Look up: gopher

1. gopher
   (networking, protocol) A distributed document retrieval system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at the University of Minnesota, and which was popular in the early 1990s. Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like a primitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks t...
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2. Gopher
   General dogsbody who is sent to 'go for' things for the cast and crew. (US)
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3. Gopher
   A menu-based system for browsing Internet information.
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4. Gopher
   Document protocol for distributed document search, details ...
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5. gopher
   [n] - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches
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6. Gopher
   An Internet tool used to search for files, graphics and more, using on screen menus.
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7. Gopher
   A program on the Internet that organizes information into menus and lets users jump from one point on the 'net' to another.
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8. Gopher
   essentially a text-only precursor of the World Wide Web - the user explores a Gopher server using a menu-driven interface. - pges of textual information are often available, and also search interfaces to databases - largely died the death since the World Wide Web stole its thunder
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9. Gopher
   NATO designation for soviet surface-to-air missile system Strela-10 [SU]
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10. Gopher
    Browsing software developed by the University of Minnesota that uses a tiered folder system to locate information worldwide on the Internet.
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11. Gopher
    A menu based system for exploring Internet resources.
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12. Gopher
    Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval system that acted as a pre-web version of the World Wide Web. Being text-based it lost out to the graphical user interface of the modern day World Wide Web.
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13. Gopher
    Go'pher noun [ French gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See Gauffer .] (Zoology) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys , of the family Geomyidæ ; -- called also ...
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14. gopher
    <zoology> ... 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. ... The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honey...
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15. gopher
    noun burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
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16. Gopher
    • (n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. • (n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. trideceml...
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17. gopher
    
    • a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
    • any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
    • burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
    • burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
    
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18. Gopher
    Invented at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before the Web, gopher was a widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher was designed to be much easier to use than FTP, while still using a text-only interface. Gopher is a Client and Server style prog...
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19. gopher
    gopher or pocket gopher,name for the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, found in North America and Central America. The gopher is gray, buff, or dark brown. Its combined head and body length is 5 to 12 in. (13–30 cm) depending on the species; its tail is short. The name pocket gopher r...
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20. Gopher
    Gopher is American slang for a resident of Minnesota.
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21. Gopher
    Gopher is American slang for a resident of Minnesota.
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22. Gopher
    The gopher (pouched rat) is a burrowing rodent of the genus Spermophulus found in the prairies of north and central America. They live in burrows and resemble the marmot. They have cheek pouches in which they carry food of plants, roots and seeds.
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23. Gopher
    Gopher is a now defunct computer program developed at the University of Minnesota, which was formerly used to retrieve information from the internet. Like Archie, or a modern search engine,
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24. gopher
    Any of a group of burrowing rodents. Gophers are a kind of ground squirrel represented by some 20 species distributed across western North America, Europe, and Asia. Length ranges from 15 cm/6 in to 90 cm/16 in, excluding the furry tail; colouring ranges from plain yellowish to striped and spotted species. (Genus Citellus
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25. Gopher
    Menu-based server on the Internet that indexes resources and retrieves them according to user choice via any one of several built-in methods such as FTP or Telnet. Gopher servers can also be accessed via the World Wide Web and searched via special servers called Veronica. Gopher has now been eclipsed by the Web
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