vanilla : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vanilla	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for vanilla
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vanilla adj flavored with vanilla extract; "he liked vanilla ice cream" plain and without any extras or adornments; "the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond"; "the basic car is known as the vanilla version" n any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans) Synonym(s): vanilla, vanilla extract a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vanilla \Vanil"la\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. vainilla, dim. of Sp. vaina a sheath, a pod, L. vagina; because its grains, or seeds, are contained in little pods.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America. 2. The long podlike capsules of {Vanilla* planifolia}, and {V. claviculata}, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc. Note: As a medicine, vanilla is supposed to possess powers analogous to valerian, while, at the same time, it is far more grateful. {Cuban vanilla}, a sweet-scented West Indian composite shrub ({Eupatorium Dalea}). {Vanilla bean}, the long capsule of the vanilla plant. {Vanilla grass}. Same as {Holy grass}, under {Holy}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
vanilla adj. [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] Ordinary {flavor}, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example, `vanilla wonton soup' means ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla 11/34." Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance, a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word differs from {canonical} in that the latter means `default', whereas vanilla simply means `ordinary'. For example, when hackers go on a {great-wall}, hot-and-sour soup is the {canonical} soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla (wonton) soup.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
vanilla 1. (Default flavour of ice cream in the US) Ordinary {flavour}, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavoured with vanilla extract! For example, "vanilla wonton soup" means ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Vanilla {Version 7} {Unix} can't run on a vanilla {PDP 11}/34." Also used to orthogonalise chip nomenclature; for instance, a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word differs from {canonical} in that the latter means "default", whereas vanilla simply means "ordinary". For example, when hackers go to a chinese restaurant, hot-and-sour wonton soup is the {canonical} wonton soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla wonton soup. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-04) 2. {Snobol4} by {Catspaw, Inc.} for {MS-DOS}. {(ftp://cs.arizona.edu/snobol4/vanilla.arc)}. (1992-02-05)