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tristram

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Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

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Quick take

A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tristram.

noun

A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

2

Came across the first zombie in New Tristram and promptly died in two hits.

3

I love the idea, but I perhaps love more that Tristram Shandy was your choice of character to chat with.

4

Also Tristram Shandy is like the LiveJournal of someone popping dexedrine.

5

I gave a mild response, but said that recently I had started reading a lot more, and pulled out a copy of Tristram Shandy.

6

My biggest wish that will probably be unfulfilled unless AI advances much more would be to have an adventure set in diablo 1 tristram the same way sanitarium works.

7

I forgot to ask David Tristram whether he wanted a specific license applied to the ep part of what I released beyond the text for which he asked.

8

I used FlowWise[1], LM Studio[2], the llama2[3] model, and Ollama[4] (for embeddings) to create a local-only RAG chatbot so I could chat directly with Tristram Shandy, Gentleman[5].

9

Amusing anecdote: I attended Westminster (on a scholarship) under Tristram Jones-Parry who was known for both keeping the school at the top of the UK ranking for the duration of his tenure, and for expanding the scholarship programs.

Quote examples

1

Rushdie himself quotes Milan Kundera who said: "...that the novel descended from two parents, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy".

2

I'd like to draw a comparison to the book "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne.

3

I think Proust was having a lend of us, it's "tristram shandy" shaggy dog stories brought into the modern era by an aesthete.

4

For "Tristram Shandy" it would be: Sterne deliberately told his printer to put some things into the text, such as a black page, and some other printer marks.

Proper noun examples

1

Tristram Shandy is not a eloquent testament to the limitation of words.

2

Sorry, Tristram, I didn't mean to address this hint to you – I know you're on there already:D This was meant more as a general hint to anybody interested.

3

I have to thank you for that lofi Tristram.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use tristram in a sentence?

Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition.

What does tristram mean?

A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.

What part of speech is tristram?

tristram is commonly used as noun.