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Humor - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Humor : (noun)
1: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has
the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit, humour, witticism,
wittiness]
2: the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the
humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't
survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humour,
sense of humor, sense of humour]
3: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of
feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his
temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper,
mood, humour]
4: the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
[syn: humour]
5: (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose
balance was believed to determine your emotional and
physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and
yellow and black bile" [syn: humour]
6: the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance,
bodily fluid, body fluid, humour]
(verb)
1: put into a good mood [syn: humour]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Humor : \Hu"mor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Humoring.]
1. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit
the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt
one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to
humor the mind.
It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor
that invention. --Dryden.
2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to
soothe; to gratify; to please.
You humor me when I am sick. --Pope.
Syn: To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Humor : \Hu"mor\, n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L.
humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist.
See Humid.] [Written also humour.]
1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal
bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the
eye, etc.
Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four
humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and
black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion
of which the temperament and health depended.
2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often
causes an eruption on the skin. ``A body full of humors.''
--Sir W. Temple.
3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly
supposed to depend on the character or combination of the
fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good
humor; ill humor.
Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the
ruling passion of your mind. --Roscommon.
A prince of a pleasant humor. --Bacon.
I like not the humor of lying. --Shak.
4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
freaks; vagaries; whims.
Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
--South.
5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an
incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite
laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations;
a playful fancy; facetiousness.
For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd
almost said wit. --Goldsmith.
A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
perplexities of mine host. --W. Irving.
Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous
humor. (Anat.) See Eye.
Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant
frame of mind.
Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood;
frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Humor :
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Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Humor : Humor: In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally present in the front and rear chambers of the eye. The humors ran through
an ancient theory that held that health came from balance between the bodily liquids. These liquids were termed humors. Disease arose when there was imbalance between these humors. The humors were:
- Phlegm (water)
- Blood
- Gall (black bile thought to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen)
- Choler (yellow bile secreted by the liver)
This theory (which was variously called the humoral theory, humoralism, and humorism) was devised well before Hippocrates (c.460-c.375 BC). It was not definitively demolished until Rudolf Virchow
published his formative book, Cellularpathologie, in 1858 that laid out the cellular basis of pathology. Present day pathology rests on a cellular and molecular foundation. The humors have been
dispelled, except for the aqueous humor and vitreous humor of the eye.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Humor |
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kempNERD: if yu feel the need to question my Humor #itsnotgonnawork @kei_baybuh |
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brijh: @EbonyStarr55 Aww, I love chatting w/ you anytime. I don't just use you for your sense of Humor. Do I? |
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mikeykunch: My tweet would be to long...
well in conclusion people's plans/predictions Humor me and god:) |
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