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Mont·gom·er·y 
[mont-guhm-uh-ree, -guhm-ree] Pronunciation Key
[mont-guhm-uh-ree, -guhm-ree] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (“Monty”), 1887–1976, British field marshal: World War II commander of British 8th Army in Africa and Europe. |
| 2. | Lucy Maud, 1874–1942, Canadian writer, creator of Anne of Green Gables. |
| 3. | Richard, 1736–75, American Revolutionary general. |
| 4. | Wes (John Leslie Montgomery), 1925–68, U.S. jazz guitarist. |
| 5. | a city in and the capital of Alabama, in the central part, on the Alabama River. 178,157. |
| 6. | a town in SW Ohio. 10,088. |
| 7. | Montgomeryshire. |
| 8. | a male given name. |
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monty programming, abuse
/mon'tee/ Any program with a ludicrously complex user interface that performs a trivial task. An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories. The original monty was a weather reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all it actually *did* was FTP files off the network.
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1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks. An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories. The original monty was an infamous weather-reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all monty actually _did_ was FTP files off the network.
2. [Great Britain; commonly capitalized as `Monty' or as `the Full Monty'] 16 megabytes of memory, when fitted to an IBM-PC or compatible. A standard PC-compatible using the AT- or ISA-bus with a normal BIOS cannot access more than 16 megabytes of RAM. Generally used of a PC, Unix workstation, etc. to mean `fully populated with' memory, disk-space or some other desirable resource. This usage may be related to a TV commercial for Del Monte fruit juice, in which one of the characters insisted on "the full Del Monte"; but see the World Wide Words article "The Full Monty" (http://clever.net/quinion/words/articles/monty.htm) for discussion of the rather complex etymology that may lie behind this. Compare American moby.
monty
/mon'tee/ n.1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks. An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories. The original monty was an infamous weather-reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all monty actually _did_ was FTP files off the network.
2. [Great Britain; commonly capitalized as `Monty' or as `the Full Monty'] 16 megabytes of memory, when fitted to an IBM-PC or compatible. A standard PC-compatible using the AT- or ISA-bus with a normal BIOS cannot access more than 16 megabytes of RAM. Generally used of a PC, Unix workstation, etc. to mean `fully populated with' memory, disk-space or some other desirable resource. This usage may be related to a TV commercial for Del Monte fruit juice, in which one of the characters insisted on "the full Del Monte"; but see the World Wide Words article "The Full Monty" (http://clever.net/quinion/words/articles/monty.htm) for discussion of the rather complex etymology that may lie behind this. Compare American moby.
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