hack

Definition of hack in English English dictionary: An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming; To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.); An ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one; A gouge or notch made by such a blow; To cough noisily
This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.; A taxicab (hackney cab) driver; Time check; To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that is inelegant or that makes the program harder to maintain
I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.; A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language; To make common or cliched; to vulgarise; To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick
There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.; A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter
He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out.; To withstand or put up with a difficult situation
Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?.; A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained; One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.); A rack used to dry bricks; To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry; To strike in a frantic movement; To chop or cut down in a rough manner
Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.; An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible; To swing at a pitched ball
He went to the batter's box hacking.; A hacking blow; To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained; To work on an intimately technical level
I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.; The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery; A food-rack for cattle; To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) or network by manipulating code; a crack; A mattock or a miner's pick; An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network; To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick
He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.; A dry cough; A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for the use in hackeysack; To accomplish a difficult programming task
He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.; To play hackeysack; An untalented writer
I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.; A political agitator. (slightly derogatory); {n} any thing used in common, a rack, a crib; {v} to cut irregularly, cut, chop, use often; This is a type rather than a breed; hacks are elegant riding horses, popular in the show ring in England; disapproval If you refer to a politician as a hack, you disapprove of them because they are too loyal to their party and perhaps do not deserve the position they have. Far too many party hacks from the old days still hold influential jobs; A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others thoughts into felicitous language; If someone hacks into a computer system, they break into the system, especially in order to get secret information. The saboteurs had demanded money in return for revealing how they hacked into the systems. + hacking hack·ing the common and often illegal art of computer hacking; A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough; informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office; Full Name: Description: Non standard applications used to enhance the use of PDAs; Originally, a quickly written but clever program that performs a particular job, or to create such a program, as in to hack out a rough pathway But depending on the context, the word may now also refer to a program that's clever but not very useful, to the process of breaking into computers--which more properly should be referred to as "cracking," to general exploration of a software program or other complex system, or to a programmer who's competent but not particularly creative; To make a quick code change to patch a computer program; To accomplish a result in an unorthodox way; 1 (aka: "chop") chopping violently with an extreme downswing at the ball 2 (aka: "duffer", "hacker", "chop", "chopper") an erratic and unskilled golfer who generally scores poorly and likely takes many divots; To alter a computer program or gain unauthorised entry into a program, computer, or computer system; To kick the shins of (an opposing payer); cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"; two meanings: 1) the process of preparing a hawk for release to the wild and 2) the process of releasing and re-trapping a hawk to allow it to gain wild hunting skills HAGGARD- a wild hawk in it's second year or more of plumage (adult); A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach; a horse kept for hire an old or over-worked horse a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil one who works hard at boring tasks a mediocre and disdained writer cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"; To work with on an intimately technical level; A kick on the shins; To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute; a rubber foothold from which curlers deliver the rock It is about 125 feet from the scoring area; to become common; If you hack something or hack at it, you cut it with strong, rough strokes using a sharp tool such as an axe or knife. An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight Some were hacked to death with machetes Matthew desperately hacked through the leather; To mangle in speaking; a mediocre and disdained writer; Strictly speaking a term for someone who has hung around the club for far, far too long Also used to refer to anyone who has been around at least a year longer than you, and has ever started a sentence with 'There was this time at Easters 98 when...'; If you hack at or hack something which is too large, too long, or too expensive, you reduce its size, length, or cost by cutting out or getting rid of large parts of it. He hacked away at the story, eliminating one character entirely; cut with a hacking tool; To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough; The foothold device from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery; To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post
hack into: To gain unauthorized entry to (a computer system), particularly by exploiting little-known weaknesses
From these log files, it looks like someone tried to hack into our server last night!.
hack into: To reduce something to by hacking with a cutting instrument
After all that work, the result was something I just wanted to hack into pieces.
hack it: To cope with, to be successful in
I don't know if I can hack it here, the work is too hard for me.
hack job: The completion of a task in the quickest possible time at the expense of quality or attention to detail
hack off: To remove by hacking; cut off
At weekend schools, young Muslims, aged between six and 15, are receiving lessons in how to hack off a criminal's hand or foot.
hack off: To annoy
hack squat: An exercise performed on a machine by using the legs to move weight resting on the shoulders, thereby moving the weight as the legs are straightened and the feet remain stationary
hack squats: plural form of hack squat
hack-and-slash: Having a focus on violent combat rather than strategy
hack around: waste time
hack into: Penetrate a website or computer system
Hack-a-Shaq: {i} (Basketball) basketball defensive strategy of deliberately fouling Shaquille O'Neal to send a bad free throw shooter to the line
hack on: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
hack writer: literary hack, hack
domain hack: An Internet domain name in which the TLD (such as a country code) can be understood as part of the name rather than the usual suffix
I love those domain hacks, I own http://www.web2.0button.com and I recently got an email asking how I registered a domain name with a dot in it (HEHE).
hacking: A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.)
hacking: The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand
hacking: Present participle of hack
hacking: Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky
Anise will diminish the most hacking cough to where it is no longer irritating.
hacking: The piling of bricks for drying
hacking: The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer
hacking: A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs
hacking: A kick in the shins
hacking: The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems
hacking: Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network
hacking: The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course
hacked: past of hack
hacking: Using a PC or computer terminal to penetrate the security of a remote computer system (pg 78)
hacking: original term referred to learning programming languages and computer systems; now associated with the process of bypassing the security systems on a computer system or network
hacking: Hacking means illegally accessing other people's computer systems for destroying, disrupting or carrying out illegal activities on the network or computer systems
hacking: process of raising captive-bred birds in special cadges that limit human contact before release into the wild
hacking: kicking an opponent's legs
hacking: 1 The procedure of stacking brick in a kiln or on a kiln car 2 Laying brick with the bottom edge set in from the plane surface of the wall
hacking: A personal foul on which a player hits an opponent on the hand or forearm, usually while trying to knock the ball away
hacking: A hacking cough is a dry, painful cough with a harsh, unpleasant sound. see also hack
hacking: An unauthorised access to computer systems
hacking: Intimidation, overhandling, excessive repetition of a command
hacking: Breaking into a computer system such as the Internet
hacking: Going for a ride; exercising
hacking: Type of tapotement that alternately strikes the surface of the body with quick snapping movements
hacking: gaining access to a computer file or network illegally or without authorization
hacking: The person with this skill can use it to attempt to gain unauthorised access to computer and communication systems of any nature This will be an Opposition Task Rolls will normally be made in secret, as a fumble will alert security at the installation Some will have special defences to reduce the chance of success It is an Academic skill
hacking: Unauthorized use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network
hacking: Unauthorised use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network
hacking: Illegally breaking into remote computers that you are not authorized to access
hacking: Practice of raising animals in captivity, acclimating them to natural conditions and then releasing them into the wild (referred to in regard to bald eagles)
hacking: Means unauthorised access to a computer, its files and programmes 'Hackers' hack for their own amusement, challenge or sometimes financial, ideological or commercial gain Hacking is a far less common than is generally imagined As a private user, you are very unlikely to be affected by hacking
hacking: (1) Obsessive use of a computer (2) The unauthorized access and use of computer systems
hacking: {i} illegal access into another party's computer or Internet site carried out for malevolent or fraudulent purposes or to make unauthorised amendments or just for fun (Computers); chopping hit done with the edge of the hand in massage
hacking: the unauthorized use of a computer system or program
hacks: plural of , hack
hacks: Hacks are small programs for your Palm that add functionality to your Palm Most hacks require a program like HackMaster to run on your Palm
hacks: third-person singular of hack
hacks: The footholds at each end of the ice from which the stone is delivered