Haystack

Definitions

1. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
2. A locality in the Kyogle council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
3. A standing wave in a rapid.
4. The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
5. Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
   broadly
6. A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.

Equivalents

Examples

“Both of these functions will look⟳ through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find⟳ it, will return⟳ the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end⟳ of the haystack.”

“But the point⟳ of confining the Kansas City gun experiment⟳ to the worst parts of the worst neighborhoods was to make⟳ the haystack just a little smaller, and to make⟳ the inevitable trade-off between fighting crime and harassing innocent people just a little more manageable.”

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