ox
1. an adult castrated male of any domesticated species of cattle, esp Bos taurus, used for draught work and meat
2. any bovine mammal, esp any of the domestic cattle
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Ox (Buffalo)
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)The Ox, or Buffalo, is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. It refers to one of the 12 earthly branches, which are used in Chinese astrology, together with the 10 heavenly stems. Such a branch designates one day every 12 days: the days are named according to a sexagesimal (60) cycle, made of 10 series of 12 branches.
Reasonable, conservative, austere, taciturn, and materialistic, the Ox hates superficiality and polite conversation. A formidable worker with a will bordering on stubbornness and unlimited patience, his reasoning powers are amazingly effective, even if he may appear a little slow. His memory is surprising. He can be a leader; he is farsighted, independent, and determined, and he wants power. He is an excellent administrator. He also makes a very good, reliable, and responsible friend. Close to nature, he has a robust health, hearty appetites, and minimal romantic capacities.
—Michele Delemme
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What does it mean when you dream about an ox?
The ox symbolizes the strength and capacity to endure great hardship and toil. One is “as stubborn as an ox” when one’s tenacity is greater than one’s reason.
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ox
exhibits fellow-feeling for comrades. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 77–78]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Ox
(language, tool)A
preprocessor, written by Kurt Bischoff of
Iowa State University, that extends and generalises the
syntax and
semantics of
Yacc,
Lex, and
C. Ox's
support of LALR1 grammars generalises
yacc in the way that
attribute grammars generalise context-free grammars. It
augments Yacc and
Lex specifications with definitions of
synthesised and inherited attributes written in
C syntax.
Ox checks these specifications for consistency and
completeness, and generates a program that builds and
decorates attributed parse trees. Ox accepts a most general
class of attribute grammars. The user may specify
postdecoration traversals for easy ordering of side effects
such as code generation.
Latest version: G1.01, as of 1993-11-14.
ftp://ftp.cs.iastate.edu/pub/ox/.
Info: <ox-request@cs.iastate.edu>.
["User Manual for Ox: An Attribute-Grammar Compiling System
based on Yacc, Lex and C", K.M. Bischoff, TR92-30, Iowa State
U, Dec 1992].
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