For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.

Every so often families in bikinis, boardies and sarongs traipse past on their way back from the beach and look in.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mathathias.

The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.