gas
[as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust
and hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous
quantities, thereby exterminating the source of irritation. "Some
loser just reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!" 2. interj. A
suggestion that someone or something ought to be flushed out of
mercy. "The system's getting wedged every few minutes.
Gas!" 3. vt. To flush (sense 1). "You should gas that old
crufty software." 4. [IBM] n. Dead space in nonsequentially
organized files that was occupied by data that has since been
deleted; the compression operation that removes it is called
`degassing' (by analogy, perhaps, with the use of the same term
in vacuum technology). 5. [IBM] n. Empty space on a disk that has
been clandestinely allocated against future need.
[as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust
and hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous
quantities, thereby exterminating the source of irritation. "Some
loser just reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!" 2. interj. A
suggestion that someone or something ought to be flushed out of
mercy. "The system's getting wedged every few minutes.
Gas!" 3. vt. To flush (sense 1). "You should gas that old
crufty software." 4. [IBM] n. Dead space in nonsequentially
organized files that was occupied by data that has since been
deleted; the compression operation that removes it is called
`degassing' (by analogy, perhaps, with the use of the same term
in vacuum technology). 5. [IBM] n. Empty space on a disk that has
been clandestinely allocated against future need.
Related:
- gas: [as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust and
hatred
implying that gas should be dispensed in generous ... - flush: v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous
or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has... - flush v.
1. [common] To delete something, usually
superfluous
or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has ... - You are getting old if you can remember when Ethyl gas cost more because
lead was added to the gas
Now, leaded gas costs less than regular gas. It is... - The MGs ran out
of gas... - crash
1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often
said of the system (q.v
sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term... - Now you are cooking
with gas... - Save gas
don't use the shell...
