grep
greppable
packager
harvester
datafile
growl
glaum
grouting
input program
sort program
programmatic
search engine
generalized search tree
sorting program
viewer
rake
tar
hunt
crawl
hunt out
preprocessor
bootstrap
poke around
poke about
text editor
path
magic number
Rolodex
tracee
file manager
Bing
library program
cat
shortcut
boot up
load module
British Museum algorithm
data scraping
command-line interpreter
rootle
punch out
scout out
go
parser
downloader
text-matching
debugger
search-oriented architecture
variable
filer
metasearch
database
quickstart
red-black tree
Web spider
unzipper
booter
editor
bisect
swipe
user-defined function
debug
indagate
gratewise
programwide
diff
regrouting
screen-scrape
Gradgrindism
source control
interpreter
type
packet sniffer
recompiler
ripper
scope
skirr
cut through
Gradgrindish
executive program
showplan
boot loader
uploader
supervisory program
unshar
scraper
supervisor
finger
applicationwide
trawl
delve
family Tetraonidae
Tetraonidae
run one's name
greppable
programmatic
programwide
Gradgrindish
applicationwide
gratewise
programwide
packager
harvester
datafile
grouting
input program
sort program
search engine
generalized search tree
sorting program
viewer
tar
preprocessor
text editor
magic number
tracee
file manager
library program
cat
shortcut
load module
data scraping
command-line interpreter
parser
downloader
text-matching
debugger
search-oriented architecture
variable
filer
database
quickstart
red-black tree
path
Web spider
unzipper
booter
editor
user-defined function
regrouting
Gradgrindism
source control
interpreter
packet sniffer
recompiler
ripper
executive program
showplan
boot loader
uploader
supervisory program
scraper
supervisor
family Tetraonidae
Tetraonidae
grep
growl
glaum
rake
hunt
crawl
hunt out
bootstrap
poke around
poke about
path
Rolodex
Bing
boot up
rootle
punch out
scout out
go
metasearch
bisect
swipe
debug
indagate
screen-scrape
type
scope
skirr
cut through
unshar
finger
trawl
delve
run one's name
noun
- A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- finnock (a young sea trout)
- A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
verb
- To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To express (something) by growling.
noun
verb
- To search through (thoroughly).
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
noun
- A file produced by such a program.
- A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
- Black tar, a form of heroin.
- Coal tar.
verb
verb
- To try to find something; search (for).
- To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- To shift up and down in order regularly.
- To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
noun
verb
- To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- To swim using the crawl stroke.
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- To act in a servile manner.
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- Followed by with: see crawl with.
- To feel a swarming sensation.
noun
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- A very slow pace.
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
verb
- To employ a bootstrap method.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
noun
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
verb
- To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
- To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
noun
- A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- Pathology.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- A course taken.
- A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
noun
- A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
- The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
- A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
- The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 - W₁ - L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
- A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
- A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
- The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
verb
name
noun
- A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
- A prostitute.
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- A spiteful or angry woman.
- A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- An animal of the family Felidae
- Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- A person (usually male).
- Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
verb
- To go wandering at night.
- To vomit.
- To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
adj
noun
- A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.
- A keyboard shortcut: a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation.
- A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.
- A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.
verb
verb
- To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.
- To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically.
- To repeatedly hit a person.
- To hit a person so that they become unconscious (knocked out).
- To leave a workplace.
- To use a punch to remove a piece of material or to remove a piece already scored.
- To eject from an airplane.
- To leave a workplace by punching a timecard.
- To throw a called third strike.
noun
verb
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
noun
- A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
- A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- A variable star.
- A symbol representing a variable.
- Something that is variable.
- Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
- Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
adj
noun
- A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
- A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
- A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
- A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.
verb
noun
- A program or process that boots.
- The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
- A person who plays association football.
- A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standard operating system.
noun
- A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
- A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
- A person who edited a specific document.
- Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
- A copy editor.
- A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
- A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
verb
- To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
- To steal or snatch.
- To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
- To grab or bat quickly.
noun
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
noun
- A technology that handles access to computer files containing source code so that several users can work on the files without interfering with each other's changes.
- Measures applied to the source of an infection to reduce further contamination and spread.
- Measures applied to potentially-infected people that reduce their chances of infecting others.
noun
- A program that executes another program written in a high-level language by reading the instructions in real time rather than by compiling it in advance.
- A person who converts spoken or signed language into a different language for the benefit of one or more others who do not understand the first language being used (especially if in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating). (Contrasted with translator.)
- A guide who helps people visiting an attraction such as an art exhibit, a nature reserve, etc., understand what they are seeing.
- Something that reveals or clarifies.
- A person who interprets.
verb
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- To determine the blood type of.
- To categorize into types.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
noun
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- A blood group.
noun
- Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- Something that rips something else.
- Someone who rips something.
- A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- A foghorn.
adj
verb
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- To define the scope of something.
- To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- To examine under a microscope.
- To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
noun
- The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
- Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
- A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
noun
- A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
- A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.
- An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
- A hoe.
- One who scrapes horns.
- In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
- One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
- A tool used by engravers.
- An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
- One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
- An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
- A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
noun
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