Munge vs Mangle - What's the difference?
munge | mangle |
(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
(transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
* 1998 , Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
(transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.
To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
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* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To wring laundry.
(computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
As verbs the difference between munge and mangle
is that munge is to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.As a noun mangle is
a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.munge
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Alternative forms
* mungVerb
- 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.
- 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.
- It looks like this record is munged —it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date
Derived terms
*mangle
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(wikipedia mangle)Verb
(mangl)- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel