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   batfish
         n 1: bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters
               having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on
               fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

English Dictionary: body bag	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beat back v cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" Synonym(s): repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back Antonym(s): attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beatific adj experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace" marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" Synonym(s): angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beatification n a state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatitude, beatification] the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
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beautification n the act of making something more beautiful
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beauty bush n Chinese deciduous shrub with yellow-throated pinkish flowers and bristly fruit; often cultivated as an ornamental Synonym(s): beauty bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis
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bed bug n bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood Synonym(s): bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius
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bedbug n bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood Synonym(s): bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius
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bedfast adj confined to bed (by illness) [syn: bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed]
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bedpost n any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead
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biotypic adj of or relating to a biotype
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boat bug n carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs [syn: water boatman, boat bug]
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body bag n a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed [syn: body bag, personnel pouch, human remains pouch]
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bootboys n a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism Synonym(s): skinheads, bootboys
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bowtie pasta n pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie Synonym(s): farfalle, bowtie pasta
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Budapest n capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary Synonym(s): Budapest, Hungarian capital, capital of Hungary
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butt pack n a waist pack worn with the pouch in back [syn: {fanny pack}, butt pack]
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by the piece adv one piece at a time; "she sold the plates by the piece" Synonym(s): by the piece, one by one
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bait \Bait\, n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin to AS. b[be]t food, Sw. bete. See {Bait}, v. i.] 1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net. 2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. --Fairfax. 3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. 4. A light or hasty luncheon. {Bait bug} (Zo[94]l), a crustacean of the genus {Hippa} found burrowing in sandy beaches. See {Anomura}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bug \Bug\, n. [OE. bugge, fr. W. bwg, bwgan, hobgoblin, scarecrow, bugbear. Cf. {Bogey}, {Boggle}.] 1. A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.] Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. --Shak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An insect of the genus {Cimex}, especially the bedbug ({C. lectularius}). See {Bedbug}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle. 5. (Zo[94]l.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc. Note: According to present popular usage in England, and among housekeepers in America, bug, when not joined with some qualifying word, is used specifically for bedbug. As a general term it is used very loosely in America, and was formerly used still more loosely in England. [bd]God's rare workmanship in the ant, the poorest bug that creeps.[b8] --Rogers (--Naaman). [bd]This bug with gilded wings.[b8] --Pope. {Bait bug}. See under {Bait}. {Bug word}, swaggering or threatening language. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hippa \Hip"pa\, Hippe \Hip"pe\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also {bait bug}. See Illust. under {Anomura}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bait \Bait\, n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin to AS. b[be]t food, Sw. bete. See {Bait}, v. i.] 1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net. 2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. --Fairfax. 3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. 4. A light or hasty luncheon. {Bait bug} (Zo[94]l), a crustacean of the genus {Hippa} found burrowing in sandy beaches. See {Anomura}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bug \Bug\, n. [OE. bugge, fr. W. bwg, bwgan, hobgoblin, scarecrow, bugbear. Cf. {Bogey}, {Boggle}.] 1. A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.] Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. --Shak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An insect of the genus {Cimex}, especially the bedbug ({C. lectularius}). See {Bedbug}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle. 5. (Zo[94]l.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc. Note: According to present popular usage in England, and among housekeepers in America, bug, when not joined with some qualifying word, is used specifically for bedbug. As a general term it is used very loosely in America, and was formerly used still more loosely in England. [bd]God's rare workmanship in the ant, the poorest bug that creeps.[b8] --Rogers (--Naaman). [bd]This bug with gilded wings.[b8] --Pope. {Bait bug}. See under {Bait}. {Bug word}, swaggering or threatening language. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hippa \Hip"pa\, Hippe \Hip"pe\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also {bait bug}. See Illust. under {Anomura}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Batfish \Bat"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic ({Cephalacanthus spinarella}). (c) The California batfish or sting ray ({Myliobatis Californicus}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatific \Be`atif"ic\, Beatifical \Be`atif"ical\, a. [Cf. F. b[82]atifique, L. beatificus. See {Beatify}.] Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. [bd]The beatific vision.[b8] --South. -- {Be`atif"ically}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. [?] to see, [?] I know, and E. wit. See {Wit}, v., and cf. {Advice}, {Clairvoyant}, {Envy}, {Evident}, {Provide}, {Revise}, {Survey}, {View}, {Visage}, {Visit}.] 1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond. 2. (Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That which is seen; an object of sight. --Shak. 4. Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah. The baseless fabric of this vision. --Shak. No dreams, but visions strange. --Sir P. Sidney. 5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. --Locke. {Arc of vision} (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible. {Beatific vision} (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven. {Direct vision} (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under {Yellow}); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction. {Field of vision}, field of view. See under {Field}. {Indirect vision} (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina. {Reflected vision}, [or] {Refracted vision}, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively. {Vision purple}. (Physiol.) See {Visual purple}, under {Visual}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatific \Be`atif"ic\, Beatifical \Be`atif"ical\, a. [Cf. F. b[82]atifique, L. beatificus. See {Beatify}.] Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. [bd]The beatific vision.[b8] --South. -- {Be`atif"ically}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatific \Be`atif"ic\, Beatifical \Be`atif"ical\, a. [Cf. F. b[82]atifique, L. beatificus. See {Beatify}.] Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. [bd]The beatific vision.[b8] --South. -- {Be`atif"ically}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatificate \Be`atif"icate\, v. t. To beatify. [Obs.] --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatification \Beat`ifi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. b[82]atification.] The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of [bd]the blessed,[b8] or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. [bd]The beatification of his spirit.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
5. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. Note: This title is given to the judges of the common law courts in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade. {Bed of justice}. See under {Bed}. {Chief justice}. See in the Vocabulary. {Justice of the peace} (Law), a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, etc. Syn: Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity; uprightness; fairness; impartiality. Usage: {Justice}, {Equity}, {Law}. Justice and equity are the same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly legal is at times far from being equitable or just. Here a court of equity comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts of law; and as the latter are often styled courts of justice, some have fancied that there is in this case a conflict between justice and equity. The real conflict is against the working of the law; this a court of equity brings into accordance with the claims of justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language which should lead any one to imagine he might have justice on his side while practicing iniquity (inequity). {Justice}, {Rectitude}. Rectitude, in its widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words in our language, denoting absolute conformity to the rule of right in principle and practice. Justice refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1) Commutative justice, which gives every man his own property, including things pledged by promise. (2) Distributive justice, which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) General justice, which carries out all the ends of law, though not in every case through the precise channels of commutative or distributive justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler in his dealings with those who are subject to his control.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bed \Bed\, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be[?]r, Dan. bed, Sw. b[84]dd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.] 1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. --Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. --Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. --Shak. 2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. George, the eldest son of his second bed. --Clarendon. 3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. [bd]Beds of hyacinth and roses.[b8] --Milton. 4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. 5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. --Milton. 6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc. 7. (Gun.) See {Gun carriage}, and {Mortar bed}. 8. (Masonry) (a) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. (b) A course of stone or brick in a wall. (c) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid. (d) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. --Knight. 9. (Mech.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine. 10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. 11. (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber; bedmaker, etc. {Bed of justice} (French Hist.), the throne (F. lit bed) occupied by the king when sitting in one of his parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a session of a refractory parliament, at which the king was present for the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered. {To be brought to bed}, to be delivered of a child; -- often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed and its bedding. {From bed and board} (Law), a phrase applied to a separation by partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the bonds of matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called a judicial separation) be granted at the instance of the wife, she may have alimony.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bedbug \Bed"bug`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect ({Cimex Lectularius}), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bedpiece \Bed"piece`\, Bedplate \Bed"plate`\, n. (Mach.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also {baseplate} and {soleplate}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bedpost \Bed"post`\, n. 1. One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead. 2. Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See {Bedstaff}. --Brewer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fighting \Fight"ing\, a. 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. --2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. --Pope. {A fighting chance}, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] {Fighting crab} (Zo[94]l.), the fiddler crab. {Fighting fish} (Zo[94]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish ({Betta pugnax}), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boat bug \Boat" bug`\ (Zo[94]l.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus {Notonecta}; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also {boat fly}, {boat insect}, {boatman}, and {water boatman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. {Bodies}. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. {Bodice}.] 1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. --Spenser. 2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together? --Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. --Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. --Addison. 3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. --Col. ii. 17. 4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. --W. Irving. 5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. --Prescott. 6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity. 7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a[89]riform body. [bd]A body of cold air.[b8] --Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. --Milton. 8. Amount; quantity; extent. 9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. 10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. 11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body. 12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. 13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. {After body} (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. {Body cavity} (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[91]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. {Body of a church}, the nave. {Body cloth}; pl. {Body cloths}, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. {Body clothes}. (pl.) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison. {Body coat}, a gentleman's dress coat. {Body color} (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. {Body of a law} (Law), the main and operative part. {Body louse} (Zo[94]l.), a species of louse ({Pediculus vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See {Grayback}. {Body plan} (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. {Body politic}, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton. As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of [bd]people[b8], or [bd]nation[b8]. --Bouvier. {Body servant}, a valet. {The bodies seven} (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. --Chaucer. {Body snatcher}, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. {Body snatching} (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bethpage, NY (CDP, FIPS 6387) Location: 40.74945 N, 73.48580 W Population (1990): 15761 (5078 housing units) Area: 9.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 11714 Bethpage, TN Zip code(s): 37022
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bodfish, CA (CDP, FIPS 7274) Location: 35.58254 N, 118.48278 W Population (1990): 1283 (894 housing units) Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93205
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bit bashing n. (alt. `bit diddling' or {bit twiddling}) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of {bit}, {flag}, {nybble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data; these include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavors of graphics programming (see {bitblt}), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also {bit bang}, {mode bit}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'. On {{Unix}}, often used for {/dev/null}. Sometimes amplified as `the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky'. 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to {Finagle's Law}; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare {black hole}. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term `bit box', about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them `out of the bit box'. See also {chad box}. Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the `parity preservation law', the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC. 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of `real computer' (see {Get a real computer!}). See also {mess-dos}, {toaster}, and {toy}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
beta abstraction [{lambda-calculus}] The conversion of an expression to an {application} of a {lambda abstraction} to an argument expression. Some subterm of the original expression becomes the argument of the abstraction and the rest becomes its body. E.g. 4+1 --> (\ x . x+1) 4 The opposite of beta abstraction is {beta reduction}. These are the two kinds of {beta conversion}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit bashing (Also "bit diddling" or {bit twiddling}). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of {bit}, {flag}, {nibble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see {bitblt}), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also {bit bang}, {mode bit}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit bucket 1. (Or "{write-only memory}", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a {register} during a {shift} instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On {Unix}, often used for {/dev/null}. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to {Finagle's Law}; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare {black hole}. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "{chad box}" is a real container used to catch {chad}. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?]. (1996-11-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bitty box (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, {single-tasking}-only {personal computers} such as the {Atari 800}, {Osborne}, {Sinclair}, {VIC-20}, {TRS-80} or {IBM PC}, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see {Get a real computer!}). See also {mess-dos}, {toaster}, {toy}. (1994-11-29)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Beth-phage house of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, i.e., 2,000 cubits. It has been identified with the modern Kefr-et-Tur.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Beth-pazzez, house of dividing asunder
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bethphage, house of my month, or of early figs