What is "george"

George \George\ (j[^o]rj), prop. n. [F. George, or Georges, a proper name, fr. Gr. gewrgo`s husbandman, laborer; ge`a, gh^, the earth + 'e`rgein to work; akin to E. work. See Work.]

1. A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

2. A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.]
   --Dryden.

3. Any coin having an image of Saint George. [Brit. slang]

masc. personal name, from Late Latin Georgius, from Greek Georgos "husbandman, farmer," from ge "earth" + ergon "work" (see organ).\n

\nThe name introduced in England by the Crusaders (a vision of St. George played a key role in the First Crusade), but not common until after the Hanoverian succession (18c.). St. George began to be recognized as patron of England in time of Edward III, perhaps because of his association with the Order of the Garter (see garter). His feast day, April 23, was made a holiday in 1222. The legend of his combat with the dragon is first found in "Legenda Aurea" (13c.). The exclamation by (St.) George! is recorded from 1590s.

George may refer to:

George was a glossy monthly magazine centered on the theme of politics-as-lifestyle founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Michael J. Berman with publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in New York City in September 1995. Its tagline was "Not Just Politics as Usual". It was published from 1995 to 2001.

George (styled george) are an Australian rock band from Brisbane, Queensland. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.

GEORGE was an early computer built in 1957 by Argonne National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann. (The name "GEORGE" is apparently not an acronym. It may have been derived from the sentence, "Let George do it," which was said when a person didn't want to do something himself.) As with almost all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with mother computers (even other IAS machines).

Category:IAS architecture computers

George is an effeminate anthropomorphic pink Hippo and a character of the popular children's television programme Rainbow in the 1980s, voiced by Roy Skelton and operated by Malcolm Lord, Tony Holtham and later Craig Crane.

Sporting long eyelashes, George often appeared to be initially outwitted by the more extrovert and egotistical Zippy. However in the manner of The Tortoise and the Hare, George normally won through in the end.

George was noted for his fondness of stories from the Rainbow book.

George's "catchphrase" was his own delayed and elongated goodbye at the end of the show, i.e. Geoffrey, Zippy, Bungle, Rod, Jane, Freddy would say "goodbye" normally, followed by a one-second pause and then George's own "good by-eye".

In December 2007, Zippy and George appeared on a puppet special of the Weakest Link hosted by Anne Robinson which was originally broadcast on Friday, 28 December 2007 at 18:00 GMT on BBC1. They were third to be eliminated.

George makes an appearance alongside Zippy in the premiere episode of BBC television series Ashes to Ashes. He was operated by Mark Mander on that programme, although Skelton continued to provide his voice.

"George" is a number-one hit single by New Zealand rock band Headless Chickens released in 1994.

George is the 46th episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and 22nd episode of season two. The episode aired on February 16, 1974.

George is the third EP by Cartman. It was released October 7, 2002 by Embryo Records and distributed by MGM Distribution. The album contains a rendition of the Madonna hit " Justify My Love", as well as the videos for "Shock", "If I" and "Nobody".

George is a widespread given name, derived from the Greek through the Latin . While it is commonly a masculine name, in English it is also sometimes given as a feminine name. Its popularity is due to the widespread veneration of the Christian military saint Saint George (George of Lydda c. 275/281–303).

The name derives in origin from the name of Zeus Georgos, worshipped as a god of crops.

George was a supporting character who appeared in various adaptations of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, played by Hugh Laurie. Each series saw a different incarnation of the character, because each was set in a different period of history. He was most prominently featured in the third and fourth series. The character was added to the series as a replacement for the Lord Percy Percy character, who did not appear in the third instalment because Tim McInnerny, the actor playing him, feared being typecast.

The first incarnation of the character was a caricature of George, Prince of Wales, serving as the main antagonist of the third series. The second, Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh, was a young officer in the British Army during World War I, a supporting protagonist in the fourth series. Both portrayals were of "dim-witted upper-class twits", who depended greatly on Edmund Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson). The character garnered positive responses from critics.

George or Joss, born Doo a Makongo or Doo a Mukonga, was a king of the Duala people in the late 18th century. Doo a Makongo was the son of Makongo a Njo. He lived at Douala on the Wouri estuary on the coast of Cameroon. By 1788–1790, Doo was a powerful ruler in the area. During this time, the British slave trade was at its height, and Douala was the primary trading post in the region.

Records of the British trading vessel Sarah in 1790 and records of an English trial in 1788 both give the name of the head trader in Douala as King George. These were likely names given Doo by the traders, who also bestowed on him the title of king (kine in Duala). George possessed kalati, trade books in which credit records were kept and the mark of a major trader in Duala eyes. He received both customs duties and a "dash" (bonus gift). Listed as lesser rulers in the region were Preshaw ( Priso a Doo) and Bell ( Bele a Doo). Nevertheless, these same British records indicate that a leader named Angua (probably Kwane a Ngie) was actually more powerful. For example, the Sarah's records state that George sold only 40 slaves to Angua's 50, and his "dash" was much smaller.

The succession of George's kingship remained an open question until his death. He disowned his eldest son, Priso a Doo, because of the boy's violent behaviour. In fact, George may have helped European traders capture Priso for murdering some of their compatriots. Bele a Doo was named heir, which was probably the impetus for Ngando a Kwa to declare his independence and set himself up as Bele's equal when Ewonde a Kwane of his own lineage died. Thus, George's death may have been indirectly responsible for the Duala people's split into the rival Bell and Akwa lineages.

GEORGE was the name given to a series of operating systems released by International Computers and Tabulators (ICT) in the 1960s, for the ICT 1900 series of computers. These included GEORGE 1, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4.

Initially the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based, ran a simple operating system known as executive which allowed the system operator to load and run programs from a Teletype Model 33 ASR based system console.

In December 1964 ICT set up an Operating Systems Branch to develop a new operating system for the 1906/7. The branch was initially staffed with people being released by the end of work on the OMP operating system for the Ferranti Orion. The initial design of the new system, named George after George E. Felton head of the Basic Programming Division, was based on ideas from the Orion and the spooling system of the Atlas computer.

(In public it was claimed that George stood for GEneral ORGanisational Environment, but contemporary sources say that was a backronym).

In July 1965 a team from ICT was present at a seminar at NPL describing the CTSS operating system developed for MIT's Project MAC. They decided that the ICT would need to provide multi-access facilities, known to ICT as MOP, "Multiple Online Processing". In November 1965 H. P. Goodman, head of the Operating Systems Branch attended the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Las Vegas where plans for Multics were initially described. Some of the Multics features discussed influenced future development of George, notably the tree structured filestore.

Towards the end of 1965 ICT marketing requested that a simpler operating system be made available quickly, especially for the smaller members of the range. It was decided that two smaller systems, known as George 1 and George 2 be released rapidly, and the larger operating system was renamed George 3.

George (born approximately 1869) is an American lobster owned briefly by the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in New York City. Captured in December 2008, he was released back into the wild in January 2009. George weighed , and has an estimated age of 140 years.

George is a British humanoid robot created by Tony Sale in 1949. The robot was built using scrap metals from a crashed RAF Wellington bomber. George was reactivated in 2010 by Sale and is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

George ( – 29 April 2007) was a Jack Russell Terrier from New Zealand who was posthumously awarded a PDSA Gold Medal in February 2009. He defended children from an attack by two Pit Bulls but subsequently died of his injuries.

Bishop George (secular name Alexander Ivanovich Griaznov, (January 26, 1934 – April 1, 2011) was the Russian Orthodox archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust and later bishop of Lyudinovo, auxiliary bishop of the Kaluga eparchy.

George was a Swiss-Canadian television series which aired on CTV on Thursday evenings in 1972-73.

The series was based on the 1971 film George!, about the adventures of a St. Bernard dog and his owner who live in Switzerland. Marshall Thompson starred in both the film and the resulting half-hour series. The series made its CTV debut in a Thursday evening time slot on 16 September 1972. However, George ended in 1973 after its only season. The Globe and Mail's Blaik Kirby considered the program to be "abysmal". Despite its short run and mixed critical reaction, the series was rerun on CTV affiliates for years afterwards, usually to fill Saturday morning schedules.

George was a Byzantine governor in Africa (modern Tunisia and eastern Algeria) from ca. 632/634 to ca. 642.

Very little is known about his life. According to John Moschos, he came from Apameia in Syria. He is recorded as " eparch of Carthage", which would imply that he was a praetorian prefect. He was a supporter of the prominent theologian Maximus the Confessor, and was, according to the Doctrina Jacobi, responsible for the forced conversion of the African Jews to Christianity, as decreed by the Emperor Heraclius. The latter fact indicates that his tenure in Africa began in 634 at the latest, and possibly as early as 632.

George is a surname of Irish, English, Welsh, South Indian Christian, Middle Eastern Christian (usually Lebanese), or French origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• A. B. George, Louisiana politician
• Alexander George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Anju Bobby George, (born 1977), Indian athlete
• Arthur George (1915–2013), Australian lawyer and soccer administrator
• Barry George (born 1960), British man who was wrongly convicted of murder
• Bill George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Bobby George (born 1945), English darts player and presenter
• Charlie George (born 1950), English footballer
• Christopher George (1931–1983), American television and film actor
• Chief Dan George (1899–1981), chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia
• Daniel George (disambiguation), multiple people
• David George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Devean George (born 1977), American basketball player
• Eddie George (born 1973), American football player
• Eden George (1863–1927), Mayor of Christchurch and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Edward George, Baron George (1938-2009), British banker
• Elizabeth George (born 1949), American novelist
• Elmer George (1928–1976), American race car driver
• Emma George (born 1974), Australian athlete
• Enderson George (born 1982), international soccer player from Saint Lucia
• Finidi George (born 1971), Nigerian soccer player
• Francis George (1937-2015), American Archbishop and Cardinal
• Frank Honywill George (born 1921), British psychologist and cyberneticist
• Fricson George (born 1974), Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
• Gladys George (1904–1954), American actress
• Götz George (1938–2016), German actor
• Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby (1894 – 1967), son of David Lloyd George, British politician and cabinet minister.
• Heinrich George (1893 – 1946), German stage and film actor.
• Henry George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Inara George (born 1974), American singer-songwriter
• Jack George (1928–1989), American basketball player
• Linda George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Linda George (Australian singer) (born 1951), English-born Australian pop singer
• David Lloyd George
• Louis George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Lynda Day George (born 1944), American TV and film actress
• Lowell George (1945–1979), American singer-songwriter and producer
• Madeline Rees George (1851–1931), South Australian educator
• Manfred George (1893– 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, German emigrant journalist, author and translator
• Mary Dorothy George (1878-1971), British historian and compiler of the BM Satires
• Margaret George (born 1943), American historical novelist
• Max A. George (born 1988), British singer-songwriter
• Melissa George (born 1976), Australian actress
• Melvin Clark George (1849–1933), American politician from Oregon
• Myron Virgil George (1900-1972), American politician from Kansas
• Nelson George (born 1957), African American author, culture critic and filmmaker
• Newell A. George (1904-1992), American politician from Kansas
• Noel George (1897–1929), football goalkeeper of the 1920s who played for Wolves
• Norman George (born 1946), Cook Islands politician
• Oorlagh George (born 1980), American filmmaker from Northern Ireland
• Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1924-2010), British Peer and crossbencher
• Paul George (born 1990), American basketball player
• Paul George (disambiguation), several other people
• Pete George (born 1929), American weightlifter and Olympic champion of Macedonian descent
• Peter George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Phyllis George (born 1949), Miss America, sportscaster
• Robert George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Sophia George (born 1964), Jamaican singer
• Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet
• Susan George (disambiguation), multiple people
• Terry George (born 1952), Irish screenwriter and director
• Tony George (born 1959), former CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Co.
• Tyler George(born 1984), former lead pass lord
• Uwe George (born 1940), German documentary film maker and writer
• Walter George (disambiguation), multiple people
• William George (disambiguation), multiple people
• William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby (born 1927), British peer, soldier and JP.

George is an American sitcom that aired from November 5, 1993, to January 19, 1994. Tony Danza was co-producer of the series.

Bishop George (born Paul Schaefer; May 25, 1950, Belleville, Illinois) is bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, bishop Canberra, vicar of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese, and abbot of the Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, West Virginia.

George was a nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary, the first known Judge royal , who held the position around between 1127 and 1131, during the reign of Stephen II of Hungary. The dignity developed from some jurisdictional roles of the Palatine of Hungary (management the royal household, representing the King at the Court of Personal Presence etc.).

George is a children's novel about a young transgender girl written by Alex Gino.

GEORGE is a programming language invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin in 1957.

It was designed around a push-down pop-up stack for arithmetic operations, and employed reverse Polish notation.

The language included loops, subroutines, conditionals, vectors, and matrices.

Algebraic expressions were written in reverse Polish notation; thus, a + b was written a b +, and similarly for the other arithmetic operations of subtraction, multiplication, and division.

The algebraic expression ax + bx + c was written a x dup × × b x × + c +, where 'dup' meant 'duplicate the value'.

Following the reverse Polish form, an assignment statement to evaluate the formula y = ax + bx + c was written as a x dup × × b x × + c + (y).

The computer evaluated the expression as follows: the values of a, then x, were pushed onto the top of the accumulator stack; 'dup' caused a copy of the top-most value (x) to be pushed onto the top of the accumulator stack; Multiply caused the top two values, namely, x and x, to be removed (popped) and multiplied, returning the product to the top of the accumulator stack. The second multiply then caused the top two values on the stack (namely, a and x**2) to be popped and multiplied, and the product (a×x**2) to be pushed onto the top of the accumulator stack. And so on the remaining components of the expression. The final operation, namely (y), returned the value of the expression to storage without changing the status of the accumulator stack.

Assuming that the value on the top of the accumulator stack was not required immediately, it would be removed (cleared) by using the operator .

The following program reads in eight values and forms their sum:

0, 1, 8 rep (j) R + ] (P) The first line initialises the sum by pushing the value zero onto the top of the accumulator stack. The second line introduces a loop, is spoken as "for 1 to 8 repeat for j", and is terminated by the square bracket. In the third line, R causes one number to be read in and pushed onto the top of the accumulator stack, and the plus sign causes that value to be added to the (partial) sum, leaving only the partial sum on the top of the accumulator stack. After the loop terminates, the (P) causes the final sum to be punched on a card.

Manipulation of vectors and matrices requires subscript notation. In GEORGE, the subscript(s) preceded the vector or matrix name. Thus A(j) was written j | A. The following program reads in vector a of 10 values, then forms the squares of those values, and finally prints those values.

1, 10 R1 (a) 1, 10 rep (j) j | a dup * j | (a) ; ] 1, 10 P1 (a) In the program, the first line is a vector read that reads in the ten values into a(1) through a(10). The second line introduces a loop to run though the ten values of j. The third line fetches a(j), duplicates it, multiplies those two values giving the square, and then stores it in a(j). Note the semicolon , which clears (or cancels) the top entry in the accumulator stack. Were this not done, the accumulator would gradually fill up with the squares of the values. The final line is a vector punch (i.e., print) to write out the ten squares. GEORGE coding table

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

15

0

/

0

16

a

q

(a)

(q)

log

1

,

//

1

17

b

r

(b)

(r)

exp

2

;

~

2

18

c

s

(c)

(s)

pow

3

*

&

3

19

d

t

(d)

(t)

rem

4

∨

4

20

e

u

(e)

(u)

sqrt

5

+

]

5

21

f

v

(f)

(v)

sin

6

-

↓

6

22

g

w

(g)

(w)

cos

7

×

↑

7

23

h

x

(h)

(x)

8

÷

rep

8

24

i

y

(i)

(y)

9

neg

I

9

25

j

z

(j)

(z)

10

mod

10

26

k

α

(k)

11

max

11

27

l

β

(l)

12

dup

12

28

m

γ

(m)

13

rev

13

29

n

λ

(n)

14

=

14

30

Θ

μ

15

>

15

31

p

ω

(p)

The above GEORGE coding table assisted in transcribing a program onto punch cards.

Conditional operations were written as jumps, as follows: if a > 0 go to 5 (which transfers to label 5 if a is greater than zero) would be written

0 a > 5 ↑

Label 5 was indicated by including *5 elsewhere in the program. Unconditional transfers were written 5↑

Subroutine calls were made with the down arrow, .g., to call subroutine labelled 17, write 17↓, where the label 17 was encoded using column 3 of the above table.