Jade

Pronunciation: jād

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.
	1.
	1.	A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. - Sir P. Sidney.
	2.	A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. She shines the first of battered jades. - Swift.
	3.	A young woman; - generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. - Burns.
v. t.	1.	To treat like a jade; to spurn.
	2.	To make ridiculous and contemptible. I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. - Shak.
	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. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. - Locke.
v. i.	1.	To become weary; to lose spirit. They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. - South.

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 Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, strumpet, trollop, slut
	3.	jade - a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green Synonyms: jade green
	4.	jade - an old or over-worked horse Synonyms: nag, hack, plug
Verb	1.	jade - get tired of something or somebody Synonyms: fatigue, tire, weary, pall
	2.	jade - exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" Synonyms: fag out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, tire out, fatigue, outwear, tire, fag, wear
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).

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