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Lustering
(gcide) | Luster \Lus"ter\, Lustre \Lus"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Lustred; p. pr. & vb. n. Lustering, or Lustring.]
To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic]
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Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. --Lowell.
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Lustering
(gcide) | Lustering \Lus"ter*ing\, n.
1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.
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2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes
pure, as in certain refining processes.
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blustering
(encz) | blustering,bouřlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
clustering
(encz) | clustering,shlukování n: Zdeněk Brožclustering,shromažďování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Blustering
(gcide) | Bluster \Blus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blustered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Blustering.] [Allied to blast.]
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1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be
windy and boisterous, as the weather.
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And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round. --Milton.
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2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or
boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to
play the bully; to storm; to rage.
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Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic
tyrants. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Blustering \Blus"ter*ing\, a.
1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy;
tumultuous.
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A tempest and a blustering day. --Shak.
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2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
"A blustering fellow." --L'Estrange.
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Blusteringly
(gcide) | Blusteringly \Blus"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
In a blustering manner.
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Clustering
(gcide) | Cluster \Clus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clustered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Clustering.]
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite
in a cluster or clusters.
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His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. --Tennyson.
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The princes of the country clustering together. --Foxe.
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Clusteringly
(gcide) | Clusteringly \Clus"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
In clusters.
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Flustering
(gcide) | Fluster \Flus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flustered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Flustering.] [Cf. Icel. flaustra to be flustered,
flaustr a fluster.]
To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to
throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
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His habit or flustering himself daily with claret.
--Macaulay.
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blustering
(wn) | blustering
adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or
blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day";
"a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn:
blustering(a), blusterous, blustery] |
clustering
(wn) | clustering
n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of
trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump,
cluster, clustering] |
clustering
(foldoc) | cluster
clustering
1. Multiple servers providing the same
service. The term may imply resilience to failure and/or
some kind of load balancing between the servers. Compare
RAIS.
2. An elementary unit of allocation of a disk
made up of one or more physical blocks.
A file is made up of a whole number of possibly
non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff
between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the
bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each
file) and the length of the FAT.
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