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Fava vs Java - What's the difference?

fava | java |

As nouns the difference between fava and java

is that fava is a fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself while Java is a chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.

As a proper noun Java is

an island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.

fava

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
  • * 1976', I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, ''Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din'', ''Schizophrenia Buletin'', 2: 447-453, quoted in '''2004 , Jay Joseph, ''The Gene Illusion , page 269,
  • Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
  • * 2001 , Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables , page 153,
  • When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip citation
  • , passage=Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.}}
  • * 2012 , John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production , page 268,
  • In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.

    Usage notes

    The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.

    Derived terms

    * fava bean ----

    java

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
  • (computing) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
  • (computing, proscribed) JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.
  • * 1996' October 6, "Timothy Litwiller" (username), ''HOW TO MAKE A '''JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
  • * 1996 December 10, "Cédric Bouckaert" (username), onBlur event handler with input fields'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
  • In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java' alert which says that field two should have a value and then a '''java''' alert which says that field one should have a value and then a ' java ... get the picture ?
  • * 1997' January 7, "Kenneth Roddy" (username), '''''Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads'', in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows, ''Usenet
  • * 1997' February 18, "AG" (username), ''alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when '''java alert window opens'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
  • I created an alert window using java' script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when ' java alert window opens.
  • * 2003' April 8, "mpaulopes" (username), ''Passing values to a '''Java popup windows'', in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion, ''Usenet
  • Usage notes

    * While referring to JavaScript as Java is technically incorrect, this usage occurs often enough to merit verifying which is meant in cases where it's not clear.

    Derived terms

    * Java cat (the musang) * Java sparrow * Javanese

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
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