Ruby — Dizionario inglese

Nome proprio

1. A female given name.

   Esempi

   Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown

   Altri esempi (1)

   And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.

2. A surname.

   Uso

   • raro

3. A male given name.

   Uso

   • raro

4. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (2)

   The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.

   Ruby began life in Japan as the creation of Yukihiro Matsumoto, known more commonly as Matz. Unlike that of most language developers, Matz's motivation for Ruby was fun and a principle of “least surprise,” in order to improve overall developer productivity.

5. A city in Alaska.

6. A ghost town in Arizona.

7. A town in South Carolina.

8. A town in Wisconsin.

9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

10. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Sostantivo

1. A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.

   Uso

   • Cockney
   • gergo

   Esempi

   We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?

   No matter if you're Asian, Arab or Eskimo, everyone loves a ruby.