital file representing that issue; (metonynmically) the issue.
- (journalism) A person employed to carry copy and run errands.
- An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
- (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
- A particular instance of a book: a single printed impression or digital file representing it.
- (uncountable) The text to be set into newspaper articles, magazine pages, or similar.
- (typography, journalism, publishing) The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
- The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
- A schoolwork pad or workbook.
- a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)
- material suitable for a journalistic account
- matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials
- a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing
noun
- (computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
- A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
- (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- (public transport) A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.
- (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
- (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- any of several small Old World finches
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a female singer
- a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
adj
verb
noun
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
verb
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
verb
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
- (geology) An area of more or less uniform mineralization.
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
- (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
- A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
- (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- (more generally, of a binary relation R between A and B) The set A; The subset of A consisting of elements a of A such that there exists an element b in B with (a,b) in R.
- A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
- (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
- (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
- (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
- (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.
- (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
- (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
- the content of a particular field of knowledge
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
- a particular environment or walk of life
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
noun
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adv
verb
verb
- To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
- add a buffer (a solution)
- (transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
- (video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
- (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
- protect from impact
adj
noun
- (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- (computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- (finance) A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
- (rail transport) The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
- (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
- (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- (mechanics) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
- a power tool used to buff surfaces
- (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
- an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
- (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
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noun
- (mineralogy) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.
- (colloquial, attributive) The supposed material composing part of the body that is impervious to heat, or by extension other unpleasant sensations; especially hot or spicy food.
- (mineralogy) Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms
- a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
verb
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
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verb
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
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- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
- (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.
- (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
- (transitive) To imitate.
- (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
- reproduce someone's behavior or looks
- reproduce or make an exact copy of
- make a replica of
- copy down as is
noun
- (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
- A particular instance of an issue of a periodical (e.g., magazine, journal, bulletin): a single printed impression or digital file representing that issue; (metonynmically) the issue.
- (journalism) A person employed to carry copy and run errands.
- An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
- (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
- A particular instance of a book: a single printed impression or digital file representing it.
- (uncountable) The text to be set into newspaper articles, magazine pages, or similar.
- (typography, journalism, publishing) The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
- The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
- A schoolwork pad or workbook.
- a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)
- material suitable for a journalistic account
- matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials
- a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing
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