English Dictionary
◊ HUMOR
humor
n 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: one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was
believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine
your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood
and phlegm and yellow and black bile" [syn: {humour}]
v : put into a good mood [syn: {humour}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ HUMOR
humor
{hacker humour}