daring

adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the

total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation

of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of

contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome

investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: {audacious}, {venturesome},

{venturous}]

2: radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"

[syn: {avant-garde}]

n 1: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he

could never refuse a dare" [syn: {dare}]

2: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve

risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"

[syn: {boldness}, {hardihood}] [ant: {timidity}]

farming

[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk

drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the

magnetic media. Associated with a {head crash}. Typically

used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope

the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."

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