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Ba⋅bel
[bey-buh
l, bab-uhl] 
–noun
| 1. | an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9. |
| 2. | (usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices. |
| 3. | (usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion. |
Origin:
< Heb Bābhel Babylon
< Heb Bābhel Babylon
Related forms:
Ba⋅bel⋅ic [bey-bel-ik, ba-] , adjective
[bey-bel-ik, ba-] , adjective Synonyms:
3. tumult, turmoil, uproar, bedlam, clamor.
3. tumult, turmoil, uproar, bedlam, clamor.
Ba⋅bel
[bab-uhl; Russ. bah-byil] –noun
| I⋅saak Em⋅ma⋅nu⋅i⋅lo⋅vich [ahy-zuhk; Russ. ee-sahk yi-muh-noo-yee-luh-vyich] , 1894–1941, Russian author. |
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| ba·bel also Ba·bel (bāb'əl, bā'bəl) n.
[After Babel.] |
| Ba·bel (bā'bəl, bāb'əl) In the Bible, a city (now thought to be Babylon) in Shinar where God confounded a presumptuous attempt to build a tower into heaven by confusing the language of its builders into many mutually incomprehensible languages. |
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Babel
Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of "confusion"]1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. --R. L. Stevenson.
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Babel
capital of Babylon, 1382, from Heb. Babhel (Gen. ix), from Akkadian bab-ilu "Gate of God" (from bab "gate" + ilu "god"). The name is a translation of Sumerian Ka-dingir. Meaning "confused medley of sounds" (1529) is from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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BABEL
1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions.
["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969].
2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241.
3. A language based on higher-order functions and first-order logic.
["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language", H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990, pp.271-290].
["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb 1992)].
(1994-11-28)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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