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computing
1. n. (literally) The process or act of calculation.
2. n. The use of a computer or computers.
3. n. The study, field of computers and computer programming.
This course will cover several major fields of computing.
4. v. present participle of compute
5. v. topics, en, Computing
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
translate
1. v. To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
2. v. (intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
That idiom doesn't really translate.
"Dog" translates as "chien" in French.
3. v. To change from one form or medium to another.
The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
4. v. (intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.
His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
5. v. (transitive, physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
6. v. (transitive, archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
7. v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
8. v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
9. v. (transitive, Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.
11. v. (transitive, music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
12. v. (medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
13. v. (genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
14. n. (analysis, in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
assembly
1. n. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
2. n. The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
instructions for assembly
assembly line
3. n. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
school assembly
freedom of assembly
4. n. A legislative body.
the General Assembly of the United Nations
5. n. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. n. (computing) (clipping of assembly language)
7. n. (computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library inform
language
1. n. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
2. n. The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3. n. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4. n. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
body language; the language of the eyes
5. n. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. n. (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
7. n. Manner of expression.
8. n. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
9. n. Profanity.
10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
11. n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
machine
1. n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
2. n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
3. n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
4. n. (computing) A computer.
Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
5. n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
The government has become a money-making machine.
6. n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
7. n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
8. n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
9. n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
10. v. to make by machinery.
11. v. to shape or finish by machinery.
code
1. n. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
2. n. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
3. n. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
4. n. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5. n. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
6. n. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
7. n. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
8. n. (programming) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.
I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
This HTML code may be placed on your web page.
9. n. (scientific programming) A program.
10. n. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
11. v. (computing) To write software programs.
I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
12. v. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
13. v. (cryptography) To encode.
We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
14. v. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
15. v. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
coding in the CT scanner
16. v. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

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