charming

adj 1: pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a

charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"

2: possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to

supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs

that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical

spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"-

Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: {magic},

{magical}, {sorcerous}, {witching(a)}, {wizard(a)}, {wizardly}]

farming

[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk

drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the

magnetic media. Associated with a {head crash}. Typically

used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope

the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."

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