Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. computing A program that produces its own source code as output.
- v. philosophy To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
Etymologies
- From the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A quine is a computer program which produces its own source code.”
“There, the French-speaking population called a set of five numbers a "quine," as in "keen.”
“A '' 'quine' '' is a computer program which produces its own source code.”
“In denying the existence of synonymy, he denied analyticity, and gave rise to a new infinitive "to quine" – meaning, to deny distinctions.”
“Ai hadda gud dae… Maed shur teh kidz awl nu teh K9, Fee Lyn, E quine, Bow vine stuff.”
we has an OCD humin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Croghan's blunt journal entry records her passing, "Alequeapy, ye old quine is dead.”
“In fact, all of the functionality that you mentioned is freely available in Sitemeter except the outbound link and comment tracking. reply christopher quine”
“It's nae the kin o 'life that a gentle quine can thole”
“With an old syrup can (to hold the bait) & a candle for a light pullars = peeler crabs - soft-shelled for bait boo = bow quine = quean (young woman) thole = endure yole = fishing yawl littlen = little one caaed sair deen = get up for work too early gran'est o 'yer gear = the best one might have loup = flip-flop qued = could bairn = child”
“No; a quine in the lottery, won by Europe, and paid by”
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quine’.
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Words that describe themselves.
polysyllabic, sesquipedalian, common, supercilious, brief, english, erudite, abstraction, awkward, desuete, esoteric, recherché and 16 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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solarider's Words
maelstrom, leviathan, apiology, deconstruction, confluence, minutiae, onomatopoeia, tardy, ad infintum, tocophobia, cuckold, oblique and 110 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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MTSI Word of the Day
Word of the Day by Kevin, fREW, and Wes
bezoar, epiphenomenon, quine, conurbation, anoesis, bildungsroman, copacetic, nosocomial, a priori, petrichor, gnosticgnomial, meme and 76 more...
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doric
words from the north east of scotland
bairn, ken, fit like, aboot, nae bother, dinnae, yersel, naye bad, aye, ca canny, scunnered, gaun and 12 more...
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Some good words
Interregnum, misology, misoneism, Orthogonal, Perspicacity, clinquant, retrodict, Shandygaff, mode, indwell, inhere, aseity and 51 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for quine.
eggoabbas This word used as verb (with exhaustive definition) in Douglas Hofstader's "Godel, Escher, Bach". His usage is based on the name of Quine, the logician. Jul 8, 2009
erinmckean "A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement."
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm Apr 16, 2009
bilby We're traipsing along the unmarked jungle borders of dialect and language here. I'd never heard of Doric until a year and a half ago when a friend, from Aberdeen, described herself as speaking Doric. She provided me some samples, both written and spoken. All in all it was quite fascinating. If I remember correctly she called Doric 'Scots as spoken in the Aberdeen area', distinctive mainly for a large number of words that are perhaps understood but not in common use elsewhere. But as you can see dangleberry has a Doric list so we could ask him for clarification. For a very comprehensive introduction to the Scottish language picture I recommend this site.
Feb 27, 2009
nycanthro Bilby, what's the difference between Doric and Scots? I mentioned Scots because my mother is from Aberdeen and she used the word 'quine' to mean a young girl (the male equivalent being 'loon'). My mother referred to her language (when she wasn't speaking American English) as Scots. I've never heard people refer to themselves as speaking "Doric". Feb 27, 2009
bilby Doric rather than Scots, especially in modern times as it appears to be no longer current in Fife. Feb 21, 2009
nycanthro A young girl in Scots language. Feb 21, 2009
johnmperry Is it not also a noun, something which refers to itself?
Here's a longer explanation quine Jun 13, 2008
vanishedone Also a verb (after the logician Quine), listed in The Philosophical Lexicon and made famous by Daniel Dennett's paper Quining Qualia. 'To deny resolutely the existence of importance of something real or significant.' Oct 23, 2007
dangleberry a girl Jul 18, 2007