Crossword clues for slub
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slub \Slub\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.
Slub \Slub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slubbing.] To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. 2 sludge. 3 fabric fiber produced by slubbing. vb. To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Slub is an algorave group formed in 2000 by Adrian Ward and Alex McLean, joined by Dave Griffiths in 2005. They are known for making their music exclusively from their own generative software, projecting their screens so their audience can see their handmade interfaces. Their music is improvised, and advertised as falling within the ambient gabba genre.
Since 2005 slub performances have been exclusively live coded, using a variety of different self-built language environments. These have included Pure Events, a tracker-like JavaScript environment; feedback.pl, an environment for self-editing Perl programming; Fluxus, a Scheme game engine; and Tidal, a pure functional DSL embedded in Haskell.
In 2011, while on the way to a gig, Alex McLean and Nick Collins invented the Algorave.
Slub or SLUB may refer to:
- Ślub, a play by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz
- Slub (band), a computer music group formed in 2000
- Slub (knitting), a thick spot in a yarn created by varying the tightness of the twist
- SLUB, abbreviation for the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden, Germany
- SLUB (software), one of the three memory handlers in the kernel Linux
SLUB ("the unqueued slab allocator") is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of kernel objects which displays the desirable property of eliminating fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. The technique is used to retain allocated memory that contains a data object of a certain type for reuse upon subsequent allocations of objects of the same type. It is used in Linux and became the default allocator since 2.6.23.
Usage examples of "slub".
The slubbing or sliver may be scoured, bleached, rinsed, dyed, washed, soaped, or otherwise treated without removing it from the machine, which is a most decided advantage.
Over the traditional alblike garment of fine linen next to his skin they placed an outer robe of white slubbed silk, embellished at the collar and cuffs and down the front with bold embroidery of gold bullion.
The rich smells of coffee and cinnamon mingled with the faintly prickly velvetiness of dust, the steamy whiff from the laundry in the next street, the odor of privies and stale cheap cooking, a strange, slubbed tapestry of fustian and silk.
She was beginning to lose heart when she found exactly what she wanted--a sleeveless dress and little jacket in a thick slub silk, its colour an exact match of the chiffon in the hat.
A number of slubs must be joined, end to end, and twisted slightly so that they will stay together.