English Dictionary: occupy | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Occupied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Occupying}.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see {Ob-}) + a word akin to capere to take. See {Capacious}.] 1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness. --Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. --W. Irving. 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel. 3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy. An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six. --Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. ) They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2 Macc. viii. 27. 4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.] All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. --Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.] All the gold that was occupied for the work. --Ex. xxxviii. 24. They occupy not money themselves. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] --Nares. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. i. 1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. [bd]Occupy till I come.[b8] --Luke xix. 13. 2. To follow business; to traffic. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ogive \O"give\, n. [F. ogive, OF. augive a pointed arch, LL. augiva a double arch of two at right angles.] (Arch.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ojibways \O*jib"ways\, n. pl.; sing. {Ojibway}. (Ethnol.) Same as {Chippeways}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Okapi \O*ka"pi\, n. [Native name on the borders of Belgian Kongo, possibly the same word as Mpongwe okapo lean.] A peculiar mammal ({Okapia johnostoni}) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Kongo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color. | |
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Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. | |
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Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ossified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ossifying}.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See {Osseous}.] 1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. 2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oxbow \Ox"bow`\, n. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Oxyopia \[d8]Ox`y*o"pi*a\, Oxyopy \Ox"y*o`py\, n. [NL. oxyopia, from Gr. [?][?][?] sharp + [?][?][?] sight.] (Med.) Excessive acuteness of sight. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Oak View, CA (CDP, FIPS 53182) Location: 34.39967 N, 119.29545 W Population (1990): 3606 (1251 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93022 | |
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Oakview, MO (village, FIPS 53858) Location: 39.20800 N, 94.57080 W Population (1990): 351 (144 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Ochopee, FL Zip code(s): 33943 | |
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Ojibwa, WI Zip code(s): 54862 | |
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Ossipee, NH Zip code(s): 03864 | |
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Oxbow, ME Zip code(s): 04764 Oxbow, ND (city, FIPS 60480) Location: 46.67066 N, 96.80160 W Population (1990): 100 (40 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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OSF {Open Software Foundation} | |
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OSP {Optical Signal Processor} | |
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OSPF {Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol} |