meat grinder | any action resulting in injury or destruction, the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation, allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder |
meatpacking meat packing meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
butcher shop meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
cleaver meat cleaver chopper | a butcher's knife having a large square blade |
computer computing machine computing device data processor electronic computer information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
computer system computing system automatic data processing system ADP system ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
meat counter | counter where meats are displayed for sale |
meat grinder | a mill for grinding meat |
meat hook | a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung |
meat house | a small house (on a farm) where meat is stored |
meat safe | a safe for storing meat |
meat thermometer | a thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat source), used to measure how well done the meat is |
smokehouse meat house | a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish |
hooks meat hooks maulers | large strong hand (as of a fighter), wait till I get my hooks on him |
meat and potatoes | the fundamental part, successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration |
kernel substance core center centre essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
information science informatics information processing IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
word processor word processing system | an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer |
LISP list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
canned meat tinned meat | meat preserved in a can or tin |
stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
breast white meat | meat carved from the breast of a fowl |
meat | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
dark meat | the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
raw meat | uncooked meat |
red meat | meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton) |
variety meat organs | edible viscera of a butchered animal |
cut cut of meat | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass |
side side of meat | a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food |
jerky jerked meat jerk | meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun |
sausage meat | any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages |
lunch meat luncheon meat | any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold |
coconut coconut meat | the edible white meat of a coconut, often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries |
meat loaf meatloaf | a baked loaf of ground meat |
meat pie | pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough |
meat packer packer | a wholesaler in the meat-packing business |
kernel meat | the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone, black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell |
administrative data processing business data processing | data processing in accounting or business management |
automatic data processing ADP | data processing by a computer |
background processing backgrounding | the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
batch processing | the serial execution of computer programs |
data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
distributed data processing remote-access data processing teleprocessing | data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities |
electronic data processing EDP | automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes |
foreground processing foregrounding | the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system |
integrated data processing IDP | automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system |
list processing | processing data that is given in the form of chained lists |