From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 11 15:17:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E35156A9 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA27642; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:17:31 -0700 Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdEh1kEa; Wed Aug 11 15:17:21 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25342; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:17:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908112217.PAA25342@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Robust: Such a Versatile Word To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net (Joey Garcia) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:17:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990810221107.007978b0@we.mediaone.net> from "Joey Garcia" at Aug 10, 99 10:11:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Robust! I'm like so sick of that word. It's like so over used. [ ... ] > robust \Ro*bust"\, a. [L. robustus oaken, hard, strong, fr. robur strength, > a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. robuste.] 1. > Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; > vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. ----- [ ... ] > robust adj 1: physically strong [ant: frail] 2: marked by richness and ------------ > fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust > claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee" [syn: full-bodied, > rich] 3: strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge; "the experiment ------------------------------------------------- > yielded robust results"; "a robust faith" 4: rough and crude; "a robust tale" > Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message