From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3112dc3cfb6b9f2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.236.170 with SMTP id uv10mr3961262pbc.4.1335391389623; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni98327pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!36g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Petascale computing Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1ed099f2-9bad-4f8d-b51e-205591819b3d@36g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: <15030086.3961.1335171026204.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfk16> <0071b200-29e8-4cb5-8c03-fd2f86f250e1@f37g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> <82mx60f22p.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.117.199.83 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335391389 25326 127.0.0.1 (25 Apr 2012 22:03:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 36g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=97.117.199.83; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-04-25T15:03:08-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 25, 5:06=C2=A0am, Stephen Leake wrote: > Jerry writes: > > incite |in=CB=88s=C4=ABt| > > verb [ with obj. ] > > encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior). > > =E2=80=A2 urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful wa= y. > > What dictionary is that from? > > OED (http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/93523?redirectedFrom=3Dincite#eid) > > says: > > =C2=A0a. trans. To urge or spur on; to stir up, animate, instigate, stimu= late. Const. to do something; to or unto some action. > > ie _any_ action, not just negative ones. None of the OED definitions > give negative connotations. > > -- > -- Stephe It's from Dictionary.app which is included on OS X. IIRC, when it first appeared on OS X, it was called (or credited) by its original name, which I have forgotten. Now, it is credited only to Apple, with copyright beginning in 2005. People have commented that it is unusual in the way that it organizes its definitions. OK--Wikipedia to the rescue: "It was introduced with Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger", and provides definitions and synonyms from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition and Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, 2nd Edition." I actually included only part of the definition in my original post. Here is the whole thing: incite |in=CB=88s=C4=ABt| verb [ with obj. ] encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior): the offense of inciting racial hatred. =E2=80=A2 urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful way: h= e incited loyal subjects to rebellion. DERIVATIVES incitation |=CB=8Cins=C4=AB=CB=88t=C4=81SH=C9=99n|noun, inciter noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French inciter, from Latin incitare, from in- =E2=80=98toward=E2=80=99 + citare =E2=80=98rouse.=E2=80=99 So now I suppose someone could comment or speculate on the meaning of the Latin word for "rouse." On OS X, from any Cocoa program, one can place the text cursor over any word and (without clicking) press Control-Command-D and a smallish scrollable window pops up with dictionary, thesaurus, and Wikipedia entries for the word. To get this thread on topic (not really 8^), the entry for Ada is: Ada |=CB=88=C4=81d=C9=99| noun a high-level computer programming language used esp. in real-time computerized control systems, e.g., for aircraft navigation. ORIGIN 1980s: from the name of Ada Lovelace (see Lovelace, Ada) . And for Lovelace, Ada, this: Lovelace, Ada |=CB=88l=C9=99vl=C4=81s| , Countess of Lovelace (1815=E2=80=9352), English mathematician; full name Augusta Ada King Lovelace. The daughter of Lord Byron, she worked with Charles Babbage on his =E2=80=9Canalytical engine,=E2=80=9D a mechanical co= mputer. The Ada standardized computer language was named for her in 1980. BTW, in James Gleick's recent book, "The Information," there is a rather nice telling of the work of Lovelace and Babbage. Jerry Jerry