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English Dictionary: Bad by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bad
adv
  1. with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
    Synonym(s): badly, bad
  2. very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
    Synonym(s): badly, bad
adj
  1. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
    Antonym(s): good
  2. very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
    Synonym(s): bad, big
  3. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
    Synonym(s): bad, tough
  4. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
    Synonym(s): bad, spoiled, spoilt
  5. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
    Synonym(s): regretful, sorry, bad
    Antonym(s): unregretful, unregretting
  6. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
    Synonym(s): bad, uncollectible
  7. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
  8. nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
  9. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
    Synonym(s): bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
  10. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
    Synonym(s): bad, unfit, unsound
  11. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
  12. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
  13. reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
    Synonym(s): bad, forged
  14. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
    Synonym(s): bad, defective
n
  1. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
    Synonym(s): bad, badness
    Antonym(s): good, goodness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,
      desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.
      copnien to desire.]
      1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]
  
                     I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let
            go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
            lose; to retain; to detain.
  
                     If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     That I may know what keeps me here with you.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are
                     considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.
  
      3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to
            maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or
            tenor.
  
                     His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.
  
                     Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and
               adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,
               to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off
               impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]
               --Addison.
  
      4. To have in custody; to have in some place for
            preservation; to take charge of.
  
                     The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was
                     always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.
  
      5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
  
                     Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.
                                                                              xxviii. 15.
  
      6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to
            communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
  
                     Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
  
                     And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
                     garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.
                                                                              ii. 15.
  
                     In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                                              --Carew.
  
      8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to
            keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,
            records, etc. ) in a book.
  
      9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the
            like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
  
                     Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.
  
                     Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.
  
      10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to
            keep boarders.
  
      11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an
            assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
  
                     I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.
  
      12. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  
      13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to
            intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to
            keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
  
                     Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.
  
                     Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.
  
      14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from
            or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to
            neglect; to be faithful to.
  
                     I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.
                                                                              7.
  
                     Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great
                     command.                                          --Milton.
  
      15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,
            to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to
            frequent. --Shak.
  
                     'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and
                     satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.
  
      16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to
            solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
  
                     I went with them to the house of God . . . with a
                     multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.
  
      {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.
  
      {To keep back}.
            (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back
                  from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.
            (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant
                  also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.
  
      {To keep company with}.
            (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,
                  let youth keep company with the wise and good.
            (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with
                  one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept
                  attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
                 
  
      {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.
  
      {To keep down}.
            (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.
            (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion
                  of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may
                  not be diverted from the more important parts of the
                  work.
  
      {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early
            (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To
      keep house}.
            (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with
                  one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to
                  manage domestic affairs.
            (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's
                  house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --
      {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep
      open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),
            to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep
      school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as
            a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up
            one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.
            (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.
            (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners
                  in hall to make the term count for the purpose of
                  being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
  
      {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.
  
      {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.
  
      {To keep up}.
            (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;
                  as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's
                  credit.
            (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.
                  [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the
                  desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.
  
      Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;
               maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.
  
      Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is
                  often used where retain or preserve would too much
                  restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain
                  denotes that we keep or hold things, as against
                  influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons
                  which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain
                  vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;
                  to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.
                  Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies
                  which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in
                  upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve
                  appearances.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar,
      OFries. weder, D. weder, we[88]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar,
      Icel. ve[edh]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[84]der wind, air, weather,
      and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.
      vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf.
      {Wither}.]
      1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or
            cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or
            cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena;
            meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm
            weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
  
                     Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii.
                                                                              22.
  
      2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation
            of the state of the air. --Bacon.
  
      3. Storm; tempest.
  
                     What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My
                     thoughts presage!                              --Dryden.
  
      4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
  
      {Stress of weather}, violent winds; force of tempests.
  
      {To make fair weather}, to flatter; to give flattering
            representations. [R.]
  
      {To make good}, [or] {bad}, {weather} (Naut.), to endure a
            gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak.
  
      {Under the weather}, ill; also, financially embarrassed.
            [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.
  
      {Weather box}. Same as {Weather house}, below. --Thackeray.
  
      {Weather breeder}, a fine day which is supposed to presage
            foul weather.
  
      {Weather bureau}, a popular name for the signal service. See
            {Signal service}, under {Signal}, a. [U. S.]
  
      {Weather cloth} (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin
            used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather
            when stowed in the nettings.
  
      {Weather door}. (Mining) See {Trapdoor}, 2.
  
      {Weather gall}. Same as {Water gall}, 2. [Prov. Eng.]
            --Halliwell.
  
      {Weather house}, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a
            house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions
            by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
  
                     Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised
                     the weather house, that useful toy!   --Cowper.
  
      {Weather molding}, [or]
  
      {Weather moulding} (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door
            or a window, to throw off the rain.
  
      {Weather of a windmill sail}, the obliquity of the sail, or
            the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.
  
      {Weather report}, a daily report of meteorological
            observations, and of probable changes in the weather;
            esp., one published by government authority.
  
      {Weather spy}, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather.
            [R.] --Donne.
  
      {Weather strip} (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other
            material, applied to an outer door or window so as to
            cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or
            threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), imp. of {Bid}.
      Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), a. [Compar. {Worse}; superl. {Worst}. ]
      [Probably fr. AS. b[91]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[91]dling
      effeminate fellow.]
      Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,
      hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
      defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;
      wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad
      conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad
      news.
  
      Note: Sometimes used substantively.
  
                        The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.
  
      Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;
               hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;
               imperfect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)
      {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]
      [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.
      biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,
      ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to
      persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this
      word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.
      be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a,
      Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.
      bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to
      learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present
      OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has
      the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden
      to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.]
      1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer
            to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at
            auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be
            done under a contract).
  
      2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a
            threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid
            good morning, farewell, etc.
  
                     Neither bid him God speed.                  --2. John 10.
  
                     He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.
  
      3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly
            obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay.
  
      4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
  
                     That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope
  
                     Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.
                                                                              xiv. 28
  
                     I was bid to pick up shells.               --D. Jerrold.
  
      5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.
  
                     As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
                                                                              --Matt. xxii.
                                                                              9
  
      {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;
            to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]
  
      {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.
  
      {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair
            promise; to seem likely.
  
      Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;
               direct; charge; enjoin.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   BAD /B-A-D/ adj.   [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of
   a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures
   rather than because of bugginess.   See {working as designed}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   BAD
  
      /B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "{working as designed}",
      from {IBM}.   Failing because of bad design and misfeatures
      rather than because of bugs.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (2002-04-14)
  
  
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