panic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: panic	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for panic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
panic n an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: panic, terror, affright] sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" Synonym(s): panic, scare v be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] of or pertaining to [?] Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. [bd]A panic fright.[b8] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [Gr. [?] (with or without [?] fear): cf. F. panigue. See {Panic}, a.] 1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic. 2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Panicum}; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. {Panic grass} (Bot.), any grass of the genus {Panicum}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
panic 1. What {Unix} does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The {kernel} attempts to print a short message on the {console} and write an image of memory into the {swap area} on disk. This can be analysed later using {adb}. The kernel will then either wait in a {tight loop} until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic {reboot}. {Unix manual page}: panic(8). 2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run. (1995-03-01)