English Dictionary: get rolling | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Guide \Guide\, n. [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See {Guide}, v. t.] 1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook. 2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator. He will be our guide, even unto death. --Ps. xlviii. 14. 3. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as: (a) (Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets. (b) (Surgery) A grooved director for a probe or knife. (c) (Printing) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. 4. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics. --Farrow. {Guide bar} (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also {guide}, and {slide bar}. {Guide block} (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar. {Guide meridian}. (Surveying) See under {Meridian}. {Guide pile} (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to. {Guide pulley} (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. --Knight. {Guide rail} (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, a. [L. guttur throat: cf. F. gutural.] Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat. Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. --W. Guthrie. In such a sweet, guttural accent. --Landor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, n. A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird ({Pachycephala gutturalis}). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also {white-throated thickhead}, {orange-breasted thrust}, {black-crowned thrush}, {guttural thrush}, and {black-breasted flycatcher}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gutturalism \Gut"tur*al*ism\, n. The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.] --Earle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gutturality \Gut"tur*al"i*ty\, n. The quality of being guttural. [R.] [bd]The old gutturality of k.[b8] --Earle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gutturalize \Gut"tur*al*ize\, v. t. To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gutturally \Gut"tur*al*ly\, adv. In a guttural manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gutturalness \Gut"tur*al*ness\, n. The quality of being guttural. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Get a real computer! imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 16 megabytes. This is as of early 1996; note that the threshold for `real computer' rises with time. See {bitty box} and {toy}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Get a real computer! having trouble getting work done on a {toy} system or {bitty box}. The threshold for "real computer" rises with time. As of mid-1993 it meant {multi-tasking}, with a {hard disk}, and an {address space} bigger than 16 {megabytes}. At this time, according to {GLS}, computers with character-only displays were verging on "unreal". In 2001, a real computer has a one {gigahertz} processor, 128 MB of {RAM}, 20 GB of hard disk, and runs {Linux}. [{Jargon File}] (2001-06-22) |