barnacle
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- 2.
The barnacle goose.
- 3.
(slang)(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- 4.
(slang)(electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- 5.
(slang)(software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
Đồng nghĩa: cruft
- 6.
(in plural, obsolete)(obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
Đồng nghĩa: twitch
- 7.
(British, archaic, in plural, slang)(archaic, British, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
- 8.
(obsolete, slang)A good job, or snack easily obtained.
- 9.
(slang)A worldly sailor.
Đồng nghĩa: shellback
Động từ
verb- 1.
To connect with or attach.
- 2.
To press close against something.
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From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from bernaque (barnacle) (compare barnache), probably from barneca (limpet), probably from - (compare brennig, bairneach), from *barannīkos, from *barinā (rock, rocky ground) (compare barenn boulder), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (hill, mountain) + *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos;