different between computer vs shebang

English

Etymology

From compute +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pju?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?pjut?/, [k?m?p?ju??]
• Hyphenation: com?put?er
• Rhymes: -u?t?(r)

Noun

computer (plural computers)

1. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]

   Hyponym: computress

2. (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
3. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: processor, (informal) 'puter, (slang) box, machine, calculator

   Hyponyms: desktop, laptop, portable computer, stored-program computer

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:computer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:computer

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Further reading

• computer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• computer on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k??m?p?j?u?d??]

Noun

computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)

1. computer (machine)

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pjut?r/
• Hyphenation: com?pu?ter
• Rhymes: -ut?r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)

1. computer

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

computer

1. first-person singular present indicative of computeren
2. imperative of computeren

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comput?, comput?re (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.py.te/
• Homophones: computai, computé, computée, computées, computés, computez

Verb

computer

1. (archaic, rare) To compute.
   • 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme

     Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l'année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l'époque d'Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.

     As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.

Conjugation

See also

• supputer
• compter

Further reading

• “computer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• compteur

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?pju.ter/
• Hyphenation: com?pù?ter

Noun

computer m (invariable)

1. computer (calculating device)

Latin

Verb

computer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of comput?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer n (plural computere)

1. computer

Related terms

• computa

See also

• calculator
• ordinator

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer m (plural computers)

1. computer

   Synonym: calculater

English

Etymology 1

Unknown. First seen in 1862 with the meaning “temporary shelter”. The modern sense of “matter of concern” is from 1869; “vehicle” is from 1871–2.

In the sense of “temporary shelter”, it was perhaps brought by US Civil War Confederate enlistees from Louisiana, from French chabane (“hut, cabin”), a dialectal form of French cabane (“a covered hut, lodge, cabin”) (see cabin, cabana). Alternatively, that sense may be from or have been influenced by shebeen (“cabin where unlicensed liquor is sold and drunk”), attested pre-1800, chiefly in Ireland and Scotland, from Irish síbín (“illicit whiskey”), a diminutive of síob (“a drift”).

The vehicle sense is perhaps from the unrelated French char-à-banc (“bus-like wagon with many seats”). The sense of “matter of concern” is potentially from either, or onomatopoeia.

(The term was not, as is sometimes claimed, commonly used by prisoners at Andersonville in reference to their shelters. According to the US National Park Service, "While shebang was a term sometimes used to describe prisoner shelters at Andersonville, its usage was probably quite limited. In some 1,200 pages of postwar testimony by prisoners held at Andersonville, the word appears four times, and is virtually absent from most prisoner diaries and contemporary memoirs." The terms burrow, dugout, hut, lean-to, shanty, shelter and tent are far more common.)

Alternative forms

• chebang, schebang, sheebang

Noun

shebang (plural shebangs)

1. (informal, US, archaic) A lean-to or temporary shelter.
   • 1862, Walt Whitman, Journal, December:

     Their shebang enclosures of bushes.

   • 1889, Bret Harte, The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh

     They say that old pirate, Kingfisher Culpepper, had a stock of the real thing from Robertson County laid in his shebang on the Marsh just before he died.

2. (informal, US, archaic) A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
3. (informal) Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase "the whole shebang".

   Synonym: jimbang

   • 1869, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), letter to publisher:

     I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.

   • 1934, Robert E. Howard, Sluggers on the Beach:

     "Before I'd share anything with you," he said bitterly, "I’d lose the whole shebang."

4. (informal, obsolete) A vehicle.
   • 1871, December 14, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), “Roughing It” (lecture), printed in Fred W. Lorch, “Mark Twain’s Lecture from Roughing it”, in American Literature, volume 22, number 3 (November 1950), pages 305:

     […] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shebang.

Derived terms

• whole shebang

References

• Shebang. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green, Sterling Pub. Co., Inc. 2006, p. 1261

Etymology 2

hash +? bang or sharp +? bang, after Etymology 1.

Noun

shebang (plural shebangs)

1. (computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.

Synonyms

• hashbang

Anagrams

• Ah Bengs, behangs