English Dictionary
◊ PTERYGIUM
come out
v 1: appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at
the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface
again" [syn: {come on}, {turn up}, {surface}, {show up}]
2: be issued or published, as of news in a paper, a book, or a
movie; "Did your latest book appear yet?" "The new Woody
Allen film hasn't come out yet" [syn: {appear}]
3: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The
words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: {issue}, {emerge},
{come forth}]
4: prove to be in the result or end; "How will the game turn
out?" [syn: {turn out}]
5: come forth or out; "You stick the coins in, but they come
out again" [syn: {pop out}]
6: take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal;
"Jerry came in third in the Marathon" [syn: {place}, {come
in}]
7: make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step
to the fore and help their peers" [syn: {come to the fore},
{step forward}, {come forward}, {step up}, {step to the
fore}]
8: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: {protrude}, {pop}, {pop
out}, {bulge}, {bulge out}, {bug out}]
9: to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This
actor outed last year" [syn: {come out of the closet}]
10: be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will
out" [syn: {out}]
11: as of teeth, for example; "The tooth erupted and had to be
extracted" [syn: {erupt}, {break through}, {push through}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ COMMENT OUT
comment out
To surround a section of code with {comment}
{delimiters} or to prefix every line in the section with a
comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or
interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the
code, e.g. during {debugging} or when the code is redundant or
obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent
of the active code clearer.
The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever
{syntax} is used to mark comments in the language in question,
e.g. "hash out" ({shell script}, {Perl}), "REM out" ({BASIC}),
etc.
Compare {condition out}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1998-04-28)