pushdown
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.
noun
The relegation of the transformation or processing of data to the originating datasource.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Used by being pushed down.
Example Sentences
- "Since indexed grammars are context-free grammars with pushdowns, the generalization of Thatcher's result shows that they generate the yields of the tree languages recognized by deterministic pushdown tree automata."
- "filter pushdown"
- "predicate pushdown"
- "Machine exercises with weight stacks, like pushdowns or pulldowns, are ideal for cranking out more than three drops because all you need to do is insert the pin in a higher (lighter) slot each time."
- "[T]he unfortunate few who suffer from it [ejaculatory anhedonia] are incapable of deriving any pleasure whatsoever from orgasms. They make a bit of mess while staring impassively into the middle distance, and that's it. Like the human equivalent of a pushdown soap-dispenser."
- "The containers we always use for those are the OXO ones that have the pushdown button, so I think it probably does stay fresher than flour in a paper bag, and in that way, it works."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
pushdown accounting
Frequently Paired Words
pushdown accounting