taint

noun · verb · contractionA2

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Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
taints
  1. 1.

    A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

    Đồng nghĩa: adulterant, contamination, pollutant, adulterant, adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, pollutant, pollution, sophisticant, taint

  2. 2.

    A tinge, trace or touch.

  3. 3.

    A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.

  4. 4.

    (obsolete)Tincture; hue; colour.

  5. 5.

    (obsolete)Infection; corruption; deprivation.

  6. 6.

    (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

    Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]

  7. 7.

    A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

  8. 8.

    An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

  9. 9.

    (US, slang, vulgar)The perineum.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
taints
V_ing/Gerund
tainting
V_ed/pp
tainted
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To spoil (food) by contamination.

  3. 3.

    (intransitive)To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

    Meat soon taints in warm weather.

  5. 5.

    (transitive)(transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.

  6. 6.

    (Australia, transitive)(transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

  7. 7.

    (transitive)To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

  8. 8.

    (intransitive)To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

contraction

contraction
  1. 1.

    (alt of, alternative, contraction)Alternative spelling of 'taint.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

adulterantcontaminationpollutantadulteratorcontaminantcontaminatorimpuritypollutionsophisticantleperto contaminate leper rare

Cùng gốc / liên quan

boar taintcork tainttainture

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (to dye, to tinge)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.

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