Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form; dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape; make like in form or figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
set up orarrange something in such a way that it is ready foroperation for aparticular purpose , or to someone's particularliking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set up for a particular purpose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Among the more notable, he says, is Conficker, which is thought to be a combination of the English word configure and the German word ficker, which is obscene.
Computerworld 2009
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There's no specific source as to where the worm got its common name, but Internet specialists speculate that Conficker is a portmanteau of the word "configure" with the German word for a common four-letter expletive.
FIUSM.com 2009
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That been said with the advent of OSX or BSD I am finding that special free software for music for UNIX, Linux that was a pain to configure is now been made assessable and less time consuming I assume to get up and running on the Apple computer now that steve has switched over to BSD.
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There are actually several settings that the user can configure, which is unexpected, but they don't seem to help the overall picture quality much.
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I used Webmin to set up Samba, since the configure is a pain in the butt if you do it via editing conf files. sudo apt-get install samba ssh Just be sure to secure SSH using iptables and use a strong password or keys.
Ubuntu Forums 2010
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"Advanced" tab with a million different things to configure, which is also confusing.
Planet KDE 2010
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"Advanced" tab with a million different things to configure, which is also confusing.
Planet KDE 2010
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Its actions are simple to configure, which is how you would expect it to be.
RubyCorner 2009
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The magic happens: it loads all the files inside the directory, and then starts to call the configure script, and I see yes / no lines flying in the output window.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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The magic happens: it loads all the files inside the directory, and then starts to call the configure script, and I see yes / no lines flying in the output window.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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