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10-letter words containing d, a, t, e

  • data model — (database)   The product of the database design process which aims to identify and organize the required data logically and physically. A data model says what information is to be contained in a database, how the information will be used, and how the items in the database will be related to each other. For example, a data model might specify that a customer is represented by a customer name and credit card number and a product as a product code and price, and that there is a one-to-many relation between a customer and a product. It can be difficult to change a database layout once code has been written and data inserted. A well thought-out data model reduces the need for such changes. Data modelling enhances application maintainability and future systems may re-use parts of existing models, which should lower development costs. A data modelling language is a mathematical formalism with a notation for describing data structures and a set of operations used to manipulate and validate that data. One of the most widely used methods for developing data models is the entity-relationship model. The relational model is the most widely used type of data model. Another example is NIAM.
  • datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
  • datacentre — Alternative spelling of data centre.
  • datacode i — (language)   An early system used on the Datatron 200 series.
  • datagloves — Plural form of dataglove.
  • datasheets — Plural form of datasheet.
  • datatrieve — (database, language)   A query and report system for use with DEC's VMS (RMS, VAX Rdb/VMS or VAX DBMS).
  • date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
  • date-night — an evening social date on which a married or long-term couple go out together: I enjoy a once-a-week date night with my husband.
  • date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
  • daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
  • davenports — Plural form of davenport.
  • day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
  • day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
  • day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
  • day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
  • dazzlement — the action of dazzling
  • de-isolate — to remove from isolation.
  • deactivate — If someone deactivates an explosive device or an alarm, they make it harmless or impossible to operate.
  • dead metal — furniture (def 4).
  • dead point — dead center
  • dead stock — farm equipment
  • dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
  • dead-metal — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
  • dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
  • deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
  • deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
  • deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
  • deafmutism — unable to hear and speak.
  • dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
  • deallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
  • deaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of deaminate.
  • deaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deaminate.
  • deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
  • death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
  • death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
  • death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
  • death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
  • death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
  • death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
  • death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
  • death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
  • death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
  • death seat — the seat beside the driver of a vehicle
  • death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
  • death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
  • death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
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