Sprite

5 definitions found

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

  Sprite \Sprite\ (spr[imac]t), n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L.
     spiritus. See {Spirit}, and cf. {Sprightly}.]
     1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See
        {Spright}.
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              Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
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     3. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
        [1913 Webster] Spriteliness
        Spritefully
        Spriteful

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sprite
       n : small, human in form, playful, having magical powers [syn: {fairy},
            {faery}, {faerie}]

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

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprite":
     Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob,
     Hobgoblin, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Puck, Titania, apparition,
     appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee,
     brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin,
     diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf,
     erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
     grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
     immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
     kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes,
     materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom,
     pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant,
     shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost,
     spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe,
     unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith,
     young devil, zombie
  
  

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

  Sprite
       
           An {operating system} from {Berkeley}
          supporting {multiprocessing} and distributed files.
       
          [Details?  References?]
       
          (1994-10-17)
       
       

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

  sprite
       
           A small {bitmap} image, often used in
          animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for
          {icon}.
       
          (1997-06-29)