meaning of jade
1. 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 mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
3. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.
4. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.
5. To treat like a jade; to spurn.
6. To make ridiculous and contemptible.
7. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass.
8. To become weary; to lose spirit.
9. JADE James DSSSL Engine Jade 1. U Washington, late 80s. 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!] 2. 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 267:94-105 Jul 1991. jadeTeX
10. an old or over-worked horse
Related Words
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