QUINE

Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine

(noun) United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

quine (plural quines)

(computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

Verb

quine (third-person singular simple present quines, present participle quining, simple past and past participle quined)

(philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.

To append something to a quotation of itself.

Etymology

Proper noun

Quine (plural er-noun or Quines)

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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