What is "imp"

Imp \Imp\ ([i^]mp), n. [OE. imp a graft, AS. impa; akin to Dan. ympe, Sw. ymp, prob. fr. LL. impotus, Gr. ? engrafted, innate, fr. ? to implant; ? in + ? to produce; akin to E. be. See 1st In-, Be.]

1. A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.]

   The tender imp was weaned.
   --Fairfax.

3. A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

   To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps.
   --Beattie.

4. Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Imp \Imp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imped; p. pr. & vb. n. Imping.] [AS. impian to imp, ingraft, plant; akin to Dan. ympe, Sw. ympa, OHG. impf[=o]n, impit[=o]n, G. impfen. See Imp, n.]

1. To graft; to insert as a scion. [Obs.]
   --Rom. of R.

2. (Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, [Fig.]: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen; to equip. [Archaic]

   Imp out our drooping country's broken wing.
   --Shak.

   Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes.
   --Fuller.

   Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing.
   --Holmes.

   Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age.
   --Cleveland.

Old English impe, impa "young shoot, graft," from impian "to graft," probably an early West Germanic borrowing from Vulgar Latin *imptus, from Late Latin impotus "implanted," from Greek emphytos, verbal adjective formed from emphyein "implant," from em- "in" + phyein "to plant" (see physic).\n

\nSense of "child, offspring" (late 14c.) came from transfer of word from plants to people, with notion of "newness" preserved. Modern meaning "little devil" (1580s) is from common use in pejorative phrases like imp of Satan.Suche appereth as aungelles, but in very dede they be ymps of serpentes. ["The Pilgrimage of Perfection," 1526]

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc. (9th–17th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) A scion, offspring; a child. (15th–19th c.) 3 A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. (from 16th c.) 4 A mischievous child. (from 17th c.) 5 (context UK dialect obsolete English) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. 6 (rfv-sense) A baby Tasmanian devil. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To plant or engraft. 2 (context archaic English) To graft, implant; to set or fix. 3 (context falconry English) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing. 4 To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

1. n. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie]

2. one who is playfully mischievous [syn: scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag]

Imp is a fantasy creature.

IMP or imp may also refer to:

• Interactive Mathematics Program, a Key Curriculum Press Interactive Math program
• Isle of Man pound, or Manx pound
• Imp (horse), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
• " Imping" in falconry is mending broken flight feathers
• Hillman Imp, a British car of the 1960s-1970s
• Nickname of Subaru Impreza, a Japanese car
• Injection Molded Plastic, see Injection Molding
• Latin abbreviation used on British coins up to 1947, such as the British two shilling coin
• Individual Meal Pack, a ration used by the Canadian Armed Forces
• Integrated Master Plan, a part of project planning
• Internal Market Program, a.k.a. Single Market
• 'Thiokol 1404 IMP', a 1970s snowcat made by Thiokol

Imp (1894–1909) was a pure black Thoroughbred racing filly with a white, diamond-shaped star between her eyes. She was sired by Wagner (GB) out of Foundling (by Fonso) and was foaled on March 5, 1894. Owned and bred by Daniel R. Harness of Chillicothe, Ohio, and trained by both Charles E. Brossman and Peter Wimmer (when she was seven), Imp's male line of descent was the great Eclipse. Imp, nicknamed "My Coal Black Lady" after a popular song of the day, was a bit of a homely-looking thing, the daughter of parents who each raced only once. Her sire won the Wilton Park Stakes in England but her dam was injured in her only start.

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an imp is a devilish creature based on the imps from folklore.

IMP was a systems programming language developed by E. T. Irons in the late 1960s through early 1970s. Unlike most other systems programming languages, IMP was an extensible syntax programming language.

Even though its designer refers to the language as "being based on ALGOL", IMP excludes many defining features of that language, while supporting a very non-ALGOL-like one: syntax extensibility.

A compiler for IMP existed as early as 1965 and was used for programming the CDC 6600 time-sharing system, which was in use at the Institute for Defense Analyses since 1967. Although the compiler is slower than comparable ones for non-extensible languages, it has been used for practical production work.

IMP compilers were developed for the CDC-6600, Cray, PDP-10 and PDP-11 computers. Important IMP versions were IMP65, IMP70, and IMP72.

IMP Is a 3D animated comedy created by Andy Fielding which takes place in the lair of the devil and its surroundings. Bad but fun, small but lovely, Imp tries to fill the world of evil but do not know how.

Some of his characters are his brother Bob, the less intelligent and Philippe Bertrand, Lumen his nemesis, rival Cat-Thing and Big Boss (the devil himself). The Imp was developed in black and white with a minimalist design.

The series was created by the Production house, Red Kite Animations, developed with Screen 21 and distributed by BRB Internacional. Was supported by TVC and consists of 65 episodes of 90 seconds each. Imp has been issued in major chains from different countries like Cartoon Network, Disney Channel Japan, TVC and Antena 3 in Spain.

Shorts featuring IMP were originally featured on Cartoon Network's Sunday Pants

Voiced by Stephen Mangan (The Imp) and Julian Rhind-Tutt (Bob) from the UK TV series Green Wing.