wring

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Especially if you are trying to wring every erg of performance out of it.

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Quick take

a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"

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noun

a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"

verb

twist and press out of shape

verb

twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wring.

noun

a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"

verb

twist and press out of shape

verb

twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"

verb

obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

verb

twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

Example sentences

Especially if you are trying to wring every erg of performance out of it.

Well, correct me if I'm wring but Shopfiy is a completely different scaling problem from Twitter.

The best course of action is probably for funny junk to get try and wring some minor concession out of InmanThey repeatedly stole his work.

And once you know that for sure you're liable for triple the damages when your business is successful enough for the patent holders to come around to wring their money from you.

For set-in-stone inner loops, the extra performance you can wring out by hand-writing in assembly may be worth it, especially on compilers with shitty support for intrinsics.

Right, because all you need to do to wring a few more dollars out of a stingy, psychopathic billionaire institution that would throw you out on the street if it saw profit in it, is a little more work on your posturing.

It should be embarrassing how easy it is to wring huge increases out of the standard drop-folks-in-the-app-and-pray-they-think-like-your-tech-lead experience.

I hear writers moan and wring their hands about the high-framerate version of The Hobbit, how it doesn't look "cinematic" or what have you but anecdotally, nobody I know had the kind of complaints you hear from film insiders.

They are just looking for a way to maximize their ability to wring every cent out of Reddit's userbase regardless of whether the advertising completely destroyed the community.