dictionary definitions for "thomas"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Thomas
      n 1: United States clockmaker who introduced mass production
           (1785-1859) [syn: Thomas, Seth Thomas]
      2: United States socialist who was a candidate for president six
         times (1884-1968) [syn: Thomas, Norman Thomas, {Norman
         Mattoon Thomas}]
      3: a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War
         II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981) [syn:
         Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Lowell Jackson Thomas]
      4: Welsh poet (1914-1953) [syn: Thomas, Dylan Thomas, {Dylan
         Marlais Thomas}]
      5: the Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus
         until he saw Jesus with his own eyes [syn: Thomas, {Saint
         Thomas}, St. Thomas, doubting Thomas, {Thomas the
         doubting Apostle}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tom \Tom\, n.
     1. A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a
        man.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or
        in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  Thomas
  
     <language> A language compatible with the language
     Dylan(TM).  Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM).
  
     The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt
     Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at {Digital
     Equipment Corporation}'s Cambridge Research Laboratory runs
     (slowly) on MIT's CScheme, DEC's Scheme->C, Marc
     Feeley's Gambi, Macintosh, PC, Vax, MIPS, Alpha,
     680x0.
  
     {(ftp://gatekeeper.pa.dec.com/pub/DEC/Thomas)}.
  
     Mailing list: <info-thomas@crl.dec.com>.
  
     ["Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic language", {Apple
     Computer}, Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992].
  
     (1992-09-11)
  


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