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- X
- X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name — Xristos. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who “testified” upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman’s mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary.
- X
- 1. a useless letter of Greek origin duplicated and easily replaced by other letters.
- 2. a thing lacking in identity, or quantity.
- 3. David Duchovny.
- X-ray
- 1. a physician’s equivalent to a mechanic checking under the hood and saying, “See, now there’s your problem,” while mentally calculating the extra charges made possible by sloppy development work in the radiology lab.
- 2. a technique dentists have developed to continue to make sports-car money even though more and more of their patients have perfect teeth.
- xenophobe
- one with a mortal fear of being anally penetrated by an extra-terrestrial.
- Xerox
- a tremendous cat of fable whose great fame comes from a cautionary tale about being foolish enough to share your catch.
- XML
- abrv, eXtensible Markup Language; a multifaceted tool widely claimed to simplify data exchanges, facilitate any application project, save countless hours of lost productivity, kill werewolves, and cure herpes.
- XML
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A magic elixir of legend, claiming to solve all problems while
inevitably exacting an ironic cost.
“Once we drink the XML and take care of a few minor things — parser, DTD, entification, well-formed-ness, validation, namespaces, I18N, XSL transformations, schemas — all will be peaceful in the kingdom!”
- XSLT
- a red herring; a get out of the dog-house free card to be played at work; a way for a DBA or data architect to pass the blame for his bungled data relationships onto the designers and web developers.
- xylophone
- 1. a meaningless word created to balance the weight of alphabetized file cabinets and books, especially dictionaries.
- 2. filler; gibberish.
