pearl

pearl

1. See mother-of-pearl

2. a pale greyish-white colour, often with a bluish tinge

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What does it mean when you dream about a pearl?

The pearl is sometimes associated with the feminine principle, lunar forces, intuition, and water (all of which are identified with the unconscious). Mother of pearl lining the shell of the abalone suggests a fetus emerging to life. Alternatively, pearls in a dream may symbolize “pearls of wisdom” regarding a new idea or venture or a warning not to “cast your pearls before swine” by compromising oneself or one’s values.

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pearl

[pərl]

(materials)

A dense, more or less round, white or light-colored concretion having various degrees of luster formed within or beneath the mantle of various mollusks by deposition of thin concentric layers of nacre about a foreign particle.

(pathology)

Rounded masses of concentrically arranged squamous epithelial cells, seen in some carcinomas.

Mucous casts of the bronchi or bronchioles found in the sputum of asthmatic persons.

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pearl

June. [Am. Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 319–320]

See: Birthstones

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pearl

emblem of discreet shyness. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 69]

See: Modesty

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PEARL

(language, mathematics)

A language for constructive mathematics developed by Constable at Cornell University in the 1980s.

PEARL

(language, real-time)

Process and Experiment Automation Real-Time Language.

PEARL

(language, education)

One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in "Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968). Compare Brilliant, Diamond, Nonpareil, Ruby.

PEARL

(language)

A multilevel language developed by Brian Randell ca 1970 and mentioned in "Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages", W. van der Poel, N-H 1974.

PEARL

(language, tool, history)

An obsolete term for Larry Wall's PERL programming language, which never fell into common usage other than in typographical errors. The missing 'a' remains as an atrophied remnant in the expansion "Practical Extraction and Report Language".

["Programming Perl", Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-93715-64-1].

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Perl

(Practical Extraction Report Language) A programming language written by Larry Wall that combines syntax from several Unix utilities and languages. Introduced in 1987, Perl is designed to handle a variety of system administrator functions and provides comprehensive string handling functions. It is widely used to write Web server programs for such tasks as automatically updating user accounts and newsgroup postings, processing removal requests, synchronizing databases and generating reports. Perl has also been adapted to non-Unix platforms. See mod_perl and LWP. See also PURL.

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