| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To grade.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To company. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To circle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To gang or troop. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To flock, herd or throng.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb cabal.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cabal) | 1. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.[Wordnet]. 2. To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: caballing, caballed, cabals, caballer, caballers, caballingly and caballedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CABALLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CABALLING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Mining | An increase in density occurring when the contents of two pipes carrying water with different temperature and salinity characteristics, but having the same density, are mixed; the resulting fluid mixture is slightly more dense than either of the two original types. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: cabal
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| Bleak Cabal | The Bleak Cabal are a faction of Sigil, an organization based around a particular ideology, in the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Its members are known as bleakers, the Cabal or madmen. (references) | ||
| Cabal (arcade game) | Cabal is a 1988 arcade game by TAD Corporation (licensed to Fabtek for US production). In this game, the player controls a commando, viewed from behind, trying to destroy various enemy military bases. Though typical for games of this era, the game did respectably in the marketplace. (references) | ||
| Cabal (novel) | Cabal is a 1988 novella by British author Clive Barker. Like most of Barker's work it is a horror story. It was originally published in book form as a collection, comprising the novella and several short stories; the book title was also Cabal. (references) | ||
| Cabal (set theory) | The Cabal was, or perhaps is, a grouping of set theorists in Southern California, particularly at UCLA and Caltech, perhaps also at UC Irvine. Organization and procedures range from informal to nonexistent, so it is difficult to say whether it still exists or exactly who has been a member, but it has included such notable figures as Donald A. Martin, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, John R. Steel, and Alexander S. Kechris. (references) | ||
| Cabal Ministry | The Cabal was a group of high councillors who held power in England from 1668 to approximately 1674. (references) | ||
| Conway Cabal | The Conway Cabal refers to a conspiracy in late 1777 and 1778 designed to remove George Washington as commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. It was named after Brigadier General Thomas Conway, whose letters criticizing Washington were forwarded to the Congress. The plot failed when it became public, as Conway resigned and General Horatio Gates apologized to Washington. (references) | ||
| GURPS Cabal | GURPS Cabal (ISBN 1556344295) is a soft-bound book written by Kenneth Hite and published in 2001 by Steve Jackson Games as a customizable campaign setting for the GURPS role-playing game system. It depicts a modern-day secret society composed of vampires, lycanthropes and sorcerers who study the underlying principles of magic and visit other planes of existence. (references) | ||
| Sno(w) Chao Cabal | The were originally to be five rites in keeping with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian#The_Law_of_Fives law of fives], but one (have sex with a member) was eliminated to increase membership and the other was forgotten. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cabal
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Backbone cabal | Computing | Backbone cabal | |
| Backbone cabal | Computing | Backbone cabal n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence; it was almost obligatory for anyone privy to their secrets to respond "There is no Cabal" whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public. The result of this policy was an attractive aura of mystery. Even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following a bitter internal catfight, many people believed (or claimed to believe) that it had not actually disbanded but only gone deeper underground with its power intact. This belief became a model for various paranoid theories about various Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over the Usenet or Internet. These paranoias were later satirized in ways that took on a life of their own. See Eric Conspiracy for one example. See NANA for the subsequent history of "the Cabal". Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Backbone cabal | Post & Telecom | A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the Usenet during most of the 1980s. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Conway Cabal | Literature | 1: General Gates was conquered in 1780 by Lord Cornwallis. 2: (The), 1777. A faction organised to place General Gates at the head of the American army. He conquered Burgoyne, October, 1777, at Saratoga, and hoped to supplant Washington. The Conway referred to is the town in New Brunswick, North America, where the cabal was formed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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