Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Brewed coffee.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A breed of the domestic hen, originated in the United States. The javas are of good size and broad and deep shape, and rank well for utility. There are two varieties, the blacks, which have dark legs, and the mottled, the latter being evenly marked black and white, with legs also mottled. Both varieties have upright combs.
Wiktionary
- n. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
- n. US, colloquial Coffee in general.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
- n. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
- n. (Computers) an object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from
C++ , used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
- n. an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
- n. a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
Etymologies
- After Java 1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Installing a FreeBSD 6.4 slave: manually download various java sources to my laptop, scp them up to the FreeBSD machine, build * java* overnight, then make a user, add an rc. local entry etc.”
“The term java can mean coffee, a programming language, an island of Indonesia or even something else.”
“May 17, 2009 at 5: 39 PM i've developed something similar in java, works on os x or windows, open source: iplaylist copier”
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“My programming skills is limited to some javascript and php, I've never done anything in java before.”
“Vocational courses in java and web development, and Info.”
“Starbucks had about 600 stores in java-guzzling Japan, but China is the most promising market for the firm, which has hung its green mermaid logo outside nearly 10,000 stores globally.”
“Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of heaven.”
“Java iTunes Clone jTunes is an iTunes clone written in java with full daap (rendezvous) support.”
“It uses google to create a cool ass graph-thingy (in java, cause java rocks), for a selected URL.”
“Now I configured alternatives to use this version of java whenever I call java from command line:”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘java’.
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Programming Languages
The last time someone tried this theme, it was a closed list with only two words; time to make amends. Scripting languages, etc. are also fair game...
c, c++, java, pascal, delphi, python, perl, lisp, algol, cobol, ada, apl and 121 more...
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Popular Programming Languages
Most used programming languages
java, c, C++, PHP, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Perl, C#, Ruby, Shell, Visual Basic and 14 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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tech words
Group some most said words related to software development
soa, environment, production, architecture, architect, language, java, application, integration, deploy, deployment, install and 28 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Coffee House
Coffee, and coffee related stuff. I did spend few hours in The Net with this and now I am up to my neck with "coffee".. I probably return to this list. Later.
coffi, crappuccino, cappuccino, kaffe, caffè, kohv, espresso, kahva, qahva, masbout, gehve, buna and 118 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Cool Place Names
himalayas, pakistan, kokomo, karakorum, khartoum, orinoco, bahia, timbuktu, oconomowoc, liverpool, blackpool, aberdeen and 24 more...
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coffee talk
mocha, java, joe, cuppa, mud, chicory, cowboy, turkish, toddy, sanka, espresso, irish and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for java.

chained_bear I would have thought #2 is more suitable for that. I've heard people refer to coffee as "java." (Usually they're trying to be hip.)
Edit: oh... did you mean #4? In that case I agree. Feb 27, 2009
bilby I think WordNet has done a fine job here. Although def 3 is possibly for that OddNet list/tag someone was talking about recently. Feb 27, 2009