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ambit
(encz) | ambit,hranice n: Zdeněk Brož |
ambit
(encz) | ambit,obvod n: Zdeněk Brož |
Ambit
(gcide) | Ambit \Am"bit\, n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around.
See Ambient.]
Circuit or compass.
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His great parts did not live within a small ambit.
--Milward.
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ambit
(wn) | ambit
n 1: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or
control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a
greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of
municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this
article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside
the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world
power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass,
ambit] |
ambit
(foldoc) | AMBIT
Algebraic Manipulation by Identity Translation
(also claimed: "Acronym May Be Ignored Totally").
An early pattern-matching language, developed by
C. Christensen of Massachusetts Computer Assocs in 1964, aimed
at algebraic manipulation.
[Sammet 1969, pp. 454-457].
(1994-12-08)
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ambition
(mass) | ambition
- úsilie, ctižiadostivosť, ambícia |
ambition
(encz) | ambition,ambice n: Zdeněk Brožambition,ctižádost n: ambition,přání n: Zdeněk Brožambition,předmět ctižádosti n: ambition,touha n: ambition,úsilí n: |
ambitions
(encz) | ambitions,ambice pl. Zdeněk Brož |
ambitious
(encz) | ambitious,ctižádostivý adj: ambitious,náročný Pavel Machek; Giza |
ambitiously
(encz) | ambitiously,ctižádostivě adj: |
ambitrophic microorganism
(encz) | ambitrophic microorganism,ambitrofní mikroorganismus [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
gambit
(encz) | gambit,gambit n: Zdeněk Brožgambit,manévr n: Zdeněk Brož |
overambitious
(encz) | overambitious,přehnaně ctižádostivý web |
unambitious
(encz) | unambitious, |
unambitiously
(encz) | unambitiously, adv: |
with ambition
(encz) | with ambition, adv: |
ambitrofní mikroorganismus
(czen) | ambitrofní mikroorganismus,ambitrophic microorganism[eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
gambit
(czen) | gambit,gambitn: Zdeněk Brož |
Ambit
(gcide) | Ambit \Am"bit\, n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around.
See Ambient.]
Circuit or compass.
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His great parts did not live within a small ambit.
--Milward.
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Ambition
(gcide) | Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire
to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.
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2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. --Shak.
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The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
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Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.
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Ambitionist
(gcide) | Ambitionist \Am*bi"tion*ist\, n.
One excessively ambitious. [R.]
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Ambitionless
(gcide) | Ambitionless \Am*bi"tion*less\, a.
Devoid of ambition. --Pollok.
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Ambitious
(gcide) | Ambitious \Am*bi"tious\, a. [L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux.
See Ambition.]
1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or
inordinately desirous of power, honor, office,
superiority, or distinction.
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. --Shak.
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2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive;
as, ambitious to be or to do something.
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I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
--Evelyn.
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Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in
vain. --Cowper.
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3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition;
showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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A giant statue . . .
Pushed by a wild and artless race,
From off wide, ambitious base. --Collins.
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Ambitiously
(gcide) | Ambitiously \Am*bi"tious*ly\, adv.
In an ambitious manner.
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Ambitiousness
(gcide) | Ambitiousness \Am*bi"tious*ness\ ([a^]m*b[i^]sh"[u^]s*n[e^]s),
n.
The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
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Ambitus
(gcide) | Ambitus \Am"bi*tus\ ([a^]m"b[i^]*t[u^]s), n. [L. See Ambit,
Ambition.]
1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a
leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.
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2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes.
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Gambit
(gcide) | Gambit \Gam"bit\, n. [F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a
tripping up. See Gambol, n.] (Chess Playing)
A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to
gain an attacking position.
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Unambition
(gcide) | Unambition \Un`am*bi"tion\, n.
The absence of ambition. [R.] --F. W. Newman.
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Unambitious
(gcide) | Unambitious \Unambitious\
See ambitious. |
ambition
(wn) | ambition
n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream]
2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition, ambitiousness]
v 1: have as one's ambition |
ambitionless
(wn) | ambitionless
adj 1: having little desire for success or achievement [syn:
unambitious, ambitionless] [ant: ambitious] |
ambitious
(wn) | ambitious
adj 1: having a strong desire for success or achievement [ant:
ambitionless, unambitious]
2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious
schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a
mistake" [syn: ambitious, challenging] |
ambitiously
(wn) | ambitiously
adv 1: with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she
pursued her goals ambitiously" [syn: ambitiously,
determinedly] [ant: unambitiously] |
ambitiousness
(wn) | ambitiousness
n 1: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition,
ambitiousness] |
gambit
(wn) | gambit
n 1: an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the
speaker [syn: gambit, ploy]
2: a maneuver in a game or conversation [syn: ploy, gambit,
stratagem]
3: a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices
minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position |
overambitious
(wn) | overambitious
adj 1: excessively ambitious |
unambitious
(wn) | unambitious
adj 1: having little desire for success or achievement [syn:
unambitious, ambitionless] [ant: ambitious] |
unambitiously
(wn) | unambitiously
adv 1: in an unambitious manner; "he does his job, but he works
unambitiously" [ant: ambitiously, determinedly] |
ambit/g
(foldoc) | AMBIT/G
AMBIT for graphs.
["An Example of the Manipulation of Directed Graphs in the
AMBIT/G Programming Language", C. Christensen, in Interactive
Systems for Experimental Applied Mathematics, M. Klerer et al,
eds, Academic Press 1968, pp. 423-435].
(1994-12-08)
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ambit/l
(foldoc) | AMBIT/L
AMBIT for lists.
A variant of AMBIT supporting list handling and {pattern
matching} rules based on two-dimensional diagrams.
["An Introduction to AMBIT/L, A Diagrammatic Language for List
Processing", Carlos Christensen, Proc 2nd ACM Symp Symb and
Alg Manip (Mar 1971)].
(1994-12-08)
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ambit/s
(foldoc) | AMBIT/S
AMBIT for strings.
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gambit
(foldoc) | Gambit
A variant of Scheme R3.99 supporting the future
construct of Multilisp by Marc Feeley
. Implementation includes optimising
compilers for Macintosh (with Toolbox and built-in editor)
and Motorola 680x0 Unix systems and HP300, BBN
GP100 and NeXT. Version 2.0 conforms to the IEEE
Scheme standard.
Gambit used PVM as its intermediate language.
(ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist),
(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp).
(ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/).
Mailing list: gambit@trex.umontreal.ca.
(1998-02-10)
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ambition
(devil) | AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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