Canary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
2. isim Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
3. isim A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
4. isim An informer or snitch; a squealer.
5. isim A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
6. isim A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
7. isim A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.

   “Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey^([sic]) they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.”

8. isim Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
9. isim A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
10. isim A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
11. isim A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

    “Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.”

12. isim A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).

    “In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]”

13. isim A sovereign (coin).
14. isim A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.

    “She had previously been sacked ... for "selling canaries" - a practice in which drivers resell used tickets to passengers and keep the fare for themselves.”

15. isim A prisoner or convict.
16. sıfat Of a light yellow colour.
17. fiil To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).

    “but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,”

18. fiil To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
19. fiil To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
20. isim Someone connected with Norwich City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
21. sıfat That can be exercised on quarterly dates, a set time period (usually one year) after the issue date, and before the expiry date.

    “Canary callable bonds are a type of step-up bond that is a hybrid structure, having elements of both Bermudan and European calls.”