| dummy whist | a form of whist with three players, four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up |
education
instruction teaching pedagogy didactics
educational activity | the activities of educating or instructing, activities that impart knowledge or skill, he received no formal education, our instruction was carefully programmed, good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded |
course course of study
course of instruction
class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
teaching
instruction
pedagogy | the profession of a teacher, he prepared for teaching while still in college, pedagogy is recognized as an important profession |
| catechetical instruction | teaching religious principles by questions and answers |
blank
dummy blank shell | a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet |
comforter pacifier
baby's dummy
teething ring | device used for an infant to suck or bite on |
| dummy | a figure representing the human form |
| ventriloquist's dummy | a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice |
complex instruction set computing
complex instruction set computer
CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
reduced instruction set computing
reduced instruction set computer
RISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform |
| instruction book | a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment |
instruction manual
instructions
book of instructions
operating instructions | a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it |
| instruction command statement program line | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program |
macro
macro instruction | a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language |
system call
supervisor call instruction | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor |
| direction instruction | a message describing how something is to be done, he gave directions faster than she could follow them |
dumbbell
dummy
dope
boob
booby
pinhead | an ignorant or foolish person |
| dummy silent person | a person who does not talk |
execution
instruction execution | (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer |
MIPS
million instructions per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system), MIPS is ,, instructions per second |
close up
clam up
dummy up
shut up
belt up
button up
be quiet
keep mum | refuse to talk or stop talking, fall silent, The children shut up when their father approached |
dummy
dummy up | make a dummy of, dummy up the books that are to be published |
| dummy | having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function, a dummy corporation |