
news
n 1: new information about specific and timely events; "they
awaited news of the outcome" [syn: {intelligence}, {tidings},
{word}]
2: new information of any kind; "it was news to me"
3: a program devoted to news; "we watch the 7 o'clock news
every night" [syn: {news program}, {news show}]
4: information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; "the
news of my death was greatly exaggerated"
5: the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported
in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness
of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world"
[syn: {newsworthiness}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym; the `Network
Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant
{{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won
the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun
Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors
haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist on the two-syllable
pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from Usenet news
(the {netnews} software).
Source: The Jargon File
NEWS
Netware Early Warning System (Novell, Netware)
Source: Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms
NEWS
Networked Extensible Windowing System (Sun), "NeWS"
Source: Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms