attribute n.
1. To bestow in fact as a right or attribute; as, a power attributed to a legislature. Archaic.
2. To ascribe (to) as belonging or pertaining; specif.:
a By way of cause; as, a disease attributed to infection.
"We attribute to magnificence what was really the effect of 'necessity'." Macaulay.
b By way of inherent quality as, to attribute magical power to a charm.
c By way of interpretations; as, a meaning attributed to a passage.
d By way of authorship or achievement; as, a poem attributed to Spenser.
e By way of classification; as, a handwriting attributed to the 2nd century.
3. To affix by way of conventional attribute. Rare.
→
The "→" symbol is short for "returns" in the sense that Reckon[expr] evaluates expr, and returns a result. E.G.
→
{1, 3, 5}.
bank n.
1. Orig., the table, counter, or place of business of a money changer. Obs.
2. Obs. a A sum of money, esp. a fund to
be used in
transacting business; also, a joint stock or capital.
b A sum
accumulated for
lending to the poor; a loan bank.
3. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
4. Gambling. The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to pay his losses.
5. In certain games, as dominoes, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
commodity n.
1. Quality or state of being commodious; also, that which is commodious; convenience; accommodation; profit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. Archaic, except legal.
2. That which affords convenience or profit, esp. in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold, --goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land, etc.
3. A parcel or quantity of goods. Obs.
4. An element of wealth; an economic good. The word goods is commonly used to indicate the aggregate of elements of which wealth is composed; the term commodity has been devised to serve as a corresponding singular.
5. An article of commerce, especially one delivered to a transportation company for shipment under a tariff.
commodity dollar. A unit of proposed form of currency (commodity money) whose gold value is arbitrarily determined by an index number obtained from the statistics covering the market prices of many basic commodities, and whose nominal gold content is periodically restated as the index number reflects changes in commodity prices.
[A remarkable scheme to undermine hard currency.]
computer n.
One who or that which computes; calculator; specif., a calculating machine.
conjuctive adj.
1. Conjoining; connecting; connective.
2. Conjoined; conjunct; done or existing in conjunction.
3. Gram. a Serving to connect word or clauses; of the nature of a conjunction.
b = COPULATIVE, 4a.
c In the Romance languages, designating or pertaiining to an unstressed form of a personal reflexive, or reciprocal pronoun which cannot be separated from the verb (Italian ci vedente); --opposed to disjunctive.
d Designating or pertaining to, the mood of the verb capable of use only in conjunction with another verb; subjunctive; now sometimes in its wider use as distinguished from the subjunctive in dependent clause; thus, in Nec, si muneribus certes, concedat Iollas (And, if you vie with gifts, Iollas will not yield), concedat is an independent or pure conjunctive, while certes is a subjunctive.
copula n.
1. That which connects; a link.
2. Sexual union; copulation. Chiefly Law.
3. Anat. & Zool. Any of certain connecting structures; specif., a basibranchial or basihyal bone or cartilage.
4. Bot. A zygospore.
5. Chem. A compound that joins itself to another. Hist.
6. Gram. A word (esp. a form of the verb be) used as expressing simply the relation between subject and predicate, or a predicative connecting word of like meager content (Jack is dull; she got sleepy).
7. Immunol. An amboceptor.
8. Logic. The relation or connecting link between the subject and the predicate of a proposition. According to long-accepted principles, the only verb allowed for proposition s in the strictly logical form is some part of the verb be (with not in the case of negative propositions); other verbs are absorbed into the predicate as the strictly logical form of "Mr. Jones makes shoes." is "Mr. Jones is a shoemaker," and of "Silver coins have milled edges" is "Silver coins are things having milled edges." In the traditional logic the different meanings of the copula are determined by the modes of the predicate.
copulative adj.
1. Pert. to, or serving for, copulation.
2. Showing connection; connective. Obs.
3. Chem. Of or pertaining to coupling. See COUPLE, v.i.,3.
4. Gram. a Serving to connect; specif., designating a conjunction, such as and, which both joins words or word groups into a co-ordinated construction and expresses a uniting or addition of their ideas; --opposed to an adversative, or disjunctivve, conjunction. See DISJUNCTIVE, adj.,2a. b Involving or containing connected clause. c. Of the nature of a copula, as in copulative verb.
corporate adj.
1. Combined into one body; united; grouped together. Also, pert. to a body made up of particulars; pert. to a closely unified body of individuals; aggregate. "The corporate decay of the Forsytes." Galsworthy.
Corporate judgment is meant to include all such affirmations as deal with comprehensive totalities. B. Bosanquet.
2. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in as association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
3. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property." Hallam.
4. Obs. a Corpulent. b Embodied. c Pertaining to the body.
corpulent adj.
1. Bulky; very fat; obese.
Ecess of nourishment � maketh the child corpulent. Bacon.
2. Obs. a Solid or dense; grosss.
b Corporeal;
material.
dispositive adj.
1. Disposing, or having to do with the disposition or direction of something; or or pertaining to disposal or control.
2. Belonging to disposition or natural tendency. Obs.
domain n.
1. = DEMESNE, Rare, except in eminent domain.
2. An estate held in possession; landed property which one has in his own right; landed estate; lands; demesne.
3. a The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. b Sphere of action, thought, influence, etc.
The domain of authentic history. E. Everitt.
4. Math. Any region, extent, or aggregate, geometrical or arithmetical, of points, values, or other elements, to which a variable is confined and anywhere within which it may be.
ellipsis n.
1. Gram. Omission from a construction of one or more words, which are obviously understood, but must be supplied to make the expression grammatically complete.
2. Geometry
3. Print. A mark or marks, as � or ***, showing omission of letters or words.
equivalent adj.
1. Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, force, or significance; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
[In this Language Specification, two Grok32` Expressions are said to be equivalent, when they evaluate to the same result and environmental consequence. Two equivalent Expressions may require different amounts of Time to evaluate.]
glyph n
An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs.
See more about Character Glyphs at Unicode Character.
Grok32 n.
A general purpose Computer Language designed to
comprehensively model natural language as simply as
possible.
How simply can mathematics, natural language, and the programming universe be represented?
That is the central question guiding the design of Grok32`.
"Grok32`" is comprises 32
Keywords.
[The trailing ` mark on the end of "Grok32`" is consistent with the language's system which segregates the universe by Context. All Context names end with a ` context-mark (A.k.a. "back quote").]
Grok32 v.
1. To engage in Grok32` programming.
2. To interrelate and interconnect language systems using Grok32`.
Grok32Kernal n.
The executable code on a computer that implements the Grok32` language specification.
implicit adj.
1. Infolded; entangled; involved. Obs.
2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not shown, expressed; implied; as, an implicit argument.
3. Involved in the nature or being of something, though not shown, expressed, or developed; virtual or potential; not ostensible, clear, or conscious; as, our apprehensions of the meanings of terms are often implicit.
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increment n.
1. An increasing; growth in bulk, quantity, number, value, etc.; enlargement; increase.
2. That which is gained or added; an added quantity or character; esp., one of a series of regular consecutive additions of like or proportional size or value; sometimes, specif., on of a series of minute additions, a slight or imperceptible augmentation.� Cf. UNEARNED INCREMENT
3. Forestry. Increase in volume or value for a given period.
4. Math. A change, generally arbitrary, either positive or negative, in the value of an independent variable; also, the corresponding change in the value of the dependent function specif, the change in function value corresponding to an increase of the argument value by 1.
Syn. --Augmentation, increase.
Ant. �Decrease, decrement, diminution
integer n
1. A whole number; a number that is not a fraction.
2. A thing complete in itself.
homepage n.
1. The root of a complex hypertext document.
2. A homepage links to subjects defined and interconnected by the Homepage's scope or theme.
The Grok32` homepage is a simple, ordered list of 8 subcontexts which, together contain 32 Keywords.
hypothec n.
1. Roman Law & Civil Law System. An obligation, right, or security given by contract or by operation of law to a creditor over property of the debtor without transfer of possession or title to the creditor; -- distinguished from pignus or pledge.-- It is analogous to the equitable view of a mortgage, but also in case of the tacit hypothec (that is, one arising by operation of law) corresponds to various common-law liens or preferred claims, as that of the state for taxes, that of a landlord for his rent, etc. In some modern systems hypothec is used only of rights over immovables; but is used with reference to both immovables and movables at Roman law and also in Roman-Dutch and Spanish Law.
image n.
1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person or thing, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a reproduction; a likeness; esp., an imitation of a person or thing in the solid form, as a sculptured or modeled figure; an effigy; statue. Hence, abstractly; Form; aspect; appearance; cast; likeness; semblance.
Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak.
Whose is this image and superscription Matt. xxii. 20.
2. A thing actually or seemingly reproducing another; a copy or counterpart; as, she is the image of her mother.
3. A mental representation of anything not actually present to the senses; a revival or imitation of sensible experience, or of sensible experience together with accompanying feelings; the reproduction in memory or imagination of sensations of sight, touch, hearing, etc.; as, visual, tactile, auditory images; a picture drawn by the fancy; broadly, a conception; an idea.
4. An illusory appearance; an apparition. Archaic.
5. A bringing before the mind by language; a representation or descriptions, esp. in a graphic manner.
6. Something that possesses or displays a given quality to such a degree as to bring it vividly to the mind; a representative; a type; as, she is the image of devotion.
7. Something that represents or is regarded as representing another thing; a symbol; a representation.
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak.
8. Magic. A figure impressed or drawn upon wax, metal, a precious stone, or the like, and, after conjurations, used as a talisman, amulet, or means of casting spells by sorcerers, astrologers, etc.
9. Philos. A presentation of sense, or
imagination,
or memory, in contrast to a general, or abstract idea.
10. Physics.
a The optical counterpart of an object, produced by a lens, mirror, or other optical system. It is the geometrical figure made up of the foci corresponding to the points of the object.� A real image is one formed of real foci, as on a photographic plate; a virtual image is one formed of virtual foci, as one seen in a plane mirror. See FOCUS,n.,6.
b By extension, an analogous phenomenon, real or virtual, in some other domain than optics; as, a heat image; an electrical image.
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image v.t.
1. To conceive as a plan; devise. Obs.
2. To exhibit or represent in language; to describe or portray, esp. in a lively or graphic manner.
3. To imitate; copy; also, to resemble. Rare.
4. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to conceive; imagne.
And image charms he must behold no more. Pope.
5. To represent or form an image of; to portray; delineate; also, to reflect; mirror; as, the mirror imaged her figure.
lawyer n.
professional skilled at evading the law. See LOOPHOLE.
legal adj.
1. Of or pert. to law; arising out of or by virtue of, or included in, law; based upon, or governed by, law whether
(1) law in general (as legal knowledge, legal literature, legal authority, legal capacity, etc.); or
(2) specif., the system of legal rules called law, as distinguished from equity. See LAW.
2. Arising by operation of law, as distinguished from that which arises by agreement or act of the parties; as, tacit hypothecs are sometimes called legal.
3. In conformity with, or permitted by, law; lawful; as, the act was entirely legal; --opposed to illegal, unlawful.
4. Enforced, protected, given effect to, or the like, in courts of law; --distinguished from equitable.
5. Beloning to, or characteristic of one belonging to, the profession of law; as, a legal mind.
6. Established by the constructions of law; as, a legal childhood; a legal fiction.
7. Disposed to observe the law.
8. Theol. a According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
b According to the law of work as distinguished from free grace; resting on the works for salvation.
legal tender. Law.
a The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such� time and place as the law prescribes or permits.
b That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive in payment of money obligations. Gold coins are legal tender in both Great Britain and the United States at their nominal value to any amount when not below the limit of weight and tolerance, and below that in proportion to weight. In the United States standard silver dollars and treasury notes are legal tender to any amount unless the contrary is stipulated in the contract; subsidiary silver coins for sums not over $10, minor (nickel or bronze) coins for not over 25c. In Great Britain Treasury notes are legal tender to any amount, silver coins are legal tender for not over 40s., the farthing for not over 6d., and other bronze coins for not over 1lb.
lexical adj.
1. Of, pert. to, or connected with, words, or the vocabulary of a language, as distinguished from its grammar and construction.
2. Of or pertaining to a lexicon or lexicography.
linguistic adj.
Of or pertaining to language or the knowledge or study of language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
linguistics n.
The study of human speech in all its aspects, including the origin, nature, structure, and modification of language, or languages, or a language, and including especially phonetics, phonology, morphology, accent, syntax, semantics, general or philosophical grammar, the relation between writing and speech, etc.; --called also linguistic science, science of language. Cf. PHILOLOGY.
loophole n.
1. Mil A small opening as in a wall or parapet, through which small arms may be discharged.
Loopholes double the value of any cover. Lt. Gen. Ian Hamilton
2. A similar opening in any wall or partition for the admission of light or air or to permit observation.
3. A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion; --chiefly used figuratively as a method of evading the intent of a statue, contract, or obligation. [This, truly, the art of "Law". See LAWYER.]
loophole v.t.
To make loopholes in.
mathematics n.
1. That science , or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes and operations, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deductible from others known or supposed; the science of serial, spatial, quantitative, and magnitudinal relations; the science of order. Mathematics is usually classified as follows:
(1) Pure mathematics, mathematical doctrine without regard to its applications; the class of all propositions of the form "A implies B," where A and B are themselves propositions involving the same variables, but no constants except logical constants (B. Russell).
(2) Abstract mathematics, that which deals with pure order, form, and extent, regardless of any material or other content; the doctrine of the necessary implications of forms, extents, and orders; --called the pure mathematics.
(3) Applied mathematics, that in which the forms, extents, and orders of abstract mathematics are viewed as supplied with content from observations, and in which problems are treated and conclusions drawn that are connected with human life or experience. Higher mathematics, as distinguished form elementary mathematics, includes all beyond ordinary arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
→ mathematics is usually construed as a singular noun.
Character set rules consistent with Mathematica` Expressions. See StartComment & EndComment.
meaning n.
1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
2. That which one intends to convey by an act or,
esp., by
language; purport; as, do not mistake my meaning; also
that which
is conveyed or signified, esp. by language; sense in which a statement,
or the
like, is understioood; import; as,
What is the meaning to you?
3. Hence, sense; significance; as, a look full of meaning.
4. Rememberance; also, mention; --in to have, or make, meaning. Obs.
5. Knowledge; understanding Obs.
6. The psychological context of anything; the body of habitually associated ideas; that which a thing suggests; as, a red spot on a green ground may suggest the meaning "strawberry."
7. Logic. a The connotation of a word or phrase; the intension of a term; that which a correct definition exhibits; --called meaning in intention.
b The denotation or extension of a term; that thing or class named by a word or substantive phrase; --called meaning in extension.
Syn. MEANING, SENSE, SIGNIFICATION,
SIGNIFICANCE,
PUPORT, IMPORT. MEANING, the general term, is that which a thing
signifies or
(esp.) that which it is designed or intended to express; as,
"Understand a
plain man in his plain meaning" (Shak);
"A complete virginity
of face, uncontaminated with the smallest symptom of meaning" (Goldsmith).
SENSE, as here compared (cf. SENSE, REASON), suggests esp. a particular
or
specific, or (sometimes) an intelligible, meaning; as,
"Virtue in
the noble sense by Greeks and Romans understood" (Swift)
or
"She speaks things that carry but half sense"
(Shak).
SIGNIFICATION is esp. established or accepted meaning, as of a
word,
symbol, or character; SIGNIFICANCE is meaning (often covert
rather then
ostensible) regarded as of weight or moment; as,
"I find it very interesting to know the signification of names, and had written, to ask him whether Jerusalem meant 'the vision of peace' or 'the foundation of peace'" (M. Arnold);
"The Rubicon was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions" (G Eliot).
IMPORT sometimes denotes little more then meaning,
esp. regarded as conveyed; as,
"Gossip is not here used in its secondary meaning
but in its original import" (Southey)
or
"Under the
obvious import of his stories lay concealed a mystic sense"
(Cowper).
More frequently import implies great or
momentous
significance; as,
"There was infinite import in the question
alike
for her and him" (Stevenson).
PURPORT is meaning esp. in
the sense of drift or general tenor; as,
"He still retained some vague
and dim
recollection of the general purport of the vision" (Coleridge)
or
"What�is the net purport and upshot of war?"
(Carlyle).
Cf. SIGNIFICANT.
mitigate v.t.
1. To render or become mild or milder; to mollify. Now rare.
2. To moderate; to make or become less severe, violent, fierce, cruel, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; appease; meliorate; diminish; lessen; temper; as, to mitigate heat or cold, grief, a punishment or an offense.
mitigation n.
1. Act of mitigating, or state of being mitigated; specif.:
a Abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; alleviation; moderation; palliation; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigour, punishment.
b Obs. A softening or qualifying, as of words; a qualification.
c Obs. Propitiation; of an animal, taming.
2. A mitigating thing or fact.
�
1. The condition occurrig whenever the result of an arithmetic operation exceeds the capacity of the number representation in a digital computer.
2. The carry digit arising from (1) above.
overflow position
In a computer, an extra register position in which the overflow digit is developed.
precedence n.
1. precedent in any sense.
2. Act or state of preceding, or going before, in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another; also, state or quality of being more important or valuable that; as, one event has precedence of another; also, state or quality of being important or valuable that; as, the thoroughbred takes precedence of the mongrel.
proto (prōʹtō-) A combining form, Greek prōto-, prōt-, from prōtos, meaning first, used to denote:
1. a. First in time, as in protoapostate, protocol, prototype.
b. First in status, chief in rank or importance, principal, chief, arch-, as in protonotary, protorebel Cf. ARCH-
[examples]
2. Earliest among the forms that may be classed as (specified); original; primitive; as in proto-Germanic, protohistoric, proto-Hittite. Cf. PRE-
proto-Apostolic proto-Egyptian proto-Mede
proto-Arabic proto-Elamite proto-Mongol
proto-Armenian proto-Etruscan proto-Mycenean
proto-Aryan proto-European proto-Phonecian
One of the marks used in printing and writing to
indicate
the beginning and the end of a quotation in which the exact phraseology
or
another segment of a text is directly cited. Other than for
marking
citations, quotation marks are often used to enclose strings.
radix n.
Math. A number that is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of a system of numbers; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of enumeration.
E.G. f 16n = x. See RealDouble.
range n.
1. A series of things (formerly also of persons or animals) in a line; a row; a rank; as, a rage of pipes; a range of buildings.
2. a A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
He may take a range all the world over. Soulh.
b That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; esp., a sparsely populated and open region over which cattle, sheep, or other livestock may roam and feed.
3. Specif.:
a pl. Mountains; mountainous country.
b In Australian, sometimes, a single mountain.
c A series or chain of mountain peaks considered as forming one connected system; a ridge of mountains; as, the Appalachian range.
d Western U.S. Any stretch of open country.
e In the Lake Superior iron region, the belt of outcrop of an iron-bearing formation.
4. In early usage, apparently a hinged grating let down when required over an open fireplace, to support pots, pans, etc, and latter, a plate with holes for the pots, etc., similarly used or set; hence, in modern usage, a cooking apparatus containing an enclosed fireplace, having one or more side ovens and a flat top with a number of holes, with removable covers, for the pots, pans, etc. This was originally and is sometimes now, buklt into� a recess in the wall at the bottom of the chimney. The usual modern form is the so-called portable range which is more or less elaborate, and is constructed to set against or near a wall to economize space. In the trade the range is commonly distinguished fro thte (cooking) stove as having only one opening to the oven, whereas the stove oven has on opening at each end.
5. An aggregate of individuals or objects in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
6. a In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.� The meridians included in each great survey are numbered in order east and west from the "principal meridian" of that survey, and the townships in the range are numbered north and south from the "base line," which runs east and west; as, township No. 6, N. range 7, W., from the fifth principal meridian.� b Canada. A row of lots along a boundary line.
7. Extent or space taken in or covered; distance, compass, or extent of excursion or distributions; reach; scope; sphere; as, range of voice; a wide range of topics; range of thought.
Far as creation's ample range extends. Pope.
8. A line of direction; as, from the channel entrance the beacon is in range with the lighthouse.
9. The limits of a series of actual or possible variations; also, the series or scale of variations within such limits; as, the range of prices is greater; he had a narrow range of choice.
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18. Mathematics.
a A system of points lying on a line (the base); a straight line regardes as the aggregate of its points.
b A simply infinite system of curves, whose line equation is φ + κφ' = 0 , that touch the common tangents of the two curves, whose line equations are φ = 0, φ' = 0 (the bases).
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recursion n.
A recurring; return.
recursive Phonetic.
Formed with an inward movement of air cased by lowering the larynx with closed glottis; --said of certain consonants in Sindi (g, j, d, b).
[Incredibly, the above definition for recursive is Websters 1949 definition. Incredible! This suggests that RECURSIVE FUNCTION is relatively new in English. This is evidence that programming (as a cultural influence) is transforming the English language.]
semantics n.
1. The study of the meaning in language; including historical changes in meaning and form.
2. The branch of semiotics dealing with the relationship between signs or symbols and what they denote.
Philol. The science of meanings, as contrasted with phonetics, the science of sounds; the historical and psychological study and the classification of changes in signification of words or forms, viewed as normal and vital factors in linguistic development, including such phenomena as specialization and expansion of meaning, meliorative and pejorative tendency, metaphor, adaptation, and the like. Semantics is usually construed as a singular noun.
span n.
1. The space from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; in English measure, 9 inches; also, Rare, the hand with thumb and fingers extended, as for spanning.
2. Hence, extent of reach in general; reach; grasp. Rare.
3. Anything conceived of as an extent, stretch, reach, or spread, between two definite limits; specif.;
a A limited space or portion of time; often, a small space or brief time.
Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. Farquhar.
b The spread or extent of an arch between abutments or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports; also, the portion thus extended.
4. A pair of horses mules, or other animals, usually matched in looks and action, driven together.
5. A team of two or more pairs of oxen yoked to a cart or wagon. S. Africa.
6. Aeronautics. The maximum distance, laterally from tip to tip of an airplane, inclusive of ailerons or the lateral dimension of an airfoil; --called also spread.
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span v.
1. To measure by the hand with fingers and thumb extended, or by encompassing with the fingers; as, to span a cylinder; hence, to measure in any way; as, to span a distance.
2. Hence, to spread out, stretch; extend over, as if with the hand; hence, broadly, to reach across in space or time.
My right hand hath spanned the heavens. Is. xiviii. 13.
3. To seize; grasp; encompass with, or as with, the hand. Obs.
4. To spread, stretch, or extend, over or across from one limit to another; to cover as with an arch or span.
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syntax n.
1. Connected system or order; orderly arrangement; harmonious adjustment of parts, elements, etc.
His mind moved in a rich erudite and complex syntax that turned all opposition into admiration. George Moore
2. Gram. a Sentence structure; the due arrangement of word forms to show their mutual relations in the sentence.
b That part of grammar which treats of the expressionof predicative, qualifying, and other word relations, according to established usage in the language under study.
See GRAMMAR.
1. An outward indication or expression; a visible sign; ocular or sensible evidence or proof; as there were no tokens of his profound grief.
2. Something that serves as a symbol or emblem; a symbolic act or thing; as uncovering a token of respect; a white flag is a token of surrender.
3. A divine or miraculous sign; hence an omen; a portent; an advance sign.
Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt. Ps. cxxv.9.
The token of waning night Shelley.
4. A signal; a prearranged sign. Archaic.
5. A distinguished mark, or feature; a characteristic.
Do you not read some tokens of my son
In the large composition of man? Shak.
Most of the English definitions in the above glossary were copied from the 1949 Websters New International Dictionary of the English Language (see below). Amongst other reasons, I used this dictionary because its definition for "computer" still referred to it as a human occupation. The definitions are from the time before the digital computer transformed English. (J.V.W.B.)
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
2nd Edition; UNABRIDGED
G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers; Springfield, Mass., USA 1949
(c) 2004-2008 by
John Van Wie Bergamini