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名詞

frob (plural frobs)

1. (MIT, slang) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.

   Hand me that frob there, will you?

動詞

frob (third-person singular simple present frobs, present participle frobbing, simple past and past participle frobbed)

1. (computing, slang, rare, transitive) To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
   • 1995, Wayne Ause, Instant HTML Web Pages, page 29:

     I sketched about 30 different versions, then scanned them in and played around until I got it right, then frobbed it with Photoshop.

2. (Silicon Valley, slang) To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.

   Why don't you go get lunch? I need to frob with this thing for about 30 minutes and then we'll be good to go.

3. (programming, Linux, Gnu C) To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes contrasted with twiddle and tweak: frob for aimless manipulation, twiddle for coarse manipulation, and tweak for fine manipulation.

関連する語

• frobnicate
• frobnitz

参考

• futz with
• tweak
• twiddle

参照

Further reading

• frob, in The New Hacker's Dictionary, 1996, by Eric S. Raymond.
• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “frob”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “frobnicate”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

アナグラム

• FORB, forb