cruft英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Anything that is old or of inferior quality. slang,uncountable

— Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which aggregates to stuff that they don't want anybody to know,” Moglen said.
Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time. slang,uncountable

— The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.
Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions. slang,uncountable

动词 v.

To generate cruft. slang

词形变化

crufts present,singular,third-person crufting participle,present crufted participle,past crufted past

词汇关系

衍生词

crufting crufty cruftware fancruft

词源

词源 1

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.

词源 2

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.