sausage

n 1: highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

2: a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a

barrage balloon [syn: {blimp}, {sausage balloon}]

massage

Vague term used to describe "smooth" transformations of a data

set into a different form, especially transformations that do

not lose information. Connotes less pain than {munch} or

{crunch}. "He wrote a program that massages {X bitmap} files

into {GIF} format." Compare {slurp}.

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