Crossword clues for gnu
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- Lion's quarry
- Lion's and crocodile's prey
- Lion prey
- Hairy antelope
- Fresh-sounding antelope?
- Fresh antelope?
- Creature with a beard
- Certain antelope
- Black wildebeest
- Bearded Serengeti beast
- Bearded grassland dweller
- White-bearded beast
- Veldt antelope
- South African game
- Serengeti prey
- Serengeti denizen
- Serengeti animal
- Safari sight, sometimes
- Prey for lions
- Oxlike African antelope
- Long-tailed antelope
- Lion's dinner
- Large, horned animal
- Huge African antelope
- Horned African
- Grazing African animal
- Crocodile's dinner, often
- Black-maned animal
- Bearded ruminant
- Bearded grassland grazer
- Bearded grass-eater
- Bearded African grazer
- Antelope with cowlike horns
- Antelope variety
- Antelope that sounds fresh?
- Animal that doesn't sound old?
- African ungulate
- African savannah beast
- Type of African antelope
- Tuft-tailed antelope
- Sturdy antelope
- Stampeder in "The Lion King"
- Stampede member in "The Lion King"
- Springbok's cousin
- Shaggy-tailed bovid
- Shaggy-maned antelope
- Serengeti herbivore
- Serengeti bovine
- Savanna lion's prey
- Safari sight, perhaps
- Safari grazer
- Ruminant that sounds just born
- Rover of the Serengeti
- Plains antelope
- Participant in the Serengeti's "great migration"
- Ox's cousin
- Ox-like beast
- Ox lookalike
- Operating system that's "not Unix"
- Old World grazer
- Novel-sounding beast
- Modern-sounding creature?
- Migratory African grazer
- Migratory African critter
- Maned, bearded antelope
- Lions' victim
- Lions' quarry
- Largest species of antelope
- Large, bearded antelope
- Large-headed antelope
- Kenyan big game
- It has a prominent goatee
- It grazes in Africa
- Horned one of Africa
- Homophone of "new"
- Homophone for "new"
- Homonym for "new"
- Grassland grazer
- Goateed grazer
- Dark antelope
- Creature with a mane and a beard
- Black-maned grazer
- Black-maned beast
- Big bovine
- Beast that rhymes with zoo
- Beast of the Serengeti
- Bearded, shaggy-maned beast
- Bearded zoo animal
- Bearded Serengeti critter
- Bearded savanna grazer
- Bearded bovid
- Bearded big game animal
- Bearded beast of the Serengeti
- Bearded African beast
- Bearded African
- Antelope with a mane
- Antelope with a long head
- Antelope that sounds innovative
- Antelope relative
- Antelope preyed on by crocodiles
- Antelope hunted by crocs
- Antelope eaten by crocodiles
- Antelope associated with Linux
- Animal whose name sounds like a Greek letter
- Animal that sounds young
- Animal that doesn't have a sound coming out of its head?
- Animal on some South African coins
- Animal often seen grazing with zebras
- Animal like new?
- Animal in a herd
- African grass eater
- African creature
- African antelope "caged" in five answers in this puzzle
- "The Lion King" stampeder
- Wildebeest's alias
- Oxlike critter
- Beast of the genus Connochaetes
- Brindled beast
- Hartebeest kin
- Bearded beast of Botswana
- African plains grazer
- Cousin of the eland
- Bearded creature
- Lion's prey
- African antelope whose name sounds like "new"
- Hump-shouldered animal
- Veldt grazer
- Safari sighting
- It's protected in South Africa
- Bearded antelope
- White-bearded grazer
- Oxlike beast
- Safari animal
- Protected beast
- Stocky antelope
- Animal with curved horns
- African with a mane
- One of a migrating herd
- High-shouldered animal
- Serengeti sighting
- African grazer that doesn't sound old?
- Serengeti grazer
- Horned beast
- Savanna sighting
- Animal with a mane and a beard
- Bearded grazer
- Bearded animal
- Beard wearer
- Animal with an onomatopoeic name
- African with a white beard
- Lions might score one
- Animal whose name has a silent initial
- White-bearded Kenyan
- Animal with a silent head?
- Bearded African animal
- Serengeti herd member
- Bearded beast of Africa
- Beast with a beard
- Animal whose young is a calf
- Animal whose head doesn't make a sound?
- Cheetah's prey
- Bearded one
- Animal whose head makes no sound?
- Prey for a lion
- Prey for a cheetah
- Young-sounding wildebeest
- Serengeti antelope
- Roamer of the Serengeti
- Serengeti roamer
- Animal with horns
- Southern African game
- Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
- Homophone for 34 Down
- Kokoon
- Large antelope
- Oxlike antelope
- Homophone for knew
- Endangered animal
- Puzzling beast
- An antelope
- Zoo animal
- Zoo inhabitant
- Homophone for new
- The horned horse
- Zoo favorite
- Zoo attraction
- Antelope of Africa
- Zoo name that looks odd, sounds fresh
- Getting up, interrupted content Grinning Cat's sound observation?
- Animal that's unfamiliar to Americans, we hear
- Antelope droppings turned up, first off
- Large African antelope
- Animal jumping numerous hedges
- African animal that doesn't sound old
- Shaggy beast
- Horned grazer
- Zoo denizen
- Savanna grazer
- Asian antelope
- Type of antelope
- Gazelle's cousin
- African ruminant
- Serengeti critter
- Serengeti beast
- Ox's kin
- Safari beast
- Bearded bovine
- African beast
- "New" homophone
- Veld grazer
- Serengeti creature
- New homophone
- Was acquainted with an antelope?
- Serengeti resident
- Prey for a pride
- Maned creature
- Black-maned ruminant
- Antelope seen on safaris
- Animal with a silent first letter
- African game
- African bovine
- Up-to-date antelope?
- South African antelope
- Serengeti stampeder
- Oxlike animal
- New homonym?
- Maned antelope
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gnu \Gnu\, n. [Hottentot gnu, or nju: cf. F. gnou.] (Zo["o]l.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]
Note: The common gnu or wildebeest ( Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest ( C. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1777, gnoo, from Dutch gnoe, used by German traveler Georg Forster (1754-1794) to render Hottentot i-ngu "wildebeest," from Southern Bushman !nu: (in which ! and : represent clicks).
Wiktionary
n. A large antelope of the genus ''Connochaetes'', native to Africa having curved horns.
WordNet
n. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: wildebeest]
Wikipedia
GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under GNU's own GPL.
GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. The GNU project includes an operating system kernel, GNU HURD, which was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). However, non-GNU kernels, most famously Linux, can also be used with GNU software; and since the kernel is the least mature part of GNU, this is how it is usually used. The combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel is commonly known as Linux (or less frequently GNU/Linux; see GNU/Linux naming controversy).
With the April 30, 2015 release of the Debian GNU/HURD 2015 distro, GNU OS now provides the components to assemble an operating system that users can install and use on a computer. This includes the GNU Hurd kernel, that is currently in a pre-production state. The Hurd status page states that "it may not be ready for production use, as there are still some bugs and missing features. However, it should be a good base for further development and non-critical application usage."
Due to Hurd not being ready for production use, in practice these operating systems are Linux distributions. They contain the Linux kernel, GNU components and software from many other free software projects.
Richard Stallman, the founder of the project, views GNU as a "technical means to a social end" or in other words is a technical avenue to pursue social justice. Relatedly Lawrence Lessig states in his introduction to the 2nd edition of Stallman's book Free Software, Free Society that in it Stallman has written about "the social aspects of software and how Free Software can create community and social justice."
Development of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a project called the GNU Project which was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Richard Stallman. Software development began on January 5, 1984, when Stallman quit his job at the Lab so that they could not claim ownership or interfere with distributing GNU components as free software. Richard Stallman chose the name by using various plays on words, including the song The Gnu.
The goal was to bring a wholly free software operating system into existence. Stallman wanted computer users to be "free", as most were in the 1960s and 1970s – free to study the source code of the software they use, free to share the software with other people, free to modify the behavior of the software, and free to publish their modified versions of the software. This philosophy was later published as the GNU Manifesto in March 1985.
Richard Stallman's experience with the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS), an early operating system written in assembly language that became obsolete due to discontinuation of PDP-10, the computer architecture for which ITS was written, led to a decision that a portable system was necessary. It was thus decided that the development would be started using C and Lisp as system programming languages, and that GNU would be compatible with Unix. At the time, Unix was already a popular proprietary operating system. The design of Unix was modular, so it could be reimplemented piece by piece.
Much of the needed software had to be written from scratch, but existing compatible third-party free software components were also used such as the TeX typesetting system, the X Window System, and the Mach microkernel that forms the basis of the GNU Mach core of GNU Hurd (the official kernel of GNU). With the exception of the aforementioned third-party components, most of GNU has been written by volunteers; some in their spare time, some paid by companies, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations. In October 1985, Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation (FSF). In the late 1980s and 1990s, the FSF hired software developers to write the software needed for GNU.
As GNU gained prominence, interested businesses began contributing to development or selling GNU software and technical support. The most prominent and successful of these was Cygnus Solutions, now part of Red Hat.
GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU Project.
GNU or gnu may also refer to:
Usage examples of "gnu".
In connection with the horses it is worthy of notice that the quagga zebra, which never comes together with the dauw zebra, nevertheless lives on excellent terms, not only with ostriches, which are very good sentries, but also with gazelles, several species of antelopes, and gnus.
Next comes Doctor Bemie Feinerman to sprite up her nose so it matches her name, and after that comes the Bible and the Book of Febre and in the Ark there will be nothing that looks like a gnu, only clean-cut-looking animals named Melody or Tab, all WASPs from Dubuque.
This pair cut out a valetudinarian gnu, or at any rate one that was, for whatever reason, slower on its pins than the others, and after yapping around its heels for a moment or so, went for its haunches and brought it down.
Then the Thing said: 'The gnu, a member of the genus Connochaetes and the family Bovidae, is an African antelope with down-curving horns.
Then the Thing said: ‘The gnu, a member of the genus Connochaetes and the family Bovidae, is an African antelope with down-curving horns.
Smith, two others, the hippopotamus, the giraffe, the bos caffer -- as large as a full-grown bull, and the elan -- but little less, two zebras, and the quaccha, two gnus, and several antelopes even larger than these latter animals.
The ideal OS for me would be one that had a well-designed GUI that was easy to set up and use, but that included terminal windows where I could revert to the command line interface, and run GNU software, when it made sense.
The most hackerish of all the hackers, the Ur-hacker as it were, was and is Richard Stallman, who became so annoyed with the evil practice of selling software that, in 1984 (the same year that the Macintosh went on sale) he went off and founded something called the Free Software Foundation, which commenced work on something called GNU.
They go for zebras, gnus and water buffaloes, and not only the old or the infirm in a herd—full-grown members too.
For a predator such as a hyena, a part of its environment that is at least as important as the weather is its prey, the changing populations of gnus, zebras and antelopes.
He knew that he was still Willie Keith, just the innocent, good-humored Willie whom everybody liked, Willie, who could delight people by sitting at a piano and playing If You Knew What the Gnu Knew.
Along the rivers, in the forest and in the open were the herds of game: impala twisting and leaping away at the first approach with their crumpled horns laid back, kudu with big ears and soft eyes, black sable antelope with white bellies and horns curved like a naval cutlass, zebra trotting with the dignity of fat ponies, while about them frolicked their companions, the gnu, waterbuck, nyala, roan antelope and, at last, elephant.
They go for zebras, gnus and water buffaloes, and not only the old or the infirm in a herd—.