English Dictionary: grillroom | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grillroom \Grill"room`\, n. A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or club[?]house, arranged for prompt service. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grolier \Gro"lier`\, n. The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc. {Grolier binding}, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto. {Grolier} {design [or] school}, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grolier \Gro"lier`\, n. The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc. {Grolier binding}, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto. {Grolier} {design [or] school}, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Growler \Growl"er\, n. 1. One who growls. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The large-mouthed black bass. [Local] 3. A four-wheeled cab. [Slang, Eng.] | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
gorilla arm n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized -- the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in _real_ use?". | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
gorilla arm The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?". |