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horror
(mass) | horror
- hrôza |
horror
(encz) | horror,horor n: luno |
horror
(encz) | horror,hrůza |
horror
(encz) | horror,strach n: PetrV |
horror
(encz) | horror,zděšení n: PetrV |
Horror
(gcide) | Horror \Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr.
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread,
to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h?sh to bristle.]
1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous
movement. [Archaic]
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Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
wrinkled waves. --Chapman.
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2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit
which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill
of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an
algor.
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3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
inspired by something frightful and shocking.
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How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton.
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4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
dreariness.
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Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
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The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]
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horror
(wn) | horror
n 1: intense and profound fear
2: something that inspires dislike; something horrible; "the
painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
3: intense aversion [syn: repugnance, repulsion,
revulsion, horror] |
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horror
(mass) | horror
- hrôza |
horror
(encz) | horror,horor n: lunohorror,hrůza horror,strach n: PetrVhorror,zděšení n: PetrV |
horror-stricken
(encz) | horror-stricken,zděšený hrůzou Zdeněk Brož |
horror-struck
(encz) | horror-struck,zděšený hrůzou Zdeněk Brož |
horrors
(encz) | horrors,horory n: pl. Zdeněk Brožhorrors,hrůzy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
to my horror
(encz) | to my horror,k mému zděšení [fráz.] Pino |
Horror-sticken
(gcide) | Horror-sticken \Hor"ror-stick`en\, a.
Struck with horror; horrified.
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Blank and horror-stricken faces. --C. Kingsley.
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Horror-struck
(gcide) | Horror-struck \Hor"ror-struck`\, a.
Horror-stricken; horrified. --M. Arnold.
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The horrors
(gcide) | Horror \Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr.
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread,
to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h?sh to bristle.]
1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous
movement. [Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
wrinkled waves. --Chapman.
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2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit
which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill
of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an
algor.
[1913 Webster]
3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
inspired by something frightful and shocking.
[1913 Webster]
How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton.
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4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
dreariness.
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Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
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The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]
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horror
(wn) | horror
n 1: intense and profound fear
2: something that inspires dislike; something horrible; "the
painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
3: intense aversion [syn: repugnance, repulsion,
revulsion, horror] |
horror-stricken
(wn) | horror-stricken
adj 1: stricken with horror [syn: horrified, {horror-
stricken}, horror-struck] |
horror-struck
(wn) | horror-struck
adj 1: stricken with horror [syn: horrified, {horror-
stricken}, horror-struck] |
crawling horror
(foldoc) | crawling horror
Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept
obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers
at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes
that the thing described is not just an irritation but an
active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff
in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II
application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling
horror."
Compare WOMBAT.
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crawling horror
(jargon) | crawling horror
n.
Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by
forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or {
gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an
irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. “Mostly we code new
stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big FORTRAN II application from
nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror....” Compare WOMBAT.
This usage is almost certainly derived from the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft may never have used the exact phrase “crawling horror” in his
writings, but one of the fearsome Elder Gods that he wrote extensively
about was Nyarlethotep, who had as an epithet “The Crawling Chaos”.
Certainly the extreme, even melodramatic horror of his characters at the
weird monsters they encounter, even to the point of going insane with fear,
is what hackers are referring to with this phrase when they use it for
horribly bad code. Compare cthulhic.
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