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new up

new up verb: to create (an object) by calling its constructor.

Verb

new up (third-person singular simple present news up, present participle newing up, simple past and past participle newed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To create (an object) by calling its constructor.
    • If an exception occurs trying to new up bar1 or bar2, the TFoo part of the object won't have changed […]2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems
    • So you just new up the object you want and once its internal reference count drops to 0, the language deletes it (during a free time as a background thread).2003, Jonathan Hoyle, “Pointers?”, in comp.lang.basic.realbasic (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    new

Synonyms of new up

Forms of new up

third-person singular presentnews up
present participlenewing up
past participlenewed up
pastnewed up

Origin of new up

The keyword new creates an object in C++ and derived languages.

Questions about new up

What does new up mean?
New up means to create (an object) by calling its constructor.
What part of speech is new up?
New up is a verb.
What is the past tense of new up?
The past tense of new up is newed up.

Words near new up in the dictionary

  1. new town
  2. new towns
  3. New Tredegar
  4. New Trier
  5. New Ulm
  6. new up
  7. New Urbanism
  8. New Valley
  9. new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
  10. New Village
  11. New Vineyard

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