A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
fagin
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fagin.
Editorial note
There are believed to have been 2 scribes (see Prescott Currier), although Lisa Fagin Davis posits 5.
Quick take
A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of fagin gathered in one view.
Alternative form of Fagin. [A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for fagin.
noun
A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
noun
Alternative form of Fagin. [A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.]
Example sentences
There are believed to have been 2 scribes (see Prescott Currier), although Lisa Fagin Davis posits 5.
It was a prototype built by now-defunct Starbridge Systems and designed, amongst others, by Fagin of Intel microprocessor fame.
If stories like this interest you, I recommend the book Toms River by Dan Fagin about a major chemical factory in Toms River, NJ.
CGI effects were used for making the skyscrapers, the cars, trains, Fagin's scooter-cart and the climactic Subway chase.
Fagin here, wondering what crime a child could commit that would get millions of dollars in resultant profit...
There's a very enjoyable discussion in the comment section with my (brilliant) former colleague Max Fagin.
There is a tweak to hashing in Ronald Fagin, Jurg Nievergelt, Nicholas Pippenger, H.
If you approach it from Fagin’s Theorem, which provides that NP == the set of existential second order boolean queries, NP = SO∃.
For hashing in general, a good step forward is in Ronald Fagin, Jurg Nievergelt, Nicholas Pippenger, H.
There was use of Ronald Fagin, Jurg Nievergelt, Nicholas Pippenger, H.
And for hashing, the clean solution is Ronald Fagin, Jurg Nievergelt, Nicholas Pippenger, H.
> We think we know him [Fagin]; we don’t hate him nearly as much as his creator did.
Quote examples
For example, medievalist Lisa Fagin Davis writes in a recent paper: "[t]he humanistic tendencies of the glyphset, the color palette, and style of the illustrations suggest an origin in the early fifteenth century" [0].
I'm going to drag out another cstross quote (from Accelerando [1]): "[...] his suitcase is on its way to Mombasa, where it will probably be pithed and resurrected in the service of some African cyber-Fagin.
That article reports, e.g., that in the week after winning the Pulitzer for general nonfiction, " Tom's River by Dan Fagin, went from 10 copies to 162 copies sold (6,266 copies sold to date) on BookScan." The poetry winner that year had sold 353 copies at the time the article was published.
Proper noun examples
CGI effects were used for making the skyscrapers, the cars, trains, Fagin's scooter-cart and the climactic Subway chase.
Fagin here, wondering what crime a child could commit that would get millions of dollars in resultant profit...
There's a very enjoyable discussion in the comment section with my (brilliant) former colleague Max Fagin.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use fagin in a sentence?
There are believed to have been 2 scribes (see Prescott Currier), although Lisa Fagin Davis posits 5.
What does fagin mean?
A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
What part of speech is fagin?
fagin is commonly used as noun.