English Dictionary: voiding | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vade mecum \Va`de me"cum\ [L., go with me.] A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Motivate \Mo"ti*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-vated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-vating}.] [From {Motive}, n.] To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- {Mo`ti*va"tion}, n. --William James. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vat \Vat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vatted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vatting}.] To put or transfer into a vat. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Veto \Ve"to\, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family. --G. Eliot. 2. Specifically: (a) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also {the veto power}. (b) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes. (c) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also {veto message}. [U. S.] Note: Veto is not a term employed in the Federal Constitution, but seems to be of popular use only. --Abbott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Veto \Ve"to\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vetoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vetoing}.] To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curvet \Cur"vet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Curveted} or {-vetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Curveting} or {-vetting}.] [Cf. It. corvettare. See {Curvet}, n.] 1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. [bd]Oft and high he did curvet.[b8] --Drayton. 2. To leap and frisk; to frolic. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Voidance \Void"ance\, n. 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. 2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice. 3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. 4. Evasion; subterfuge. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voiding}.] [OF. voidier, vuidier. See {Void}, a.] 1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. Void anon her place. --Chaucer. If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field. --Shak. 2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. --Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster. 3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. --Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. --Clarendon. | |
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Voiding \Void"ing\, a. Receiving what is ejected or voided. [bd]How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood?[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Voiding \Void"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, v[?]ids. --Bp. Hall. 2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] --Rowe. {Voiding knife}, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Voiding \Void"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, v[?]ids. --Bp. Hall. 2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] --Rowe. {Voiding knife}, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Voidness \Void"ness\, n. The quality or state of being void; [?]mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality. | |
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Voting \Vot"ing\, a. & n. from {Vote}, v. {Voting paper}, a form of ballot containing the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter making a mark against the preferred names. [Eng.] | |
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Vote \Vote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Voted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voting}.] [Cf. F. voter.] To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others. The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime. --L. Beecher. To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information. --F. W. Robertson. | |
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Voting \Vot"ing\, a. & n. from {Vote}, v. {Voting paper}, a form of ballot containing the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter making a mark against the preferred names. [Eng.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
vadding /vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e., {ADVENT}), used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the `secret' parts of large buildings -- basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesize vadding keys. The verb is `to vad' (compare {phreaking}; see also {hack}, sense 9). This term dates from the late 1970s, before which such activity was simply called `hacking'; the older usage is still prevalent at MIT. The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is `elevator rodeo', a.k.a. `elevator surfing', a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments). Kids, don't try this at home! See also {hobbit} (sense 2). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
vadding i.e. {ADVENT}, used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game) A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the "secret" parts of large buildings - basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesise vadding keys. The verb is "to vad" (compare {phreaking}; see also {hack}, sense 9). This term dates from the late 1970s, before which such activity was simply called "hacking"; the older usage is still prevalent at {MIT}. Vadding (pronounced /vay'ding/) was also popular {CMU}, at least as early as 1986. People who did it every night were called the "vaders," possibly after "elevator," which was one of the things they played with, or "invader," or "Darth Vader". This game was usually played along with no-holds-barred hide-and-seek. CMU grad students were the known to pry open the inner doors of elevators between floors to see the graffiti on the inside of the outer doors. The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is "elevator rodeo", also known as "elevator surfing", a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments). Kids, don't try this at home! See also {hobbit}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-01-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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