Swizzle

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, v. t.
     To drink; to swill. --Halliwell.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, n.
     Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swizzle
       n : any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum
           and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  swizzle v. To convert external names, array indices, or references
     within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is
     brought into main memory from external storage (also called `pointer
     swizzling'); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to
     simplify code (e.g., by turning lots of name lookups into pointer
     dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed `unswizzling'.
     See also {snap}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  swizzle
       
          To convert external names, array indices, or references within
          a data structure into address pointers when the data structure
          is brought into main memory from external storage (also called
          "pointer swizzling"); this may be done for speed in chasing
          references or to simplify code (e.g. by turning lots of name
          lookups into pointer dereferences).  The converse operation is
          sometimes termed "unswizzling".
       
          See also {snap}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]