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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wimp
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders.
▪ Don't be such a wimp, Simon. Tell her you want to break up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He seemed angry with her for some reason but John's a wimp.
▪ Jack supposed he was a bit of a wimp, with his dislike of rugby and love of photography.
▪ Knowing full well that I was a wimp at heart, it was refreshing to be treated as something else.
▪ No wonder Graham was a bit of a wimp.
▪ Today, the high-powered financiers on whom Michael Douglas's character was modelled might add that tax is also for wimps.
▪ What a wimp, I thought.
▪ Which man wants to admit that he's a wimp and needs to assert himself?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wimp

1920 (but not attested again until 1960), perhaps a clipped form of whimper (cf whimp, 1540s), perhaps influenced by J. Wellington Wimpy, comparatively unaggressive character in "Popeye" comics.

wimp

1986, with out (adv.), from wimp (n.). Related: Wimped; wimping.

Wiktionary
wimp

n. 1 (context pejorative slang English) someone who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy 2 (alternative spelling of WIMP English) vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To behave submissively, inde. 2 (context transitive English) To render wimpy.

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WordNet
wimp

  1. n. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy [syn: chicken, crybaby]

  2. a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe [syn: weakly interacting massive particle]

Wikipedia
WIMP (computing)

In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for " windows, icons, menus, pointer", denoting a style of interaction using these elements of the user interface. It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts in 1980. Other expansions are sometimes used, substituting "mouse" and "mice" or "pull-down menu" and "pointing", for menus and pointer, respectively.

Though the term has fallen into disuse, some use it as an approximate synonym for graphical user interface (GUI). Any interface that uses graphics can be called a GUI, and WIMP systems derive from such systems. However, while all WIMP systems use graphics as a key element (the icon and pointer elements), and therefore are GUIs, the reverse is not true. Some GUIs are not based in windows, icons, menus, and pointers. For example, most mobile phones represent actions as icons, and some may have menus, but very few include a pointer or run programs in a window.

WIMP interaction was developed at Xerox PARC (see Xerox Alto, developed in 1973) and popularized with Apple's introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, which added the concepts of the "menu bar" and extended window management.

In a WIMP system:

  • A window runs a self-contained program, isolated from other programs that (if in a multi-program operating system) run at the same time in other windows.
  • An icon acts as a shortcut to an action the computer performs (e.g., execute a program or task).
  • A menu is a text or icon-based selection system that selects and executes programs or tasks.
  • The pointer is an onscreen symbol that represents movement of a physical device that the user controls to select icons, data elements, etc.

This style of system improves human–computer interaction (HCI) by emulating real-world interactions and providing better ease of use for non-technical people. Users can carry skill at a standardized interface from one application to another.

WiMP

WiMP is a music streaming service. The service is available on mobiles, tablets, network players and computers. Music in WiMP is streamed using the AAC+ file format in a bitrate of 96 kbit/s or the AAC file format in a bitrate of 320 kbit/s if the high quality streaming option is selected. WiMP also offers a HiFi-product with FLAC/ALAC.

WIMP (software bundle)

The acronym WIMP is a solution stack of software, partially free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites on servers. The expansion is as follows:

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a tool to install applications on a WIMP-system.

LAMP is a similar stack, of entirely free software with Linux replacing Windows, and Apache replacing IIS.

WAMP is a similar stack, with Windows replacing Linux.

Usage examples of "wimp".

Not only was she a despicable, needy-for-a-man wimp, but there was a chance - admittedly small - that she had upset Katherine.

Minuten lang kon zij zich spiegelen, glimlachend met de fijne punt van den roziggenagelden vinger de lijn van wenkbrauw en wimper streelend, zich de oogleden een weinig amandelvormig vertrekkende, of heure bruine haren woest om zich heen warrelende, in de houding eener schalke zingara.

And company man and sell-out boy and wimp and twonk that Sandra might have thought I was.

They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.

The wounded vatos I saw that night might not know a pancreas from a lung, but they were secure in the assumption that the doctor - a four-eyed wimp of the type they habitually stare down on the street - knew both nephrology and pneumonology.

To them, divemasters like him were pampered, underskilled wimps who liked clear water and clean sand.

They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.

She had wimped out something awful tonight, and that could not be allowed to go on.

The Bustee is a quarter Chodo Contague wouldn’t enter without an army, let alone wimps like the Watch.

The Bustee is a quarter Chodo Contague wouldnt enter without an army, let alone wimps like the Watch.

Marcus, who was at Bagley Hall with Flora, was a wimp only ambition egged on by his mother, Rupert's first wife, was to be a concert pianist.

The chief just nodded, assigned Belga and the wimp to look into the possibility.

This unnamed newcomer clearly thought that Jessie's usual source of advice — the voice she had over the years come to think of as Goodwife Burlingame ­was a wimp of the highest order.

Phillip decided he wouldn't have to worry about a couple of wimps that the do-gooders had raised.

When everybody was ready they plugged feedlines from big nutrient tanks into the wimp, connected her ureter and anus to evacuator lines, and jumped back.