Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Brewed coffee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A breed of the domestic hen, originated in the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
- noun Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
- noun (Computers) an object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from
C++ , used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving. - noun (Zoöl.) the musang.
- noun (Zoöl.) a species of finch (
Padda oryzivora ), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called alsoricebird , andpaddy bird . In the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also kept as a cage bird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A blend of coffee imported from the island of
Java . - noun US, colloquial Coffee in general.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
- noun an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
- noun a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
Planet Debian 2009
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
Planet Debian 2009
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Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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The term java can mean coffee, a programming language, an island of Indonesia or even something else.
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My programming skills is limited to some javascript and php, I've never done anything in java before.
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Vocational courses in java and web development, and Info.
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bilby commented on the word java
I think WordNet has done a fine job here. Although def 3 is possibly for that OddNet list/tag someone was talking about recently.
February 28, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word java
I would have thought #2 is more suitable for that. I've heard people refer to coffee as "java." (Usually they're trying to be hip.)
Edit: oh... did you mean #4? In that case I agree.
February 28, 2009