function pointer
shared pointer
pointerlike
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selector
functionoid
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function object
null pointer
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functional
nonpointer
swizzle
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chain
pointerless
callback
downpointer
pointy
tripointed
fixed point
bitset
tip
unswizzle
torsade
page
burination
pointen
jointer
apiculate
stretch four
head
pole
point
closed loop
hub
dereference
sharpness
C program
sharp-pointed
cusp
midsequence
bespot
stabby
peekable
loop
orphan
nipple
pinpoint
decay
basepoint
trifurcate
projector
proctorship
shift register
bulleted
rewriter
three-pointer
quintain
nub
jump list
loop ratio
reference variable
server
basket
proctor
transition function
crest
variable
load time
inverse image
prick
vtable
summary
bookmark
stick
sum-up
ansiform
cuspidate
GOTO
buddy block
pointer
lituate
cuspidal
point function
cuspated
buoy
cuspidated
bull's eye
cuspate
pointed
putback
spectacular mark
peak
cusped
pointerlike
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fixed point
apiculate
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ansiform
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lituate
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null pointer
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indicator
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head
pole
point
closed loop
hub
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C program
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basket
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variable
load time
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vtable
summary
bookmark
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pointer
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bull's eye
putback
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peak
swizzle
chain
tip
unswizzle
pointen
dereference
bespot
loop
orphan
proctor
crest
prick
stick
GOTO
buoy
noun
- A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
- An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
- A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
- A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.
- Someone or something which selects or chooses.
- A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.
- A disc jockey.
noun
- A pointer or index that indicates something.
- Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction.
- The needle or dial on such a meter.
- A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
- A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.
- A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
- A bird, the honeyguide.
- A meter or gauge.
noun
- An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
- A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
adj
- Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
- In good working order.
verb
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
noun
- A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
- A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
- A follow-up audition in casting.
- The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
- A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
- A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.
- A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
adj
noun
noun
- A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- The type set up for printing a page.
- A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- A web page.
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- Any record or writing; a collective memory.
verb
noun
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- A gun.
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
- A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- Pole position.
- For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
- A penis.
- A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
verb
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- To furnish with poles for support.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- To convey on poles.
- To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- To strike (the ball) very hard.
- To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
noun
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- A closed-loop transfer function.
- Closed-loop communication.
- An economy in which materials are consistently reused rather than discharged as waste.
- A path whose initial point is equal to its terminal point.
- A PID controller.
- An electronic feedback loop.
- The process of pulling water from one area of a reef aquarium and pumping it immediately elsewhere in the tank to create higher flow and minimize dead spots.
- A closed ecological system.
noun
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
noun
- A sharp point or pointed end.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
verb
verb
- To move something in a loop.
- To form something into a loop.
- To move in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
noun
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A ring road or beltway.
- The opening so formed.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
- To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
- To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
noun
- A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- Any unreferenced object.
- A young animal with no mother.
- Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
adj
noun
- A pointing stick.
- The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
- A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner.
- Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
- A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
- Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
- An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim.
- A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector.
- An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants.
verb
noun
- The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.
- The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
- A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
verb
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
- An operator that forms a projection.
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
- Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
- One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
noun
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
- A set or collection of intangible things.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Bastard.
verb
verb
noun
- A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- An official at any of several older universities.
noun
- A function from (state, input symbol) to state describing what state to move to on receiving a given input in a given state.
- A homeomorphism that bijects between the subsets of the images of two overlapping coordinate charts that are shared in the preimage: For (U_1,𝜑₁) and (U_2,𝜑₂) coordinate charts with U_1∩U_2≠∅, the transition functions 𝜑₁₂=𝜑₂∘𝜑₁⁻¹ and its inverse 𝜑₂₁=𝜑₁∘𝜑₂⁻¹ may be constructed.
verb
noun
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
verb
- To aim at a point or mark.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To shoot without killing.
- To make acidic or pungent.
- To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To pierce or puncture slightly.
- To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To form by piercing or puncturing.
- To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
noun
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- The footprint of a hare.
- The penis.
- Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A feeling of remorse.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
verb
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- put, fix, force, or implant
- stay put (in a certain place)
- stick to firmly
- be or become fixed
- endure
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- be loyal to
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- be a mystery or bewildering to
noun
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- informal terms for the leg
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- threat of a penalty
noun
- A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.
- Anything that points or is used for pointing.
- A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
- A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
- A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.
- A tip, a bit of advice.
- An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.
- Something worth a given number of points.
- Something that gives a point (sharp end) to something.
adj
- That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
- Directed negatively at a person or topic.
- Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
- Sharp, barbed; not dull.
- In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
noun
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
adj
- At the greatest extent; maximum.
- bad or unfortunate.
- Unlucky; unfortunate
- Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
- Bad
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- To pry; to peep slyly.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
- To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- To become sick or wan.
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self-hatred
pancreatic islets
armed conflict
to find out.
named for the city in Missouri.
convening
canopy
repair work
triplet
good bargain
tabular
draught (beer)
dexterously
A white person
to be rich
miraculous virtue
pollution.
to blast
payment by proxy
HSV
this chapter
pine cone
trill
hand-me-down
to air
stock phrase
not necessary
passive-aggressive
retrieval
transmutation
pornographic book
attribution
to take the blame
so much.
blah.
manor
unclear.
unproductive
to differ
beer belly
darling.
ceremonious
to extinguish.
to no purpose
inducement
canal
vagrant
to revive
famous