Adobe
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software Informal Any file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.
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adobe
nounalso spelled AdobeUK /əˈdəʊ.bi/ · US /əˈdoʊ.bi/
Etymology From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
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Usually An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny:
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- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 24:
- The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)
- 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
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Usually The earth from which such bricks are made.
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Usually A house made of adobe brick.
- The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- adobe bread, adobelike, adobe lily, superadobe