cess
cess
Definition
cess (ses)
noun
in Ireland, an assessment; tax: now used only in bad cess to, bad luck to
Etymology: prob. < assess
cess
Usage Examples
Object
- pit: Update 20/08/2004 In Area A the removal of post-Roman pits - mostly cess pits of medieval date - is almost complete.
- format: If the ld command pro- duces an executable file in the parallel pro- cessing format, a logical task stack size is displayed.
- pro-: Data recorded on site are pro- cessed to provide basic coordinates for the production of measured plans and elevations.
Converse of object
- call: Any file descriptor created by the calling pro- cess or by the child process is also valid in the other process.
- run: Background pro- cesses run in a separate process group and a line con- taining their exit status is printed upon their comple- tion.
- collect: In 1685 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for collecting the Cess of the county ( Ibid, VIII. , 463 ).
Adjective modifier
- current: By default notify marks the current pro- cess; simply say ` notify ' after starting a background job to mark it.
Modifies a noun
- pit: The existing drainage system - using cess pits in the paddock - was tied in to the new system.
- deposit: It seems possible that the basal fills accumulated slowly in waterlogged conditions rather than representing cess deposits.
- pool: Some sewage drained into cess pools which filtered into nearby wells.
- tank: Above: Fly puparia in the bottom of a bowl found in the cess tank.
- component: The residue had a greenish tinge, possibly indicating a cess component.
- group: SIGTSTP stops all processes in the foreground pro- cess group for that terminal.
Noun used with modifier
- pro-: Signals set to be ignored by the calling process will be set to be ignored by the new pro- cess.
- background: Background pro- cesses run in a separate process group and a line con- taining their exit status is printed upon their comple- tion.
- suc-: The biggest suc- cesses continue to be the buildings we do not adopt but where our intervention stimulates the owners into action.
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