lawn

7 definitions found

lawn - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lawn \Lawn\, n. [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob.
     from the town Laon in France.]
     A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather
     open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's
     official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively,
     stands for the office itself.
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           A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. --Pope.
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  Lawn \Lawn\ (l[add]n), n. [OE. laund, launde, F. lande heath,
     moor; of Celtic origin; cf. W. llan an open, clear place,
     llawnt a smooth rising hill, lawn, Armor. lann or lan
     territory, country, lann a prickly plant, pl. lannou heath,
     moor.]
     1. An open space between woods. --Milton.
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              "Orchard lawns and bowery hollows."   --Tennyson.
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     2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered
        with grass kept closely mown.
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     Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of
        lawns.
  
     Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the
        open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis
        court. See Tennis.
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lawn - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lawn
      n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass

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

  wireless local area network
  LAWN
  WiLAN
  WLAN
  
     <networking> (WLAN /W-lan/, or "LAWN" /lorn/, sometimes
     "WiLAN" /wi-lan/) A communication system that transmits and
     receives data using modulated electromagnetic waves,
     implemented as an extension to, or as an alternative for, a
     wired LAN.  WLANs are typically found within a small
     client node-dense locale (e.g. a campus or office
     building), or anywhere a traditional network cannot be
     deployed for logistical reasons.
  
     Benefits include user mobility in the coverage area, speed and
     simplicity of physical setup, and scalability.  Being a
     military spin-off, WLANs also provide security features such
     as encryption, frequency hopping, and firewalls.  Some
     of these are intrinsic to the protocol, making WLANs at
     least as secure as wired networks, and usually more so.  The
     drawbacks are high initial cost (mostly hardware), limited
     range, possibility of mutual interference, amd the need to
     security-enable clients.
  
     The established protocols are covered by IEEE 802.11 (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/)
     .  Recent developments
     include the Bluetooth project and other WPAN, or Personal Area Network
      initiatives, accessible through IEEE 802.15 working group (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/)
     .
  
     Wireless Lan Association (http://wlana.org/).
  
     Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.dcom.lans.misc,
     news:comp.std.wireless.
  
     (2003-09-23)
  

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

  LAWN
         Local Area Wireless Network
         

lawn - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Lawn, TX (town, FIPS 41872)
    Location: 32.13623 N, 99.74997 W
    Population (1990): 358 (159 housing units)
    Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 79530

lawn - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "lawn":
     Astroturf, artificial turf, bowling green, common, fairway,
     golf course, golf links, grassplot, green, greensward, greenyard,
     grounds, park, putting green, sod, sward, turf, village green