jade
Noun · Verb · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (4)
- a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephriteSynonyms: jadestone
- a woman adultererSynonyms: adulteressfornicatresshussyloose womanslutstrumpettrollop
- a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish greenSynonyms: jade green
- an old or over-worked horseSynonyms: hacknagplug
Verb (2)
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody“I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food”Synonyms: tirepallwearyfatigue
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress“We wore ourselves out on this hike”Synonyms: tirewear upontire outwearwearywear outoutwearwear downfag outfagfatigue
Adjective (1)
- of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish greenSynonyms: jade-green
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2.To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
3.To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. [1913 Webster]
The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.— Locke.
Syn: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.
Usage: To Jade, Fatigue, Tire, Weary. Fatigue is the generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a long and steady repetition of the same act or effort. A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person; a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on a long journey by a continual straining of the same muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant attention to business. [1913 Webster]
1.(Min.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. [1913 Webster]
Note: The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use. [1913 Webster]
2.A color resembling that of jade[1]; it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green. [PJC]
1.A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.— Sir P. Sidney.[1913 Webster]
2.A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
She shines the first of battered jades.— Swift.[1913 Webster]
3.A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. [1913 Webster]
A souple jade she was, and strang.— Burns.[1913 Webster]
They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. --South. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.U Washington, late 80's. A strongly-typed language, object-oriented but without classes. For type research. The compiler output is Smalltalk. [Submitter claimed that Jade has exactly one user!]
2.Implicit coarse-grained concurrency. The constructs 'with', 'withonly' and 'without' create tasks with specified side effects to shared data objects. Implemented as a C preprocessor. "Coarse-Grain Parallel Programming in Jade", M.S. Lam et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(7):94-105 (Jul 1991).
<text, tool> (JADE) A DSSSL tool by James J. Clark. Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language for Unix and Microsoft Windows. It can turn the SGML source of the DSSSL standard into an RTF file of about 200 pages using a fairly complex DSSSL specification.
(1996-10-13)