taint

Etymology 1
From, from (past participle of ), from  (past participle of ); compare.

Noun

 * A, or , especially in.
 * 1) A tinge, trace or touch.
 * 2) A mark of, especially on one's ; blemish.
 * 3)  Tincture; hue; colour.
 * 4)  Infection; corruption; deprivation.
 * 5)  A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
 * 6) * 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
 * Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints
 * 1)  A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
 * 2) * 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
 * Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: pilaantuma, pilaantunut kohta
 * French:, ,
 * Slovak: nečistota
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: häpeätahra,
 * French: ,
 * Slovak: špina

Verb

 * 1)  To  or  (something) with an external, either  or.
 * 2)  To  (food) by.
 * 3)  To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
 * 4)  To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
 * Meat soon taints in warm weather.
 * 1)  To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
 * 2)  To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
 * 1)  To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
 * 2)  To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: truailligh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Slovak: zašpiniť, pošpiniť, skaziť, kaziť
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق

Etymology 2
From, aphetic form of , , from. Compare with.

Noun

 * 1) A  with a, which fails of its intended.
 * 2) An  done to a  in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a  or unscientific manner.
 * 1) An  done to a  in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a  or unscientific manner.

Verb

 * 1)  To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
 * 2)  To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
 * 1)  To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy. ’

Noun

 * 1)  The.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ნაწყლი
 * Norwegian: skrukk
 * Spanish: nies, ,
 * Swedish: