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womb
(encz) | womb,děloha n: [med.] PetrV |
womb
(encz) | womb,lůno n: PetrV |
Womb
(gcide) | Womb \Womb\ (w[=oo]m), n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb;
akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe,
Icel. v["o]mb, Sw. v[*a]mb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.]
1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that
the hogs eat, and no man gave him. --Wyclif (Luke
xv. 16).
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An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were
simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my
womb, my womb undoes me. --Shak.
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2. (Anat.) The uterus. See Uterus.
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3. The place where anything is generated or produced.
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The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
--Dryden.
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4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
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The center spike of gold
Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. --R.
Browning.
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Womb
(gcide) | Womb \Womb\, v. t.
To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in
secret. [Obs.] --Shak.
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womb
(wn) | womb
n 1: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females;
contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb] |
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toowomba canary grass
(encz) | toowomba canary grass, n: |
twombly
(encz) | Twombly,Twombly n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
womb
(encz) | womb,děloha n: [med.] PetrVwomb,lůno n: PetrV |
womb-like
(encz) | womb-like, |
womb-to-tomb
(encz) | womb-to-tomb, adj: |
wombat
(encz) | wombat,australský vačnatec n: [zoo.] PetrVwombat,vombat n: PetrV |
wombats
(encz) | wombats,vombati n: Zdeněk Brož |
twombly
(czen) | Twombly,Twomblyn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
Enwomb
(gcide) | Enwomb \En*womb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enwombed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Enwombing.]
1. To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit,
or cavern. --Donne.
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Enwombed
(gcide) | Enwomb \En*womb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enwombed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Enwombing.]
1. To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit,
or cavern. --Donne.
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Enwombing
(gcide) | Enwomb \En*womb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enwombed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Enwombing.]
1. To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit,
or cavern. --Donne.
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Wombat
(gcide) | Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in
Australia.] (Zool.)
Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials
of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species
(Phascolomys ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits,
and feed mostly on roots.
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Womby
(gcide) | Womby \Womb"y\, a.
Capacious. [Obs.] --Shak.
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toowomba canary grass
(wn) | toowomba canary grass
n 1: perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced
in North America as forage grass [syn: hardinggrass,
Harding grass, toowomba canary grass, {Phalaris
aquatica}, Phalaris tuberosa] |
womb
(wn) | womb
n 1: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females;
contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb] |
womb-to-tomb
(wn) | womb-to-tomb
adj 1: continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from
lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art" [syn:
lifelong, womb-to-tomb] |
wombat
(wn) | wombat
n 1: burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size
of a badger |
wombat
(foldoc) | WOMBAT
Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.
Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in
themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if
solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as
"wrestling with a wombat".
See also crawling horror, SMOP.
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wombat
1. A metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth
Hackish}.
2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
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(1995-03-10)
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wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
(foldoc) | wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
(Named after the Australian marsupial, vombatus
ursinus). The Internet host from which this dictionary
was originally served. IP address 146.169.22.42.
Formerly a SPARCstation ELC. Kindly provided by the
Computing Department, Imperial College, London. Replaced by
foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk (a Linux box}) in June 1999. Alias
foldoc.org added 2000-07-18, courtesy of Karl O. Pinc.
(2000-10-09)
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womb box
(jargon) | womb box
n.
1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment.
2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior
padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely
called a flight case. Used for delicate test equipment, electronics, and
musical instruments.
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wombat
(jargon) | WOMBAT
/wom'bat/, adj.
[acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are
both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit
anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions
such as wrestling with a wombat. See also crawling horror, SMOP. Also
note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in {
Commonwealth Hackish}.
Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as
their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to “HELP WOMBAT”
with factual information about Real World wombats.
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womble
(jargon) | womble
n.
[Unisys UK: from British puppet-show characters] A user who has great
difficulty in communicating their requirements and/or in using the
resulting software. Extreme case of luser. An especially senior or
high-ranking womble is referred to as Great-Uncle Bulgaria. Compare {Aunt
Tillie}.
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