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jeyd] 
| 1. | either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings, jewelry, etc. |
| 2. | an object, as a carving, made from this material. |
| 3. | Also called jade green. green, varying from bluish green to yellowish green. |
[jeyd] noun, verb, jad⋅ed, jad⋅ing.| 1. | a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse. |
| 2. | a disreputable or ill-tempered woman. |
| 3. | to make or become dull, worn-out, or weary, as from overwork or overuse. |
| jade 1 (jād) n.
[French (le) jade, (the) jade, alteration of (l')ejade, from Spanish (piedra de) ijada, flank (stone) (from the belief that it cured renal colic), from Vulgar Latin *īliāta, from Latin īlia, pl. of īlium, flank.] jade adj. |
| jade 2 (jād) v. jad·ed, jad·ing, jades v. tr. To wear out, as by overuse or overindulgence. See Synonyms at tire1. v. intr. To become weary or spiritless. n.
[From Middle English iade, cart-horse, nag; akin to Swedish dialectal jälda, mare, possibly of Finno-Ugric origin.] |
JADE
James' DSSSL Engine
Jade
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).
