rump

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The whole paper had the feel of a rump session pub, didn't it?

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the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

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noun

the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

noun

fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round

noun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for rump.

noun

the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

noun

fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round

noun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

Example sentences

The whole paper had the feel of a rump session pub, didn't it?

Like rump kernels and Lua in kernel space - It's dominated by hobbyists.

No part of the rump kernel is about reinventing the wheel. It is about reusing existing OS code in other situations.

With the rump kernel you can run drivers in userspace, so you can use a normal debugger and so on, and not crash the OS you are running.

I've been planning to revive my kernel programming projects and when I do, I'll definitely take a look at rump kernels and the BSD device drivers.

And for all of the posturing, I think that any rump-UK government would allow and, in fact, want an independent Scotland to be as close and integrated as possible. In some ways, it feels like the world is trying to figure itself out.

Once this threshold had been reached, the other 4 states could have fun governing their rump country under the old Articles. But the ratifying states would be in a customs union and have a strong central government, and they could make do just fine without the holdouts.

Cost-insensitive users who have Uber brand loyalty may be a large rump population for Uber -- they were the original adopters of the service. But their growth has been in cost-conscious people, and they've been in deep competition for those people, in a price war.

You're doing well if you're creating new businessses, trying them out, closing the losers, keeping the winners, and selling off the decent-but-not-fabulous rump to other people who can make them even more profitable.

Then there's emerging technologies like rump kernels, which might permit endless kernel customization with very tiny overhead... even emulating other OSes.

The idea of rump kernels is to make existing kernel driver implementations available in environments beyond the original [monolithic] kernel they were written for. The idea is not to figure out some perfect structure for an OS. There is absolutely no intention to back pedal to historic systems which lack the drivers to operate with real world of today.