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Webster 1913 Edition
Wart
Wart
,Noun.
[OE.
werte
, AS. wearte
; akin to D. wrat
, G. warze
, OHG. warza
, Icel. varta
, Sw. vårta
, Dan. vorte
; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort
; or cf. L. verruca
wart.] 1.
(Med.)
A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
2.
An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically
(Bot.)
, a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart
,
Moist wart
(Med.)
, a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also
pointed wart
, venereal wart
. L. A. Duhring.
– Wart cress
(Bot.)
, the swine’s cress. See under
– Swine
. Wart snake
(Zool.)
, any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus
– Acrochordus
, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. Wart spurge
(Bot.)
, a kind of wartwort (
Euphorbia Helioscopia
).Webster 1828 Edition
Wart
WART
,Noun.
1.
A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate.2.
A protuberance on trees.Definition 2024
Wart
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English
Noun
wart (plural warts)
- (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
- (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- 1998, "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation (on newsgroup microsoft.public.vc.language)
- Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.
- 2002, "Linonut", Computer Science (on newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy)
- Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.
- 1998, "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation (on newsgroup microsoft.public.vc.language)
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Translations
type of growth occurring on the skin
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See also
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
wart m (comparative bardziej wart, superlative najbardziej wart)