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spivey

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

Editorial note

For what it's worth, the Spivey Building is almost 100 years old and it's been abandoned since the '50s.

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Quick take

A minor city in Kingman County, Kansas, United States.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A minor city in Kingman County, Kansas, United States.

noun

A surname from Middle English.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spivey.

noun

A minor city in Kingman County, Kansas, United States.

noun

A surname from Middle English.

Example sentences

1

For what it's worth, the Spivey Building is almost 100 years old and it's been abandoned since the '50s.

2

Junior Arithmancer by Mike Spivey is fun, but not as narratively rich as Emily Short's work.

3

Incidentally, on Mac, VoiceOver's terminal support is crappy enough that my friend Tyler Spivey wrote his own screen reader for the terminal environment, called tdsr [1].

4

I think the Spivey Building could use a new tenant...

5

As one anecdote, Tyler Spivey was so dissatisfied with the way VoiceOver worked with the terminal that he wrote his own terminal screen reader [1] for the times he had to work in that environment.

6

Independent of Moggi, but at about the same time, Michael Spivey proposed that monads provide a useful structuring tool for exception handling in pure functional languages, and demonstrated this thesis with an elegant program for term rewriting [...].

Quote examples

1

One free book that I like is "The Z Notation: A Reference Manual" by Spivey.

Proper noun examples

1

Yeah, the candidates are not all alike, even though Barsalou cites Spivey, who is really in the analogue camp.

2

Algebraic effects builds on theoretical work by Wadler, Spivey, and Moggi on monadic computation, not on Lisp.

3

See for example JAS Scott Kelso's Dynamic Patterns or Spivey's Continuity of Mind or the newish field of Radical Embodied Cognition.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use spivey in a sentence?

For what it's worth, the Spivey Building is almost 100 years old and it's been abandoned since the '50s.

What does spivey mean?

A minor city in Kingman County, Kansas, United States.

What part of speech is spivey?

spivey is commonly used as noun.