meaning of humor

1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc. ; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
2. A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.
4. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.
6. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt ones self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.
7. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
8. humor hacker humour humour hacker humour hung ["hung up"] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites. Not generally used of people. Synonym with locked up, wedged; compare hosed. See also hang. A hung state is distinguished from crashed or down, where the program or system is also unusable but because it is not running rather than because it is waiting for something. However, the recovery from both situations is often the same. [Jargon File] Hungarian Notation convention> A linguistic convention requiring one or more letters to be added to the start of variable names to denote scope and/or type. Hungarian Notation is mainly confined to Microsoft Windows programming environments, such as Microsoft C, C++ and Visual Basic. It was originally devised by Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian, who was a senior programmer at Microsoft for many years. He disliked the way that names in C programs gave no clue as to the type, leading to frequent programmer errors. According to legend, fellow programmers at Microsoft, on seeing the convoluted, vowel-less variable names produced by his scheme, said, "This might as well be in Greek - or even Hungarian!". They made up the name "Hungarian notation" possibly with "reverse Polish notation" in mind. Hungarian Notation is not really necessary when using a modern strongly-typed language as the compiler warns the programmer if a variable of one type is used as if it were another type. It is less useful in object-oriented programming languages such as C++, where many variables are going to be instances of classes and so begin with "obj". In addition, variable names are essentially only comments, and thus are just as susceptible to becoming out-of-date and incorrect as any other comment. For example, if a signed short int becomes an unsigned long int, the variable name, and every use of it, should be changed to reflect its new type. A variables name should describe the values it holds. Type and scope are aspects of this, but Hungarian Notation overemphasises their importance by allocating so much of the start of the name to them. Furthermore, type and scope information can be found from the variables declaration. Ironically, this is particularly easy in the development environments in which Hungarian Notation is typically used. Simonyis original monograph http://msdn. microsoft. com/library/techart/hunganotat. htm. Microsoft VB Naming Conventions http://support. microsoft. com/support/kb/articles/Q110/2/64. as
9. the trait of appreciating and being able to express the humorous; "she didnt appreciate my humor"; "you cant survive in the army without a sense of ">humor"

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