TCP1
noun [mass noun] British trademark
A disinfectant and germicidal solution containing various phenols and sodium salicylate.Dab affected area lightly twice or thrice daily with cotton wool soaked in TCP....
- Chlorine is used to make antiseptics such as TCP.
- She brought him the bottle of TCP after all the stings had been carefully plucked out.
Origin
1930s: abbreviation of trichlorophenyl, part of the chemical name of one of the ingredients.
TCP2
noun
A set of rules that governs the delivery of data over the Internet or other network that uses the Internet Protocol, and sets up a connection between the sending and receiving computers.TCP is also the preferred protocol for most new applications....
- IFCP maps Fibre Channel frames to a predetermined TCP connection for transport, with a good performance/bandwidth utilization compromise for remote connections.
- The backdoor is intended to allow a range of attacks to be initiated from infected computers, such as executing arbitrary commands, creating TCP floods, creating DNS floods and searching for email addresses on disk.
Origin
1970s: short for Transmission Control Protocol.
- likable
- like
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- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
- like a blue-arsed fly
- likeably
- like a bride's nightie
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks)
- like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights
- like a demon
- like a dog with two tails
- like a dose of salts
- like a dream
- like a drowned rat
- like a headless chicken
- like a (hot) knife through butter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a leech
- like a man (or woman) possessed