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franz

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

Editorial note

And yes, there was a real implementation of it, in Franz Lisp (the Lisp from UCB, not the Lisp from Franz, Inc.).

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Quick take

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Frances.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for franz.

noun

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Frances.

Example sentences

1

And yes, there was a real implementation of it, in Franz Lisp (the Lisp from UCB, not the Lisp from Franz, Inc.).

2

Actually Franz Hals was my counterexample to your statement that no one painted alla prima till the 19th century.

3

In Germany there is connection between electrosmog advocates and the tobacco industry in the person of Franz Adlkofer, Mersch-Sundermann and others.

4

Michael Franz as well, who in turn did his PhD studies under Niklaus Wirth.

5

Allegro Common Lisp, Franz Lisp provide IDE tooling reminiscent of the Lisp Machines.

6

Craig Venter says here[1] that Franz Och (of Google Translate fame) has done some analysis for his new company Human Longevity Inc that shows that about 50% of the genome is responsible for the brain.

7

It is essentially an interview with Franz Stangl, one of the commandants of the Treblinka camp which, if it's possible to believe, was far worse than Auschwitz.

8

How could he not have heard of Franz Hals?

9

My pal Michael Franz at UCI studied under Wirth.

10

I ran Franz Lisp on my Atari ST which included a native compiler.

11

I didn't (obviously) use Franz Hals to support my statements about the use of oil paint in the fifteenth century, since he worked in the seventeenth.

12

That said, I am likely to be using Lisp a lot next year: I have a partially written book on Franz AllegroGraph that the people at Franz suggested that I put on hold until their new version 4 is released.

Quote examples

1

Reminds me of a short story written in 1914 by Franz Kafka called "In the Penal Colony"[1].

2

In that comment, I wrote "A binary encoding of JS ASTs, maybe (arithmetic coders can achieve good compression; see Ben Livshits' JSZap from MSR, and earlier work by Michael Franz and Christian Stork at UCI).

Proper noun examples

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Franz, LispWorks), but I think it's best to just consider this sort of work a labor of love.

2

Franz Lisp compiled to 68k binaries, there was also Cambridge Lisp for the Amiga.

3

To tie Juice into the modern world of Javascript and Web-assembly: This comes out of Michael Franz' PhD thesis on Semantic Dictionary Encoding.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use franz in a sentence?

And yes, there was a real implementation of it, in Franz Lisp (the Lisp from UCB, not the Lisp from Franz, Inc.).

What does franz mean?

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

What part of speech is franz?

franz is commonly used as noun.