spite

n 1: feeling a need to see other suffer [syn: {malice}, {maliciousness},

{spitefulness}, {venom}]

2: malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or

nasty [syn: {cattiness}, {bitchiness}, {spitefulness}, {nastiness}]

v : hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include

me among her guests" [syn: {hurt}, {wound}, {injure}, {offend}]

spike

To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a

(sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result.

The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers

refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay

in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to

spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In

programming environments it normally refers to a temporary

change, usually for testing purposes (as opposed to a

permanent change, which would be called {hard-coded}).

(1999-10-18)