hose

n 1: man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a

doublet [syn: {tights}]

2: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: {hosepipe}]

v : water with a hose; "hose the lawn" [syn: {hose down}]

hose

1. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.

"That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system." See

{hosed}.

2. A narrow channel through which data flows under pressure.

Generally denotes data paths that represent performance

bottlenecks.

3. Cabling, especially {thick Ethernet cable}. This is

sometimes called "bit hose" or "hosery" (a play on "hosiery")

or "etherhose". See also {washing machine}.

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