A thing becoming other than it was. Change is only visible against something that stayed.

Continuous integration, spoken lowercase — the practice of proving every change as it lands, not after.

The verb to-do in its present asking form — grammar's small worker, carried by names that ask questions.

A version made to be revised. A draft's whole value is that it is not final.

Awaiting a resolution that has not come. Pending is an honest state, not a failure.

Work in ordered motion — steps with a direction, a beginning that intends its end. As a verb, to carry a thing through those steps.

To derive again from ground — recomputing from source rather than trusting the cached; the dynamics' own law.

To fetch again so what is shown matches what is. Refreshing trades effort for currency.

To bring a thing back to a state it held before. Restoration returns the form and never the interval.

To bring two copies into agreement. Synchronisation must decide, every time, which side wins.

To bring a thing current — the change that keeps a record true to the present without discarding what it was. The most-spoken verb in the house's code, and the quiet promise inside it: what exists is tended, not replaced.

That which brings a thing to its newer state. Updating changes what exists rather than making anew.