Ob : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ob	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Ob
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ob n a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea Synonym(s): Ob, Ob River the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother Synonym(s): obstetrics, OB, tocology, midwifery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ob- \Ob-\ [L. ob, prep. Cf. {Epi-}.] A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Ob- /ob/ pref. Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic. For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append `ObSex' (or `Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act. It is considered a sign of great {winnitude} when one's Obs are more interesting than other people's whole postings.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Ob- /ob/ prefix Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic. For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append "ObSex" (or "Obsex") and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act. It is considered a sign of great {winnitude} when one's Obs are more interesting than other people's whole postings. [{Jargon File}]