swizzle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swizzle	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for swizzle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swizzle n any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, v. t. To drink; to swill. --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, n. Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
swizzle v. To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called `pointer swizzling'); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g., by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed `unswizzling'. See also {snap}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
swizzle To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called "pointer swizzling"); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g. by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed "unswizzling". See also {snap}. [{Jargon File}]