| slovo | definícia |
hairy
(encz) | hairy,chlupatý luke |
hairy
(encz) | hairy,vlasatý luke |
Hairy
(gcide) | Hairy \Hair"y\ (-[y^]), a.
1. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair;
rough with hair; hirsute.
[1913 Webster]
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Very complicated, difficult, or involved; as, a hairy
problem; a hairy equation. [Colloq.]
[PJC]
3. Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a
mugger.
[PJC] |
hairy
(wn) | hairy
adj 1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a
hairy caterpillar" [syn: hairy, haired, hirsute]
[ant: hairless]
2: hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains" |
hairy
(foldoc) | hairy
1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert,
and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context:
"He knows this hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry
about." See also hirsute.
The adjective "long-haired" is well-attested to have been in
slang use among scientists and engineers during the early
1950s; it was equivalent to modern "hairy" and was very likely
ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun "long-hair"
was at the time used to describe a hairy person. Both senses
probably passed out of use when long hair was adopted as a
signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving hackish
"hairy" as a sort of stunted mutant relic.
4. hairy ball.
[Jargon File]
(2001-03-29)
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hairy
(jargon) | hairy
adj.
1. Annoyingly complicated. “DWIM is incredibly hairy.”
2. Incomprehensible. “DWIM is incredibly hairy.”
3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or
incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: “He knows this hairy
lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about.” See also hirsute.
There is a theorem in simplicial homology theory which states that any
continuous tangent field on a 2-sphere is null at least in a point.
Mathematically literate hackers tend to associate the term ‘hairy’ with the
informal version of this theorem; “You can't comb a hairy ball smooth.”
(Previous versions of this entry associating the above informal statement
with the Brouwer fixed-point theorem were incorrect.)
The adjective ‘long-haired’ is well-attested to have been in slang use
among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to
modern hairy senses 1 and 2, and was very likely ancestral to the hackish
use. In fact the noun ‘long-hair’ was at the time used to describe a person
satisfying sense 3. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair
was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving
hackish hairy as a sort of stunted mutant relic.
In British mainstream use, “hairy” means “dangerous”, and consequently, in
British programming terms, “hairy” may be used to denote complicated and/or
incomprehensible code, but only if that complexity or incomprehesiveness is
also considered dangerous.
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big hairy deal
(encz) | big hairy deal,nedůležitá věc Zdeněk Brož |
hairy darling pea
(encz) | hairy darling pea, n: |
hairy finger grass
(encz) | hairy finger grass, n: |
hairy golden aster
(encz) | hairy golden aster, n: |
hairy honeysuckle
(encz) | hairy honeysuckle, n: |
hairy lip fern
(encz) | hairy lip fern, n: |
hairy root
(encz) | hairy root, n: |
hairy spurge
(encz) | hairy spurge, n: |
hairy tare
(encz) | hairy tare, n: |
hairy tongue
(encz) | hairy tongue, n: |
hairy vetch
(encz) | hairy vetch, n: |
hairy willowherb
(encz) | hairy willowherb, n: |
hairy wood mint
(encz) | hairy wood mint, n: |
hairy-legged vampire bat
(encz) | hairy-legged vampire bat, n: |
nonhairy
(encz) | nonhairy, adj: |
Hairy
(gcide) | Hairy \Hair"y\ (-[y^]), a.
1. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair;
rough with hair; hirsute.
[1913 Webster]
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Very complicated, difficult, or involved; as, a hairy
problem; a hairy equation. [Colloq.]
[PJC]
3. Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a
mugger.
[PJC] |
hairy Ainu
(gcide) | Ainu \Ai"nu\, n. [Said to be the native name for man.]
One of a peculiar race found primarily in Hokkaido, in the
northern part of the empire of Japan, the Kurile Islands, and
nearby. They are believed to be the native inhabitants of the
Japanese islands. The Ainus are stout and short, with hairy
bodies. Also called Aino and hairy Ainu.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
hairy darling pea
(wn) | hairy darling pea
n 1: shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or
woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to
pink flowers [syn: hairy darling pea, {Swainsona
greyana}, Swainsona grandiflora] |
hairy finger grass
(wn) | hairy finger grass
n 1: a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed
in United States [syn: large crabgrass, {hairy finger
grass}, Digitaria sanguinalis] |
hairy golden aster
(wn) | hairy golden aster
n 1: hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched
clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada
to west central and western United States; sometimes placed
in genus Chrysopsis [syn: hairy golden aster, {prairie
golden aster}, Heterotheca villosa, Chrysopsis villosa] |
hairy honeysuckle
(wn) | hairy honeysuckle
n 1: twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of
yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America [syn: {hairy
honeysuckle}, Lonicera hirsuta] |
hairy lip fern
(wn) | hairy lip fern
n 1: small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower
frond surfaces are densely wooly [syn: wooly lip fern,
hairy lip fern, Cheilanthes lanosa] |
hairy root
(wn) | hairy root
n 1: a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which
there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots |
hairy spurge
(wn) | hairy spurge
n 1: much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North
America [syn: hairy spurge, Euphorbia hirsuta] |
hairy tare
(wn) | hairy tare
n 1: European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
[syn: hairy vetch, hairy tare, Vicia villosa] |
hairy tongue
(wn) | hairy tongue
n 1: a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth
of the papillae of the tongue [syn: hairy tongue, {furry
tongue}, black tongue] |
hairy vetch
(wn) | hairy vetch
n 1: European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
[syn: hairy vetch, hairy tare, Vicia villosa] |
hairy willowherb
(wn) | hairy willowherb
n 1: plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and
hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America [syn:
hairy willowherb, codlins-and-cream, {Epilobium
hirsutum}] |
hairy wood mint
(wn) | hairy wood mint
n 1: a variety of wood mint [syn: hairy wood mint, {Blephilia
hirsuta}] |
hairy-legged vampire bat
(wn) | hairy-legged vampire bat
n 1: similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of
tropical America including southern California and Texas
[syn: hairy-legged vampire bat, Diphylla ecaudata] |
nonhairy
(wn) | nonhairy
adj 1: without hair; "tinea corporis is a fungal infection of
the nonhairy parts of the skin" |
hairy ball
(foldoc) | hairy ball
A result in topology stating that a continuous
vector field on a sphere is always zero somewhere. The name
comes from the fact that you can't flatten all the hair on a
hairy ball, like a tennis ball, there will always be a tuft
somewhere (where the tangential projection of the hair is
zero). An immediate corollary to this theorem is that for any
continuous map f of the sphere into itself there is a point
x such that f(x)=x or f(x) is the antipode of x. Another
corollary is that at any moment somewhere on the Earth there
is no wind.
(2002-01-07)
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