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• firehose

語源

From fire +‎ hose.

発音

名詞

fire hose (plural fire hoses)

1. A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.

   Hypernym: hose

   Coordinate term: garden hose

   • 1954 June, “Yonge Street Subway, Toronto”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:

     Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.

2. (idiomatic) Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).

   She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.

3. (computing) A feed of all updates to a website.
   • 2012, Rob Garner, Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 286:

     Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)

   • 2013, Marty Weintraub, Lauren Litwinka, The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 172:

     This is cool because, even though the YouTube firehose is on full blast, you only need an instance of the feed and from that firehose, you can filter out what you need for alerts for as many keywords as you like.

   • 2013, Murray Dick, Search: Theory and Practice in Journalism Online, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:

     However, it is worth bearing in mind that even those services with access to the Twitter 'firehose' (direct API) do not have anything even approaching a complete Twitter archive.

   • 2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     Here we will briefly consider web crawlers, webscraping software, data feeds (RSS and other feeds, firehoses etc), human cutting and pasting, panels, MROCs, Netnography, and text analytics.

4. (idiomatic, colloquial) A human penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

5. An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.

参考

語源

From fire +‎ hose.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfaɪ.ərˌhoʊz/

名詞

firehose (plural firehoses)

1. (Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.
   • 2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference

     The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

2. Alternative form of fire hose

派生語

• drink from a firehose
• firehose cursor

参考

• drink from a firehose

動詞

firehose (third-person singular simple present firehoses, present participle firehosing, simple past and past participle firehosed)

1. To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish a fire.