Crossword clues for verve
verve
- Get-up-and-go extremely depleted finally? Yes, then doubly so
- Energy equals discharged voltage doubled, divided by resistance
- Energetic style
- Energetic quality
- Dynamic quality
- Vitality, enthusiasm
- Label for Zappa and the Velvet Underground
- Jazz label for Basie and Ellington
- Exuberance or brio
- Ella Fitzgerald record label
- "The Freshmen" band ___ Pipe
- "Bittersweet Symphony" band, with "The"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verve \Verve\, n. [F.] Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "special talent in writing, enthusiasm in what pertains to art and literature," from French verve "enthusiasm" (especially pertaining to the arts), in Old French "caprice, odd humor, proverb, saying; messenger's report" (12c.), probably from Gallo-Roman *verva, from Latin verba "(whimsical) words," plural of verbum "word" (see verb). Meaning "mental vigor" is first recorded 1803.
Wiktionary
n. 1 excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing 2 artistic energy and enthusiasm 3 vigour, vitality and liveliness
WordNet
n. an energetic style [syn: vitality]
Wikipedia
Verve may refer to:
- Verve Energy, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia
- Verve Records, an American jazz record label
- The Verve, an English rock band
- Verve (EP), a 1992 EP by The Verve
- Verve (R. Stevie Moore album)
- The Verve Pipe, an American grunge band
- Ford Verve concepts, a series of small car concepts from Ford of Europe
- Verve (operating system), an operating system by Microsoft Research
- Verve (magazine), an Indian luxury-lifestyle magazine
Verve is the fifth 12" vinyl record album by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore. It was released by Terry Burrows' Hamster label in the UK late 1985. Never officially reissued on compact disc, the CD-R version (copied direct from the vinyl) is available by mail from the artist.
Verve is a research operating system developed by Microsoft Research. Verve is verified end-to-end for type safety and memory safety.
Because of their complexity, a holy grail of software verification has been to verify properties of operating systems. Operating systems are usually written in low-level languages, such as C, that provide very few guarantees. The Singularity project took the approach of writing an operating system in C#, a type-safe, memory-safe language. A weakness of this approach is that operating systems necessarily need to call lower-level code to, for instance, move the stack pointer. Verve addresses this problem by partitioning the operating system into verified assembly that is required to be low-level and a trusted interface to rest of the operating system, written in C#. There is a trusted specification that guarantees the low-level assembly code does not mess with the heap and that the high-level C# code does not mess with the stacks.
Verve consists of a small Nucleus, which acts as a minimal hardware abstraction layer, and a Kernel, which uses primitives provided by the Nucleus to expose a more traditional interface to applications. All components of the system other than the Nucleus are written in managed C# and compiled by Bartok (originally developed for the Singularity project) into typed assembly language, which is verified by a TAL checker.
The Nucleus implements a memory allocator and garbage collection, support for stack switching, and managing interrupt handlers. It is written in BoogiePL, which serves as input to MSR's Boogie verifier, which proves the Nucleus correct using the Z3 SMT solver. The Nucleus relies on the Kernel to implement threads, scheduling, synchronization, and to provide most interrupt handlers. Even though the Kernel is not formally verified, so, for example, a bug in scheduling could cause the system to hang, it cannot violate type or memory safety, and thus cannot directly cause undefined behavior. If it attempts to make invalid requests to the Nucleus, formal verification guarantees that the Nucleus handles the situation in a controlled manner.
Verve's trusted computing base is limited to: Boogie/Z3 for verifying the Nucleus's correctness; BoogieASM for translating it into x86 assembly; the BoogiePL specification of how the Nucleus should behave; the TAL verifier; the assembler and linker; and the bootloader. Notably, neither the C# compiler/runtime nor the Bartok compiler are part of the TCB.
Verve is India's premier and only home-grown luxury and lifestyle magazine for women that has been in publication since 1995. Verve celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015.
Anuradha Mahindra, wife of industrialist Anand Mahindra, is the founder, editor and publisher. Mala Vaishnav is the managing editor of the publication and Falguni Kapadia is the CEO. Verve magazine is an Indian magazine, not owned or run by a foreign company. About 80 per cent of its readership is in cities. The south Mumbai-based publishing organisation also produces specialised in-house magazines, coffee-table books and supplements for leading brands.
Verve was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960. The magazine was first published in December 1937. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris. It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian art scene of the first half of the 20th century. In addition, the early contributors included James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. The magazine folded in 1960.
Usage examples of "verve".
He applied his beguiling enticements with the crafty art of a true philanderer and boldly advanced his exploits with unmitigated verve.
Land Rover while Popsy drove with more verve than caution out of Lambourn and along a side road and finally up a bumpy track to open stretches of grassland.
There was a flat, lifeless quality about it that, without the verve of battlefield blood, spoke of tyranny most repellent and egregious, and yet at the same time petty and self-serving.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
She performed five numbers with undimming verve, gathered her full green skirt, and swept off the little stage as bouncily as a gymnast.
The Invigilator, wearing the mysterious contrivance, played himself, though with only such verve as we ordered him to display.
The only thing of value to them was their reputation, their artistic verve, their wit, their whimsy, and the calm dignity with which they welcomed their inevitable fall in darkened coffins into the blood red supergravity well of their dark star.
With much verve, and a true Voltairian spirit, he at first took up a moderate attitude, but being a time server soon discovered that his interest lay in another direction.
He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.
Bronze-haired Liami, who bounced in and out of beds with the same verve as she gobbled dessert treats on holidays.
She would get out of bed the next morning and complete her callisthenics program with fresh verve.
George was once a singing waiter, accustomed to linking dramaturgy and digestion, and he attacked the dangling nose with verve.
But she had no heart for the women's dance, her rhythms lacked verve, and she drank so little of the ceremonial tea, the effects wore off quickly.
Petty's boisterous verve is great, but she is not quite the riot girl she should have been -- and was clearly capable of playing.