| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 338.1 | | DECWET::SHUSTER | Practicing VAXistentialist | Mon Mar 23 1987 18:38 | 2 |
| Doctorization?
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| 338.2 | | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Mon Mar 23 1987 18:58 | 5 |
| While we are here, is there a verb that means "to do mathematics", and
not just calculating but the whole bit of deducing, proving, and so on?
-- edp
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| 338.3 | My wife knew this one | CSC32::HAGERTY | Dave Hagerty, TSC, Colorado Springs | Mon Mar 23 1987 23:33 | 6 |
| re .0:
My wife tells me that it's "iatrogenic". Blame her, not me
:-).
Dave()
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| 338.4 | From "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary" | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO Telecom | Tue Mar 24 1987 08:53 | 4 |
| re: .3
"Iatripistiac" is someone who has a morbid distrust of doctors and
medicine, so your wife may be right.
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| 338.5 | Malpractice! | NUHAVN::MCKINLEY | | Tue Mar 24 1987 10:20 | 0 |
| 338.6 | | MINAR::BISHOP | | Tue Mar 24 1987 10:49 | 6 |
| Re .0, .3:
Iatrogenic means "created by a doctor", what you are looking for
is a single word for "iatrogenic disease" or "iatrogenic disorder",
right?
-John Bishop
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| 338.7 | here's the answer | VIDEO::OSMAN | Eric, dtn 223-6664, weight 146 | Wed Mar 25 1987 10:54 | 6 |
| The word is "vaccinate".
When a doctor vaccinates you, you contract a bit of the disease or a similar
one, just enough so your body builds up a defense to it.
/Eric
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| 338.8 | | TKOV52::DIAMOND | | Wed Feb 28 1990 08:32 | 22 |
| Re .0
As already noted, the correct answer was iatrogenic. But why ask
about a thesaurus? Even Thesaurus Rex will not help you, unless
you already know an answer to your question.
Now, what is a word for the kind of book which provides list of
words for given definitions? If this is too tough, you'll have
to look it up in itself.
Re .2
> is there a verb that means "to do mathematics", and
> not just calculating but the whole bit of deducing, proving, and so on?
Serious answer: in old math books, the word "to compute" is often
used with this sort of generic meaning, as in "Compute the following
integrals" (followed by a list of INDEFINITE integrals).
My answers: How about, to mathemate? Not sure about the connection
with calculating, but it hints at seducing, provoking, and so on.
Alternatively, a back-formation from "to do logic": to login.
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| 338.9 | maybe not that one ... | LESCOM::KALLIS | Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift. | Wed Feb 28 1990 14:29 | 7 |
| Re .8:
>My answers: How about, to mathemate? ...
Sounds like "Doing it by the numbers." ;-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 338.10 | such old jokes | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Mon Mar 05 1990 16:22 | 4 |
| Mathemating sounds like something you'd do shortly after you'd
made ethyl palpitate.
--bonnie
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| 338.11 | | TOPDOC::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Tue Nov 12 1991 11:43 | 6 |
| What's another word for "context".
We need to come up with something than means context in an object-
oriented environment, but we can't use the word "context" because it's
already in use as a keyword.
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| 338.12 | Hence the Equestrian Oral Cavity | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Prandeamus, vere! | Tue Nov 12 1991 12:30 | 4 |
| Setting, background, environment, environs (?), milieu (??),
hangout (???).
-- M. Roget
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| 338.13 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Tue Nov 12 1991 16:45 | 6 |
| If you're talking about the context of an OO operation, and you
already use the word "context" in association with some different
feature of your system, then these might be synonyms for the OO meaning:
Closure, display, stack, environment (as .-1 suggested),
activation stack, activation environment, active stack, active environment.
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| 338.14 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Tue Nov 12 1991 18:24 | 2 |
| State?
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