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avocet

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I purchased Avocet locks after I saw they gave LPL trouble and a set for my entire house didn't cost as much as this horrible, shitty thing would.

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Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

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noun

Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for avocet.

noun

Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

Example sentences

1

I purchased Avocet locks after I saw they gave LPL trouble and a set for my entire house didn't cost as much as this horrible, shitty thing would.

2

BitKeeper is what Avocet could have been if Sun had not stopped me from doing any more work on NSElite (I was 1 guy who was coding circles around 8 tools people and they didn't like it).

3

Avocet was what you got when you took all my perl code and handed it to the tools group and they rewrote it in C++ (which they later admitted was a horrible idea).

4

Back when Sun was building a new source code control system (code named Avocet) they wanted a way to create a 'view' of the branch which included stuff from NFS servers and stuff locally.

5

Avocet (CodeManager) ruined me for other source control systems for years and years — I still look back on it fondly.

Proper noun examples

1

Avocet was what you got when you took all my perl code and handed it to the tools group and they rewrote it in C++ (which they later admitted was a horrible idea).

2

Back when Sun was building a new source code control system (code named Avocet) they wanted a way to create a 'view' of the branch which included stuff from NFS servers and stuff locally.

3

Avocet (CodeManager) ruined me for other source control systems for years and years — I still look back on it fondly.

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How do you use avocet in a sentence?

I purchased Avocet locks after I saw they gave LPL trouble and a set for my entire house didn't cost as much as this horrible, shitty thing would.

What does avocet mean?

Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

What part of speech is avocet?

avocet is commonly used as noun.