uglify

Meanings

• Verb

  To make something unattractive or unpleasant in appearance; make something ugly.

• Verb

  To compress (computer code) to make it smaller and less processing-intensive.

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with uglify
piggly , wiggly , diggily

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Variants

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uglification , uglifications , uglified , uglifies , uglify , uglifying

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Etymology

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Originally from Old English 'ugligan', meaning 'to be ugly'. The computer science usage comes from the verb's meaning 'to make something less attractive or unappealing', which is a metaphor for the process of making code more efficient and less resource-intensive.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'uglify' is not commonly used in everyday speech and is mostly found in technical contexts, such as computer science.

2. The origin of the computer science usage of 'uglify' is a metaphor for the process of making code more efficient by making it less appealing to the human eye.

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Related Concepts

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1. Compression: The process of reducing the size of data, often used to make files or code more efficient to store or transmit.

2. Minification: A specific type of compression used to remove unnecessary characters from code, such as comments or white space, to make it smaller and faster to load.

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Culture

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In literature and art, 'uglify' is often used metaphorically to describe the process of making something less appealing or attractive. In computer science, it refers to the process of compressing code to make it more efficient.

How to Memorize "uglify"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the process of making something less attractive or unappealing. Imagine taking a beautiful painting and adding unappealing features to it.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the verb 'uglify' with the idea of making something less appealing or unattractive.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic like 'Ugly is the new pretty' to help remember the meaning of the verb.

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