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Munged vs Munges - What's the difference?

munged | munges |

As verbs the difference between munged and munges

is that munged is (mung) while munges is (munge).

munged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mung)
  • (munge)

    • mung

    English

    (wikipedia mung)

    Alternative forms

    * moong, munge

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of small bean.
  • The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or .

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from Mash Until No Good'', or a self referencing acronym, ''Mung Until No Good . Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
  • (by extension, informal) to destroy
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    munges

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (munge)

    • 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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