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单词 kludge
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Definition of kludge in English:

kludge

(also cludge)
noun klʌdʒkluːdʒkludʒ
informal
  • 1An ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfil a particular purpose.

    勉强拼凑的东西

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the corner of Eversholt Street and Euston is a St Pancras New Church, a neo-classical kludge which at the time of its construction in 1822 was the most expensive church building since St Paul's.
    • It wouldn't have been perfect, but it almost certainly would have been better than the kludge we're ending up with.
    • Such a database would be a kludge of existing databases; databases that are incompatible, full of erroneous data, and unreliable.
    • The vertebrate eye does very well indeed, but it is a kludge.
    1. 1.1Computing A machine, system, or program that has been badly put together, especially a clumsy but temporarily effective solution to a particular fault or problem.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a kludge, but at least the page loads normally now.
      • I speak as someone who's written code to do this, by the way - it always smelled like a kludge to me, and now I understand why.
      • Google has struggled to maintain the integrity of its search results ever since, with recent kludges blocking millions of results.
      • And it's hard to imagine any IS department tolerating kludges such as this.
      • Usually some mechanism exists to export and import data between a database and an SPC / SQC system - even if that mechanism is a kludge involving a text-file transfer.
verbklʌdʒkluːdʒkludʒ
[with object]informal
  • Improvise or put together from an ill-assorted collection of parts.

    Hugh had to kludge something together

    休不得不七拼八凑地装配一个东西。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's well worth taking the time to add extra comments and clean up any kludged code.
    • The details aren't specific, and feel a little kludged.
    • Thus you either change the new code, or try and kludge the old code, or hack around the old code with a whole new bit.
    • One can add a middle initial, but this is just kludging it.
    • I initially coded the blog's template by kludging together a lot of stuff without really knowing what I was doing.
    • The original network - I'm sure our technologists wouldn't like this - but it was kludged together through landlines
    • So there is nothing that the Google desktop offers I can't already kludge.

Origin

1960s: invented word, perhaps influenced by bodge and fudge.

Rhymes

huge, luge, scrooge, smoodge, stooge

Definition of kludge in US English:

kludge

(also cludge, kluge)
nounklo͞ojkludʒ
informal
  • 1An ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose.

    勉强拼凑的东西

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The vertebrate eye does very well indeed, but it is a kludge.
    • Such a database would be a kludge of existing databases; databases that are incompatible, full of erroneous data, and unreliable.
    • It wouldn't have been perfect, but it almost certainly would have been better than the kludge we're ending up with.
    • On the corner of Eversholt Street and Euston is a St Pancras New Church, a neo-classical kludge which at the time of its construction in 1822 was the most expensive church building since St Paul's.
    1. 1.1Computing A machine, system, or program that has been badly put together.
      〔计算机〕勉强凑合的组装机;勉强拼装的系统;勉强拼凑的程序
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a kludge, but at least the page loads normally now.
      • Usually some mechanism exists to export and import data between a database and an SPC / SQC system - even if that mechanism is a kludge involving a text-file transfer.
      • And it's hard to imagine any IS department tolerating kludges such as this.
      • Google has struggled to maintain the integrity of its search results ever since, with recent kludges blocking millions of results.
      • I speak as someone who's written code to do this, by the way - it always smelled like a kludge to me, and now I understand why.
verbklo͞ojkludʒ
[with object]informal
  • Use ill-assorted parts to make (something)

    (用七拼八凑的零部件)组装

    Hugh had to kludge something together

    休不得不七拼八凑地装配一个东西。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One can add a middle initial, but this is just kludging it.
    • It's well worth taking the time to add extra comments and clean up any kludged code.
    • So there is nothing that the Google desktop offers I can't already kludge.
    • I initially coded the blog's template by kludging together a lot of stuff without really knowing what I was doing.
    • The details aren't specific, and feel a little kludged.
    • Thus you either change the new code, or try and kludge the old code, or hack around the old code with a whole new bit.
    • The original network - I'm sure our technologists wouldn't like this - but it was kludged together through landlines

Origin

1960s: invented word, perhaps influenced by bodge and fudge.

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