rancid

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Editorial note

Use those rancid sensors built in by nature.

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Quick take

(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

adjective

smelling of fermentation or staleness

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rancid.

adjective

(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

adjective

smelling of fermentation or staleness

Example sentences

Use those rancid sensors built in by nature.

Quote from the author, "rancid is named rancid because it stinks.

Nuts go rancid too fast and fruit rots and is kinda delicate.

I like Coromega brand because it can't become rancid.

As another Mac user since "the beginning", I could smell that rotten smell; slightly at first with SL, then thick and rancid with Lion.

By the time you've worked with someone for a while you learn to translate A's "this is unacceptable" as synonymous with B's "this is flaming rancid goat barf".

Hmm. So who's going to stop me, in this libertarian utopia of yours, from sticking a 'spam' label with a 'consumer reports approved 100% certified' logo on it on tins of rancid horsemeat and selling those?

If you could only push configs through something like rancid, made it read only to auditors or users, and could ensure configs only could get pushed through that, it would be reasonably to trust it.

The second is failure of the extensive processing means the stuff goes rancid really quickly, meaning you either dump half the bottle making it more expensive than olive or you eat rancid oil which is really unhealthy.