Babel 音标拼音: [b'æbəl]
n . 巴别塔
巴别塔
Babel n 1 : (
Genesis 11 :
1 -
11 )
a tower built by Noah '
s descendants (
probably in Babylon )
who intended it to reach up to heaven ;
God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another [
synonym : {
Tower of Babel }, {
Babel }]
2 :
a confusion of voices and other sounds Babel \
Ba "
bel \,
n . [
Heb .
B [=
a ]
bel ,
the name of the capital of Babylonia ;
in Genesis associated with the idea of "
confusion ."]
1 .
The city and tower in the land of Shinar ,
where the confusion of languages took place .
[
1913 Webster ]
Therefore is the name of it called Babel . --
Gen .
xi .
9 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Hence :
A place or scene of noise and confusion ;
a confused mixture of sounds ,
as of voices or languages .
[
1913 Webster ]
That babel of strange heathen languages . --
Hammond .
[
1913 Webster ]
The grinding babel of the street . --
R .
L .
Stevenson .
[
1913 Webster ]
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "
Babel ":
Aesopian language ,
Greek ,
argot ,
babble ,
bedlam ,
cacophony ,
cant ,
cipher ,
clamor ,
clash ,
code ,
confusion of tongues ,
cryptogram ,
double Dutch ,
garble ,
gibberish ,
gift of tongues ,
glossolalia ,
gobbledygook ,
harshness ,
hell ,
jangle ,
jar ,
jargon ,
jumble ,
mere noise ,
noise ,
pandemonium ,
racket ,
scramble ,
secret language ,
slang ,
static 1 .
A subset of {
ALGOL 60 },
with many {
ALGOL W }
extensions .
["
BABEL ,
A New Programming Language ",
R .
S .
Scowen ,
Natl Phys
Lab UK ,
Report CCU7 ,
1969 ].
2 .
Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming ,
G .
M .
Weinberg ,
Van Nostrand 1971 ,
p .
241 .
3 .
A language based on {
higher -
order functions }
and
{
first -
order logic }.
["
Graph -
Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language ",
H .
Kuchen et al ,
Proc ESOP 90 ,
LNCS 432 ,
Springer 1990 ,
pp .
271 -
290 ].
["
Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates :
The
Language BABEL ",
Moreno -
Navarro et al ,
J Logic Prog 12 (
3 ) (
Feb
1992 )].
(
1994 -
11 -
28 )
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