noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
food processor
word processor
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Most reports are produced on a word processor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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The central processor then orders hypotheses, adds, deletes and modifies them.
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The old system was located in a single central processor on one floor of a building in earthquake-prone San Francisco.
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I've allocated him to Room 403, with instructions for all communications systems to be channelled through the central processor .
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This was because these systems employ passive memory inspected by a sequential central processor .
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The information may be text, numbers, colours and so on, or information for the computer central processor unit.
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Lexical access is not an autonomous process which a central processor can direct towards any part of the utterance.
digital
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Korg seem to have done the impossible and produced a totally digital processor with some absolutely authentic guitar sounds.
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The outfit comes with six speakers, including a subwoofer, a digital sound processor and a digital remote.
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It's certainly made me rethink my approach to digital processors and what I expect from them.
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It's the Intellifex 24 bit digital processor , with 80 user memory locations and a total of 99 factory presets.
faster
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Acquisition of More Resources Acquisition of a faster processor or larger memory would involve replacement of the mainframe.
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Demands for faster processors with larger memory to run newer applications software are increasing.
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My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors .
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Cheaper memory, faster processors , and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.
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This is Commodore's second-generation Amiga with a faster processor , twice as much internal memory and improved colour and sound capabilities.
high
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The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board.
large
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The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot. 6.
main
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This removes a lot of work from the main processor which no longer has to bother with keyboard scanning, buffering, etc.
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This has its own 80188 processor on-board, so the cache relieves the main processor of some of the donkey work.
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The speed of the main processor still has more effect on spreadsheet applications than the coprocessor.
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When the coprocessor has finished its' task it passes the result to the main processor .
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All very nice in theory but there are delays in passing information between coprocessor and main processor .
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The larger of the two chips fits in the main processor socket, the smaller in the coprocessor socket.
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The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot. 6.
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A possible exception to this is the main processor .
multiple
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Bourne says that the rewrite has now achieved linear performance increases across multiple processors running a database.
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The compilers will be capable of distributing loop-based code to multiple micro-vector processors as well as running the processors in parallel.
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Multiple accumulator sets A way in which process switching may be speeded up is by the provision of multiple processor register Sets.
parallel
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This consists of in-house seminars on the theory and practice of using multi- and parallel processor machines.
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Programmers can access this memory from outside the parallel processor by using memory mapping.
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The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
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Surprisingly though, in the normal configuration all of these parallel processors are linked by a standard Ethernet local area network.
single
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Hardware developer C-Cube of California, produced a single chip compression-decompression processor for video.
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Computers and the Brain A conventional computer is typically a single processor acting on explicitly programmed instructions.
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This might be a fixed length pipeline, or even a single sequential processor .
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Theoretical speed limits for a single processor are being approached.
■ NOUN
food
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Sieve the cottage cheese, or pur e in a food processor or liquidiser and beat in the egg and milk.
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Shred meat by hand or in short bursts in food processor .
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Scrape out the flesh with a teaspoon and put into a food processor or blender with the next four ingredients.
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Transfer to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.
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Put the mixture into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. 3.
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Scoop flesh from potatoes into a food processor .
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Place the egg yolks in a food processor or blender and add the mustard and half of the vinegar.
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Place the almonds and lemon zest in the bowl of a food processor .
word
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Even in those days, the architects never had to consider the word processor , the microcomputer, the fax machine.
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Kids who need a word processor and Net access for school.
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She searched the desk for her tiny Nagasyu word processor , finding it under a book.
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Independent developers had written dozens of word processors , and even programs for obscure functions like cattle management and tarot card reading.
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Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor .
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The subjects studied included how to use word processors , how to access Web sites and how to use e-mail.
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You are unlikely to find a word processor on your desk or fully computerised accounts, research and marketing departments.
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For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge.
■ VERB
add
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Crush 1 of the garlic cloves, add to processor , and puree mixture until smooth.
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Instructions recently added to Intel processors that are claimed to speed up some video and sound functions.
combine
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Inmos Transputers are unique because they combine a processor , communications links and memory on a single chip.
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Meanwhile, combine vinegars, mustard and pepper in a food processor and blend until combined.
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Instead the two modules operate in isolation with the results being combined by a control processor .
include
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Interleaf Publisher provides its own environment which includes a word processor , graphics package and so on.
run
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The compilers will be capable of distributing loop-based code to multiple micro-vector processors as well as running the processors in parallel.
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Most personal computers are used to run software like word processors , spreadsheets, data bases and so on.
support
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It now has a fully multi-threaded kernel and can support up to 30 processors .
use
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The new Nintendo system uses a 64-bit processor , while the Saturn and Playstation are 32-bit systems.
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They are taught to use word-processors and spreadsheets.
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Mrs Mesa and I used word processors .
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This consists of in-house seminars on the theory and practice of using multi- and parallel processor machines.
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Results can be printed in any form using the word processor .
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You can even use a word processor , as long as it will let you save the files as plain text.
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The subjects studied included how to use word processors , how to access Web sites and how to use e-mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A crossbar network connects the processors at 800Mbytes per second.
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Cargill is an international processor and distributor and agricultural and food products.
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First, I can't get the word processor , or anything else, to print correctly.
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Its processors include 133 -, 150-and 160-megahertz chips.
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Place ancho chilies and 1 cup of the cooking liquid in a blender or food processor and puree.
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Think of the impact of the revolutionary Cuisinart food processor introduced in this country in 1973 and now a household staple.
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Word processor packages can accept drawings, bitmaps, spreadsheet data and so on.