Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Java"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Java \Ja"va\, n.
1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to
the Netherlands.
2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
{Java cat} (Zo["o]l.), the musang.
{Java sparrow} (Zo["o]l.), a species of finch ({Padda
oryzivora}), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a
cage bird; -- called also {ricebird}, and {paddy bird}. In
the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and
tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks
white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also
kept as a cage bird.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Java
n 1: an island in Indonesia south of Borneo; one of the world's
most densely populated regions [syn: {Java}]
2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans;
"he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: {coffee}]
3: a simple platform-independent object-oriented programming
language used for writing applets that are downloaded from
the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client's
machine [syn: {Java}]
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