camp

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It was clear which camp you fell into just by the way you defined the two.

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Quick take

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

noun

a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"

noun

temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for camp.

noun

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

See also: encampment, cantonment, bivouac

noun

a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"

noun

temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"

noun

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

See also: clique, coterie, ingroup, pack

noun

a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"

noun

something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the living room was pure camp"

noun

shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

noun

a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months; "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"

verb

live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

verb

establish or set up a camp

verb

give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

adjective

providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

Example sentences

It was clear which camp you fell into just by the way you defined the two.

I used to be strongly in the no-www camp for aesthetic reasons, but have since come around.

He belongs to the right-wing judicial camp that believes the constitution means what it says.

Sounds delightfulFeel free to try and convince me otherwise, but I don't ever see myself in the "test ALL the things" camp.

I get that code bootcamps attract lots of folks who maybe got a political science degree or spent the last three years in real estate.

Releasing them put Manning firmly in the "violating lawful orders" camp.

You can't make a good General in boot camp, but a lot of business types today rush into startups armed with an MBA or BBA.

As usual, /usr/games/fortune provides some insightful commentary:"On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.

The experience is great, and it's a good stepping stone to re-introduce you back into the world after having everything taken away from you in boot camp.

I will say that where I work we appear to have managed to get on a list of "startups to send your resume to" by one or two of these bootcamp shops, and the resumes tend to be severely underwhelming.

I await the apologetics from the "It's an extremely narrow design patent" camp who claimed that this would never apply to a device even slightly different, physically, from an iPad.

Voil, HN front page + discussion in a nut shell...Alternative reading: Y'all just need to learn to code, so you too can be instantly successful...Bonus points: Guess which camp I belong to, bash me for my post solely because of this, ignoring the HN critique