>>consumed (engulfed by flames)
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>>instantiated (born before your eyes)
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>>threads (clothing)
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>>garbage collector (sanitary engineer)
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>>security (a tragic comedy in progress)
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>>temporary resources (credit cards)
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>>windows service (Windex)
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>>browser experience (no comment-please read my mind and excuse the use of old English terms)
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>>common dialogs (the vernacular)
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>>web services (or the lack there of)
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>>Tom
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>I still don't get the "browser" part - I searched at dictionary.com and found terms like eating and reading lightly - but no "old English". Is there another meaning not mentioned at dictionary.com?
In one of my old dictionaries, "to browse" was pretty close to "to graze".
This trend of OOPing the language (at least in the domain of operator overloading) is not unique to software - its ubiquitous in English. Most of the words have at least three meanings. Analyze this sentence:
"Most" - majority, superlative of many
"of" - do I need to list this?
"words" - plural of word; text of a song, two byte storage unit
"have" - to posess, to have done
"at" - a time adjective, a spacial adjective, a price adjective (ten boxes at $5 each), verb modifier (what are you looking at)
"least" - superlative of little, amount quantifier (as in this sentence), "at last but not least"
three - a number - probably the honest exception here, only one meaning I can think of
meaning - the semantic value; present participle (meaning it's a...)
Look at your keyboard. No, not the piece of wood where the keys are hung, the one you use to type (type of what?). Imagine you're in jail and want to escape. You got your escape key there, so no problem. Now you want to get to the Universe, to the vast interstelar space? No problem, there's the space key, unlocks all spaces. Feel you're losing control here? Use control key. Need an alternative to this mess? Use Alt key... or switch to a less ambigous language.
Just like our youngest daughter said, "I wanted to mine this mine of mine, so I mined it with a lot of mines".
