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ermine

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ermine.

Editorial note

Let's put the Ermine back in determine and stop weaseling our way out of deterministic systems.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ermine gathered in one view.

noun

The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.

noun

Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae

noun

(by extension, figuratively) The office of a judge.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ermine.

noun

(heraldry) The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.

Example sentences

1

Let's put the Ermine back in determine and stop weaseling our way out of deterministic systems.

2

Check out ermine[1], a language for the JVM that was written for exactly that reason.

3

A10 from Shoreditch to Hertfordshire is dead straight and follows the route of Ermine Street, the Roman road from London to York.

4

S&P Capital IQ uses a Haskell DSL called Ermine for their reporting engine.

5

I believe Ermine also features them, but searching doesn't yield very informative results.

6

That said, row types are an incredibly useful type construct (often Haskellers lament the fact that they're missing leading to the creation of things like Ermine and Vinyl).

7

It's also worth noting that Ermine has a slightly more general form of row polymorphism, but I'm not sure what the specific differences are.

8

I don't see any of them building their v1 with Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Idris or Ermine or any technology created in the past five years.

9

For distribution (cause packaging is a bitch, to be honest) you can use something like Ermine to compile twice (i386 and x64) and then convert to a single static binary.

10

The last one that got changed was years ago when they had to put a kink in Ermine Street (now the A15) at RAF Scampton when they extended the runway to accommodate Vulcan bombers.

11

Scala is far from perfect, to be sure; even ten years in the future I'd expect/hope there will be a better option, whether that's Ceylon, Fantom, Ermine or something else.

12

(I don't think Scala's a thousand-year language, but I think Kotlin drops too much of what makes it good; I'd look to the likes of Ermine as a potential future replacement.

Quote examples

1

The costume shop owners daughter whispers “you should get a cloak lined with ermine” suggesting she (an underage girl) knows where Bill is going (the mansion party).

2

My home's presence does not "threaten the natural world" as evidenced by the moose, the birds, the bobcat, the ermine, and countless other wildlife that we share the environment with.

3

> My home's presence does not "threaten the natural world" as evidenced by the moose, the birds, the bobcat, the ermine, and countless other wildlife that we share the environment with.

Proper noun examples

1

Ermine, their new programming language, is basically like the core of Haskell adopted to the JVM along with some interesting new features.

2

Poland does this for their Leonardo (Lady With An Ermine).

3

I've tried many different attempts at browser-local speech-to-text from Ermine.ai to Google's Tensorflow.js speech toolkit (recognition only), and this is the best I've seen.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ermine in a sentence?

Let's put the Ermine back in determine and stop weaseling our way out of deterministic systems.

What does ermine mean?

The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.

What part of speech is ermine?

ermine is commonly used as noun.