- Pronunciation: "pa-th&-'lä-ji-k&l
Variant(s): also path·o·log·ic /-jik/
Function: adjective
Date: 1688
1 : of or relating to pathology
2 : altered or caused by disease
- path·o·log·i·cal·ly
2 : something abnormal: a : the
structural and functional deviations from the normal that constitute disease
or characterize a particular disease
b : deviation from propriety or
from an assumed normal state
3.Of, relating to, or manifesting
behavior that is habitual and compulsive: a pathological liar.
(Med.) Morbid; due to disease;
abnormal; as, pathological tissue;
a pathological condition.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
caused by or evidencing a mentally
disturbed condition;
"a pathological urge to succeed"
3: caused by or altered by or manifesting
disease or pathology;
"diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth";
"pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid]
Source: WordNet Princeton University
[scientific] When used of test input, implies that it was purposefully engineered as a worst case. The implication in both senses is that the data is spectacularly ill-conditioned or that someone had to explicitly set out to break the algorithm in order to come up with such a crazy example.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2000 Denis
Howe
- Pronunciation: &-'pre-siv
Function: adjective
Date: circa 1677
1 : unreasonably burdensome or severe
2 : TYRANNICAL
3 : overwhelming or depressing to the spirit or senses
Synonyms: onerous, burdensome, demanding, exacting, exigent, grievous, superincumbent, taxing, tough, weighty, gloomy, black, bleak, depressing, depressive, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, somber
1.Difficult to bear; burdensome: oppressive laws.
2.Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical.
3.Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit: oppressive weather.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition
1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly
severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive
exactions of service; an oppressive law.
2. Using oppression; tyrannical;
as, oppressive authority or commands.
3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to
be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1: weighing heavily on the senses
or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
2: marked by unjust severity or
arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government";
"oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent";
"tyrannous disregard of human rights" [syn:
tyrannical, tyrannous]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
- plural of Louse
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English lous, from Old English lus; akin to Old High German lus louse, Welsh llau lice
Date: before 12th century
1 plural lice /a : any of various small wingless usually flattened insects (orders Anoplura and Mallophaga) parasitic on warm-blooded animals
b : a small usually sluggish arthropod that lives on other animals or on plants and sucks their blood or juices
2 plural lous·es /'lau-s&z/ : a contemptible person : HEEL
Synonyms SNOT, cur, stinker, *turd, wretch
Symbol Key: * generally or often considered vulgar
1.pl. lice (ls.) Any of numerous
small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects of the orders Mallophaga
or Anoplura, many of which
are external parasites on various
animals, including human beings.
2.pl. lous·es. Slang. A mean
or despicable person.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third
Edition
so named because it is destructive,
and akin to E. lose, loose.
To this group belong of the lice
of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis),
the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and
many others.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
lice (Heb. kinnim), the creatures
employed in the third plague sent upon Egypt (Ex. 8:16-18). They were miraculously
produced from the dust of the land. "The entomologists Kirby and Spence
place these minute but disgusting insects in the very front rank of those
which inflict injury upon man. A terrible list of examples they have collected
of the ravages of this and closely allied parasitic pests." The plague
of lice is referred to in Ps. 105:31.
Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
lice: los piojos[Noun]
Source: IDP Spanish Dictionary
