News

8 definitions found

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

  News \News\ (n[=u]z), n [From New; cf. F. nounelles. News is
     plural in form, but is commonly used with a singular verb.]
     1. A report of recent occurrences; information of something
        that has lately taken place, or of something before
        unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence.
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              Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Something strange or newly happened.
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              It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to
              the strong and rich.                  --L'Estrange.
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     3. A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.]
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              There cometh a news thither with his horse. --Pepys.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  news
       n 1: new information about specific and timely events; "they
            awaited news of the outcome" [syn: {intelligence}, {tidings},
             {word}]
       2: new information of any kind; "it was news to me"
       3: a program devoted to news; "we watch the 7 o'clock news
          every night" [syn: {news program}, {news show}]
       4: information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; "the
          news of my death was greatly exaggerated"
       5: the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported
          in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness
          of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world"
          [syn: {newsworthiness}]

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

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "news":
     account, advice, announcement, bulletin, communication, communique,
     daily, daily newspaper, dirt, dispatch, dope, expose, extra,
     extra edition, gazette, gossip, hearsay, info, information,
     intelligence, low-down, lowdown, message, national newspaper,
     neighborhood newspaper, newscast, newspaper, newspaper of record,
     paper, poop, press release, rag, report, rumor, scandal, scoop,
     scuttlebutt, sheet, special, special edition, statement, story,
     tabloid, talk, tattle, tidings, weekly, weekly newspaper, word
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NEWS
       Netware Early Warning System (Novell, Netware)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NEWS
       Networked Extensible Windowing System (Sun), "NeWS"
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym; the `Network
     Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant
     {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won
     the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun
     Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors
     haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist on the two-syllable
     pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from Usenet news
     (the {netnews} software).
  
  

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

  news
       
          See {netnews}.
       
       

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

  NeWS
       
          /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ {Network extensible Window
          System}.
       
          Many hackers insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above
          as a way of distinguishing NeWS from {news} (the {netnews}
          software).
       
          [{Jargon File}]