Qin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   Qin
         n 1: the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that
               established the first centralized imperial government and
               built much of the Great Wall [syn: {Qin}, {Qin dynasty},
               {Ch'in}, {Ch'in dynasty}]

English Dictionary: Qin	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
queen n the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs a female sovereign ruler Synonym(s): queen, queen regnant, female monarch Antonym(s): Rex, king, male monarch the wife or widow of a king something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners" a competitor who holds a preeminent position Synonym(s): king, queen, world-beater offensive term for an openly homosexual man Synonym(s): fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen (chess) the most powerful piece an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males Synonym(s): queen, queen mole rat female cat Synonym(s): tabby, queen v promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess become a queen; "her pawn queened"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quin n one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy Synonym(s): quintuplet, quint, quin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Quine n United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) Synonym(s): Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Qum n a city in northwestern Iran; a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Muslims
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quoin n expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase Synonym(s): quoin, coign, coigne the keystone of an arch Synonym(s): quoin, coign, coigne (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone Synonym(s): corner, quoin
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quean \Quean\, n. [Originally, a woman, AS. cwene; akin to OS. quena, OHG. quena, Icel. kona, Goth qin[?], and AS. cw[82]n, also to Gr. [?] woman, wife, Skr. gn[be] goddess. Cf. {Queen}.] 1. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer. 2. A low woman; a wench; a slut. [bd]The dread of every scolding quean.[b8] --Gay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, v. i. To act the part of a queen. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Queened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Queening}.] (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, n. [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cw[emac]n wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. qu[be]n wife, woman, Icel. kv[be]n wife, queen, Goth. q[emac]ns. [root]221. See {Quean}.] 1. The wife of a king. 2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. In faith, and by the heaven's quene. --Chaucer. 3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc. [bd] This queen of cities.[b8] [bd] Albion, queen of isles.[b8] --Cowper. 4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites. 5. (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen. 6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queme \Queme\, v. t. & i. [AS. cw[emac]man, akin to cuman to come. [root]23.] To please. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quin \Quin\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A European scallop ({Pecten opercularis}), used as food. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quinine \Qui"nine\, n. [F. (cf. Sp. quinina), fr. Sp. quina, or quinaquina, Peruvian bark, fr. Peruv. kina, quina, bark. Cf. {Kinic}.] (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. {Cinchona Calisaya}) as a bitter white crystalline substance, {C20H24N2O2}. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also {quinia}, {quinina}, etc. [Written also {chinine}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quoin \Quoin\, n. [See {Coin}, and cf. {Coigne}.] 1. (Arch.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked. Note: In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension. In brickwork, quoins consist of groups or masses of brick laid together, and in a certain imitation of quoins of stone.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Quanah, TX (city, FIPS 60044) Location: 34.29560 N, 99.74251 W Population (1990): 3413 (1673 housing units) Area: 9.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79252
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Quinn, SD (town, FIPS 52500) Location: 43.98859 N, 102.12806 W Population (1990): 72 (35 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
quine /kwi:n/ n. [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement. (We ignore some variants of BASIC in which a program consisting of a single empty string literal reproduces itself trivially.) Here is one classic quine: ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))) This one works in LISP or Scheme. It's relatively easy to write quines in other languages such as Postscript which readily handle programs as data; much harder (and thus more challenging!) in languages like C which do not. Here is a classic C quine for ASCII machines: charf="charf=%c%s%c;main() {printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c"; main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);} For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the interior line breaks. Here is another elegant quine in ANSI C: #define q(k)main(){return!puts(#k"\nq("#k")");} q(#define q(k)main(){return!puts(#k"\nq("#k")");}) Some infamous {Obfuscated C Contest} entries have been quines that reproduced in exotic ways. There is an amusing Quine Home Page (http://www.nyx.org/~gthompso/quine.htm).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
QAM 1. {Quadrature Amplitude Modulation}. 2. {Quality Assurance Management}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
QEMM386 A combined {expanded memory manager} and {extended memory manager} for {IBM PCs} with an {Intel 80386} or higher processor from {Quarterdeck Office Systems}. QEMM386 can also act as an {UMB} provider and an {A20 handler}. (1996-01-10)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
QMW {Queen Mary and Westfield College}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
QUIN Pyle 1965. Interactive language. Sammet 1969, p.691.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quine /kwi:n/ (After the logician Willard V. Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter) A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement. In most interpreted languages, any constant, e.g. 42, is a quine because it "evaluates to itself". In certain {Lisp} dialects (e.g. {Emacs Lisp}), the symbols "nil" and "t" are "self-quoting", i.e. they are both a symbol and also the value of that symbol. In some dialects, the function-forming function symbol, "lambda" is self-quoting so that, when applied to some arguments, it returns itself applied to those arguments. Here is a quine in {Lisp} using this idea: ((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x))) Compare this to the {lambda expression}: (\ x . x x) (\ x . x x) which reproduces itself after one step of {beta reduction}. This is simply the result of applying the {combinator} {fix} to the {identity function}. In fact any quine can be considered as a {fixed point} of the language's evaluation mechanism. We can write this in {Lisp}: ((lambda (x) (funcall x x)) (lambda (x) (funcall x x))) where "funcall" applies its first argument to the rest of its arguments, but evaluation of this expression will never terminate so it cannot be called a quine. Here is a more complex version of the above Lisp quine, which will work in Scheme and other Lisps where "lambda" is not self-quoting: ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))) It's relatively easy to write quines in other languages such as {PostScript} which readily handle programs as data; much harder (and thus more challenging!) in languages like {C} which do not. Here is a classic {C} quine for {ASCII} machines: charf="charf=%c%s%c;main() {printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c"; main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);} For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the interior line break. Some infamous {Obfuscated C Contest} entries have been quines that reproduced in exotic ways. {Ken Thompson}'s {back door} involved an interesting variant of a quine - a compiler which reproduced part of itself when compiling (a version of) itself. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-25)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Queen No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for "queen" is not _malkah_, one actually ruling like the Queen of Sheba, but _shegal_, which simply means the king's wife. In 1 Kings 11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called "the queen," but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah) is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for "queen-mother" (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chron. 15:16). In Cant. 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled "queens" (Heb. melakhoth). In the New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" (Acts 8:27), Candace.