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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Bob.[Websters] 2. To be corked or stoppered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have bowed, kinked, looped, nodded or curtsied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be balanced or counterweighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have locked or clasped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be weighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have waged or swayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be tufted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have bounced, hoped or skipped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be gouted or beaded.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb bob.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bob) |
1. Move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back".[Wordnet]. 2. Cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!".[Wordnet]. 3. Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand".[Wordnet]. 4. Ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure".[Wordnet]. 5. Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.[Wordnet]. 6. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.[Websters]. 7. To angle with a bob.[Websters]. 8. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.[Websters]. 9. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.[Websters]. 10. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.[Websters]. 11. To mock or delude; to cheat.[Websters]. 12. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: bobbing, bobbed, bobs, bobber, bobbers, bobbingly and bobbedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being corked or stoppered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being balanced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being weighted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Bobbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Geology | The name for a variety of Drosophila (a fruit fly) mutation where the bristles (mostly on the back of the head) are very short and thin compared to normal fruit fly bristles. Also, the number of copies of genes encoding rRNA molecules are reduced. The mutant allele is located on the sex chromosomes and is recessive. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BOBBED. Cheated, tricked, disappointed. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Bob.[Websters]
2. To be corked or stoppered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have bowed, kinked, looped, nodded or curtsied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be balanced or counterweighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have locked or clasped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be weighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have waged or swayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be tufted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have bounced, hoped or skipped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be gouted or beaded.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb bob.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bob) | 1. Move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back".[Wordnet]. 2. Cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!".[Wordnet]. 3. Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand".[Wordnet]. 4. Ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure".[Wordnet]. 5. Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.[Wordnet]. 6. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.[Websters]. 7. To angle with a bob.[Websters]. 8. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.[Websters]. 9. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.[Websters]. 10. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.[Websters]. 11. To mock or delude; to cheat.[Websters]. 12. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: bobbing, bobbed, bobs, bobber, bobbers, bobbingly and bobbedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being corked or stoppered.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being balanced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being weighted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BOBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Geology | The name for a variety of Drosophila (a fruit fly) mutation where the bristles (mostly on the back of the head) are very short and thin compared to normal fruit fly bristles. Also, the number of copies of genes encoding rRNA molecules are reduced. The mutant allele is located on the sex chromosomes and is recessive. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BOBBED. Cheated, tricked, disappointed. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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| "Humble" Bob Shoudt | Humble Bob Shoudt is a competitive eater. He was given his nickname by Philadelphia Sports Talk Show host Angelo Cataldi due to his humble style of eating. (references) | ||
| Alice and Bob | Alice and Bob are conventional placeholder terms referring to common archetypal characters used in explanations in fields such as cryptography and physics. The names are used for convenience, since explanations such as "Person A wants to send a message to person B" rapidly become difficult to follow. The names are also said to be politically correct, as they represent both genders. The concrete motive for using such names was that it helps with writing because it gives the personal pronouns unambiguous meanings. The specific names were chosen to match the first letters of the alphabet. (references) | ||
| Asshat (Weebl and Bob episode) | Asshat is a rather unusual Weebl and Bob episode. Directed by Rob Manuel, "Asshat" is a version of "Pie" (the first episode) with bad drawing, bad voicing, and a cameo of Scooby instead of Bob. (references) | ||
| Barbecue Bob | Barbecue Bob (born Robert Hicks, Walnut Grove, Georgia, September 11, 1902; d. October 21, 1931, Lithonia, Georgia) was an early American blues musician. (references) | ||
| Big city bob | Big City Bob is the nickname of Independent Recording Artist Bobby Rivers, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, who wrote and recorded the sequel of Johnny Cash's top ten hit, A Boy Named Sue (written by Shel Silverstein). The sequel was called Son of a Boy Named Sue and is found at www.cdbaby.com/bob on The Big City Bob Songs cd. (references) | ||
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 dramedy directed by Paul Mazursky. It starred Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon. (references) | ||
| Bob & Tom Show | The Bob & Tom Show is a radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1983. This program is among the highest rated in American radio. Since January 1995, the show has been syndicated nationally. (references) | ||
| Bob (Blackadder character) | Bob is a name taken by two characters in the sitcom Blackadder, both female and played by Gabrielle Glaister. (references) | ||
| Bob Aagard | Robert Dayle Bob Aagard was born on February 14, 1979, to Grant and Cyndi Aagard in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up in the Sugarhouse Neighborhood of Salt Lake City until November 29, 1990, when his family moved to Holladay, Utah. (references) | ||
| Bob Abernethy | Bob Abernethy is a former NBC News correspondent. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Alice and Bob | Computing | Alice and Bob n. The archetypal individuals used as examples in discussions of cryptographic protocols. Originally, theorists would say something like: "A communicates with someone who claims to be B, So to be sure, A tests that B knows a secret number K. So A sends to B a random number X. B then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to A" Because this sort of thing is quite hard to follow, theorists stopped using the unadorned letters A and B to represent the main players and started calling them Alice and Bob. So now we say "Alice communicates with someone claiming to be Bob, and to be sure, Alice tests that Bob knows a secret number K. Alice sends to Bob a random number X. Bob then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to Alice". A whole mythology rapidly grew up around the metasyntactic names; see `http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/extras/ZurichSeminarSpeech3.htm'. In Bruce Schneier's definitive introductory text "Applied Cryptography" (2nd ed., 1996, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-11709-9) he introduces a table of dramatis personae headed by Alice and Bob. Others include Carol (a participant in three- and four-party protocols), Dave (a participant in four-party protocols), Eve (an eavesdropper), Mallory (a malicious active attacker), Trent (a trusted arbitrator), Walter (a warden), Peggy (a prover) and Victor (a verifier). These names for roles are either already standard or, given the wide popularity of the book, may be expected to quickly become so. Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Balance bob | Mining | A counterbalance to take the excess weight of the pitwork, or timber beams, in a shaft; used with the Cornish type of reciprocating pump. (references) | |
| Bob cat | Administration | Fire may improve the foraging habitat and prey base of bobcats. Fires that create a mosaic of burned and unburned areas including some open areas and some cover are probably most beneficial to bobcats. Fires that reduce vegetation height and create open areas probably increase hunting efficiency. Surface fires often open substrates for quieter stalking and easier capture of prey than can occur in closed forests. (references) | |
| Bob stay | Slang in 1811 | BOB STAY. A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Bob tail | Mining | Any short truck. (references) | |
| BOB TAIL | Slang in 1811 | 1: BOB TAIL. A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bobtail; a mob of all sorts of low people. To shift one's bob; to move off, or go away. To bear a bob; to join in chorus with any singers. Also a te 2: DRY BOB. A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus. 3: LIGHT BOB. A soldier of the light infantry company. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Pilot bob | Mining | The weight attached to a shaft plumb-line for the purpose of lowering the line down the shaft. (references) | |
| Plumb Bob | Energy | A pointed weight hung from a string. Used for vertical alignment. (references) | |
| Plumb bob | Mining | A. A small weight or bob, hanging at the end of a cord, which under the action of gravity is oriented in a vertical direction. Also called a plummet b. A pointed weight hung from a string. Used for vertical alignmen. (references) | |
| Pump bob | Mining | The balance weight used to bring up the plunger in a Cornish pumping engine. (references) | |
| Rum bob | Slang in 1811 | RUM BOB. A young apprentice; also a sharp trick. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Square time Bob | Health | Crack Cocaine. (references) | |
| STAGGERING BOB | Slang in 1811 | STAGGERING BOB, WITH HIS YELLOW PUMPS. A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| BOB | Danish | Beskyttet oprindelsesbetegnelse | Food & Agriculture, European Union | |
| BOB | Dutch | Beschermde oorsprongsbenaming | Food & Agriculture, European Union | |
| BOB | English | Bank of Baroda | N/A | |
| BOB | French | Boliviano-code ISO | Economics, Meteorology & Standards | |
| BOB | Greek | βολιβιάνο | Geography | |
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