Numps vs Mumps - What's the difference?
numps | mumps |
(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
* Bishop Parker
* 1902 , , Olympian Nights , ch. 10:
Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programing System; a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.
As nouns the difference between numps and mumps
is that numps is (obsolete) a fool; a blockhead while mumps is mumps.numps
English
Noun
(es)- These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, numps ! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.
- "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps , a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter !" I shrieked the last epithet.
mumps
English
Acronym
(Acronym) (head)See also
* VistA * OpenVistA * * ISM *External links
* (wikipedia "MUMPS") *http://www.va.gov/VistA/The VA Comprehensive Electronic Health Record System written in MUMPS *
Hardhats.orgThe Support Organization for VistA *
Medsphere and OpenVistAGroup Supporting Open Source VistA *
Intersystems Corporation's CachéCommercial MUMPS Language Vendor *
GT.M - Greystone Technology MUMPSOpen Source MUMPS on Linux/Unix, Other OS Commercially Available *
Another open implementation of MUMPSReference Project for all Open MUMPS on SourceForge *
The FreeM project*
Ed de Moel's MUMPS by ExampleMUMPS Language Quick Reference Online (Free)