gnat

6 definitions found

gnat - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gnat \Gnat\, n. [AS. gn[ae]t.]
     1. (Zool.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus
        Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females
        have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for
        penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the
        males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes.
        See Mosquito.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in
        America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and
        allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Gnat catcher (Zool.), one of several species of small
        American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied
        to the kinglets.
  
     Gnat flower, the bee flower.
  
     Gnat hawk (Zool.), the European goatsucker; -- called also
        gnat owl.
  
     Gnat snapper (Zool.), a bird that catches gnats.
  
     Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about
        trifles. Cf. --Matt. xxiii. 24.
        [1913 Webster]

gnat - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gnat
      n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges;
           black flies; sand flies
      2: (British usage) mosquito

gnat - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Gnat
  
     <language, tool> An Ada compiler written in Ada using
     the gcc code generator to allow easy porting to a
     variety of platforms.  Gnat is the only Ada compiler that
     completely implements the Ada standard, including all the
     annexes.
  
     The compiler is released under the GNU license and is
     currently maintained by Ada Core Technologies (ACT).
  
     (http://gnat.com/).
  
     (1999-06-24)
  

gnat - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  GNAT
         GNU Ada Translator (GNU)
         

gnat - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Gnat
  only in Matt. 23:24, a small two-winged stinging fly of the
  genus Culex, which includes mosquitoes. Our Lord alludes here to
  the gnat in a proverbial expression probably in common use, "who
  strain out the gnat;" the words in the Authorized Version,
  "strain at a gnat," being a mere typographical error, which has
  been corrected in the Revised Version. The custom of filtering
  wine for this purpose was common among the Jews. It was founded
  on Lev. 11:23. It is supposed that the "lice," Ex. 8:16 (marg.
  R.V., "sand-flies"), were a species of gnat.

gnat - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnat":
     crumb, dot, drop, droplet, fleck, flyspeck, grain, iota, jot,
     microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite,
     mote, particle, pinhead, pinpoint, point, scrap, snip, snippet,
     speck, tittle, vanishing point