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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: George \George\, n. [F. George, or Georges, a proper name fr Gr ? husbandman, laborer; ge`a, gh^, the earth + ? to work akin to E. work See {Work}.] 1. A figure of St George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See {Garter}. 2. A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.] --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: George n : Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303) [syn: {George}, {Saint George}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: George, IA (city, FIPS 30225) Location: 43.34169 N, 96.00270 W Population (1990): 1066 (512 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51237 George, NC Zip code(s): 27897 George, WA (town, FIPS 26455) Location: 47.07859 N, 119.85597 W Population (1990): 253 (101 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: GEORGE Charles Hamblin, 1957. One of the earliest programming languages, stack-oriented, used reverse Polish notation. Implemented on the English Electric DEUCE. "GEORGE: A Semi-Translation Programming Scheme for the DEUCE, Programming and Operations Manual", C. L. Hamblin, U New S Wales (1958). "Computer Languages", C.L. Hamblin, Aust J Sci 20(5):135-139 (Dec 1957) and Aust Comp J 17(4):195-198 (Nov 1985).
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