humour : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: humour	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for humour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
humour n a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" Synonym(s): temper, mood, humor, humour a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter Synonym(s): wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" Synonym(s): humor, humour the liquid parts of the body Synonym(s): liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" Synonym(s): humor, humour the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" Synonym(s): humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour v put into a good mood Synonym(s): humor, humour
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Humor \Hu"mor\, n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L. humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist. See {Humid}.] [Written also {humour}.] 1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc. Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended. 2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. [bd]A body full of humors.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor. Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind. --Roscommon. A prince of a pleasant humor. --Bacon. I like not the humor of lying. --Shak. 4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured? --South. 5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness. For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. --Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. --W. Irving. {Aqueous humor}, {Crystalline humor} [or] {lens}, {Vitreous humor}. (Anat.) See {Eye}. {Out of humor}, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind. Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See {Wit}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
humour {hacker humour}