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1. | The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. | |
2. | That which causes joy or happiness. | |
3. | The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. | |
v. i. | 1. | To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult. |
v. t. | 1. | To give joy to; to congratulate. |
2. | To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. | |
3. | To enjoy. |
Noun | 1. | joy - the emotion of great happiness Synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness Antonyms: sorrow - an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss" |
2. | joy - something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight" | |
Verb | 1. | joy - feel happiness or joy Synonyms: rejoice |
2. | joy - make glad or happy Synonyms: gladden |
(language) | Joy - A functional programming language by Manfred von
Thun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functions
take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters
from it, and return it with any number of results on it. The
concatenation of programs denotes the composition of
functions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted
programs, of which lists are a special case. Joy Home. |