nugget

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This nugget is all about understanding Isolated Storage and how you can interact with it.

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  1. noun A small, solid lump, especially of gold.
  2. noun A small compact portion or unit: nuggets of information.

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  • From this place, what we should call a nugget of gold, which one of the chiefs brought in, was sent to Spain. —  The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
  • This nugget is all about understanding Isolated Storage and how you can interact with it. —  MSDN Blogs
  • Isolated Storage is the only place you can store data locally, it's probably one of the key features of Silverlight apps and this nugget is about showing you how to use it. —  MSDN Blogs
  • This nugget is a deep dive into Isolated Storage, where it is on disk, how it is represented internally, how to clean things up when it goes wrong. —  MSDN Blogs
  • Here's the nugget from the American Medical Association press release: —  Medgadget
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps diminutive of English dialectal nug, lump.

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  1. Early modern English also niggot; prob. diminutive of nug, nig, a lump, a small piece: see nug, nig. Hardly, as some suppose, for ingot, unless through a form *ningot, with initial n adhering from the indefinite article.
  2. nugget, n.
 

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