Crud vs Refind - What's the difference?
crud | refind |
Dirt, filth or refuse.
(figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
Mixed impurities, especially corrosion products in nuclear reactor fuel.
A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to ski.
(euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
A contemptible person.
(slang, US, military, and, students) venereal disease, or (later) any disease.
A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
To find something again.
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As an acronym crud
is (programming|database) create, read, update, and delete.As a verb refind is
to find something again.crud
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- Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad.
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