Limp

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limp \Limp\ (l[i^]mp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Limped} (l[i^]mt;
     215); p. pr. & vb. n. {Limping}.] [Cf. AS. lemphealt lame,
     OHG. limphen to limp, be weak; perh. akin to E. lame, or to
     limp, a [root]120.]
     To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limp \Limp\, n.
     A manner of walking in which the movement of one or both legs
     is noticeably abnormal, usually due to injury or disease; a
     halt; the act of limping.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limp \Limp\, n. (Ore Washing)
     A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limp \Limp\, a. [Cf. Icel. limpa limpness, weakness, and E. lap,
     n., lop, v. t. Cf. {Limber}, a.]
     1. Flaccid; flabby, as flesh. --Walton.
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     2. Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  limp
       adj 1: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid
              muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp
              handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all
              desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" [syn: {flaccid},
               {lax}, {slack}]
       2: not firm; "wilted lettuce" [syn: {wilted}]
       n : the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured
           leg [syn: {hitch}, {hobble}]
       v 1: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old
            woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: {hobble},
             {hitch}]
       2: proceed slowly or with difficulty; "the boat limped into the
          harbor"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  202 Moby Thesaurus words for "limp":
     amble, andante, anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning,
     barge, bloodless, bowl along, bundle, chicken, claudicate,
     claudication, clump, cowardly, cower, crawl, creep, dead march,
     debilitated, dodder, doddering, dogtrot, drag, drag along,
     drag out, droop, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, enervated,
     etiolated, exhausted, faint, faintish, falter, faltering, fatigued,
     feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, floppy, flounce, foot,
     footpace, footslog, frail, funeral march, gait, gallop, gimp,
     go dead slow, go slow, gone, gutless, halt, hippety-hop, hitch,
     hobble, hobbling, hop, idle, imbecile, impotent, inch, inch along,
     ineffective, ineffectual, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump,
     lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, laze,
     leisurely gait, limber, listless, lock step, loose, lop, lop-eared,
     loppy, lukewarm, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, lustless,
     marrowless, mince, mincing steps, mosey, muddle, namby-pamby,
     nerveless, nodding, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pithless,
     pliable, plod, poke, poke along, pooped, powerless, prance, quiver,
     rack, relaxed, roll, rubbery, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy,
     sapless, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble,
     shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, sinewless, single-foot, skip, slack,
     sleazy, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion,
     slowness, soft, spent, spineless, spiritless, stagger,
     stagger along, staggering, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle,
     straggle, strengthless, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut,
     stumble, stump, supple, swag, swagger, swing, teeter, tired,
     tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, tottering,
     traipse, tread, tremble, trip, trot, trudge, unhardened, unnerved,
     unstrung, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wasted, weak, weakly,
     wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along, worn out
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  LIMP
       
          ["Messages in Typed Languages", J. Hunt et al, SIGPLAN Notices
          14(1):27-45 (Jan 1979)].