kluge

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Editorial note

The issue is that other idiots (in some quest to turn JS into Java or C#) decided that a block scoping kluge was a better.

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Quick take

Something that should not work, but does.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of kluge gathered in one view.

noun

Something that should not work, but does.

noun

A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for kluge.

noun

Something that should not work, but does.

noun

A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.

noun

A surname.

verb

Alternative spelling of kludge. [(informal, transitive) To build or use a kludge.]

Example sentences

The issue is that other idiots (in some quest to turn JS into Java or C#) decided that a block scoping kluge was a better.

We wouldn't admire it in programming unless it were clearly necessary, or at least a useful kluge on balance.

Sass and less are really a kluge that just sheds light on how much CSS needs this built in.

There are distinct benefits to approaches in caching content and providing feedback, but JavaScript seems to be a kluge-y approach.

In summary, it sucks that the author FTA has to deal with this date/time kluge that he didn't create, but...

For non-windows users, a vm solution would be way better than a kluge like wine.

It is very much a kluge but you can use pipe(2); it will give you two fds both of which you control.

Cable modems are a kluge, not a sound technical solution to broadband at home.

So-called reality, however, imposed some necessary corrections, and the kluge called JNI was added.

It doesn't have to be a kluge as someone stated below.

Please let us know when installation is less of a kluge.

Like many others at the time, we came up with a kluge based on shared cookies so both our Java apps and.

Quote examples

And Kluge agrees with my intuition that modern German "Rest" also comes from Latin (restare, 'to remain').

Etymology = as in "you're a champ for not wasting time on a kluge that would delay your real acquisition" or....?

I find the suggestion surprising myself, given how Germanic the German term sounds to me, but I decided to check in Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache for the etymology of German "Stoff".

Kluge says that it came from Middle Dutch "stoffe", which got it from Old French "estoffe", which had a sense of 'cloth, mesh, fabric (especially of silk)'.

Proper noun examples

Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe.

Kokinov (eds) Similarity and Analogical Reasoning - Stella Vosniadou (ed) Never Flinch - Stephen King The Bad Weather Friend - Dean Koontz Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind - Gary Marcus After Death - Dean Koontz The 15th book that I hope to finish will be: Principles of Semantic Networks - John F.