We've found 22 phrases for gram (0.116 seconds):

a picture paints a thousand words »    A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!

abstract nonsense »    Details which involve diagram chasing.

boot camp »    A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.

deliver the message to Garcia »    Programmers are consistently dehumanized because so many do indeed deliver the message to Garcia only to be at best ignored.

drop a line »    A note or telegram.

eat one's own dog food »    To test the beta programs that are in the test phase on one's own computers; to dogfood.

fall over »    Of a computer program, to crash.

fencepost problem »    In computer programming, a problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.

get the chop »    To be eliminated from a competition in a reality television program.

horse opera »    A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.

kitchen table software »    Especially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.

less is more »    That which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated than what is more complicated; simplicity is preferable to complexity; brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity.1855, Robert Browning, "Men and Women":Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.1954, "'Less Is More'," Time, 14 Jun.:The essence of Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, "Less is more." This means, he says, having "the greatest effect with the least means."2007, Gia Kourlas, "Dance Review: An Ordered World Defined With Soothing Spareness," New York Times, 3 Mar. (retrieved 22 Oct. 2008):The program, which features two premieres

off the wagon »    No longer maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from an undesirable habit, especially drinking alcohol.

on the wagon »    By extension, maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit.

preprogram »    To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.

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