| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Imp.[Websters]
2. To be devilled or deuced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have dwarfed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be pickled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have monkeyed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have bogeyed, phantomed or ghosted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be spirited or humoured.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb imp.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (imp) | 1. To graft; to insert as a scion.[Websters]. 2. To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: imping, imped, imps, imper, impers, impingly and impedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "IMPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: imp
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | IMP 1. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A son; offspring; progeny. The tender imp was weaned. A lad of life, an imp of fame.. | 2: [Noun] A subaltern or puny devil.. | 3: [Verb] To graft.. | 4: [Verb] To lengthen; to extend or enlarge by something inserted or added; a term originally used by falconers, who repair a hawk's wing by adding feathers. Imp out our drooping country's broken wings. --The false north displays Her broken league to imp her serpent wings. This verb is, I believe, used only in poetry.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: Ice mass path. (references) | 2: Imager For Mars Pathfinder. (references) | 3: Implementation. (references) | 4: Initial Memory Protection. (references) | 5: Instrument Mounting Plate. (references) | 6: Interplanetary Monitoring Platform. (references) |
| Business | Abbreviation for interface message processor. (references) | ||
| Environment | Impacted Materials Placement (Plan). (references) | ||
| Information Technology | 1: Information/interface message processor. (references) | 2: Intelligence message processor. (references) | 3: Interface message processor. (references) |
| Literature | 1: "Let us pray for ... the king's most excellent 2: Imp (Anglo-Saxon). A graft; whence also a child; as, "You little imp." In hawking, "to imp a feather" is to engraft or add a new feather for a broken one. The needles employed for the purpose were called "imping needles." Lord Cromwell, writing to Henry VIII., speaks of "that noble imp your son." 3: Majesty and for ... his beloved son Edward, 4: Our prince, that most angelic imp." - Pathway to 5: Prayer. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | 1: 1) Implementation. 2) Inventory management plan. (references) | 2: Improved. (references) | |
| Security | Impression Type. (references) | ||
| Technology | 1: Information Management Plan. (references) | 2: Initial Military Program. (references) | 3: Integrated Management Plan. (references) | 4: Integrated Master Plan. (references) | 5: Internet Modem Protocol. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] a mischievous child. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] a supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. (references) | 3: [Etymology 2] (falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing. "For, if I imp my wing on Thine",--Herbert (1633). (references) | 4: [Etymology 2] (obsolete) To plant or engraft. (references) | 5: [Etymology 2] To eke out, strengthen, enlarge. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: imp
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Aerocar IMP | The Aerocar IMP (for Independently Made Plane) was an unconventional light aircraft designed by Moulton Taylor and marketed for home-building. The IMP and its various derivatives were developed by Taylor after he had already established himself in the homebuilt market with the Coot amphibian, and at the time of the Energy Crisis in the United States, were designed to be economical to build and operate. (references) | ||
| Edinburgh IMP | Edinburgh IMP is a development of ATLAS Autocode, initially developed around 1966-1969 at Edinburgh University, Scotland. IMP was a general-purpose programming language which was used heavily for systems programming. (references) | ||
| EMPI Imp | EMPI started to produce fiberglass dune buggies in the late 60's. The bodies have curved fenders similar to a corvette of the same period. The hood has a single wide raised bump as well as the outline of the EMPI logo and words Imp as a bump on the front of the hood. (references) | ||
| Hillman Imp | The Hillman Imp was a compact, rear-engined saloon (US: sedan) automobile manufactured by the Rootes Group from 1963 to 1976. An estate version the Hillman Husky was produced from 1967. (references) | ||
| Horde IMP | Horde IMP is a web-based mail user agent integrating with the Horde framework. (references) | ||
| IMP programming language | IMP was a systems programming language developed by Irons in the late 1960s through early 1970s. Unlike most other systems programming languages, IMP was an extensible syntax programming language. (references) | ||
| IMP Society | The IMP Society, was founded in 1902 at the University of Virginia as a secret society called Hot Feet, which was disbanded and recreated as the IMP Society. In addition to a number of philanthropic activities IMPs are known to march around Grounds carrying pitchforks, wearing horned hoods, and spreading their love for the University through mischievous antics and revelry. The society publicly "taps" its new members, and most current members wear a ring indicating their membership to the organization. While the members of the group are known, many of their good works and service are not widely publicized. (references) | ||
| Lincoln Imp | The Lincoln Imp is the symbol of the City of Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, England. (references) | ||
| The Bottle Imp | The Bottle Imp (1893) is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson about a working class native of Hawaii, Keawe, who buys a strange bottle from a sad, elderly gentleman who credits the bottle with his wealth and fortune, and promises the bottle will also grant Keawe his every wish and desire. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: imp
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cyclic IMP | Health | Inosine cyclic 3',5'-(hydrogen phosphate). An inosine nucleotide which acts as a mild inhibitor of the hydrolysis of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP and as an inhibitor of cat heart cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. (references) | |
| Imp 8 | Aerospace | The eighth of a series of NASA IMP spacecraft launched in October 1973, in order to study the space around the Earth out to about the distance of the Moon, which includes the Earth's magnetosphere, and the nearby solar wind. The spacecraft stays in an oval orbit at a distance of about 35 times the radius of the Earth on average. IMP means Interplanetary Monitoring Platform. IMP 8 is also referred to as Explorer 50. (references) | |
| IMP Dehydrogenase | Health | An enzyme that catalyzes the dehydrogenation of inosine 5'-phosphate to xanthosine 5'-phosphate in the presence of NAD. EC 1.1.1.205. (references) | |
| Imp of Darkness | Literature | (An). Milton calls the serpent "fittest imp of fraud." (Paradise Lost, ix. 89.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| R imp | Aerospace | Minimum Range to Avoid Plum Impingement. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: imp
| 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 | |
| IMP | Danish | De Integrerede Middelhavsprogrammer | Economics, Politics & International Affaires | |
| IMP | Dutch | Interface-bericht-processor | Computing | |
| IMP | English | International Masters Publishers | N/A | |
| IMP | German | Integrierte Mittelmeerprogramme | Economics, Politics & International Affaires | |
| Imp. | English | Imperial | Meteorology & Standards | |
| Imp. | Latin | Imperium | Law, Language | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
