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ibm | sap |

As nouns the difference between ibm and sap

is that ibm is intercontinental ballistic missile while sap is wax.

As a proper noun ibm

is .

ibm

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • * 1956 , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (volume 12, number 6, June 1956, page 186)
    • They see this last possibility in an international agreement to stop further atomic and thermonuclear bomb tests and halt the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBMs ).
  • * 1987 , Kenneth David Nichols, The Road to Trinity (page 294)
    • Today we need a defense against IBM attack. When as chief of R&D I urged Army Ordnance to develop an antimissile missile, I heard repeatedly that you can't hit a bullet with a bullet, so it is impossible to develop such a missile.
  • * 1990 , William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law (page 155)
    • Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.
  • (figuratively) A company that dominates its field.
  • * 1968 , George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings :
    • Univac was the IBM of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market.
  • * 1982 , Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine (ISBN 0380599317), page 238:
    • First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead;
  • * 1990 , Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age (ISBN 0887383696), page 81:
    • The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.

    Derived terms

    * IBMer

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    sap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

    Noun

    (wikipedia sap)
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

    Etymology 2

    Probably from sapling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
    • (rfimage)

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • (slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
    • Derived terms
    * sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
  • (military) To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • * 1850 ,
    • Ring out the grief that saps the mind
  • To gradually weaken.
  • * to sap one’s conscience
  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • * (rfdate)
    • Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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