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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sprite
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A spiteful sprite, a malevolent kelpie.
▪ Glastyn Also known as Glashtyn, a field sprite who frequents farmhouses on the Isle of Man.
▪ He is, however, not a trustworthy sprite, and delights in practical jokes of a bizarre and sometimes gruesome nature.
▪ He reaches the ball a step ahead of an agile sprite named Molly, whose ponytail flows behind her baseball cap.
▪ In places, the shadows seemed oppressively dark, sinister hiding-places where some demon or evil sprite might lurk.
▪ Stark Nude had been an angelic sprite of a girl who in my mind will for ever be 6 and eating jelly beans.
▪ The sprites are small and terribly blobby with poor colouring, virtually no animation.
▪ The controls are very difficult to master, especially on Level 5 where exaggerated momentum makes the sprites virtually uncontrollable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprite

Sprite \Sprite\ (spr[imac]t), n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L. spiritus. See Spirit, and cf. Sprightly.]

  1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.

    Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
    --Dryden.

  2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sprite

c.1300, "Holy Ghost," from Old French esprit "spirit," from Latin spiritus (see spirit (n.)). From mid-14c. as "immaterial being; angel, demon, elf, fairy; apparition, ghost."

Wiktionary
sprite

n. 1 (context mythology English) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. 2 (context mythology English) An elf; a fairy; a goblin. 3 The green woodpecker, or yaffle. 4 (context computer graphics English) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. 5 An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.Sprites (lightning)]

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WordNet
sprite

n. small, human in form, playful, having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie]

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Wikipedia
Sprite

Sprite or SPRITE may refer to:

  • Sprite (creature), legendary creatures such as elves, fairies and pixies
  • a spirit being
    • a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living
    • water sprites, such as the Neck (water spirit)
  • Sprite (lightning), a large-scale electrical discharge that occurs high above thunderstorm clouds
Sprite (operating system)

Sprite was an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features included support for single system image on computer clusters and for the introduction of the log-structured filesystem. The Tcl scripting language also originated in this project.

Sprite (computer graphics)

In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene.

Originally sprites referred to independent objects that are composited together, by hardware, with other elements such as a background. This occurs as each scan line is prepared for the video output device, such as a CRT, without involvement of the main CPU and without the need for a full-screen frame buffer. Sprites can be positioned or altered by setting attributes used during the hardware composition process. Examples of systems with hardware sprites include the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, and many coin-operated arcade machines of the 1980s.

Use of the term "sprite" has expanded to refer to any two-dimensional bitmap used as part of a graphics display, even if drawn into a frame buffer (by either software or a GPU) instead of being composited on-the-fly at display time.

Sprite (creature)

A sprite is a supernatural legendary creature. They are often depicted as fairy, ghost and/or elf-like creatures.

The word "sprite" is derived from the Latin "spiritus" (spirit). Variations on the term include "spright" (the origin of the adjective "sprightly", meaning "spirited" or "lively") and the Celtic " spriggan". The term is chiefly used in regard to elves and fairies in European folklore, and in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits or other mythical creatures.

Sprite (motorcycle)
Sprite (Eternal)

Sprite is a fictional character appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. Although physically a child, Sprite is an Eternal, a member of an ancient and extremely powerful race. He was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in The Eternals vol. 1 #9.

Sprite (soft drink)

Sprite is a colorless, lemon and lime flavored, caffeine-free soft drink, created by the Coca-Cola Company. It was developed in West Germany in 1959 as Fanta Klare Zitrone ("Clear Lemon Fanta") and introduced in the United States as Sprite in 1961. This was Coke's response to the popularity of 7 Up. It comes in a primarily silver, green, and blue can or a green transparent bottle with a primarily green and yellow label.

Sprite (manga)

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa.

It's published in France by Kazé and in Italy by GP Manga.

Sprite (lightning)

Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.

Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters within atmosphere above the troposphere at an altitude range of . Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886, but they were first photographed on July 6, 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings many thousands of times.

Sprites are sometimes inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, sprites are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges.

Usage examples of "sprite".

The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.

Arvin, the shrimpy little Sprite, turned into what you thought of as a monster and dealt with the problem.

For the remainder of that summer and fall our children became true country sprites, practically living outdoors, and Trixy reveled in chasing squirrels, rabbits, and birds.

Mr Umbril the shoemaker that his chest pains will clear up if he walks to the waterfall at Tumble Crag every day for a month and throws three shiny pebbles into the pool for the water sprites!

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

Then rose the maiden tender, From stool all golden bound, Her waist is trim and slender, Her bosom full and round, Each dimpled cheek encloses An Astrild, roguish sprite, As when on opening roses, The butterflies alight.

CONTENTS The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser The New Fable of the Search for Climate The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In The New Fable of the Uplifter and His Dandy Little Opus The New Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parent The New Fable of What Transpires After the Wind-up The Dream That Came Out with Much to Boot The New Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table-Land The New Fable of the Aerial Performer, the Buzzing Blondine, and the Daughter of Mr.

Some Kashubian or Koshavian water sprite, Thula, Duller, or Tul, is supposed to have been her godparent.

A pale golden sawdust haze trailed after it, a sunlit, skyborne ribbon-road for sylphs, pixies, sprites, and feys to ride.

A stream of stringlike material shot from her finger, wrapping itself around the little dragon, sticking to him and burying the wood sprite as well.

Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line.

Before the barghests came along, the little sprite had spent his days in solitude, stealing whenever he could from nearby villages.

The little sprite held his tiny shortbow ready, with one of his silvery, dartlike arrows nocked in the weapon.

There are creatures we know whom humans consider spirits, Dryads, sprites, pixiesbut they are natural beings who live near our magic.

They realised the meaning of these Sprites so clearly now--their duties, appearance, laws of behaviour, and the rest-that their awakened imaginations thought them instantly into existence, as many as were necessary.