English Dictionary
◊ SPASTIC
spastic
adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon";
"spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral
palsy"
2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a
spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: {convulsive}, {spasmodic}]
n : a person suffering from spastic paralysis
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN PASTIE?
pastie
/pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key
on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which
can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be
used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated
with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example,
might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho
character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing
devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to
indecent-exposure laws; compare {tits on a keyboard}.
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