fuzz — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.

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   Esempi

   His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

   Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.

2. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.

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   ...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.

3. The random data used in fuzz testing.

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   "Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

4. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.

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   This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.

5. A state of befuddlement.

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   I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like.

   So I'm in a fuzz of not knowing what to do

6. Fuzziness, vagueness.

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Verbo

1. To make fuzzy.

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   • transitivo

2. To become fuzzy.

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   • intransitivo

3. To make drunk.

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   • datato
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink.

4. To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.

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   Altri esempi (1)

   Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.

5. To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.

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   • datato
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Sostantivo

1. The police, or any law enforcement agency.

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   • uso statunitense
   • gergo
   • non numerabile
   • with-definite-article

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   Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up

Sostantivo

1. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

   Sinonimi

   hairtomentum

   Termini più generali

   plant processenation

   Esempi

   peach fuzz

2. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

   Sinonimi

   bullcopcopperpig

   Termini più generali

   police officerofficer

3. a hazy or indistinct representation

   Sinonimi

   blur

   Termini più generali

   representationmental representationinternal representation

   Esempi

   it happened so fast it was just a blur

   he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz

4. the first beard of an adolescent boy

   Termini più generali

   beardface funguswhiskers