shingle
shingling
cylinder
file
diskspace
swap space
IOPS
floppy disk
burn
overhead
WORM drive
disk overhead
extent
stripe
paging file
mass storage
multidisk
shunt
head
auto-tiering
table of contents
file system
repartition
mothball
formatted capacity
swap file
drive
redundant array of independent disks
volume
unformatted capacity
secondary memory
longitudinal recording
auxiliary storage
dirty
sector
storage
prestorage
save
defragment
interleave
subcode
wear leveling
microdrive
file allocation table
SuperDisk
scratchpad
file shredder
interdisk
streaming
disk pack
Zip drive
uncompact
computer system
disc pack
partition
automatic data processing system
computing system
tier
ADPS
ADP system
bpi
streamer
load
filespace
bits per inch
hammerspace
disky
fragmentation
cluster
CD-ROM
capacity
extended memory
storage medium
solid-state drive
tiling
hard-sectored
MiniDisc
disk drive
page out
compact disc recordable
stockpile
autoloader
CD-R
compact disc write-once
CD-WO
characters per inch
responsive
platter
halfword
expansion slot
soft-sectored
initialisation
footprint
sequential file
multidisk
dirty
prestorage
interdisk
streaming
disky
hard-sectored
responsive
soft-sectored
shingling
cylinder
diskspace
swap space
IOPS
floppy disk
overhead
WORM drive
disk overhead
extent
paging file
mass storage
burn
head
auto-tiering
table of contents
file system
repartition
formatted capacity
swap file
drive
redundant array of independent disks
volume
unformatted capacity
secondary memory
longitudinal recording
auxiliary storage
sector
storage
subcode
wear leveling
microdrive
file allocation table
SuperDisk
scratchpad
file shredder
disk pack
Zip drive
computer system
disc pack
partition
automatic data processing system
computing system
ADPS
ADP system
bpi
streamer
filespace
bits per inch
hammerspace
fragmentation
cluster
CD-ROM
capacity
extended memory
storage medium
solid-state drive
tiling
stripe
MiniDisc
disk drive
compact disc recordable
stockpile
autoloader
CD-R
compact disc write-once
CD-WO
characters per inch
platter
halfword
expansion slot
initialisation
footprint
sequential file
shingle
file
burn
stripe
shunt
mothball
save
defragment
interleave
uncompact
tier
load
page out
verb
- To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- To beat with a shingle.
noun
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
noun
noun
- The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
verb
verb
- To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- To submit a formal request to some office.
- To corrupt.
- To commit (official papers) to some office.
- To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- To move in a file.
- To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
noun
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
- Course of thought; thread of narration.
- A roll or list.
- An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A small detachment of soldiers.
verb
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To discard.
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
noun
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A stream.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
noun
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
adj
adv
noun
- A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- A former tent; something (or someone) that was a tent but no longer is
- The valuation of property.
- A range of values or locations.
- The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
- A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
verb
- To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- To lash with a whip or strap.
- To mark with stripes.
noun
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- The start/finish line.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
verb
- To move data in memory to a physical disk.
- To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
- To divert the flow of a body fluid.
- To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
- To provide with a shunt.
- To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
- To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
noun
- A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
- An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
- An abnormal passage between body channels.
- The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
- A minor collision between vehicles.
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
noun
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- Desire or interest.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- A driveway.
- A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A straight level shot or pass.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- A type of public roadway.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
verb
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To move forcefully.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To operate (an aircraft).
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To cause to become.
- To compel (to do something).
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
- An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- Quantity.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- A bound book.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
verb
adj
- Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- Out of tune.
- Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
adv
verb
noun
- fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
- section
- a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- a field of economic activity
- A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector
- an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
- zone (designated area).
- one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
- an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
verb
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
conj
prep
adj
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- 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.
- A musical score.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- A part of something that has been divided.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- 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).
verb
noun
- A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- Any mechanism for streaming data.
- A subscription streaming service.
- A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
verb
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- To provide in abundance.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To receive a load.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- to top up or purchase phone credits
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
- To put a load on something.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
noun
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- The viral load
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- prepaid phone credit
- The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- A large number or amount.
- The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
noun
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A group of computers that work together.
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- A clusterfuck.
- A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- A group of consonants.
- A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- A secundal chord of three or more notes.
verb
noun
- (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive
- capability to perform or produce
- the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
- the amount that can be contained
- the maximum production possible
- a specified function
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
- tolerance for alcohol
noun
- A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.
- A mechanical device that loads ordnance into weapons such as tanks and artillery that would otherwise be loaded by a dedicated crew.
- A software mechanism that automatically locates and loads classes etc. as required at run time.
- A semi-automatic firearm.
noun
- A unit of measurement of the number of characters per inch ("linear packing density") when storing data on certain types of magnetic media or tape, used to measure storage density that the encoding medium possesses.
- A unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to specify font sizes that have the same width for each character (monospaced), however it may also be used to give an average for fonts with characters of varying widths.
noun
- The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- A polygon representing the shape of an item.
- The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
- Availability of a satellite from the ground.
- Profession or lifestyle.
- The surface space occupied by a structure.
- The audit trail left by a crashed program.
- Space required by a piece of equipment.
- The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.
- A company's geographic market presence.
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