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Definition of 'dinosaur'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) dinosaur
any herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, of the Mesozoic Era: some were the largest known land animals.

2. dinosaur
something that is unwieldy, outmoded, or unable to adapt to change.

Etymology: (< NL Dinosaurus (1841), orig. a genus name)

Definition of 'dinosaur'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) dinosaur
any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

Definition of 'dinosaur'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) dinosaur
a large extinct reptile

Definition of 'dinosaur'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) dinosaur
alt. of Dinosaurian

Definitions of 'dinosaur'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. dinosaur
1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1998 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur “with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it”. IBM was not amused. Compare big iron; see also mainframe.

2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a zipperhead.

Translation of 'dinosaur'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: any of several types of extinct giant reptile.
Afrikaans: dinosourus	Arabic: ديناصور	Bulgarian: динозавър
Brazilian: dinossauro	Czech: dinosaurus	German: der Dinosaurier
Danish: dinosaurus	Greek: δεινόσαυρος	Spanish: dinosaurio
Estonian: dinosaurus	Farsi: دایناسور	Finnish: dinosaurus
French: dinosaure	Hebrew: דִינוֹזָאוּר	Hindi: पुराकालीन जंतु
Croatian: dinosaurus	Hungarian: dinoszaurusz	Indonesian: dinosaurus
Icelandic: risaeðla	Italian: dinosauro	Japanese: 恐竜
Korean: 공룡	Lithuanian: dinozauras	Latvian: dinozaurs
Malay: dinosaur	Dutch: dinosaurus	Norwegian: dinosaur, kjempeøgle
Polish: dinozaur	Persian: دایناسور	Pashto: هغه رغونى سترحيوان چه پرس
Portuguese: dinossauro	Romanian: dinozaur	Russian: динозавр
Slovak: dinosaurus	Slovenian: dinozaver	Serbian: dinosaurus
Swedish: dinosaurie	Thai: สัตว์จำพวกไดโนเสาร์	Turkish: dinazor
Taiwanese: 恐龍	Ukrainian: динозавр	Urdu: کئی قسم کے رینگنے والے بھ
Vietnamese: khủng long	Chinese: 恐龙
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