Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 37
Merge (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
Native irresolution had merged in stronger motives. -- I. Taylor.
Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
To merge all natural . . . sentiment in inordinate vanity. -- Burke.
Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. -- De Quincey.
Merge (v.) Become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" [syn: unify, unite, merge] [ant: break apart, disunify].
Merge (v.) Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge].
Merge (v.) Join or combine; "We merged our resources" [syn: unite, unify, merge].
Merger (n.) One who, or that which, merges.
Merger (n.) (Law) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.
Merger (n.) The combining of two groups into a unified single group under a single leadership, with voluntary participation by the leaders or management of both groups.
Merger (n.) Specifically: (Business, Finance) The combining of two commercial enterprises into a unified single enterprise under a single management, with voluntary participation by both parties; as, the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler into Daimler-Chrysler created a powerful competitor in the automobile manufacturing industry. Compare acquisition and takeover.
Merger (n.) The combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: amalgamation, merger, uniting].
Merger (n.) An occurrence that involves the production of a union [syn: fusion, merger, unification].
Merger , () Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts.
Merger , () estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by him, the term of years is merged in the inheritance, and no longer exists; but they must be to one and the same person, at one and the same time, in one and the same right. 2 BL Com. 177; 3 Mass. Rep. 172; Latch, 153; Poph. 166; 1 John. Ch. R. 417; 3 John. Ch. R. 53; 6 Madd. Ch. R. 119.
Merger , () The estate in which the merger takes place, is not enlarged by the accession of the preceding estate; and the greater, or only subsisting estate, continues, after the merger, precisely of the same quantity and extent of ownership, as it was before the accession of the estate which is merged, and the lesser estate is extinguished. Prest. on Conv. 7. As a general rule, equal estates will not drown in each other.
Merger , () The merger is produced, either from the meeting of an estate of higher degree, with an estate of inferior degree; or from the meeting of the particular estate and the immediate reversion, in the same person. 4 Kent, Com. 98. Vide 3 Prest. on Conv. which is devoted to this subject. Vide, generally, Bac. Ab. Leases, &c. R; 15 Vin. Ab. 361; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 10 Verm. R. 293;; 8 Watts, R. 146; Co. Litt. 338 b, note 4; Hill. Ab. Index, h.t.; Bouv. Inst; Index, h.t.; and Confusion; Consolidation; Unity of Possession.
Merger , () crim. law. When a man commits a great crime which includes a lesser, the latter is merged in the former.
Merger , () Murder, when committed by blows, necessarily includes an assault and battery; a battery, an assault; a burglary, when accompanied with a felonious taking of personal property, a larceny in all these, and similar cases, the lesser crime is merged in the greater.
Merger , () But when one offence is of the same character with the other, there is no merger; as in the case of a conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, and the misdemeanor is afterwards committed in pursuance of the conspiracy. The two crimes being of equal degree, there can be no legal merger. 4 Wend. R. 265. Vide Civil Remedy.
Merger , () rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment.
Merger , () When there is a confusion of rights, and the debtor and creditor become the same person, there can be no right to put in execution; but there is an immediate merger. 2 Ves. jr. 264. Example: a man becomes indebted to a woman in a sum of money, and afterwards marries her, there is immediately a confusion of rights, and the debt is merged or extinguished.
Merger , () torts. Where a person in committing a felony also commits a tort against a private person; in this case, the wrong is sunk in the felony, at least, until after the felon's conviction.
Merger , () The old maxim that a trespass is merged in a felony, has sometimes been supposed to mean that there is no redress by civil action for an injury which amounts to a felony. But it is now established that the defendant is liable to the party injured either after his conviction; Latch, 144; Noy, 82; W. Jones, 147; Sty. 346; 1 Mod. 282; 1 Hale, P. C. 546; or acquittal. 12 East, R. 409; 1 Tayl. R. 58; 2 Hayw. 108. If the civil action be commenced before, the plaintiff will be nonsuited. Yelv. 90, a, n. See Hamm. N. P. 63; Kely. 48; Cas. Tempt. Hardw. 350; Lofft. 88; 2 T.R. 750; 3 Greenl. R. 458. Butler, J., says, this doctrine is not extended beyond actions of trespass or tort. 4 T. R. 333. See also 1 H. Bl. 583, 588, 594; 15 Mass. R. 78; Id. 336. Vide Civil Remedy; Injury.
Merger , () The Revised Statutes of New York, part 3, c. 4, t. 1, s. 2, direct that the right of action of any person injured by any felony, shall not, in any case, be merged in such felony, or be in any manner affected thereby. In Kentucky, Pr. Dec. 203, and New Hampshire, 6 N. H. Rep. 454, the owner of stolen goods, may immediately. pursue his civil remedy. See, generally, Minor, 8; 1 Stew. R. 70; 15 Mass. 336; Coxe, 115; 4 Ham. 376; 4 N. Hanp. Rep. 239; 1 Miles, R. 212; 6 Rand. 223; 1 Const. R. 231; 2 Root, 90.
Merger (n.) [ C ] (C2) （公司、企業等的）合併 An occasion when two or more companies join together to make one larger company.
// She's an attorney who advises companies about mergers and takeovers.
// The merger of these two companies would create the world's biggest accounting firm.
Mericarp (n.) (Bot.) One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
Mericarp (n.) A carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity.
Meride (n.) (Biol.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides. -- Perrier.
Meridian (a.) 頂點的；全盛期的；【天】【測】子午線的，經線的 Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course. "Meridian hour." -- Milton.
Tables . . . to find the altitude meridian. -- Chaucer.
Meridian (a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
Meridian (n.) 【天】【測】子午線，經線 [C]；（太陽等天體對地面而言的）最高點 [the S] Midday; noon.
Meridian (n.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. -- Shak.
Meridian (n.) (Astron.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
Meridian (n.) (Geog.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
Note: The planes of the geographical and astronomical meridians coincide. Meridians, on a map or globe, are lines drawn at certain intervals due north and south, or in the direction of the poles.
{Calculated for the meridian of}, or {Fitted to the meridian of}, or {Adapted to the meridian of}, Suited to the local circumstances, capabilities, or special requirements of.
All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof. -- Sir M. Hale.
{First meridian} or {Prime meridian}, The meridian from which longitudes are reckoned. The meridian of Greenwich is the one commonly employed in calculations of longitude by geographers, and in actual practice, although in various countries other and different meridians, chiefly those which pass through the capitals of the countries, are occasionally used; as, in France, the meridian of Paris; in the United States, the meridian of Washington, etc.
{Guide meridian} (Public Land Survey), A line, marked by monuments, running North and South through a section of country between other more carefully established meridians called principal meridians, used for reference in surveying. [U.S.]
{Magnetic meridian}, A great circle, passing through the zenith and coinciding in direction with the magnetic needle, or a line on the earth's surface having the same direction.
{Meridian circle} (Astron.), An instrument consisting of a telescope attached to a large graduated circle and so mounted that the telescope revolves like the transit instrument in a meridian plane. By it the right ascension and the declination of a star may be measured in a single observation.
{Meridian instrument} (Astron.), Any astronomical instrument having a telescope that rotates in a meridian plane.
{Meridian of a globe}, or {Brass meridian}, A graduated circular ring of brass, in which the artificial globe is suspended and revolves.
Meridian (a.) Of or happening at noon; "meridian hour."
Meridian (a.) Being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning [syn: {prime}, {meridian}].
Meridian (n.) The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: {acme}, {height}, {elevation}, {peak}, {pinnacle}, {summit}, {superlative}, {meridian}, {tiptop}, {top}].
Meridian (n.) A town in eastern Mississippi.
Meridian (n.) An imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude" [syn: {meridian}, {line of longitude}].
Meridian, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 350
Housing Units (2000): 120
Land area (2000): 0.692018 sq. miles (1.792318 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.692018 sq. miles (1.792318 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46646
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.163531 N, 76.535045 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Meridian
Meridian, CO -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Colorado
Population (2000): 184
Housing Units (2000): 140
Land area (2000): 7.610856 sq. miles (19.712025 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000962 sq. miles (0.002492 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.611818 sq. miles (19.714517 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50012
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.548714 N, 104.850969 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, CO
Meridian
Meridian, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 34919
Housing Units (2000): 12293
Land area (2000): 11.788751 sq. miles (30.532723 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.788751 sq. miles (30.532723 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52120
Located
within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.614229 N, 116.398963 W
ZIP
Codes (1990): 83642
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, ID
Meridian
Meridian, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 54
Housing Units (2000): 31
Land area (2000): 0.198858 sq. miles (0.515041 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.198858 sq. miles (0.515041 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47800
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.843545 N, 97.246625 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73058
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, OK
Meridian
Meridian, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 1485
Housing Units (2000): 643
Land area (2000): 7.631141 sq. miles (19.764563 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009790 sq. miles (0.025357 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.640931 sq. miles (19.789920 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47810
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.416951 N, 97.969636 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73058
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, OK
Meridian
Meridian, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 3794
Housing Units (2000): 1524
Land area (2000): 2.836236 sq. miles (7.345817 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004892 sq. miles (0.012669 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.841128 sq. miles (7.358486 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48728
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.854415 N, 79.956359 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Meridian, PA
Meridian
Meridian, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1491
Housing Units (2000): 600
Land area (2000): 2.163088 sq. miles (5.602372 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005137 sq. miles (0.013304 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.168225 sq. miles (5.615676 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47760
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.924649 N, 97.656668 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76665
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, TX
Meridian
Meridian, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
Population (2000): 39968
Housing Units (2000): 17890
Land area (2000): 45.117740 sq. miles (116.854406 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.752075 sq. miles (1.947864 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 45.869815 sq. miles (118.802270 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46640
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.374841 N, 88.704160 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39301 39305 39307
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meridian, MS
Meridian
Meridian (n.) [ C ] 子午線，經線 An imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole, drawn on maps to help to show the position of a place.
// The prime meridian of longitude is in Greenwich, London.
Meridional (a.) 【天】子午線的；歐洲南部的；南方的；在南方的；南北方向的 Of or pertaining to the meridian.
Meridional (a.) Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly.
Offices that require heat . . . should be meridional. -- Sir H. Wotton.
{Meridional distance}, The distance or departure from the meridian; the easting or westing.
{Meridional parts}, Parts of the meridian in Mercator's projection, corresponding to each minute of latitude from the equator up to 70 or 80 degrees; tabulated numbers representing these parts used in projecting charts, and in solving cases in Mercator's sailing.
Meridional (a.) Of or relating to a meridian.
Meridional (a.) Located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places.
Meridional (n.) （常作M-）南歐人 An inhabitant of the south, especially the south of France.
Meridionality (n.) 經向性 The state of being in the meridian.
Meridionality (n.) Position in the south; aspect toward the south.
Meridionality (n.) (Rare) The state of being on the meridian or aligned with a meridian; north-south orientation.
Meridionality (n.) (Obsolete) The quality or state of being meridional or on the meridian : position in the south.
Meridionally (adv.) In the direction of the meridian.
Meridionally (adv.) Along a meridian or meridians; in a north-south direction.
Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.
Meringue (n.) A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.
Meringue (n.) Sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar.
Merinos (n. pl. ) of Merino. [Sp]
Merino (n.) (Zool.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.
Merino (n.) A fine fabric of merino wool.
Merino (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.
Merino (a.) Made of the wool of the merino sheep.
Merino (n.) White sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality [syn: merino, merino sheep].
Merino, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 246
Housing Units (2000): 110
Land area (2000): 0.173003 sq. miles (0.448076 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.173003 sq. miles (0.448076 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50040
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.484418 N, 103.353691 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Merino, CO
Merino
Merismatic (a.) (Biol.) Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.
Meristem (n.) (Bot.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.
Meristem (n.) Undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root.
Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Here may men see how sin hath his merit. -- Chaucer.
Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that others do; and when we fall,
We answer other's merits in our name. -- Shak.
Merit (n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Reputation is . . . oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. -- Shak.
To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own. -- Pope.
Merit (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth. -- Prior.
Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Merited (imp. & p. p.) of Merit.
Meriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merit.
Merit (v. t.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment. "This kindness merits thanks." -- Shak.
Merit (v. t.) To reward. [R. & Obs.] -- Chapman.
Merit (n.) Any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit" [syn: merit, virtue] [ant: demerit, fault].
Merit (n.) The quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded" [syn: deservingness, merit, meritoriousness].
Merit (v.) Be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done" [syn: deserve, merit]
Merits. () This word is used principally in matters of defence.
Merits. () A defence upon the merits, is one that rests upon the justice of the cause, and not upon technical grounds only; there is, therefore, a difference between a good defence, which may be technical or not, and a defence on the merits. 5 B. & Ald. 703 1 Ashm. R. 4; 5 John. R. 536; Id. 360; 3 John. R. 245 Id. 449; 6 John. R. 131; 4 John. R. 486; 2 Cowen, R. 281; 7 Cowen, R. 514; 6 Wend. R. 511; 6 Cowen, R. 895.
Meritable (a.) Deserving of reward. [R.]
Meritable (a.) Deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: meritorious, meritable].
Merited (a.) 該得的；理所當然的；merit的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Properly deserved; "a merited success" [syn: {merited}, {deserved}] [ant: {unmerited}].
Meritedly (adv.) 應得地；當然地 By merit; deservedly. Merithal
Merithal (n.) Alt. of Merithallus.
Merithallus (n.) (Bot.) Same as Internode.
Compare: Internode
Internode (n.) （神經或枝莖等之）節間部分 A slender part between two nodes or joints.
Internode (n.) (Botany) A part of a plant stem between two of the nodes from which leaves emerge.
Internode (n.) (Anatomy) A stretch of a nerve cell axon sheathed in myelin, between two nodes of Ranvier.
Internode (n.) (Bot.) The space
between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.
-- H. Spenser.
Internode (n.) (Anat.) A part between two joints; a segment;
specifically, one of the phalanges.
Internode (n.) A segment of a stem between two nodes.
Meritmonger (n.) One who depends on merit for salvation. [Obs.] -- Milner.
Compare: Salvation
Salvation (n.) [Mass noun] 救助，拯救 [U]；救星；救助的手段（或工具）[the S]；【宗】拯救，救世 [U] Preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.
‘They try to sell it to us as economic salvation.’
Salvation (n.) (One's salvation) A source or means of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss.
‘His only salvation was to outfly the enemy.’
Salvation (n.) (Theology) Deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.
‘The Christian gospel of salvation for all mankind.’
Salvation (n.) The act of saving;
preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great
calamity.
Salvation (n.) (Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of
sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting
happiness.
To earn salvation for the sons of men. -- Milton.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. -- 2. Cor. vii. 10.
Salvation (n.) Saving power; that which saves. Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day. -- Ex. xiv. 13.
Salvation Army, An organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being "General." They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style.
Salvation (n.) (Theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil [syn: redemption, salvation].
Salvation (n.) A means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation."
Salvation (n.) The state of being saved or preserved from harm.
Salvation (n.) Saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation; "the salvation of his party was the president's major concern."
Salvation, () This word is used of the deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians (Ex. 14:13), and of deliverance generally from evil or danger. In the New Testament it is specially used with reference to the great deliverance from the guilt and the pollution of sin wrought out by Jesus Christ, "the great salvation" (Heb. 2:3). (See REDEMPTION; REGENERATION.)
Meritorious (a.) 有功績的；有價值的；值得稱讚的；令人敬佩的 Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. -- Shak. -- {Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness}, n.
Meritorious (a.) Deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: {meritorious}, {meritable}].
Meritorious (a.) Deserving reward or praise.
‘A medal for meritorious conduct.’
Meritorious (a.) (North American Law) (Of an action or claim) Likely to succeed on the merits of the case.
‘The costs involved in civil litigation may prevent a meritorious appeal.’
Meritory (a.) Meritorious. [Obs.]
Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
Merk (n.) A mark; a sign. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Merk (n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc. [Scot.]
Merke (a.) Murky. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Merkin (n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.
Merkin (n.) A patch of false hair, or something resembling hair, worn on a string over the female pudenda; -- used by stripteasers.
Merkin (n.) The hair on the female pubic area. [slang] Merl
Merl (n.) Alt. of Merle.
Merle (n.) (Zool.) The European blackbird. See Blackbird. -- Drayton.
Merl (n.) Common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, Turdus merula].
Merlin (n.) (Zool.) A small European falcon ({Falco columbarius, syn. Falco lithofalco, or Falco aesalon). In North America called also pigeon hawk.
Merlin (n.) (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor.
Merlin (n.) Small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry [syn: pigeon hawk, merlin, Falco columbarius].
OS/2
Merlin
Warp
IBM and Microsoft's successor to the MS-DOS operating system for Intel 80286 and Intel 80386-based microprocessors. It is proof that they couldn't get it right the second time either. Often called "Half-an-OS". The design was so baroque, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major application programs shipping for it on the fingers of two hands, in unary. Later versions improved somewhat, and informed hackers now rate them superior to Microsoft Windows, which isn't saying much. See second-system effect.
On an Intel 80386 or better, OS/2 can multitask between existing MS-DOS applications. OS/2 is strong on connectivity and the provision of robust virtual machines.
It can support Microsoft Windows programs in addition to its own native applications. It also supports the Presentation Manager graphical user interface.
OS/2 supports hybrid multiprocessing (HMP), which provides some elements of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), using add-on IBM software called MP/2. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993.
After OS/2 1.x the IBM and Microsoft partnership split.
IBM continued to develop OS/2 2.0, while Microsoft developed what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 into Windows NT.
In October 1994, IBM released version OS/2 3.0 (known as "Warp") but it is only distantly related to Windows NT.
This version raised the limit on RAM from 16MB to 1GB (like Windows NT).
IBM introduced networking with "OS/2 Warp Connect", the first multi-user version. OS/2 Warp 4.0 ("Merlin") is a network operating system.
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Merling (n.) (Zool.) The European whiting.
Merlon (n.) (Fort.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Merlon (n.) A solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement.
Merluce (n.) (Zool.) The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.
Mermaid (n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients.
Mermaid fish (Zool.) The angel fish ({Squatina"> Mermaid fish (Zool.) the angel fish ({Squatina).
Mermaid's glove (Zool.), A British branched sponge somewhat resembling a glove.
Mermaid's head (Zool.), A European spatangoid sea urchin ({Echinocardium cordatum) having some resemblance to a skull.
Mermaid weed (Bot.), An aquatic herb with dentate or pectinate leaves ({Proserpinaca palustris and Proserpinaca pectinacea).
Mermaid (n.) Half woman and half fish; lives in the sea.
Mermen (n. pl. ) of Merman.
Merman (n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish. Mero de lo alto; Mero
Merman (n.) United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984) [syn: Merman, Ethel Merman].
Merman (n.) Half man and half fish; lives in the sea.
Meroblast (n.) (Biol.) An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.
Meroblastic (a.) (Biol.) Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.
Merocele (n.) (Med.) Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia.
Meroistic (a.) (Zool.) Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
Meropidan (n.) (Zool.) One of a family of birds ({Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
Meropodite (n.) (Zool.) The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
Merorganization (n.) Organization in part. [R.]
Meros (n.) (Arch.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] -- Weale.
Meros (n.) (Anat.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
Merosome (n.) (Zool.) One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.
Merostomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.
Merostomata (n.) Used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida [syn: {Merostomata}, {class Merostomata}].
Compare: Jack
Jack (n.) (Bot.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow. [Written also jak.]
Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. -- Shak.
Jack (n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." -- Chaucer.
Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. -- Shak.
Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
Jack (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:
Jack (n.) (a) A device to pull off boots.
Jack (n.) (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Jack (n.) (c) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
Jack (n.) (d) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Jack (n.) (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
Jack (n.) (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
Jack (n.) (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
Jack (n.) (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
Jack (n.) (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
Jack (n.) (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
Jack (n.) (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
Jack (n.) (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
Jack (n.) (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. -- C. Hallock.
Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body such as an automobile through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls. -- Shak.
Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it. -- Sir W. Scott.
Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) (a) A young pike; a pickerel.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) (b) The jurel.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and m['e]rou.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) (d) The wall-eyed pike.
Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Jack (n.) (Naut.) (a) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
Jack (n.) (Naut.) (b) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Jack (n.) (pl.) A game played with small (metallic, with tetrahedrally oriented spikes) objects (the jacks(1950+), formerly jackstones) that are tossed, caught, picked up, and arranged on a horizontal surface in various patterns; in the modern American game, the movements are accompanied by tossing or bouncing a rubber ball on the horizontal surface supporting the jacks. same as jackstones.
Jack (n.) Money. [slang]
Jack (n.) Apple jack.
Jack (n.) Brandy.
Note: Jack is used adjectively in various senses. It sometimes designates something cut short or diminished in size; as, a jack timber; a jack rafter; a jack arch, etc.
Jack arch, An arch of the thickness of one brick.
Jack back (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), A cistern which receives the wort. See under 1st Back.
Jack block (Naut.), A block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars.
Jack boots, Boots reaching above the knee; -- worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc.
Jack crosstree. (Naut.) See 10, b, above.
Jack curlew (Zool.), The whimbrel.
Jack frame. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above.
Jack Frost, Frost or cold weather personified as a mischievous person.
Jack hare, A male hare. -- Cowper.
Jack lamp, A lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above.
Jack plane, A joiner's plane used for coarse work.
Jack post, one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus.
Jack pot (Poker Playing), The name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the "pot," which is the sum total of all the bets. See also jackpot.
Jack rabbit (Zool.), Any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species ({Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico ({Lepus callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({Lepus campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white.
Jack rafter (Arch.), In England, one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.
Jack salmon (Zool.), The wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
Jack sauce, An impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
Jack shaft (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
Jack sinker (Knitting Mach.), A thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles.
Jack snipe. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.
Jack staff (Naut.), A staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon which the jack is hoisted.
Jack timber (Arch.), Any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others.
Jack towel, A towel hung on a roller for common use.
Jack truss (Arch.), In a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof has not its full section.
Jack tree. (Bot.) See 1st Jack, n.
Jack yard (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond the gaff.
Blue jack, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Hydraulic jack, A jack used for lifting, pulling, or forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply of liquid, as oil.
Jack-at-a-pinch. (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an emergency.
Jack-at-a-pinch. (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional service for a fee.
Jack-at-all-trades, one who can turn his hand to any kind of work.
Jack-by-the-hedge (Bot.), A plant of the genus Erysimum ({Erysimum alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone. -- Eng. Cyc.
Jack-in-office, An insolent fellow in authority. -- Wolcott.
Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), A tropical shrub with red fruit ({Cordia Cylindrostachya).
Jack-in-the-green, A chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
Jack
of the buttery (Bot.),
The stonecrop ({Sedum acre"> Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), the stonecrop
({Sedum acre).
Jack-of-the-clock, A figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which
struck the time on the bell.
Jack-on-both-sides, One who is or tries to be neutral.
Jack-out-of-office, One who has been in office and is turned out. -- Shak.
Jack the Giant Killer, The hero of a well-known nursery story.
Yellow Jack (Naut.), The yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.
Jack (n.) A coarse and cheap medi[ae]val coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad. -- Sir J. Harrington.
Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Jack (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
Jack (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
Compare: Pike
Pike (n.) (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Pike (n.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. -- Beau. & Fl.
Pike (n.) A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Tusser.
Pike (n.) A pick. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright. Raymond.
Pike (n.) A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
Pike (n.) A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Pike (n.) A turnpike; a toll bar. -- Dickens.
Pike (n.) (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), Any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
Pike pole, A long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), A finback whale of the North Atlantic ({Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), The lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), The garfish (a) .
Jurel (n.) (Zool.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts ({Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevall['e], jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as Caranx fallax) are also sometimes called jurel. Juridic
Compare: Varlet
Varlet (n.) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Tusser.
Varlet (n.) Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet.
What a brazen-faced varlet art thou ! --Shak.
Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack. [Obs.]
Jack (n.) A small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit].
Jack (n.) A man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog].
Jack (n.) Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack].
Jack (n.) Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted [syn: jackfruit, jak, jack].
Jack (n.) A small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
Jack (n.) An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug.
Jack (n.) Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks [syn: jack, jackstones].
Jack (n.) Small flag indicating a ship's nationality.
Jack (n.) One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince [syn: jack, knave].
Jack (n.) Tool for exerting pressure or lifting.
Jack (n.) Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas.
Jack (n.) Male donkey [syn: jack, jackass].
Jack (v.) Lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: jack, jack up].
Jack (v.) Hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack].
JACK, () Java Application Component Kit (Java)
Jack -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 8763
Housing Units (2000): 3668
Land area (2000): 916.609219 sq. miles (2374.006877 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.504784 sq. miles (9.077349 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 920.114003 sq. miles (2383.084226 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.208587 N, 98.169992 W
Headwords:
Jack
Jack, TX
Jack
County
Jack County, TX
Merou (n.) [F.] (Zool.) See Jack, 8 (c).
Merovingian (a.) Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
Merovingian (n.) One of the kings of this dynasty.
Merovingian (a.) Of or relating to the Merovingian dynasty or its members.
Merovingian (n.) A member of the Merovingian dynasty.
Merovingian (n.) A Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750 [syn: Merovingian, Merovingian dynasty].
Merrily (adv.) In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
Merrily sing, and sport, and play. -- Granville.
Merrily (adv.) In a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily].
Compare: Merrymake
Merrymake (n.) Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. [Written also merrimake.]
Merrimake (n.) See Merrymake, n.
Merrimake (v. i.) See Merrymake, v. -- Gay.
Compare: Merrymake
Merrymake (v. i.) To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. [Written also merrimake.]
Merriment (n.) Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." -- Spenser.
Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. -- Milton.
Merriment (n.) A gay feeling [syn: gaiety, merriment].
Merriment (n.) Activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around" [syn: fun, merriment, playfulness].
Merriness (n.) The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
Merriness (n.) The trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness].
Merry (n.) (Bot.) A kind of wild red cherry.
Merry (a.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
They drank, and were merry with him. -- Gen. xliii. 34.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -- Shak.
Merry (a.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
Is any merry? let him sing psalms. -- Jas. v. 13.
Merry (a.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, a merry jest. "Merry wind and weather." -- Spenser.
{Merry dancers}. See under {Dancer}.
{Merry men}, Followers; retainers. [Obs.]
His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee. -- Chaucer.
{To make merry}, To be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. -- Judg. ix. 27.
Syn: Cheerful; blithe; lively; sprightly; vivacious; gleeful; joyous; mirthful; jocund; sportive; hilarious.
Merry (a.) Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: {gay}, {jocund}, {jolly}, {jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}].
Merry (a.) Offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: {gay}, {festal}, {festive}, {merry}].
Merry (a.) Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: {alert}, {brisk}, {lively}, {merry}, {rattling}, {snappy}, {spanking}, {zippy}].
Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.
Merry-go-round (n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a group of seats in the shape of hobbyhorses or other fanciful animals, arranged in a circle on a platform that is rotated by a mechanical drive, often to the accompaniment of music; the seats often move up and down in synchrony with the rotation; -- called also carousel. It is employed primarily for the amusement of children, and is typically found at an amusement park.
Merry-go-round (n.) A never-ending cycle
of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose);
"if we lose the election the whole legislative merry-go-round will have to
start over."
Merry-go-round (n.) A large, rotating machine with seats for
children to ride or amusement [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round,
roundabout, whirligig].
Merrymake (n.) Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. [Written also merrimake.]
Merrymake (v. i.) To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. [Written also merrimake.]
Merrymaker (n.) One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
Merrymaker (n.) A celebrant who shares in a noisy party; "the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen" [syn: reveler, reveller, merrymaker].
Merrymaking (a.) Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
Merrymaking (n.) The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity. -- Wordsworth.
Merrymaking (n.) A boisterous celebration; a merry festivity [syn: merrymaking, conviviality, jollification].
Merrymeeting (n.) A meeting for mirth.
Merrythought (n.) The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Note: It is a sportive custom for two persons to break this bone by pulling the ends apart to see who will get the longer piece, the securing of which is regarded as a lucky omen, signifying that the person holding it will obtain the gratification of some secret wish.
Compare: Wishbone
Wishbone (n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
Mersion (n.) Immersion. [R.] -- Barrow.
Merulidan (n.) (Zool.) A bird of the Thrush family.
Compare: Meros
Meros (n.) (Arch.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] -- Weale.
Meros (n.) (Anat.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
Compare: Meros
Meros (n.) (Arch.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] -- Weale.
Merus (n.) [NL.] (Arch.) See Meros.
Mervaille (n.) Marvel . [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mes- () See Meso-.
Meso-, Mes-, () A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate.
Meso-, Mes-, () specif. (Chem.), Denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.
Meso-, Mes-, () (Chem.) Optically inactive due to compensating optical activity at two or more asymmetric centers, often due to a plane of symmetry within the molecular structure; as, meso-tartaric acid.
Meso-, Mes-, () Attached to a carbon atom located between two hereoatoms in a heterocyclic ring.
MES, () Manufacturing Execution System.
MES, () Menue-EntwicklungsSystem (Sinix, SNI).
MES, () Minimum European Set (UTF, ISO 10646).
Mesa (n.) [Sp.] A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Mesa (n.) Flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: {mesa}, {table}].
Mesa (n.) A city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix.
MESA, () MetaEmailSearchAgent (WWW, Internet).
Mesa, () Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware: Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics. An early version was weakly typed. Mesa's modules with separately compilable definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirth's design for Modula. Threads, coroutines (fork/ join), exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar.
["Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)].
["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 20(8):540-552 (Aug 1977)].
Mesa -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 116255
Housing Units (2000): 48427
Land area (2000): 3327.745916 sq. miles (8618.821990 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.360946 sq. miles (34.604691 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3341.106862 sq. miles (8653.426681 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.095228 N, 108.509096 W
Headwords:
Mesa
Mesa, CO
Mesa County
Mesa County, CO
Mesa, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
Population (2000): 396375
Housing Units (2000): 175701
Land area (2000): 124.987397 sq. miles (323.715859 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.195129 sq. miles (0.505382 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 125.182526 sq. miles (324.221241 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46000
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 33.411199 N, 111.746438 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85201 85202 85203 85204 85205 85206
85207 85208 85210 85213
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesa, AZ
Mesa
Mesa, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 214
Housing Units (2000): 91
Land area (2000): 3.574506 sq. miles (9.257927 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.153968 sq. miles (0.398775 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.728474 sq. miles (9.656702 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47013
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.421647 N, 118.544166 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesa, CA
Mesa
Mesa, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 425
Housing Units (2000): 111
Land area (2000): 1.581697 sq. miles (4.096576 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.581697 sq. miles (4.096576 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45180
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.576963 N, 119.002516 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99343
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesa, WA
Mesa
Mesaconate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of mesaconic acid.
Compare: Pyrocitric
Pyrocitric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
Mesaconic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.
Mesad (adv.) Same as Mesiad.
Mesal (a.) Same as Mesial.
Mesalliance (n.) [F.] A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.
Mesalliance (n.) A marriage with a person of inferior social status.
Mesally (adv.) Same as Mesially.
Mesamoeboid (n.) (Biol.) One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.