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commonwealth
(mass) | commonwealth
- spoločenstvo |
commonwealth
(encz) | commonwealth,obecné blaho Zdeněk Brož |
commonwealth
(encz) | commonwealth,společenství n: Zdeněk Brož |
Commonwealth
(gcide) | Commonwealth \Com"mon*wealth`\ (?; 277), n. [Common + wealth
well-being.]
1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of
men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form
of government and system of laws.
[1913 Webster]
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary
commonwealth. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This term is applied to governments which are
considered as free or popular, but rarely, or
improperly, to an absolute government. The word
signifies, strictly, the common well-being or
happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the
general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of
any class.
[1913 Webster]
2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government
established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which
existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending
with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
Syn: State; realm; republic.
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commonwealth
(wn) | commonwealth
n 1: the official name of some states in the United States
(Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky)
and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
2: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African
nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol";
"the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized
land" [syn: state, nation, country, land,
commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
3: a world organization of autonomous states that are united in
allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it
or to one another
4: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body
of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn:
democracy, republic, commonwealth] |
commonwealth
(devil) | COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable
multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously
efficient.
This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view,
So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew
Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches
Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays
That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins
Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins.
On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all,
Misfortune attend and disaster befall!
May life be to them a succession of hurts;
May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts;
May aches and diseases encamp in their bones,
Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones;
May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest,
And tapeworms securely their bowels digest;
May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair,
And frequent impalement their pleasure impair.
Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse
Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse,
By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors --
The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores!
Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin!
Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin,
Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in.
K.Q.
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COMMONWEALTH
(bouvier) | COMMONWEALTH, government. A commonwealth is properly a free state, or
republic, having a popular or representative government. The term has been,
applied to the government of Great Britain. It is not applicable to absolute
governments. The states composing the United States are, properly, so many
commonwealths.
2. It is a settled principle, that no sovereign power is amenable to
answer suits, either in its own courts or in those of a foreign country,
unless by its own consent. 4 Yeates, 494.
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commonwealth
(mass) | commonwealth
- spoločenstvo |
commonwealth of independent states
(msas) | Commonwealth of Independent States
- CIS |
commonwealth of independent states
(msasasci) | Commonwealth of Independent States
- CIS |
commonwealth
(encz) | commonwealth,obecné blaho Zdeněk Brožcommonwealth,společenství n: Zdeněk Brož |
commonwealth of independent states
(encz) | Commonwealth of Independent States,Společenství nezávislých států IvČaCommonwealth of Independent States,volné společenství států Zdeněk
Brož |
commonwealth of nations
(encz) | Commonwealth of Nations,volné společenství států Zdeněk Brož |
british commonwealth
(wn) | British Commonwealth
n 1: an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom
and several former British colonies that are now sovereign
states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown [syn:
British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations] |
commonwealth
(wn) | commonwealth
n 1: the official name of some states in the United States
(Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky)
and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
2: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African
nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol";
"the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized
land" [syn: state, nation, country, land,
commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
3: a world organization of autonomous states that are united in
allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it
or to one another
4: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body
of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn:
democracy, republic, commonwealth] |
commonwealth country
(wn) | commonwealth country
n 1: any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
commonwealth day
(wn) | Commonwealth Day
n 1: British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth [syn:
Commonwealth Day, Empire day, May 24] |
commonwealth of australia
(wn) | Commonwealth of Australia
n 1: a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent;
Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from
southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were
British convicts sent there as a penal colony [syn:
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia] |
commonwealth of dominica
(wn) | Commonwealth of Dominica
n 1: a country on the island of Dominica [syn: Dominica,
Commonwealth of Dominica] |
commonwealth of independent states
(wn) | Commonwealth of Independent States
n 1: an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet
Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its
dissolution in Dec 1991 [syn: {Commonwealth of Independent
States}, CIS] |
commonwealth of nations
(wn) | Commonwealth of Nations
n 1: an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom
and several former British colonies that are now sovereign
states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown [syn:
British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations] |
commonwealth of puerto rico
(wn) | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
n 1: a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United
States occupying the island of Puerto Rico [syn: {Puerto
Rico}, Porto Rico, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, PR] |
commonwealth of the bahamas
(wn) | Commonwealth of the Bahamas
n 1: island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and
Cuba; a popular winter resort [syn: Bahamas,
Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Bahama Islands] |
commonwealth hackish
(foldoc) | Commonwealth Hackish
Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in
the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth
speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char"
and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to
American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names
(especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more
often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh
wib'l/). The prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't*/;
similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is
usually /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred {metasyntactic
variables} include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and
"bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble";
"banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish,
and so on and on (see foo).
Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama",
"frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf
city!" "hack-o-rama!" "core dump frenzy!"). Finally, note
that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for
(), [], and {} are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers
"brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets". Also,
the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the United
States.
See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, {console
jockey}, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek,
heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes,
muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet,
raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge,
terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel,
YABA, and notes or definitions under Bad Thing, barf,
bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware,
crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily,
mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak and
xyzzy.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-18)
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commonwealth hackish
(jargon) | Commonwealth Hackish
n.
Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.S., esp. in the British
Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to
pronounce truncations like ‘char’ and ‘soc’, etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok
/), as opposed to American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names
(especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more often (so
soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh wib´l/).
Preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, eek, ook, frodo, and
bilbo; wibble, wobble, and in emergencies wubble; flob, banana, tom, dick
, harry, wombat, frog, fish, womble and so on and on (see foo, sense
4). Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes -o-rama, frenzy (as in
feeding frenzy), and city (examples: “barf city!” “hack-o-rama!” “core dump
frenzy!”).
All the generic differences within the anglophone world inevitably show
themselves in the associated hackish dialects. The Greek letters beta and
zeta are usually pronounced /bee't@/ and /zee´t@/; meta may also be
pronounced /mee't@/. Various punctuators (and even letters - Z is called
‘zed’, not ‘zee’) are named differently: most crucially, for hackish, where
Americans use ‘parens’, ‘brackets’ and `braces' for (), [] and {},
Commonwealth English uses ‘brackets’, ‘square brackets’ and ‘curly
brackets’, though ‘parentheses’ may be used for the first; the exclamation
mark, ‘!’, is called pling rather than bang and the pound sign, ‘#’, is
called hash; furthermore, the term ‘the pound sign’ is understood to mean
the £ (of course). Canadian hacker slang, as with mainstream language,
mixes American and British usages about evenly.
See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey, fish, {
go-faster stripes}, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky heap, {lord
high fixer}, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware,
raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge, {terminal junkie
}, tick-list features, weeble, weasel, YABA, and notes or
definitions under Bad Thing, barf, bogus, chase pointers, {cosmic
rays}, crippleware, crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, {
mess-dos}, nybble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak, womble, and {
xyzzy}.
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commonwealth
(devil) | COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable
multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously
efficient.
This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view,
So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew
Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches
Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays
That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins
Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins.
On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all,
Misfortune attend and disaster befall!
May life be to them a succession of hurts;
May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts;
May aches and diseases encamp in their bones,
Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones;
May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest,
And tapeworms securely their bowels digest;
May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair,
And frequent impalement their pleasure impair.
Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse
Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse,
By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors --
The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores!
Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin!
Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin,
Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in.
K.Q.
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COMMONWEALTH
(bouvier) | COMMONWEALTH, government. A commonwealth is properly a free state, or
republic, having a popular or representative government. The term has been,
applied to the government of Great Britain. It is not applicable to absolute
governments. The states composing the United States are, properly, so many
commonwealths.
2. It is a settled principle, that no sovereign power is amenable to
answer suits, either in its own courts or in those of a foreign country,
unless by its own consent. 4 Yeates, 494.
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