Look up: humour

1. humour
   hacker humour
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2. Humour
   Hippocrates postulated a theory that disease was due to an imbalance of body fluids or humours in the body. Hippocrates described four humours and also believed that they were responsible for personality traits or types, so this theory is the origin of some descriptions of personality today. The humours described by Hippocrates, followed by the per …
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3. humour
   1. <physiology> A normal functioning fluid or semifluid of the body (as the blood, lymph or bile) especially of vertebrates. ... 2. A secretion that is itself an excitant of activity (as certain hormones). ... (06 Mar 1998) ...
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4. humour
   sense of humour noun the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; `she didn`t appreciate my humor`; `you can`t survive in the army without a sense of humor`
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5. humour
   (from Latin `liquid,` or `fluid`), in early Western physiological theory, one of the four fluids of the body that were thought to determine a ... [7 related articles]
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6. humour
   communication in which the stimulus produces amusement.[15 related articles]
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7. humour
   1. a normal functioning fluid or semifluid of the body (as the blood, lymph or bile) especially of vertebrates. 2. a secretion that is itself an excitant of activity (as certain hormones).
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8. humour
   humor, humour (British) 1. A comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement. 2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor. 3. The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd. 4. Etymology: from 13...
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9. humour
   The use of comic elements intended to amuse the reader or spectator.
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10. Humour
    (a) Jocose imagination; sympathetic wit. (b) Romantic irony, equivalent of the triumph of the creative power of the artist's soul over all content and all form (Hegel). -- L.V.
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11. humour
    Latin humor = liquid, hence the aqueous and vitreous humour of the eyeball.
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12. Humour
    `Humour` or `humor` (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor<...
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