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quined

quined is the simple past and past participle of quine.

Meaning of quine

Verb

quine (third-person singular simple present quines, present participle quining, simple past and past participle quined)

  1. (transitive) To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.
    • Anyway, now I know how to quine a phrase. It's quite amusing. Here's a quined phrase: / "IS A SENTENCE FRAGMENT" IS A SENTENCE FRAGMENT. / It's silly but all the same I enjoy it. You take a sentence fragment, quine it, and lo and behold, you've made a sentence! A true sentence, in this case.1979, Douglas R[ichard] Hofstadter, “Air on G’s String”, in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, part II (EGB), page 435
  2. (transitive) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).
    • quine. v. (1) To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant. "Some philosophers have quined classes, and some have even quined physical objects." Occasionally used intr[ansitively], e.g., "You think I quine, sir. I assure you I do not!"[1987, Daniel Dennett, “quine, v.”, in Kathleen Atkins [et al.], edited by Daniel Dennett, The Philosophical Lexicon, 8th edition, Newark, Del.: American Philosophical Association, distributor...

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What is quined the simple past and past participle of?
Quined is the simple past and past participle of quine.

Words near quined in the dictionary

  1. Quine quotes
  2. Quine-McCluskey algorithm
  3. Quine-Putnam indispensability argument
  4. Quinean
  5. Quineanism
  6. quined
  7. quinela
  8. quinelas
  9. quinella
  10. quinellaed
  11. quinellaing

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