4-letter words containing i
- drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- duci — a leader or dictator.
- duit — doit (def 1).
- dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
- ebit — EBIT is the amount of profit that a person or company receives before interest and taxes have been deducted.
- edie — a female given name, form of Edith.
- edif — Electronic Design Interchange Format. Not a programming language, but a format to simplify data transfer between CAD/CAE systems. LISP-like syntax. See also Berkeley EDIF200. E-mail: <[email protected]> ftp://edif.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/edif.
- edit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
- efik — a member of a people of southeastern Nigeria near the mouth of the Calabar River, closely related to the Ibibio.
- efis — electronic flight information systems
- egis — Alternative spelling of aegis.
- eide — Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
- eigh — Alternative form of eh.
- eild — (obsolete, or, dialectal, Scotland) Age.
- eina — an exclamation of sudden pain
- eine — eyes
- eire — Ireland : also, the former official name (1937-49) of the country of Ireland
- eirp — equivalent isotropically radiated power
- eisa — Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
- eish — (South Africa) phew; whew; expressing resignation.
- ekki — The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
- elhi — (of educational material) designed to be used by students in elementary school or high school
- elia — a department of SW Greece, in the W Peloponnese: in ancient times most of the region formed the state of Elis. Pop: 183 521 (2001). Area: 2681 sq km (1035 sq miles)
- elis — an ancient city-state of SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese: site of the ancient Olympic games
- elix — To draw out or extract.
- eliz — Elizabethan
- emic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme.
- emil — a masculine name: fem. Emily
- emin — Tracey. born 1963, British artist, noted for provocative multimedia works such as Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) and My Bed (1999)
- emir — A title of various Muslim (mainly Arab) rulers.
- emit — Produce and discharge (something, esp. gas or radiation).
- enid — (zoology) Any member of the Enidae.
- epi- — on; upon; above; over
- epic — Of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.
- epis — Plural form of epi.
- eric — A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- erie — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Erie
- erin — a feminine name
- eris — /e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe" cultures, including hackerdom. See Church of the SubGenius.
- esdi — Enhanced Small Disk Interface
- esim — A language for simulation of VLSI at the switch level. The primitives are nodes and transistors.
- etic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture that is general, nonstructural, and objective in its perspective.
- etsi — European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- etui — A small ornamental case for holding needles, cosmetics, and other articles.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
- exit — A way out, especially of a public building, room, or passenger vehicle.
- faik — a fold or pleat
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- fain — gladly; willingly: He fain would accept.
- fair — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.