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)