different between jank vs jane

English

Etymology

Ostensibly back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).

Noun

jank (uncountable)

1. (computing, slang, rare) Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
   • 2013, Nick Sutrich, Android Headlines

     This also marks the first time I haven’t felt that Samsung jank on the phone, which deserves its own paragraph in its own right. That weird stuttering and pausing you’ve seen on so many Samsung phones seems to be almost completely gone on the Note 3 […]

   • 2013, Addy Osmani, Smashing Magazine

     In cases where you’re concerned about scrolling, the browser can manage the frame rate for you. But if you introduce a large amount of jank, then it won’t be able to do as good a job.

   • 2015, Bogdan Petrovan, Android Authority

     in order to hit this impressive frame rate, the “jank-free” Sky prioritizes the UI over other processes, meaning the app should stay smooth when it works heavily in the background.

   • 2018, Eli White, Facebook React Native Blog

     Even though JavaScript will try to update the animation every frame, it will likely not be able to do that fast enough and will cause dropped frames (jank) to occur.

Related terms

• janky

Adjective

jank (comparative more jank, superlative most jank)

1. (computing, slang, rare) janky (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

jank c (plural janken, diminutive jankje n)

1. yowl, howl, cry

Synonyms

• gejank

Related terms

• janken

Verb

jank

1. first-person singular present indicative of janken
2. imperative of janken

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²j??k/, /²j??k/, /²jæ?k/

  Rhymes: -???k, -à?k

  Homophone: Janck

Etymology

A k-derivative of jamn (“even.”)

Verb

jank

1. adjust, e.g. to smoothen out or cut evenly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: Jain

Etymology 1

From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,

     His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
2. Alternative spelling of jean
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production

     Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?

3. A female client of a prostitute.

Anagrams

• Jaen, Jaén, Jean, Jena, jean

Japanese

Romanization

jane

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

jane

1. locative singular of jana
2. accusative plural of jana