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Aggressive vs Aggro - What's the difference?

aggressive | aggro |

As adjectives the difference between aggressive and aggro

is that aggressive is tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking while aggro is angry.

As a noun aggro is

aggravation; bother.

As a verb aggro is

to become aggressive towards the player's character.

aggressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
    • an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
  • (label) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
  • * 1996 , Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6 , Springer (ISBN 9783540610533), page 59
    • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
  • * 2001 , Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems , Springer (ISBN 9783540419457), page 173
    • Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
  • * 2002 , Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation , CRC Press (ISBN 9781420040579), page 465
    • However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
  • * 2002 , Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA , IEEE Computer Society Press (ISBN 9780769516202), page 249
    • The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
  • * 2003 , Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing , Springer (ISBN 9781852335069), page 182
    • This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
  • * 2011 , Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition , Elsevier (ISBN 9780123859648), page 11
    • The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * aggressively * aggressiveness * aggressivity * microaggressive * passive-aggressive

    Related terms

    * aggression * aggressor

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    aggro

    English

    Alternative forms

    * agro

    Noun

    (-)
  • Aggravation; bother.
  • * 2011 , Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods , page 25,
    • But the thing to remember was that some women were prepared to provide an outlet, in spite'' of all the aggro''', if the money was right. And lots of guys were prepared to pay, in spite of the '''aggro'''. And what the ' aggro boiled down to, if you thought about it, was the shame of being known to be the person who had been involved.
  • (chiefly, UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
    • Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro .
  • * 1999 , Eric Dunning, Sport Matters : Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation , page 162,
    • That is the case because, according to Marsh, soccer hooliganism is one of Britain's principal forms of aggro'. If it is true that there is an absence of ' aggro traditions in the USA — and there is a wealth of evidence which suggests that Marsh is wrong on this score — then it is reasoble to deduce from Marsh?s arguments that it is unlikely that phenomena such as soccer hooliganism could or ever will develop there.
  • * 2011 , Jake Arnott, The Long Firm , unnumbered page,
    • ‘We ain?t got a name yet. We?re into aggro .’
    ‘Aggro ?’
    ‘Yeah, you know, aggression, aggravation. Aggro ’.
  • (online gaming) A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies.
  • * 2007 , Bendik Stang, Morten A. Osterholt, Erik Hoftun, The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games , page 98,
    • To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.
  • * 2008 April, GameAxis Unwired , page 54,
    • What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro' System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. ' Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.
  • * 2010 , Luke Cuddy, John Nordlinger (editors), World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King , page 187,
    • We asked for an ability to trasnfer(sic) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.
  • (online gaming, MMORPG slang) Hostile attention from an enemy that should target players with better defenses.
    • You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Australia, NZ, slang) Angry.
  • * 2011 , Bill Noel. The Marsh: A Folly Beach Mystery , page 70,
    • “The Chuckster say you two be finding aggro idiot who kilt Long,” said Dude.
    I thought I understood but looked at Charles for help.
    “Aggro' means pissed off.” translated Charles. He still hadn't cracked a smile. Tardiness made Charles ' aggro .
  • (online gaming, MMORPG slang) Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).
  • (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
  • * 2005 , Peta Tait, Circus Bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance , page 131,
    • At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (online gaming, MMORPG slang, intransitive) To become aggressive towards the player's character.
    • Do they aggro on sight or sound?