java

Noun (1)

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

1. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
2. (US, colloquial) Coffee in general.
   • 45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135

Noun (2)

java (plural javas)

1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.
   • The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.2015, Luc Sante, The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Java

IPA/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/

Java

1. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
2. An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
   • The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022
3. (proscribed) JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
   • In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a...1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)
   • I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens.1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)

Noun (3) capitalized: Java

IPA/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/

Java (plural Javas)

1. A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.