bob
verb
- move smoothly up and down
noun
- kind of tool
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɒb/ / /bɑb/ / /bɔb/
adj
Etymology: Acronym of back of the book.
- Back-of-the-book; denoting those stamps in a catalogue that are not used for the payment of regular postage fees, and are displayed separately in the catalogue after that listing; the division between these two groups varies with the publisher.
name
Etymology: Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
- A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
“Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.”
“For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.”
- The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
“The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.”
noun
Etymology: Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
- A generic male person.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).
- To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
“I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?”
“[Shangai Lily:]There's only one thing I wouldn't have done, Doc. [Harvey:] What, for instance? [Shangai Lily:] I wouldn't have bobbed my hair.”
- To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- To bobsleigh.