Zap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zap	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Zap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zap n a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact; "they gave it another zap of radiation" v strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes" kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens" Synonym(s): zap, vaporize strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy" Synonym(s): nuke, atomize, atomise, zap cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the leftovers" Synonym(s): microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Zap, ND (city, FIPS 88140) Location: 47.28476 N, 101.92189 W Population (1990): 287 (162 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58580
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
zap 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See {zapped}. 4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again." In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To {fry} a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh -- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ZAP 1. A language for expressing program transformations. ["A System for Assisting Program Transformation", M.S. Feather, ACM TOPLAS 4(1):1-20, Jan 1982]. 2. {Zero and Add Packed}. (2001-03-25)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
zap 1. To modify, usually to correct; especially used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again." In the {IBM} {mainframe} world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the {operating system} with a program called "{superzap}", whose file name is "IMASPZAP" (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). See also {Zero and Add Packed}. 2. To {fry} a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh - I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller." (1998-07-08)