English Dictionary: getting | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Green-broom \Green"-broom`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Genista} ({G. tinctoria}); dyer's weed; -- called also {greenweed}. | |
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Gad \Gad\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gadding}.] [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. [bd]The gadding vine.[b8] --Milton. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? --Jer. ii. 36. | |
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Gadding \Gad"ding\, a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. --Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. --Tennyson. {Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. | |
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Gadding \Gad"ding\, a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. --Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. --Tennyson. {Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. | |
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Gaddingly \Gad"ding*ly\, adv. In a roving, idle manner. | |
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Gaudiness \Gaud"i*ness\, n. The quality of being gaudy. --Whitlock. | |
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Gaud \Gaud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gauded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gauding}.] To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] [bd]Nicely gauded cheeks.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Geitonogamy \Gei"to*nog"a*my\, n. [Gr. [?] neighbor + [?] marriage.] (Bot.) Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Get \Get\ (g[ecr]t), v. t. [imp. {Got} (g[ocr]t) (Obs. {Gat} (g[acr]t)); p. p. {Got} (Obsolescent {Gotten} (g[ocr]t"t'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. {Getting}.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain. Cf. {Comprehend}, {Enterprise}, {Forget}, {Impregnable}, {Prehensile}.] 1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc. 2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. --Johnson. Thou hast got the face of man. --Herbert. 3. To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. --Shak. 4. To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson. It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. --Bp. Fell. 5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade. Get him to say his prayers. --Shak. 6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle. Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched. --Shak. 7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use. Get thee out from this land. --Gen. xxxi. 13. He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega. --Knolles. Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect. {To get by heart}, to commit to memory. {To get the better of}, {To get the best of}, to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue. {To get up}, to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation. Syn: To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See {Obtain}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Getting \Get"ting\, n. 1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. With all thy getting, get understanding. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit. | |
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Giddiness \Gid"di*ness\, n. The quality or state of being giddy. | |
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Goad \Goad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Goaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Goading}.] To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate. That temptation that doth goad us on. --Shak. Syn: To urge; stimulate; excite; arouse; irritate; incite; instigate. | |
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Goodness \Good"ness\, n. [AS. g[?]dnes.] The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc. | |
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Gothamist \Go"tham*ist\, n. A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. --Bp. Morton. | |
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Goutiness \Gout"i*ness\, n. The state of being gouty; gout. | |
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Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also {billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack}, {skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}. | |
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Gowdnook \Gowd"nook"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The saury pike; -- called also gofnick. | |
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Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also {billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack}, {skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}. | |
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Gowdnook \Gowd"nook"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The saury pike; -- called also gofnick. | |
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Guidance \Guid"ance\, n. [See {Guide}.] The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. --Macaulay. | |
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Guide \Guide\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Guided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Guiding}.] [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Cf. {Wit}, {Guy} a rope, {Gye.}] 1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. --Shak. 2. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train. He will guide his affairs with discretion. --Ps. cxii. 5. The meek will he guide in judgment. --Ps. xxv. 9. | |
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Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gutting}.] 1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate. 2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. --Addison. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Giddings, TX (city, FIPS 29432) Location: 30.18334 N, 96.92785 W Population (1990): 4093 (1754 housing units) Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78942 | |
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Gooding, ID (city, FIPS 32140) Location: 42.93812 N, 114.71260 W Population (1990): 2820 (1291 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83330 | |
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Gooding County, ID (county, FIPS 47) Location: 42.96532 N, 114.80004 W Population (1990): 11633 (4800 housing units) Area: 1892.9 sq km (land), 7.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Goodings Grove, IL (CDP, FIPS 30471) Location: 41.No definitions found for "Gedanken" No definitions found for "gedanken" 62160 N, 87.94059 W Population (1990): 14054 (3952 housing units) Area: 24.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Goodnews Bay, AK (city, FIPS 29290) Location: 59.10981 N, 161.56529 W Population (1990): 241 (72 housing units) Area: 8.4 sq km (land), 5.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99589 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
gedanken /g*-dahn'kn/ adj. Ungrounded; impractical; not well-thought-out; untried; untested. `Gedanken' is a German word for `thought'. A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term `gedanken experiment' is used to refer to an experiment that is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because it can be reasoned about theoretically. (A classic gedanken experiment of relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through space.) Gedanken experiments are very useful in physics, but must be used with care. It's too easy to idealize away some important aspect of the real world in constructing the `apparatus'. Among hackers, accordingly, the word has a pejorative connotation. It is typically used of a project, especially one in artificial intelligence research, that is written up in grand detail (typically as a Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implemented to any great extent. Such a project is usually perpetrated by people who aren't very good hackers or find programming distasteful or are just in a hurry. A `gedanken thesis' is usually marked by an obvious lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about what does and does not constitute a clear specification of an algorithm. See also {AI-complete}, {DWIM}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Godwin's Law prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Good Thing n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "A language that manages dynamic memory automatically for you is a Good Thing." 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing." 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "YACC is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose {Bad Thing}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Godwin's Law probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that {thread} is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an {upper bound} on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. [{Jargon}]. (2003-10-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Good Thing And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The {Trailblazer}'s 19.2 K{baud} {PEP} mode with {on-the-fly} {Lempel-Ziv compression} is a Good Thing for sites relaying {netnews}". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the {self-modifying code} from that {shared library} would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "{Yacc} is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: {Bad Thing}, compare {big win}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-07) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Goodness in man is not a mere passive quality, but the deliberate preference of right to wrong, the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil, and the choosing and following of all moral good. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Goodness of God a perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as exercised with respect to the miseries of his creatures it is mercy, pity, compassion, and in the case of impenitent sinners, long-suffering patience; as exercised in communicating favour on the unworthy it is grace. "Goodness and justice are the several aspects of one unchangeable, infinitely wise, and sovereign moral perfection. God is not sometimes merciful and sometimes just, but he is eternally infinitely just and merciful." God is infinitely and unchangeably good (Zeph. 3:17), and his goodness is incomprehensible by the finite mind (Rom. 11: 35, 36). "God's goodness appears in two things, giving and forgiving." |