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ALL meanings of lout

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  • noun lout yob, coarse man 1
  • noun lout coarse, stupid man 1
  • noun Technical meaning of lout Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston <[email protected]>. The language is procedural, with Scribe-like syntax. Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing. Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning. Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to PostScript and documentation. and runs under Unix and on the Amiga. 1
  • noun lout an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf. 1
  • verb with object lout to flout; treat with contempt; scorn. 1
  • noun lout An uncouth or aggressive man or boy. 1
  • verb transitive lout to treat with contempt; flout 0
  • intransitive verb lout to bow or curtsy; stoop 0
  • noun lout A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. 0
  • noun lout A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. 0
  • verb lout (Obsolete (No longer in use)) VT To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. 0
  • verb lout (Intransitive Verb) (archaic) To bend, bow, stoop. 0
  • countable noun lout If you describe a man or boy as a lout, you are critical of them because they behave in an impolite or aggressive way. 0
  • noun lout a crude or oafish person; boor 0
  • verb lout to bow or stoop 0
  • noun lout an awkward, ill-mannered person; boor 0
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