thrash : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thrash	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for thrash
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thrash n a swimming kick used while treading water v give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail] move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" Synonym(s): convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate dance the slam dance Synonym(s): slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!" beat the seeds out of a grain Synonym(s): thrash, thresh beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" Synonym(s): cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr[94]ska, Dan. t[91]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. {Thresh}.] 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer. 2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. 1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well. 2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be M[91]vius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. --Dryden.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
thrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as thrashing. Compare {multitask}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
thrash To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. {Paging} or {swapping} systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of {core} (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Thrashing can also occur in a {cache} due to {cache conflict} or in a {multiprocessor} (see {ping-pong}). Someone who keeps changing his mind (especially about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as thrashing. Compare {multitask}. [{Jargon File}]