A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
The act of shuffling cards.
A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
To put in a random order.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To change; modify the order of something.
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.