currying

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English

Definitions

verb

To cook or season with curry powder.

verb

To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
To beat, thrash; to drub.
To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

verb

To perform currying upon.

verb

To scurry; to ride or run hastily
To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
To hurry.

noun

The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.

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Synonyms

dress groom partial application sequentialization function supercompilation call-by-need defunctionalization monomorphisation call cofunction call-by-value gadget call-by-reference coroutine recursive function

Rhymes

scurrying worrying hurrying flurrying without worrying

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