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📦 643 Most Common IT English Terms — Open Dataset

Name: CodersLingo IT English Terms Open Dataset
Creator: CoderSlingo
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: IT English, software engineering vocabulary, developer glossary, tech terms dataset, open dataset, NLP training data

A free, open dataset of 643 real IT and software-engineering English terms — each with a plain-English definition and a category tag — extracted directly from CodersLingo's published glossary pages (core IT glossary, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, Git, HTTP, design patterns, observability, Terraform, CLI flags, keyboard shortcuts, and more).

terms: 643
categories: 18
license: CC-BY 4.0
last generated: 28 Sept 2026

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What's in it

term — the word, phrase, acronym, command, or status code.
definition — a plain-English explanation, as published on the site.
category — one of 18 source categories (e.g. docker, sql, http-status-codes, core-glossary).
example — a short usage example, where the source glossary provides one (not all entries have one).

Nothing here is invented — every row is pulled directly from a page already live on coderslingo.com/glossary/. If the glossary grows, this dataset grows with it (it's regenerated on every site build).

Who this is for

Learners

A portable, offline copy of the glossary — or import it into the free Anki deck built from the same data.

Teachers

ESL/EFL teachers building IT-focused vocabulary curricula and handouts.

Tool builders

Flashcard apps, chatbots, IDE plugins, NLP training and eval sets — just credit Coders Lingo.

Preview — first 20 entries

Term	Category	Definition
--dry-run, -n (Dry Run)	`cli-flags`	Show what the command WOULD do without actually doing it. Critical safety flag for destructive operations.
--no-X, --without-X (Negation flag)	`cli-flags`	Disable a feature that is on by default.
--version, -V (Version)	`cli-flags`	Print the tool's version string and exit. Always useful when reproducing bugs.
-a, --all (All)	`cli-flags`	Include everything — hidden files, stopped containers, tracked and untracked changes — instead of just the default subset.
-c, --count, --config (Count / Config)	`cli-flags`	Another flag whose meaning shifts by tool — often "count the matches" or "use this config file".
-f, --force (Force)	`cli-flags`	Skip confirmation prompts and proceed even when the action would normally be blocked or warned about.
-h, --help (Help)	`cli-flags`	Print the command's usage information and exit.
-i, --interactive (Interactive)	`cli-flags`	Prompt for confirmation before each step instead of acting automatically.
-o, --output (Output)	`cli-flags`	Specify where the command should write its output — a file, a format, or a directory.
-p (context-dependent) (Port / Parents / Publish)	`cli-flags`	One of the most overloaded short flags in CLI tooling — meaning depends entirely on the command.
-q, --quiet, --silent (Quiet / Silent)	`cli-flags`	Suppress non-essential output. Useful in scripts where you only care about the exit code.
-r, -R, --recursive (Recursive)	`cli-flags`	Apply the operation to every file in a directory tree, going into all sub-directories.
-t, --tag, -t (tty) (Tag / Allocate TTY)	`cli-flags`	Labels a build artifact with a name, or allocates a pseudo-terminal for an interactive session.
-u, --upstream, --user (Upstream / User)	`cli-flags`	Sets a tracking relationship or specifies which user/account an action runs as.
-v, --verbose (Verbose)	`cli-flags`	Print extra detail about what the command is doing. Useful for debugging.
-w, --watch (Watch)	`cli-flags`	Keep the command running and re-run it (or refresh output) whenever the input changes.
-x, --exclude, -x (trace) (Extract / Exclude / Trace)	`cli-flags`	Extracts an archive, excludes a pattern from an operation, or turns on shell execution tracing — three unrelated meanings sharing one letter.
-y, --yes, --assume-yes (Auto-Yes)	`cli-flags`	Automatically answer "yes" to all confirmation prompts. Used in scripts where you can't respond interactively.
:wq (write & quit)	`keyboard-shortcuts`	Vim: save the file and close the editor. The legendary "how do I exit Vim" answer.
/A (Anchored)	`regex-flags`	Forces the pattern to match only at the very start of the subject string (or immediately after the previous match), like an implicit ^.