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Look up: jade

  1. Jade
    Jade is a group of glassy silicate minerals including jadetite and nephrite. It is found in shades ranging from white to dark green in Asia.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. jade
    [adj] - similar to the color of jade 2. [n] - a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. JADE
    Java Addition to the Default System
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  4. Jade
    (In topic `Web Development`) Vision Software`s application server
    Found on http://www.it-architects.co.uk/a_-_z_glo

  5. Jade
    1. U Washington, late 80's. A strongly-typed language, object-oriented but without classes. For type research. The compiler output is Smalltalk. [Submitter claimed that Jade has exactly one user!] 2. Implicit coarse-grained concurrency. The constructs 'with', 'withonly' and 'without' create tasks with specified side effects to shared data obje...
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  6. JADE
    James' DSSSL Engine
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  7. JADE
    Journal Abstracts Delivered Electronically
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  8. jade
    a tough compact gemstone,either jadeite(true jade)or nephrite,that is commonly green but sometimes whitish and takes a high polish Category: Chemistry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. jade
    General term for the minerals nephrite and jadeite. Nephrite, from Turkestan, Siberia and the Far East, is hard and translucent, and 'rings' when struck. It ranges in colour from white (the highly prized 'mutton-fat jade') to various shades of brown and green ('spinach jade'), and has a greasy look when polished. Jadeite is rarer, harder and more e ...
    Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary

  10. Jade
    Jade noun [ French, from Spanish jade , from piedra de ijada stone of the side, from ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Spanish ijada is derived from Latin ilia flanks. Confer Iliac .] (Min.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/2

  11. Jade
    Jade noun [ Middle English jade ; confer Prov. English yaud , Scot. yade , yad , yaud , Icelandic jalda a mare.] 1. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. « Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.» Sir P. Sidney. 2. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless m ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/2

  12. Jade
    Jade transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Jaded ; present participle & verbal noun Jading .] 1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [ Obsolete] Shak. 2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [ Obsolete] « I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.» Shak. 3. To e ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/2

  13. Jade
    Jade intransitive verb To become weary; to lose spirit. « They . . . fail, and jade , and tire in the prosecution.» South.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/2

  14. jade
    1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. ... 2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. 'I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.' (Shak) ... 3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labour of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. 'The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . Checks at any vigorous un ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  15. jade
    jade-green adjective of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. jade
    nag noun an old or over-worked horse
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. Jade
    `Jade` is an ornamental stone. The term `jade` is applied to two different rocks that are made up of different silicate minerals. Nephrite jade consists of the calcium- and magnesium-rich amphibole mineral actinolite (aggregates of which also make up one form of asbestos). The rock called jadeitite consists almost entirely of jadeite, a sodium- and aluminium-rich pyroxene. The trade name `Jadite` [sic] is sometimes applied to translucent/opaque ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade

  18. JADE
    `JADE` was the codename given by US codebreakers to a Japanese World War II cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications from late 1942 until 1944. JADE was similar to another cipher machine, CORAL, with the main difference that JADE was used to encipher messages in katakana using an alphabet of 50 symbols.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE

  19. Jade
    • (v. t.) To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. • (v. t.) To treat like a jade; to spurn. • (n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. • (n.) A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worth...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  20. jade
    either of two tough, compact, typically green gemstones that take a high polish. Both minerals have been carved into jewelry, ornaments, small ... [7 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/j/3

  21. Jade
    Jade is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Green Gemstone` Where is it used? The name Jade is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Giada ( In Italian) Jayda ( In English) Jada ( In English) From Old English. Alternative meanings (Middle English) Flirtatious The name Jade appears In the name list top 1000 for both male and f
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Jad

  22. jade
    1. a woman adulterer
    2. a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
    3. an old or over-worked horse

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  23. jade
    jade, common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or green in color; the green variety is the more valuable. The commoner and less costly variety of jade is nephrite, a calcium magnesium iron silica...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08258


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