Beaverbrook : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

beaver board
n 1: a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp

English Dictionary: Beaverbrook	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beaver fur n the soft brown fur of the beaver [syn: beaver, {beaver fur}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Beaverbrook n British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964) Synonym(s): Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Porpoise \Por"poise\, n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally, hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See {Pork}, and {Fish}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any small cetacean of the genus {Phoc[91]na}, especially {P. communis}, or {P. phoc[91]na}, of Europe, and the closely allied American species ({P. Americana}). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also {harbor porpoise}, {herring hag}, {puffing pig}, and {snuffer}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A true dolphin ({Delphinus}); -- often so called by sailors. {Skunk porpoise}, [or] {Bay porpoise} (Zo[94]l.), a North American porpoise ({Lagenorhynchus acutus}), larger than the common species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the sides. See Illustration in Appendix.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bepurple \Be*pur"ple\, v. t. To tinge or dye with a purple color.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Biophor Biophore \Bi"ophor` Bi"ophore`\, n. [Gr. [?] life + [?] bearing, fr. [?] to bear.] (Biol.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beaver Bay, MN (city, FIPS 4456) Location: 47.25692 N, 91.29862 W Population (1990): 147 (115 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 1.4 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beaver Falls, PA (city, FIPS 4792) Location: 40.76093 N, 80.32240 W Population (1990): 10687 (4667 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beaver River, NY Zip code(s): 13367
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beaverville, IL (village, FIPS 4507) Location: 40.95352 N, 87.65504 W Population (1990): 278 (113 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60912
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beebe River, NH Zip code(s): 03223
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
buffer overflow n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle. This problem is commonly exploited by {cracker}s to get arbitrary commands executed by a program running with root permissions. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that {crunch}es a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in {lossage} as input from a long line overflows the buffer and trashes data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full up. The term is used of and by humans in a metaphorical sense. "What time did I agree to meet you? My buffer must have overflowed." Or "If I answer that phone my buffer is going to overflow." See also {spam}, {overrun screw}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
buffer overflow What happens when you try to store more data in a {buffer} than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that {crunch}es a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in {lossage} as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full. See also {spam}, {overrun screw}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-05-13)