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- noun computing A program that produces its own
source code as output. - verb philosophy To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
Etymologies
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A quine is a computer program which produces its own source code.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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There, the French-speaking population called a set of five numbers a "quine," as in "keen."
CasinoCityTimes.com 2010
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There, the French-speaking population called a set of five numbers a "quine," as in "keen."
CasinoCityTimes.com 2010
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There, the French-speaking population called a set of five numbers a "quine," as in "keen."
CasinoCityTimes.com 2010
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There, the French-speaking population called a set of five numbers a "quine," as in "keen."
CasinoCityTimes.com 2010
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A '' 'quine' '' is a computer program which produces its own source code.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Ai hadda gud dae… Maed shur teh kidz awl nu teh K9, Fee Lyn, E quine, Bow vine stuff.
we has an OCD humin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Croghan's blunt journal entry records her passing, "Alequeapy, ye old quine is dead."
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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In denying the existence of synonymy, he denied analyticity, and gave rise to a new infinitive "to quine" – meaning, to deny distinctions.
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In fact, all of the functionality that you mentioned is freely available in Sitemeter except the outbound link and comment tracking. reply christopher quine
BlogBeat Rocking The Blog Stat Beats! Nik Cubrilovic 2005
dangleberry commented on the word quine
a girl
July 18, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word quine
Also a verb (after the logician Quine), listed in The Philosophical Lexicon and made famous by Daniel Dennett's paper Quining Qualia. 'To deny resolutely the existence of importance of something real or significant.'
October 23, 2007
johnmperry commented on the word quine
Is it not also a noun, something which refers to itself?
Here's a longer explanation quine
June 13, 2008
nycanthro commented on the word quine
A young girl in Scots language.
February 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word quine
Doric rather than Scots, especially in modern times as it appears to be no longer current in Fife.
February 21, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word quine
Bilby, what's the difference between Doric and Scots? I mentioned Scots because my mother is from Aberdeen and she used the word 'quine' to mean a young girl (the male equivalent being 'loon'). My mother referred to her language (when she wasn't speaking American English) as Scots. I've never heard people refer to themselves as speaking "Doric".
February 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word quine
We're traipsing along the unmarked jungle borders of dialect and language here. I'd never heard of Doric until a year and a half ago when a friend, from Aberdeen, described herself as speaking Doric. She provided me some samples, both written and spoken. All in all it was quite fascinating. If I remember correctly she called Doric 'Scots as spoken in the Aberdeen area', distinctive mainly for a large number of words that are perhaps understood but not in common use elsewhere. But as you can see dangleberry has a Doric list so we could ask him for clarification. For a very comprehensive introduction to the Scottish language picture I recommend this site.
February 27, 2009
erinmckean commented on the word quine
"A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement."
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
April 16, 2009
eggoabbas commented on the word quine
This word used as verb (with exhaustive definition) in Douglas Hofstader's "Godel, Escher, Bach". His usage is based on the name of Quine, the logician.
July 8, 2009