tentacle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tentacle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for tentacle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tentacle n something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime" any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tentacle \Ten"tacle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See {Tempt}.] (Zo[94]l.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. {Tentacle* sheath} (Zo[94]l.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
tentacle n. A covert {pseudo}, sense 1. An artificial identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list (see {cypherpunk}), and adopted in a spirit of irony by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used seriously, in the documentation for some remailer software, and is now (1994) widely recognized on the net.