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Definitions for WORE
wɔr, woʊrwore

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Wiktionary

  1. WOREnoun

    Write Once, Run Everywhere.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Worethe preterite of wear.

    This on his helmet wore a lady’s glove,
    And that a sleeve embroider’d by his love. Dryden.

    My wife, the kindest, dearest, and the truest
    That ever wore the name. Nicholas Rowe, Royal Convert.

Wikipedia

  1. wore

    Write once, run anywhere (WORA), or sometimes Write once, run everywhere (WORE), was a 1995 slogan created by Sun Microsystems to illustrate the cross-platform benefits of the Java language. Ideally, this meant that a Java program could be developed on any device, compiled into standard bytecode, and be expected to run on any device equipped with a Java virtual machine (JVM). The installation of a JVM or Java interpreter on chips, devices, or software packages became an industry standard practice. A programmer could develop code on a PC and expect it to run on Java-enabled mobile phones, as well as on routers and mainframes equipped with Java, without any adjustments. This was intended to save software developers the effort of writing a different version of their software for each platform or operating system they intend to deploy on. This idea originated no later than the 1960s, with the IBM M44/44X, and in the late 1970s the UCSD Pascal system was developed to produce and interpret p-code. UCSD Pascal (along with the Smalltalk virtual machine) was a key influence on the design of the JVM, as is cited by James Gosling.The catch is that since there are multiple JVM implementations, on top of a wide variety of different operating systems, there could be subtle differences in how a program executes on each JVM/OS combination, possibly requiring an application to be tested on each target platform. This gave rise to a joke among Java developers: Write Once, Debug Everywhere.In comparison, the Squeak Smalltalk programming language and environment boasts of being truly write once run anywhere, because it runs bit-identical images across its wide portability base.Like Squeak, MicroEJ provides a virtual execution environment that guarantees one unique Java thread policy across all implementations, ensuring a true WORA semantic across millions of devices.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wore

    of Wear

  2. Wore

    imp. of Wear

  3. Wore

    imp. of Ware

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wore

    wōr, pa.t. of wear.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'WORE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3277

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'WORE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4011

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WORE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WORE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of WORE in a Sentence

  1. Claire Foy:

    This is the ring that my dad put on my mom’s finger 67 years ago. And to my sisters and brothers, I didn’t swipe it, dad knows I have it… Jen, I want to put this ring that my mom wore on your finger.

  2. Lizzy Gardiner:

    I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)

  3. Toula Oberlies:

    We sang at an airport checkpoint for a TSA agent, we've gone to Indiana University Hospital and wore surgical masks to sing for a person who had received a liver transplant. The superintendent of the Indiana School for the Blind hired us to sing on the intercom for the teachers and staff. We do video singing Valentines that have gone to the military deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  4. Nelson Mandela:

    My grandfather, during his presidential years, he wore a watch, a Philippe Patek watch, and I've made that watch available because he gave me that watch and I think because he was such a committed person and always on time, even when he traveled abroad his watch remained on South African time which we found hilarious as a family, but that watch is also here on display.

  5. Joe Reynolds:

    We'll see if there is sand embedded, or if there are signs of fire, or whether the metal wore out from fatigue in the air.

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