sprite

5 definitions found

sprite - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sprite \Sprite\ (spr[imac]t), n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L.
     spiritus. See Spirit, and cf. Sprightly.]
     1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See
        Spright.
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              Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
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     3. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
        [1913 Webster] Spriteliness
        Spritefully
        Spriteful

sprite - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sprite
      n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical
           powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite]

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

  Sprite
  
     <operating system> An operating system from Berkeley
     supporting multiprocessing and distributed files.
  
     [Details?  References?]
  
     (1994-10-17)
  

  sprite
  
     <graphics, file format> A small bitmap image, often used in
     animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for
     icon.
  
     (1997-06-29)
  

sprite - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprite":
     Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob,
     Hobgoblin, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Puck, Titania, apparition,
     appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee,
     brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin,
     diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf,
     erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
     grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
     immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
     kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes,
     materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom,
     pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant,
     shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost,
     spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe,
     unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith,
     young devil, zombie