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fuzz

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  • //fʌz//

A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.

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  1. 1

    A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.

    His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

    Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.

  2. 2

    Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.

    ...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.

  3. 3

    The random data used in fuzz testing.

    "Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

  4. 4

    A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.

    This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.

  5. 5

    A state of befuddlement.

    I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like.

    So I'm in a fuzz of not knowing what to do

  6. 6

    Fuzziness, vagueness.

Etimologia

Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”

verbo

  1. 1

    To make fuzzy.

  2. 2

    To become fuzzy.

  3. 3

    desuetoTo make drunk.

    Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink.

  4. 4

    To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.

    Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.

  5. 5

    desuetoTo fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.

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    gergoThe police, or any law enforcement agency.

    Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up

Etimologia

Unknown. Godfrey Irwin (1930) suggests a possible connection to fuss, "over-particular", excessive bother.

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    Variante di fussMisspelling of fuss.

Forme

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participio passato
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participio presente
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3ª persona singolare
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