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English Dictionary: News	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for News
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
news n information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" Synonym(s): news, intelligence, tidings, word information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; "the news of my death was greatly exaggerated" a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary; "we watch the 7 o'clock news every night" Synonym(s): news program, news show, news informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone; "it was news to me" the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world" Synonym(s): newsworthiness, news
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
News \News\, n [From New; cf. F. nounelles. News [?]s plural in form, but is commonly used with a singular verb.] 1. A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton. 2. Something strange or newly happened. It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich. --L'Estrange. 3. A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.] There cometh a news thither with his horse. --Pepys.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym; the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from Usenet news (the {netnews} software).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ {Network extensible Window System}. Many hackers insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from {news} (the {netnews} software). [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
news See {netnews}.