down
1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down"
is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were
expecting to use it), and "The elevator is down" always means
"The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the
elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed
into the mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is
still confined to techies (e.g. boiler mechanics may speak of a
boiler being down). 2. `go down' vi. To stop functioning;
usually said of the system. The message from the console
that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is "System going
down in 5 minutes". 3. `take down', `bring down' vt. To
deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or PM. "I'm
taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive."
Occasionally one hears the word `down' by itself used as a verb
in this vt. sense. See crash; oppose up.
1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down"
is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were
expecting to use it), and "The elevator is down" always means
"The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the
elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed
into the mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is
still confined to techies (e.g. boiler mechanics may speak of a
boiler being down). 2. `go down' vi. To stop functioning;
usually said of the system. The message from the console
that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is "System going
down in 5 minutes". 3. `take down', `bring down' vt. To
deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or PM. "I'm
taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive."
Occasionally one hears the word `down' by itself used as a verb
in this vt. sense. See crash; oppose up.
Related:
- down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is
considered a humorous thing to say
and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on.... - up adj.
1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is
up.
Oppose down. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it.... - up: adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up.
Oppose {down}. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it.... - 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 originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses).... - boot v.,n.
[techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To
load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon.... - System going down in 5 minutes.
- 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 originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses).... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature.... - System going down in five minutes.
