n. | 1. | (Min.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. |
2. | A color resembling that of jade{1}; it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green. | |
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1. | A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. | |
2. | A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. | |
3. | A young woman; - generally so called in irony or slight contempt. | |
v. t. | 1. | To treat like a jade; to spurn. |
2. | To make ridiculous and contemptible. | |
3. | To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. | |
v. i. | 1. | To become weary; to lose spirit. |
Noun | 1. | jade - a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite Synonyms: jadestone |
2. | jade - a woman adulterer | |
3. | jade - a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green Synonyms: jade green | |
4. | jade - an old or over-worked horse | |
Verb | 1. | jade - get tired of something or somebody |
2. | jade - exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" | |
Adj. | 1. | jade - similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green Synonyms: jade-green |
1. | JADE - James' DSSSL Engine | ||
2. | Jade - U Washington, late 80's. A strongly-typed language, object-oriented but without classes. For type research. The compiler output is Smalltalk. [Submitter claimed that Jade has exactly one user!] | ||
3. | Jade - Implicit coarse-grained concurrency. The constructs 'with', 'withonly' and 'without' create tasks with specified side effects to shared data objects. Implemented as a C preprocessor. "Coarse-Grain Parallel Programming in Jade", M.S. Lam et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(7):94-105 (Jul 1991). |