Definizione monolingua

orphan

orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)

1. (transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)

   What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?

2. (transitive) (computing) To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.

   When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

   Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

orphan (plural orphans)

1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
2. A young animal with no mother.
3. (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporters demise or decision to abandon.
4. (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
5. (computing) Any unreferenced abstract object.

orphan (not comparable)

1. Deprived of parents (also orphaned).

   She is an orphan child.

2. (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

   With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

Definizione dizionario orphan

	orfano
	person whose parents have died
	A person one or both of whose parents have died, especially a minor.
	A member of a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume that has failed due to a severe cause, such as a loss of power or a complete hard-disk head failure. When this happens, the fault-tolerant driver determines that it can no longer use the orphaned member and directs all new reads and writes to the remaining members of the fault-tolerant volume.

orfana

orfanotrofio

povero

Altri significati:

(transitive) (computing) To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.

Deprived of parents (also orphaned).

(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

(transitive) To deprive of parents ( '''used almost exclusively in the passive''' )

A young animal with no mother.

(computing) Any unreferenced abstract object.

(by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

(figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.