| 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 | |
| programming |
| 1. n. (broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme. | |
| The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again. | |
| 2. n. brain-washing | |
| 3. n. (computing) The act of writing a computer program. | |
| Management wanted to know how much programming the project would need. | |
| 4. n. The software that controls a machine, or the logic expressed in such software; operating instructions. | |
| A robot's programming doesn't allow for love. | |
| 5. v. present participle of program | |
| 6. v. present participle of programme | |
| I was programming a new module for the software package. | |
| He was programming the VCR. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| memory |
| 1. n. The ability of a system to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will. | |
| Memory is a facility common to all animals. | |
| 2. n. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism. | |
| I have no memory of that event. | |
| My wedding is one of my happiest memories. | |
| 3. n. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). | |
| This data passes from the CPU to the memory. | |
| 4. n. The time within which past events can be or are remembered. | |
| in recent memory; in living memory | |
| 5. n. (attributive, of a material) which returns to its original shape when heat, heated | |
| Memory metal; memory plastic. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A memorial. | |
| 7. n. (zoology, collective, rare) (A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.) | |
| barrier |
| 1. n. A structure that bars passage. | |
| 2. n. An obstacle or impediment. | |
| 3. n. A boundary or limit. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A. | |
| 5. n. (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others. | |
| 6. n. (historical) The lists in a tournament. | |
| 7. n. (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries. | |
| 8. v. To block or obstruct with a barrier. | |
| Synonyms: bar | |
