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PRONUNCIATION OF KLUDGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KLUDGE

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Kludge is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KLUDGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kludge

Kludge

A kludge is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain, yet an effective and quick solution to a problem. It is a rough synonym to the term "jury rig". This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, internet slang, and evolutionary neuroscience.

Definition of kludge in the English dictionary

The definition of kludge in the dictionary is an unsophisticated but fairly effective solution to a problem; esp a computing problem.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KLUDGE


adjudge
əˈdʒʌdʒ
begrudge
bɪˈɡrʌdʒ
bludge
blʌdʒ
bouge
bʌdʒ
budge
bʌdʒ
drudge
drʌdʒ
forjudge
fɔːˈdʒʌdʒ
fudge
fʌdʒ
grudge
ɡrʌdʒ
judge
dʒʌdʒ
misjudge
ˌmɪsˈdʒʌdʒ
mudge
mʌdʒ
nudge
nʌdʒ
prejudge
priːˈdʒʌdʒ
pudge
pʌdʒ
rejudge
riːˈdʒʌdʒ
sludge
slʌdʒ
smudge
smʌdʒ
trudge
trʌdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KLUDGE

klipspringer
klister
Klondike
klondiker
klondyke
klondyker
klong
klooch
kloochman
kloof
klootch
klootchman
klootchmen
Klopstock
kludgey
kludgy
klutz
klutziness
klutzy
klystron

WORDS THAT END LIKE KLUDGE

activated sludge
assistant judge
besmudge
circuit judge
district court judge
elections judge
foot fault judge
forejudge
hanging judge
High Court judge
inky smudge
line judge
side judge
sitting judge
snudge
touch judge
trial judge

Synonyms and antonyms of kludge in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kludge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KLUDGE

Find out the translation of kludge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kludge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kludge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

杂牌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kludge
570 millions of speakers

English

kludge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kludge
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حل أهوج لمشكلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ляп
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gambiarra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kludge
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bidouille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kludge
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Flickschusterei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クルージ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

클루
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kludge
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kludge
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒப்பேற்று
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुल्ड्ज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kludge
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kludge
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kludge
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ляп
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kludge
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

kludge
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kludge
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kludge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kludge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kludge

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KLUDGE»

The term «kludge» is regularly used and occupies the 79.570 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KLUDGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kludge

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KLUDGE»

Discover the use of kludge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kludge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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InfoWorld
The word wind is spelled the same in both instances; no inflections, elisions or other structural devices dictate the different pronunciations. Some words that don' t suffer this pronunciation dichotomy are budge, judge, sludge, nudge and kludge .
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The New Hacker's Dictionary
kludge -> kluge 27l kludge l. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US). These two words have been confused in American usage since the early l960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World ...
Eric S. Raymond, 1996
3
Statistical Methods for Health Care Research
Kludge Principle: Sometimes the best way to manipulate data is not elegant and seems to waste computer resources. A kludge is sometimes justifiable; the end CAN justify the means. (In information technology, a kludge [pronounced clue-j] is  ...
Barbara Hazard Munro, 2005
4
Software Quality: Software Crisis, Kludge, Second-System ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
5
InfoWorld
There is a definite psychological effect on the individual," Rutkowski emphasized. "People should surround themselves with beauty. Art creates art — kludge creates kludge." Others agree. Russ Walter, author of the Secret Guide to Computers, ...
6
Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the ...
“Do you know the term 'kludge'?” I wasn't sure I had heard him correctly. His East European accent was thin, and barely detectable most of the time. But it could be disorienting when his language strayed into new territory. A kludge? I didn't.
David J. Casarett,, 2010
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InfoWorld
Kludge continued from preceding page He began welding one hunk of metal to another, and then another, and another, and heating and hammering, and as the days went on, it got to where every single man in the engineering department ...
8
Mass and Motion in General Relativity
... parameter space is covered. Two families of approximate “kludge” waveforms have been developed, the analytic kludge and the numeric kludge. The purpose of these kludge waveforms is to allow their easy (and fast) calculation while ...
Luc Blanchet, Alessandro Spallicci, Bernard Whiting, 2011
9
Beginning Google Maps Mashups with Mapplets, KML, and ...
If you spend any time around programmers, sooner or later you'll hear the word kludge. It means a coding solution that isn't pretty, and isn't really the right way to do things, but gets the job done. My use of $now-- here is undeniably a kludge, ...
Sterling Udell, 2008
10
Mac Life
Robin, attempting to define the term "kludge hole" after it was used by Editorial Director Jon Phillips What am I eating? I'm just cramming some Saltines down my kludge hole. — Susie, figuring if Jon and Robin can make up words, so can she ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KLUDGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kludge is used in the context of the following news items.
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Friday roast: getting out of spreadsheet hell
I see that as a kludge but I 'get' why it happens. For my part, I wish that business leaders and CFOs in particular would simply mandate the ... «Diginomica, Jul 15»
2
BMX BIKING: Buffalo Creek sets rider record
Caitlyn Juvland; 7 Expert: 1. Alexander Hoffman, 2. Nathan Anderson, 3. Kalen Kludge; 8 Expert: 1. Matthew Peterson, 2. Jamison Rosandich, 3 ... «Crow River Media, Jul 15»
3
Server 2003 End Of Support is here. What to do if you are still …
This sort of kludge might work with Server 2003 now that support has expired. If you are still running Windows Server 2003, it's likely time to do ... «Windows IT Pro, Jul 15»
4
Bill's Perspective: Pastor Protection Act is a hoax
With regards to the Affordable Care Act, I agree with him that it is a kludge which needs to be modified. But it is the Republicans in the Federal ... «Austin American-Statesman, Jul 15»
5
Will _No Man's Sky_ be boring?
... generates at fine detail the parts of the planet that the user sees so anything that naturally wants to be global necessarily has to be a kludge. «GameDev.net, Jul 15»
6
7 cool new products from CE Week 2015
It's an ingenious kludge – the Roost replaces the standard 9-volt battery with a smaller Lithium Ion version (that lasts 5 years). The rest of that 9 ... «TechnoBuffalo, Jul 15»
7
UH OH: Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends
In an attempt to address the security hole it has created, Microsoft offers a kludge of a workaround: you must add _optout to the SSID (the name ... «The Register, Jul 15»
8
That shot you heard? SSLv3 is now DEAD
Major vendors have been expunging the buggy kludge from their code since last year, but RFC 7568 makes killing it off official IETF policy. «The Register, Jun 15»
9
A Closer Look At The New Audi R8 E-Tron Battery
The Model 3 will expose it for the kludge that it is. what. Says who? Also, please expand on how “VW's electrification tech is second rate at best. «Gas 2.0, Jun 15»
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Internet protocol from 1989 leaves data vulnerable to hijackers
And though there were lingering issues, the engineers saw their creation as a “hack” or “kludge,” slang for a short-term fix to be replaced as ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»

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