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ruth [n]
 
1)United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
    Synonyms :babe_ruth george_herman_ruth sultan_of_swat 
    See Also: ballplayer 
 
2)the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
    Synonyms :
    See Also: married_woman 
 
3)a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
    Synonyms :commiseration pathos pity 
    See Also: fellow_feeling  compassionate  commiserate 
 
4)a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
    Synonyms :book_of_ruth 
    See Also: book  hagiographa  old_testament 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University. Real-time language based on LispKit. Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.

["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming", D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].



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