A surname.
bork
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bork.
Editorial note
Just one typo in some future edit can bork everything if it's not tested thoroughly.
Quick take
A surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bork gathered in one view.
(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bork.
noun
A surname.
verb
(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
verb
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
noun
(Internet slang, humorous) The sound that a dog makes.
Example sentences
Just one typo in some future edit can bork everything if it's not tested thoroughly.
By using position: fixed they bork themselves if the user scrolls during an animation.
I never have to worry that installing my program on another machine would suddenly cause it to bork.
Didn't Exchange have problems in the early part of this century, or earlier, with its database being easy to bork and slow to restore?
Things break all the time, updates will Bork your system.
Inexperience with a computer doesn't cause suspend to spontaneously bork.
I'd rather just manually update once I'm sure it won't bork my system, and only when I can afford some potential downtime.
If they don't, users can't write that kind of code, because otherwise, on some users' machines, it will bork the whole site.
I recently started using bork[1] which is a bash-based DSL with a similar philosophy.
I wish they didn't bork the template of the docs, it looks terrible.
When he was finally done, I spent about half an hour managing to bork the entire system, so he had to do a full reinstall...
At this point we are starting everyone on the sensible path to client certificates and yet have a fall back position of the curren bork'ed password setup.
Quote examples
Is it that he is black?" No, its that biased samples bork results.
$ sudo echo 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com >> /etc/hosts if you actually execute the above command, take care to enter ">>" rather than ">", otherwise you'll bork your own networking.
Proper noun examples
During Robert Bork's confirmation hearings, the press reported that he'd rented some porn videos.
It's entirely possible that Eich could become a verb, like Bork.
Plus, you want to abolish medical privacy and other laws we already have, like the Video Privacy Protection Act put into place after Bork's video tape rental history was published for the world to see.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bork in a sentence?
Just one typo in some future edit can bork everything if it's not tested thoroughly.
What does bork mean?
A surname.
What part of speech is bork?
bork is commonly used as noun, verb.