Related:

• prepend /pree`pend'/ vt. [by analogy with `append'] To prefix.
  As with `append' (but not `prefix' or `suffix' as a verb), the direct object is always the thing being added and not the original word (or character string, or whatever)....
• comment out: vt. To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marke
  his prevents it from being compiled or interpreted....
• emi: /se'mee/ or /se'mi:/ 1. n. Abbreviation for `semicolon', when speaking.
  Commands to {grind} are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is `...
• accumulator: n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old.
  The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic')....
• line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
• break: 1. vt. To cause to be {broken} (in any sense).
  Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands....
• macro-: pref. Large. Opposite of {micro-}. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example
  medical people) this competes with the prefix {mega-}, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification....
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....