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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
sam·ba       [sam-buh, sahm-] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -bas, verb, -baed, -ba·ing.
–noun
1.a rhythmic, Brazilian ballroom dance of African origin.
–verb (used without object)
2.to dance the samba.
[Origin: 1880–85; < Pg samba, alleged to be of African orig.]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
sam·ba       (sām'bə, säm'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A Brazilian ballroom dance of African origin.
  2. Music in duple meter for performing this dance.

intr.v.   sam·baed, sam·ba·ing, sam·bas
To perform this dance.


[Portuguese, possibly of African origin.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
samba  (n.)
Brazilian dance of African origin, 1885, Zemba, from Port. samba, shortened form of zambacueca, a type of dance, probably altered (by influence of zamacueco "stupid") from zambapalo, the name of a grotesque dance, itself an alteration of zampapalo "stupid man," from zamparse "to bump, crash."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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samba

noun
1. large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood [syn: obeche] 
2. music composed for dancing the samba 
3. a lively ballroom dance from Brazil 
4. a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers 

verb
1. dance the samba 

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

Samba networking
A free suite of programs which implement the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
Originally developed for Unix by Andrew Tridgell at the Australian National University, the Samba server allows files and printers on the host operating system to be shared with clients such as Windows for Workgroups, DOS, OS/2, Windows NT and others.
For example, instead of using telnet to log in to a Unix machine to edit a file there, a Windows 95 user might connect a drive in the Windows Explorer to a Samba server on the Unix machine and edit the file in a Windows editor.
A Unix client called smbclient, built from the same source code, allows ftp-like access to SMB resources.
Samba is available for many Unix variants, OS/2, and VMS. Porting to Novell Netware is in progress (August 1996).
smblib is a portable generic library for making SMB calls for implementing client/server functions from within any program. Linux implements a complete file system (based on smbclient) so by default Linux users have full access to resources on LAN Server, Windows NT and LAN Manager networks.
Home.
(1998-11-22)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary 3rd Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
SAMBA
Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia

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