babel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: babel	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Babel n (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another Synonym(s): Tower of Babel, Babel a confusion of voices and other sounds
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Babel \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[be]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of [bd]confusion[b8]] 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. --R. L. Stevenson.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BABEL 1. A subset of {ALGOL 60}, with many {ALGOL W} extensions. ["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969]. 2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241. 3. A language based on {higher-order function}s and {first-order logic}. ["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language", H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990, pp.271-290]. ["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb 1992)]. (1994-11-28)
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Babel, confusion; mixture