Panic

6 definitions found

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

  Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.)
     A plant of the genus {Panicum}; panic grass; also, the edible
     grain of some species of panic grass.
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     {Panic grass} (Bot.), any grass of the genus {Panicum}.


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

  Panic \Pan"ic\, a. [Gr. paniko`s of or pertaining to Pa`n Pan,
     to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F.
     panique.]
     Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of
     fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. "A panic
     fright." --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [Gr. to~ paniko`n (with or without dei^ma
     fear): cf. F. panique. See {Panic}, a.]
     1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and
        groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or
        a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized
        with a panic; they fled in a panic.
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     2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension
        concerning financial affairs.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  panic
       n 1: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: {terror}]
       2: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic
          in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led
          them to evacuate the building" [syn: {scare}]
       v 1: be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when
            told that final exams were less than a week away"
       2: cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere
          thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
       [also: {panicking}, {panicked}]

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

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "panic":
     abject fear, affright, agitation, alarm, anxiety, apprehension,
     apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, awe, bear panic, belly laugh,
     blue funk, blue story, boggle, buck fever, case of nerves,
     cold feet, confound, consternation, cowardice, dirty joke,
     dirty story, discomfit, dismay, double entendre, dread,
     ethnic joke, excessive irritability, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets,
     fight shy, frenzy, fright, frighten, fun, funk, funny story, gag,
     go to pieces, good one, good story, horrification, horror, howl,
     howler, hysteria, jape, jest, jestbook, jib, joke, jump,
     jump a mile, laugh, morbid excitability, nerves, nervosity,
     nervous stomach, nervousness, panic fear, panickiness, phobia,
     play, point, put in fear, put to flight, put to rout, rib tickler,
     riot, rout, scare, scatter, scream, send scuttling, shy, sick joke,
     sidesplitter, sight gag, skedaddle, spell of nerves, sport,
     stage fright, stampede, start, start aside, startle,
     state of nerves, story, terrify, terror, tic, trepidation,
     twitching, uneasiness, unholy dread, unnerve, vellication,
     visual joke, wheeze, wow, yarn
  
  

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

  panic
       
          1.  What {Unix} does when a critical
          internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix
          cannot continue.  The {kernel} attempts to print a short
          message on the {console} and write an image of memory into the
          {swap area} on disk.  This can be analysed later using {adb}.
          The kernel will then either wait in a {tight loop} until the
          machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic {reboot}.
       
          {Unix manual page}: panic(8).
       
          2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem
          which prevents it from continuing to run.
       
          (1995-03-01)