English Dictionary: WIMP | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wamp \Wamp\, n. [From the North American Indian name.] (Zo[94]l.) The common American eider. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wampee \Wam*pee"\, n. (Bot.) (a) A tree ({Cookia punctata}) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. (b) The pickerel weed. [Southern U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wanhope \Wan"hope`\, n. [AS. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa hope: cf. D. wanhoop. [?][?][?][?]. See {Wane}, and {Hope}.] Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. [bd]Wanhope and distress.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel. v[c6]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, [?], and E. withy. Cf. {Vine}, {Vineyard}, {Vinous}, {Withy}.] 1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. [bd]Red wine of Gascoigne.[b8] --Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton. Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry}, {light}, {still}, etc. 2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. Noah awoke from his wine. --Gen. ix. 24. {Birch wine}, {Cape wine}, etc. See under {Birch}, {Cape}, etc. {Spirit of wine}. See under {Spirit}. {To have drunk wine of ape} [or] {wine ape}, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Wine acid}. (Chem.) See {Tartaric acid}, under {Tartaric}. [Colloq.] {Wine apple} (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womb \Womb\, v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womb \Womb\ (w[oomac]m), n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb; akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe, Icel. v[94]mb, Sw. v[aring]mb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.] 1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] --Chaucer. And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. --Wyclif (Luke xv. 16). An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. --Shak. 2. (Anat.) The uterus. See {Uterus}. 3. The place where anything is generated or produced. The womb of earth the genial seed receives. --Dryden. 4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything. The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. --R. Browning. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womby \Womb"y\, a. Capacious. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yuen \Yu"en\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The crowned gibbon ({Hylobates pileatus}), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also {wooyen}, and {wooyen ape}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Winnabow, NC Zip code(s): 28479 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be {hacker}. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering {larval stage}, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or {suit}, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of terms from this lexicon is often an indication of the {wannabee} nature. Compare {newbie}. Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavor now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in {larval stage}, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture -- communities formed spontaneously around people who, _as individuals_, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focused desire to become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to _be hackers_ and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wannabee /won'*-bee/ (Or, more plausibly, spelled "wannabe") [Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; probably originally from biker slang] A would-be {hacker}. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering {larval stage}, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or {suit}, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of hacker terms is often an indication of the {wannabee} nature. Compare {newbie}. Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in {larval stage}, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who, *as individuals*, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focussed desire to become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WHNF {weak head normal form} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WIMP (or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse, {Pull-down menu}s). The style of {graphical user interface} invented at {Xerox PARC}, popularised by the {Apple Macintosh} and now available in other varieties such as the {X Window System}, {OSF}/{Motif}, {NeWS} and {RISC OS}. See {menuitis}, {user-obsequious}, {window system}. (1995-05-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wmf Metafile}. (1995-04-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WMV {Windows Media Video} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WNPP {Work Needed and Prospective Packages} |