Ajax vs Comments - What's the difference?
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A toilet.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
*:I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.
(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
* 2005 , Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
(poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
As a preposition ajax
is (polari) nearby, over there.As a noun comments is
.As a verb comments is
(comment).ajax
English
(wikipedia Ajax)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
Humorous respelling of a jakes.Noun
Etymology 3
Short for asynchronous JavaScript and XML .Alternative forms
* AJAXProper noun
(en proper noun)- An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…
Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Phonetic similarity to ace jack.Noun
References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523