Ode

6 definitions found

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

  Ode \Ode\ ([=o]d), n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. 'w,dh` a song,
     especially a lyric song, contr. fr. 'aoidh`, fr. 'aei`dein to
     sing; cf. Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. {Comedy}, {Melody},
     {Monody}.]
     A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or
     sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by


     sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
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           Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
                                                    --Shak.
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           O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
           And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.    --Milton.
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     {Ode factor}, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; --
        used contemptuously.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ode
       n : a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ode":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
     balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge,
     dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode,
     epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle,
     limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme,
     palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem,
     prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire,
     sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
     tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet,
     versicle, villanelle, virelay
  
  

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

  ODE
       Object Database and Environment (AT&T, DB)
       
       

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

  ODE
       Online Data Entry
       
       

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

  Ode
       
          An {Object-Oriented Database} from {AT&T} which extends {C++}
          and supports fast queries, complex application modelling and
          {multimedia}.
       
          Ode uses one integrated data model ({C++} {class}es) for both
          database and general purpose manipulation.  An Ode database is
          a collection of {persistent} {object}s.  It is defined,
          queried and manipulated using the language {O++}.  O++
          programs can be compiled with C++ programs, thus allowing the
          use of existing C++ code.  O++ provides facilities for
          specifying transactions, creating and manipulating persistent
          objects, querying the database and creating and manipulating
          versions.
       
          The Ode object database provides four object compatible
          mechanisms for manipulating and querying the database.  As
          well as O++ there are OdeView - an {X Window System}
          interface; OdeFS (a file system interface allowing objects to
          be treated and manipulated like normal Unix files); and CQL++,
          a {C++} variant of {SQL} for easing the transition from
          {relational database}s to OODBs such as Ode.
       
          Ode supports large objects (critical for {multimedia}
          applications).  Ode tracks the relationship between versions
          of objects and provides facilities for accessing different
          versions.  Transactions can be specified as read-only; such
          transactions are faster because they are not logged and they
          are less likely to {deadlock}.  'Hypothetical' transactions
          allow users to pose "what-if" scenarios (as with
          {spreadsheet}s).
       
          EOS, the {storage engine} of Ode, is based on a client-server
          architecture.  EOS supports {concurrency} based on
          {multi-granularity} two-version two-phase locking; it allows
          many readers and one writer to access the same item
          simultaneously.  Standard two-phase locking is also available.
          Ode supports both a {client-server} mode for multiple users
          with concurrent access and a single user mode giving improved
          performance.
       
          Ode 3.0 is currently being used as the {multimedia} {database
          engine} for {AT&T}'s {Interactive TV} project.  Ode 2.0 has
          also been distributed to more than 80 sites within AT&T and
          more than 340 universities.  Ode is available free to
          universities under a non-disclosure agreement.  The current
          version, 3.0, is available only for {Sun} {SPARCstations}
          running {SunOS} 4.1.3 and {Solaris} 2.3.  Ode is being ported
          to {Microsoft} {Windows NT}, {Windows 95} and {SGI}
          {platform}s.
       
          E-mail: Narain Gehani .
       
          (1994-08-18)