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- [lib]
- /lɪb/
- /lɪb/
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- [lib]
- /lɪb/
Definitions of lib word
- noun lib something improvised in speech, music, etc.: Was that joke part of your speech or an ad lib? 1
- adverb lib at one's pleasure; without restriction. 1
- adverb lib freely; as needed; without stint: Water can be given to the patients ad lib. 1
- noun lib (in the names of political movements) liberation. 1
- abbreviation LIB liberation 1
- noun Definition of lib in Technology (operating system) Library. In Unix, the directories /lib and /usr/lib traditionally contain files with filename extension ".lib" that are special archives containing modules of standard object code. In modern Unixes the same directories contain ".so" (shared object) files, which are similar except that the object code they contain is designed to be loaded once and shared by all application code that needs it, thus saving memory. 1
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Origin of lib
First appearance:
before 1965 One of the 2% newest English words
First recorded in 1965-70; by shortening
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Lib
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
lib popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
lib usage trend in Literature
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