rax

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IoCreateDevice+0×3cc: fffff800 ` 01270bd0 488d4750 lea rax, [rdi+50h] fffff800 ` 01270bd4 48894008 mov qword ptr [rax+8], rax fffff800 ` 01270bd8 488900 mov qword ptr [rax], rax fffff800 ` 01270bdb e95b480000 jmp nt!

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  1. To stretch, or stretch out; reach out: reach or attain to; extend the hand to; hand: as, rax me ower the pitcher. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] He raise, and raxed him where he stood, And bade him match him with his marrows. Raid of the Reidswire (Child's Ballads, VI. 134). When ye gang to see a man that never did ye nae ill raxing a hatter [that is, hanging]. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, v. So he raxes his hand across t' table, an' mutters summat as he grips mine. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xliii.
  2. To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something. [North. Eng. and Scotch.]

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  • Supply first, rax, supply, reactor? or just ignore the reactor for a couple minutes? also collecting crates is a good boost on eco —  GameBattles News
  • PspSystemThreadStartup+0×4c fffff800 ` 012b332c 65488b042588010000 mov rax, qword ptr gs: [188h] fffff800 ` 012b3335 483bd8 cmp rbx, rax fffff800 ` 012b3338 0f85a6d30600 jne nt! —  MSDN Blogs
  • IoCreateDevice+0×3cc: fffff800 ` 01270bd0 488d4750 lea rax, [rdi+50h] fffff800 ` 01270bd4 48894008 mov qword ptr [rax+8], rax fffff800 ` 01270bd8 488900 mov qword ptr [rax], rax fffff800 ` 01270bdb e95b480000 jmp nt! —  MSDN Blogs
  • She believes people who might have delayed renovation projects because of the recession are doing the work now to take advantage of those rax credits in the last federal and quebec budgets.
  • LCFI0: movl \% edi, \% ebx movl $0, \% eax call bar leal (\% rbx, \% rax), \% eax popq \% rbx ret —  Flameeyes's Weblog :
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  1. from Middle English raxen, roxen, rasken, rosken, stretch oneself, from Anglo-Saxon *racsan, raxan, stretch oneself after sleep; with formative -s (as in cleanse, rinse, etc.), from the root of rack, stretch: see rack.
 

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