Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. Indo-European
- abbr. industrial engineer
- abbr. industrial engineering
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A common English digraph, of various origin. It occurs medially with the original power of long i, namely ē, in bield, field, wield., yield, belief, believe, bier, lief, and some other words of Anglo-Saxon origin, where it takes the place of early modern English ee, Anglo-Saxon e, y, ē, ȳ, eá, ǣ. In sieve it represents an English and Anglo-Saxon short i. It also occurs medially with the sound ē in brief, chief, grief, niece, piece, relief, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, siege, mien, and other words of French and other non-English origin, representing in most of these an early modern English ee, but an original French ie.
- n. See -y
- n. See -y
- n. See -y.
- n. An abbreviation of id est.
- The earlier form of termination now usually written -y, of various origin (OF. -ie, -ee, -e, etc., L. -ia, -ās (-at-), -ēs (-ēd-), etc.: see -ie, -ie, -ie, -y, -y, -y, etc.), as inastronomie, familie, fancie, mercie, citie, companie, beautie, etc. The spelling -ie is retained in the plural (families, fancies, cities, etc.), and in certain diminutives, chiefly Scotch, as birdie, doggie, mousie, etc., and in diminutive personal names, as Charlie, Willie, Jennie, Annie, etc.
- An abbreviation of Institute of Electrical Engineers (British).
Wiktionary
- n. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Ireland.
- n. Internet Explorer; any of a series of internet browsers that ship with the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- n. Indo-European
- adj. Indo-European
GNU Webster's 1913
- Abbreviation of Latin
id est , that is.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. that is to say; in other words
- n. a commercial browser
- adv. that is to say; in other words
Examples
“Unfortunatly IE is much stricter with page layout than the other browsers and there is still one or three bugs left in IE, inparticular with it's interpratation of java script, sparks”
“The whole reason it’s showing up wrong in IE is because the site is written to be W3C compliant (the way it should be) but MS’s unholy abomination of a browser doesn’t handle this corectly because it’s crap.”
“I told my brother how much I love Dexter and how I started watching it through Netflix after you guys talked about it. he came back the next weekend and said "yeah, too bad it doesn't work on my Mac." also a problem I ran into is that it only runs in IE, which is painful for me (viva la Firefox). don't get me wrong, I love the service, but they could reach so many more people with just minor adjustments. fakename311 hoo-ray!”
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“Frumph do you want a screen shot of what this looks like in IE 8 as well?”
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“IE, is the cause of the result a change in the sample.”
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“Mark, the law is the law, fair enough, but I think it needs to be interpreted with consideration for the situation you find yourself in – IE, a bit of common sense.”
“And it would be nice to have a bit of a gutter on the left; at least in IE 7 (blech, yuck, ptooey) the left margin is pretty much totally abutted.”
“Okay, that finally posted, but more likely because when I did it in IE, I caught some more hand HTML I missed the last time.”
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“Neither is backwards-compatible and neither is supported in IE 6/7.”
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“Are they can seen from Firefox 2.0.0.2 Or IE is needed.”
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