one-liner
- noun
- /ˈwʌnˌlaɪnər/
- Specialized
- And if not, and you prevail, forget about your cool one-liner; it will be a very shocking experience hard to live with for the rest of your life.
Examples
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(I'm sure there's a Perl one-liner to lowercase text in the image files too, but it's probably longer...)
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The programmer created a simple one-liner to automate the data entry process.
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Add a one-liner to trigger the interest of those who want or need to know.
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Not to mention the appropriate one-liner you're free to think of, meanwhile.
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OK, so these lines of code is a very generic way of writing this one liner list comprehension.
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And if not, and you prevail, forget about your cool one-liner; it will be a very shocking experience hard to live with for the rest of your life.
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With just one one-liner, he managed to simplify the complex function.
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She wrote a clever one-liner that impressed her colleagues during the presentation.
Synonyms
A single line of code that tells the computer to do something
A single line of code in a computer program
How Long
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
One-liner comes from the parts one and line, meaning a 'single line'. In computing it means a single line of code that does a complete task, so you can remember it as 'one line that does the work'.