port
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crossgrade
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mangle
adjustable wrench
adjustable spanner
canary
conversion
convertible
nop
backport
emulate
patch
paravirtualize
rewire
reprogrammable
change over
build up
switching
develop
retro-engineer
hijack
import
remodify
freakish
zhng
customize
capricious
tunable
version
interapplication
repurpose
remix
retrofit
binary-compatible
framework
commit
multiprogrammable
app
elision
program optimization
program optimisation
switch
redaction
software optimisation
bisect
check in
puppetize
sidegrade
software optimization
breaking change
lift and shift
adjust
enabled
tailorable
make
alter or change
reprogram
hookable
misapplication
metatool
rototill
text hooker
hard-wire
nonlinear editing
differentiate
obfuscator
scripting language
turn back
tivoization
edit
changeset
versionize
reference implementation
devkit
reverse-engineer
roll
software state
translate
version control
code-mix
sculpt
cross compiler
script editor
preconfigure
compile
redistributable
refresh
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reprogrammable
freakish
capricious
interapplication
binary-compatible
multiprogrammable
enabled
tailorable
hookable
softmod
reprogramming
compatible software
fork
crossgrade
port
migration
adjustable wrench
adjustable spanner
conversion
switching
tunable
version
retrofit
framework
app
elision
program optimization
program optimisation
redaction
software optimisation
software optimization
breaking change
lift and shift
make
misapplication
metatool
text hooker
nonlinear editing
obfuscator
scripting language
tivoization
edit
changeset
reference implementation
devkit
software state
version control
sculpt
cross compiler
script editor
redistributable
port
softmod
convert
crossgrade
re-engineer
mangle
fork
canary
nop
backport
emulate
patch
paravirtualize
rewire
change over
build up
develop
retro-engineer
hijack
import
remodify
zhng
customize
repurpose
remix
commit
switch
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sidegrade
adjust
alter or change
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rototill
hard-wire
differentiate
turn back
edit
versionize
reverse-engineer
roll
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preconfigure
compile
refresh
verb
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship
- bring to port
- land at or reach a port
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
- carry, bear, convey, or bring
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
- drink port
adj
noun
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
verb
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- To score a spare.
- To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- To become converted.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- To exchange for something of equal value.
noun
noun
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- A decision point.
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
noun
- Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
- The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
- Movement in general.
- Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
- An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
verb
- to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
- to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
noun
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
- A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- 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.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
adj
noun
- A software product converted from one platform to another.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
verb
- To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.
- To retroactively supply to (a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
- To retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
noun
verb
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
noun
- A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
verb
- change the use of and make available or usable
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- generate gradually
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- happen
- expand in the form of a series
verb
- To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site.
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
noun
verb
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
noun
verb
noun
- A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
- A specific form or variation of something.
- An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
- A translation from one language to another.
- A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
verb
noun
- A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
- An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting.
verb
- To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize.
- Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”)
- To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances.
- To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
- To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc.
noun
- A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- A basic conceptual structure.
- These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
- The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
verb
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
noun
verb
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
adj
verb
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To verify a person's information and record their arrival, such as at a hotel, airport, etc.
- To visit in order to see how someone is doing.
- To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airport etc.
- To contact another person in order to keep the other person informed of one's situation.
- To return (a book to a library, source code to a repository, etc.).
- To enter solitary confinement at one's own request for protection from other prisoners.
- To send somebody to solitary confinement; to make somebody be admitted to solitary confinement.
noun
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
verb
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
verb
verb
- To make different; to change, modify.
- To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To recognize a distinction or difference between two things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- To calculate the derivative of a function.
- To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
- To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
- To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
- To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
- To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
- To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
- To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
- To be the editor of a publication.
- To change a text, or a document.
noun
verb
- To create a customized version of.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
- To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
- To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
- To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
noun
verb
verb
- To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
- To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
- To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
- To renew or revitalize.
- To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
noun
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