English Dictionary: Sir Henry Joseph Wood | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scorner \Scorn"er\, n. One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. [bd]Great scorners of death.[b8] --Spenser. Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. --Prov. iii. 34. | |
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Screamer \Scream"er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family {Anhimid[91]}, and the suborder {Palamede[91]}. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus {Chauna}. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is {Palamedea cornuta}. | |
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Screamer \Scream"er\, n. 1. Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy. [Slang] 2. An exclamation mark. [Printer's Slang] | |
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d8Palamede91 \[d8]Pal`a*me"de*[91]\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also {screamers}. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds. | |
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Scrimer \Scri"mer\, n. [F. escrimeur. See {Skirmish}.] A fencing master. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Surmark \Sur"mark`\, n. (Shipbuilding) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed. [Written also {sirmark}.] | |
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Sorner \Sorn"er\, n. One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. [Scot.] --De Quncey. | |
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Surmark \Sur"mark`\, n. (Shipbuilding) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed. [Written also {sirmark}.] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Screamer An extension of {Common Lisp} providing {nondeterministic} {backtracking} and {constraint} programming. {(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/screamer.tar.Z)}. [Isn't all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?] | |
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screen reader blind or low-vision users, that speaks the text content of a computer display. (1998-10-19) | |
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screen refresh {refresh rate} | |
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Screenwrite language} similar in layout to {assembler} and used for {transaction processing}, solely on the {Honeywell} {Bull} {TPS6} {database}/transaction management system on their Level 6 {DPS6} {minicomputers} running under the {GCOS6} {operating system}. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of {open systems} standards, {relational databases} and {fourth generation languages} but it is believed that some systems made it through {Y2K}. [Dates?] (2003-05-15) |