Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Liveliness or energy; enthusiasm. synonym: vigor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vigor; energy; activity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Ready
vitality andvigor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Plugin will be installed to vim runtime path:/home/mattn/.vim
はてなブックマーク - 人気エントリー 2010
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Plugin will be installed to vim runtime path:/home/mattn/.vim
はてなブックマーク - 人気エントリー 2010
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You might like this vim plugin then - drop it into ~/.vim/plugin/and restart vim, then try saving some invalid PHP code ...
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The vim is on display in one of the show's opening numbers, in which Olivia DiPesto, a blue fuzzy creature operated by Mr. Rabinowitz, dispatches the Pop Ups to Bay Ridge to buy the best tomatoes in Brooklyn.
The Goofiest of Garage Bands Katherine Rosman 2010
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I actually map capslock to ctrl, you can hit escape in vim easily enough with C - [agscala whofysh
Use Caps Lock For Hand-Friendly Text Navigation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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"Ah! dat is vat you call a vim in your _pays_, -- the vim of Colonel
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He looked in mute surprise, and everybody else looked; and a polite German count, gazing through his eye-glass, said, "Ah! dat is vat you call a vim in your
Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The number keys print pqrstuvwxy instead of 0123456789; numlock calls vim help; / toggles mode; * prints; - prints; + prints l;
LinuxQuestions.org 2009
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And I still can't do "set filetype = doctest" in vim, which is hardly a new tool.
Planet Ubuntu 2008
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And I still can't do "set filetype = doctest" in vim, which is hardly a new tool.
Planet Python 2008
andrew.simone commented on the word vim
...and vigor
December 14, 2006
seanahan commented on the word vim
my favorite editor
December 14, 2006
npydyuan commented on the word vim
...and vinegar
September 16, 2007
seanahan commented on the word vim
That is quite the strange triplet of comments.
December 8, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word vim
You know, 'an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)' is also the third WordNet definition (click on 'more...'). With WeirdNet and the row of dictionary icons here, you'll be wasting your time if you add standard definitions for common words.
January 29, 2009
dbekeny commented on the word vim
LION
(sings)
Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy
When you're born to be a sissy,
Without the vim and verve.
But I could show my prowess --
Be a lion not a mou-ess --
If I only had the nerve
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dande-lion --
A fate I don't deserve.
I'd be brave as a blizzard --
June 11, 2010