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Java

//ˈd͡ʒɑːvə// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
  2. 2
    An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
  3. 3
    JavaScript (by confusion with Java). proscribed

    "In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?"

Noun
  1. 1
    A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
  2. 2
    A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

    "The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street."

  4. 4
    a platform-independent object-oriented programming language wordnet
  5. 5
    Coffee in general. US, colloquial, countable, uncountable

    "45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory."

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  1. 6
    a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

Etymology 3

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

Etymology 4

From French java.

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