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aggressive | male |

As an adjective aggressive

is tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.

As a noun male is

tip (tip), summit, top (tree).

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

    male

    English

    (wikipedia male)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Belonging to the sex which typically has testes, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes.
  • * 1969 , Human afflictions and chromosomal aberrations , page 245:
  • On the one hand, the observation of Shah et al''. (1961) of male pseudohermaphroditism with XX karyotype and intra-abdominal testicles. Only the skin was studied so that a possibility of mosaicism cannot be dismissed. Two other XX male subjects (Court Brown ''et al. , 1964) raise a similar problem.
  • * 1995 , Nancy Condee, Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia , page 113:
  • The masked woman's lips do not move, but her voice is heard again, "And then, awakened by a daring kiss..."
    Behind the mask[,] the woman's eyes flicker open as a male voice is heard off-screen,
  • Belonging to the masculine (social) gender.
  • Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals; masculine.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page 289:
  • In the powder rooms of the world's great hotels[,] when male lesbians meet they show each other their wedding rings and burst out laughing.
  • * 2009 December 11, The Guardian :
  • "While No Doubt are avid fans of the Rolling Stones and even have performed in concerts with them, the Character Manipulation Feature results in an unauthorised performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes," the band's lawyers alleged.
  • (biology) Inherently characteristic of the male of a species.
  • * 2009 September 11, The Guardian :
  • "It's very complex area," said Bowen-Simpkins, a consultant gynaecologist. "The male hormone is what gives bulk to muscles and bones so they are at an advantage."
  • (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
  • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
  • Synonyms

    * manly, masculine * (figuratively) plug, pin

    Coordinate terms

    * transgender * intersex * androgynous * female * neuter

    Derived terms

    * male-assigned, cismale, transmale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
  • #* 2008 , Linda Goldman, Coming Out, Coming in: Nurturing the Well-being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society (ISBN 0415958245), page 27:
  • a biologically female person who identifies as a male .
  • #* 2013 , Emery & Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (ISBN 0123838355), chapter 88, page 6:
  • Among 46,XX males not having genital ambiguity, 80% show SRY as noted.
  • # An animal of the sex that has testes.
  • # A plant of the masculine sex.
  • Synonyms

    * boy

    Antonyms

    * female

    See also

    * man * macho * masculine * * sex, gender, gender identity

    Anagrams

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