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chainsaw
(encz) | chainsaw,řetězová pila n: Zdeněk Brož |
chainsaw
(gcide) | chainsaw \chain"saw`\ (ch[=a]n"s[add]), n.
a portable power saw having teeth that are linked to form an
endless chain, rotated about two pivot points by a power
mechanism, such as an electric motor or a gasoline engine.
Note: They are used to efficiently cut trees, logs, or thick
branches out of doors.
Syn: chain saw.
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chainsaw
(wn) | chainsaw
n 1: portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain
[syn: chain saw, chainsaw] |
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swiss-army chainsaw
(jargon) | Swiss-Army chainsaw
In early Unix days, a well-known technical paper analogized the lexical
analyzer generator lex(1) to a Swiss-army knife; this was a comment on the
remarkable variety of more general uses discovered for a program originally
designed as a special-purpose code generator for writing compilers. Two
decades later, well-known hacker Henry Spencer described the Perl
scripting language as a “Swiss-Army chainsaw”, intending to convey his
evaluation of the language as exceedingly powerful but ugly and noisy and
prone to belch noxious fumes. This had two results: (1) Perl fans adopted
the epithet as a badge of pride, and (2) it entered more general usage to
describe software that is highly versatile but distressingly inelegant.
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