taint
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Is taint a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of taint?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.obsolete
2. (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.Examples: "A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement."; "He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove."obsolete
3. (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.Examples: "Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.Examples: "His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love."Synonyms: lepertransitive
2. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.transitive
3. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.Examples: "I cannot taint with fear."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.Examples: "Meat soon taints in warm weather."intransitive
5. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.transitive
6. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.Australiatransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.Examples: "Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint, and bravely."transitive
2. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.Examples: "Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint)"; "Even her taint's raw?"; "Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!"USslangvulgar
Definition source: Wiktionary