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verb (used without object)
1.
to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
2.
to act properly: Did the child behave?
3.
to act or react under given circumstances: This plastic behaves strangely under extreme heat or cold.
verb (used with object)
4.
to conduct or comport (oneself) in a proper manner: Sit quietly and behave yourself.
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Well-behaved
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| well-behaved | |
| —adj | |
| conducting oneself in a satisfactory manner | |
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well-behaved definition
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards. Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose ill-behaved.
2. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive effects. Especially said of software having an interface spec sufficiently simple and well-defined that it can be used as a tool by other software. See cat.
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