Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.
  • noun (Law) the facts which form the environment of a litigated issue.
  • noun [L.], (Law) a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

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Examples

  • I wonder if we can do away with all this Res, Sv and Svx cruft and just have a std:: map with languages, even if we have to fill them from Res* for now.

    Planet go-oo 2008

  • I wonder if we can do away with all this Res, Sv and Svx cruft and just have a std:: map with languages, even if we have to fill them from Res* for now.

    Planet go-oo 2008

  • Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1985 Oct 26; 291 (6503): 1197.

    Carbon Monoxide 2010

  • Republic, however, comes from the Latin Res Publicae — public thing — and was used to distinguish the Roman Republic from the prior government, which was a monarchy.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate 2010

  • It's located on the west side of Green Mountain Res and their adjoining liquor store has been a boon to all thirsty campers, hunters and fishermen of all stripes.

    Honestly, This Place Really Exists ... Tim Romano 2007

  • I liked LA HAINE a great deal and think that the forthcoming use of Hi-Res is going to free many kids to do films as well as change the whole way movies are recorded and projected.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2001

  • Buckhunter, I live in Northern Utah and don't go South much, but Kolob Res. is terrific.

    Southern Utah Fishing 2009

  • Buckhunter, I live in Northern Utah and don't go South much, but Kolob Res. is terrific.

    Southern Utah Fishing 2009

  • Recently deposed Irish head football coach Charlie Weis actually went a few steps further, calling Res Life "the biggest problem on campus relative to the football program."

    Russ Belville: Notre Dame's Inconsistent Drug Policy 2010

  • As Collingwood puts it, the so-called Res Gestae “are not the actions, in the widest sense of that word, which are done by animals of the species called human; they are actions in another sense of the same word, equally familiar but narrower, actions done by reasonable agents in pursuit of ends determined by their reason.”

    Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006

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