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Distort vs Munge - What's the difference?

distort | munge |

As verbs the difference between distort and munge

is that distort is to bring something out of shape while munge is to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.

As an adjective distort

is distorted; misshapen.

distort

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bring something out of shape.
  • (ergative) To become misshapen.
  • To give a false or misleading account of
    • In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

    Related terms

    * distorted (pos a) * distortion

    Derived terms

    * distorter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) distorted; misshapen
  • * Spenser
    • Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .

    munge

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mung

    Verb

  • (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
  • * 2011 , Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
    • As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.
  • (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
  • * 1998 , Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
    • Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.
  • (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.
    • It looks like this record is munged —it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date

    Derived terms

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