Quicksand vs Privatized - What's the difference?
quicksand | privatized |
Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
(privatize)
To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.
(computing) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
* 1997 , David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop (page 184)
As a noun quicksand
is wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts.As a verb privatized is
(privatize).quicksand
English
(wikipedia quicksand)Noun
- My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand , and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
- The quicksands of youth...
privatized
English
Verb
(head)privatize
English
Alternative forms
* privatise (Commonwealth )Verb
(privatiz)- If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.