| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To fear, funk, alarm, dismay or fright.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To apprehend. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To scare, frighten, terrify, startle or terrorize. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To worry. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To panic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To awe or reverence.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb dread.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dread) | 1. Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of.[Wordnet]. 2. To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.[Websters]. 3. To be in dread, or great fear.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: dreading, dreaded, dreads, dreader, dreaders, dreadingly and dreadedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DREADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dread
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Dred. . | 2: [Noun] Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger. It expresses more than fear, and less than terror or fright. It is an uneasiness or alarm excited by expected pain, loss or other evil. We speak of the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure. It differs from terror also in being less sudden or more continued.. | 3: [Noun] Awe; fear united with respect.. | 4: [Noun] Terror. Shall not his dread fall on you. Job 13.. | 5: [Noun] The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded. Let him be your dread. Isaiah 8.. | 6: [Adjective] Exciting great fear or apprehension.. | 7: [Adjective] Terrible; frightful.. | 8: [Adjective] Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.. | 9: [Verb] To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.. | 10: [Verb] To be in great fear. Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Deuteronomy 1.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wikipedic | Dread is the name for a revolutionary new weapons system. It uses a rotating drum or wheel to spin spherical projectiles up to a high speed and launch them by centrifugal force. The design allows for a very high rate of fire, variable projectile velocity, and uses nothing but electricity (no gunpowder, cordite, etc.). The manufacturers claim that the system is silent and has no muzzle flash or recoil. They likewise claim that the system has no centrifugal effects though it is not known how the operator could change the plane of rotation to hit targets above or below the initial line of sight. The system could fire rounds at variable velocities for less than lethal and lethal effects. The manufacturers claim that it could be mounted on satellites. The DREAD system could deliver closely spaced rounds for more mass to target than any other gun. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A great fear. (references) | 2: [Noun] A Rastafarian. (references) | 3: [Noun] Somebody or something dreaded. (references) | 4: [Verb] To anticipate with fear. (references) | 5: [Verb] To fear greatly. (references) |
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Common Expressions: dread
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Club Dread | Club Dread is a 2004 comedy/horror film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers. It is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, one of the group members. (references) | ||
| Dread Pirate Roberts | The Dread Pirate Roberts was a fictional pirate in the novel and movie, The Princess Bride. (references) | ||
| Dread Zeppelin | Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for covering the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style sung by an Elvis Presley impersonator, though their act now encompasses many other songs and other styles of music. Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant has said that Dread Zeppelin is his favorite band. (references) | ||
| Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords | Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is the sequel to the turn-based 4X game Galactic Civilizations made by Stardock. Currently in the midst of its beta on Stardock's subscription service, TotalGaming.net, it includes the option to play as any race or to custom design your own, a ship editor so as to design one's own ships, an entirely new planet management system, and many other things. (references) | ||
| Judge Dread | Alexander Minto Hughes (1945 - March 12, 1998), better known as Judge Dread, a British reggae and ska artist. He was the first white artist to get a reggae hit in Jamaica. Judge Dread died on stage in The Penny Theatre, Canterbury. (references) | ||
| Metroid Dread | Metroid Dread is a Metroid game that was in development by Nintendo but has apparently since been cancelled. (references) | ||
| Natty Dread | Natty Dread was a 1974 (see 1974 in music) reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers. (references) | ||
| The Concept of Dread | The Concept of Dread was a philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: dread
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dread high bit disease | Computing | Dread high bit disease A condition endemic to PRIME (also known as "PR1ME") minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, not to mention talking to true 8-bit devices. Folklore had it that PRIME adopted the reversed-8-bit convention in order to save 25 cents per serial line per machine; PRIME old-timers, on the other hand, claim they inherited the disease from Honeywell via customer NASA's compatibility requirements and struggled heroically to cure it. Whoever was responsible, this probably qualifies as one of the most cretinous design tradeoffs ever made. See meta bit. A few other machines have exhibited similar brain damage. [Jargon File]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Dread high-bit disease | Computing | Dread high-bit disease n. A condition endemic to some now-obsolete computers and peripherals (including ASR-33 teletypes and PRIME minicomputers) that results in all characters having their high (0x80) bit forced on. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, not to mention the problems these machines have talking with true 8-bit devices. This term was originally used specifically of PRIME (a.k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers. Folklore has it that PRIME adopted the reversed-8-bit convention in order to save 25 cents per serial line per machine; PRIME old-timers, on the other hand, claim they inherited the disease from Honeywell via customer NASA's compatibility requirements and struggled heroically to cure it. Whoever was responsible, this probably qualifies as one of the most cretinous design tradeoffs ever made. See meta bit. Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Dread Questionmark Disease | Computing | Dread Questionmark Disease n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom is that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show up as questionmarks. The usual culprit is the misnamed `smart quotes' feature in Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called `demoroniser' that cleans up the mess) see `http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/'. Source: Jargon File.. | |
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