English Dictionary: gumming | by the DICT Development Group |
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Mangosteen \Man"go*steen\, Mangostan \Man"go*stan\, n. [Malay mangusta, mangis.] (Bot.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus {Garcinia} ({G. Mangostana}). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food. | |
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Gain \Gain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gained} (g[amac]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaining}.] [From gain, n. but. prob. influenced by F. gagner to earn, gain, OF. gaaignier to cultivate, OHG. weidin[omac]n, weidinen to pasture, hunt, fr. weida pasturage, G. weide, akin to Icel. vei[edh]r hunting, AS. w[amac][edh]u, cf. L. venari to hunt, E. venison. See {Gain}, n., profit.] 1. To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? --Matt. xvi. 26. To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. --Milton. For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. --Pope. 2. To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. 3. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. --Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. --Dryden. 4. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. Forded Usk and gained the wood. --Tennyson. 5. To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. [Obs. or Ironical] Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. --Acts xxvii. 21. {Gained day}, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. {To gain ground}, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. {To gain over}, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. {To gain the wind} (Naut.), to reach the windward side of another ship. Syn: To obtain; acquire; get; procure; win; earn; attain; achieve. Usage: See {Obtain}. -- {To Gain}, {Win}. Gain implies only that we get something by exertion; win, that we do it in competition with others. A person gains knowledge, or gains a prize, simply by striving for it; he wins a victory, or wins a prize, by taking it in a struggle with others. | |
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Twist \Twist\, n. 1. The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending. Not the least turn or twist in the fibers of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. --Addison. 2. The form given in twisting. [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist. --Arbuthnot. 3. That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts. Specifically: (a) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other. (b) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like. (c) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties. (d) A roll of twisted dough, baked. (e) A little twisted roll of tobacco. (f) (Weaving) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling. (g) (Firearms) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist. (h) (Firearms & Ord.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. (i) A beverage made of brandy and gin. [Slang] 4. [OE.; -- so called as being a two-forked branch. See {Twist}, v. t.] A twig. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Fairfax. {Gain twist}, [or] {Gaining twist} (Firearms), twist of which the pitch is less, and the inclination greater, at the muzzle than at the breech. {Twist drill}, a drill the body of which is twisted like that of an auger. See Illust. of {Drill}. {Uniform twist} (Firearms), a twist of which the spiral course has an equal pitch throughout. | |
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Gain \Gain\, v. i. To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. --Ezek. xxii. 12. {Gaining twist}, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. {To gain on} [or] {upon}. (a) To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of. The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. --Addison. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. --Swift. | |
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Gameness \Game"ness\, n. Endurance; pluck. | |
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Gaming \Gam"ing\, n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling. | |
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Game \Game\ (g[amac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gamed} (g[amac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaming}.] [OE. gamen, game[?]en, to rejoice, AS. gamenian to play. See {Game}, n.] 1. To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. [Obs.] God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte. --Chaucer. 2. To play at any sport or diversion. 3. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble. | |
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Gam \Gam\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gam"ming}.] (Naut.) (a) To gather in a gam; -- said of whales. (b) To engage in a gam, or (Local, U. S.) in social intercourse anywhere. | |
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Ganancial \Ga*nan"cial\, a. [Sp., pertaining to gain, held in common, fr. ganancia gain.] (Law) Designating, pertaining to, or held under, the Spanish system of law (called {ganancial system}) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife. | |
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Ganancial \Ga*nan"cial\, a. [Sp., pertaining to gain, held in common, fr. ganancia gain.] (Law) Designating, pertaining to, or held under, the Spanish system of law (called {ganancial system}) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife. | |
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Geminous \Gem"i*nous\, a. [L. geminus.] Double; in pairs. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Gemminess \Gem"mi*ness\, n. The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness. | |
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Gem \Gem\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gemmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gemming}] 1. To put forth in the form of buds. [bd]Gemmed their blossoms.[b8] [R.] --Milton. 2. To adorn with gems or precious stones. 3. To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops. England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces. --W. Irving. | |
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Geomancer \Ge"o*man`cer\, n. One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy. | |
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Geomancy \Ge"o*man`cy\, n. [OE. geomance, geomancie, F. g[82]omance, g[82]omancie, LL. geomantia, fr. Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + mantei`a divination.] A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper. | |
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Gin \Gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ginned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ginning}.] 1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton. | |
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Gin \Gin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan}, {Gon} ([?]), [or] {Gun} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ginning}.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to AS. g[c6]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [?] See {Yawn}, v. i., and cf. {Begin}.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See {Gan}. [Obs. or Archaic] [bd]He gan to pray.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Ginning \Gin"ning\, n. [See {Gin}, v. i.] Beginning. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Gnaw \Gnaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gnawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gnawing}.] [OE. gnawen, AS. gnagan; akin to D. knagen, OHG. gnagan, nagan, G. nagen, Icel. & Sw. gnaga, Dan. gnave, nage. Cf. {Nag} to tease.] 1. To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at. His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. --Dryden. 2. To bite in agony or rage. They gnawed their tongues for pain. --Rev. xvi. 10. 3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste. | |
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Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?]: cf. F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.] Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. --G. R. Lewes. {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections. | |
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Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?]: cf. F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.] Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. --G. R. Lewes. {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections. | |
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Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [See {Gnomon}.] Gnomonical. --Boyle. | |
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Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?]: cf. F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.] Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. --G. R. Lewes. {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections. | |
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Gnomically \Gnom"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner. | |
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d8Gonangium \[d8]Go`nan*gi"um\, n.; pl. L. {Gonangia}, E. {Gonangiums}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] offspring + [?] vessel.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Gonotheca}. | |
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d8Gonotheca \[d8]Gon`o*the"ca\, n.; pl. {Gonothec[?]}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] offspring + [?] box.] (Zo[94]l.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids ({Thecaphora}), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also {gonangium}, and {teleophore}. See {Hydroidea}, and Illust. of {Campanularian}. | |
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d8Gonangium \[d8]Go`nan*gi"um\, n.; pl. L. {Gonangia}, E. {Gonangiums}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] offspring + [?] vessel.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Gonotheca}. | |
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Goneness \Gone"ness\, n. A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Gonimous \Gon"i*mous\, a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells. | |
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Gumminess \Gum"mi*ness\, n. The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness. | |
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Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. &. p. {Gummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gumming}.] To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. He frets likke a gummed velvet.Shak. | |
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Gunning \Gun"ning\, n. The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. --Goldsmith. | |
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GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the {GNU} project's flagship tool, {EMACS}. Used esp. in contrast with {GOSMACS}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Gnome Computers {transputer} boards for the {Acorn} {Archimedes} among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton (1994-09-30) | |
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GNU Emacs {Emacs} | |
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GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the {GNU} project's flagship tool, {Emacs}. Used especially in contrast with {GOSMACS}. [{Jargon File}] | |
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Gunning Transceiver Logic {standard} for electrical signals in {CMOS} circuits used to provide higher data transfer speeds with smaller voltage swings [compared with what?]. The GTL signal swings between 0.4 volts and 1.2 volts with a reference voltage of about 0.8 volts. Only a small deviation of 0.4 volts (or thereabouts) from the reference voltage is required to switch between on and off states. Therefore, a GTL signal is said to be a low voltage swing logic signal. Gunning Transceiver Logic has several advantages. The {resistive termination} of a GTL signal provides a clean signalling environment [what?]. Moreover, the low terminating voltage of 1.2 volts results in reduced voltage drops across the resistive elements. GTL has low power dissipation and can operate at high frequency and causes less {electromagnetic interference} (EMI). {GTL/BTL: A Low-Swing Solution for High-Speed Digital Logic (http://www.edtn.com/scribe/reference/appnotes/md003ecc.htm)}. (2000-01-16) |