summer

summer

¹

1. 

a. the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn, astronomically from the June solstice to the September equinox in the N hemisphere and at the opposite time of year in the S hemisphere

b. (as modifier): summer flowers

2. the period of hot weather associated with the summer

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summer

²

1. a large horizontal beam or girder, esp one that supports floor joists

2. another name for lintel

3. a stone on the top of a column, pier, or wall that supports an arch or lintel

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summer

[′səm·ər]

(astronomy)

The period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; popularly and for most meteorological purposes, it is taken to include June through August in the Northern Hemisphere, and December through February in the Southern Hemisphere.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

springer, skewback, summer

springer, 1: S

1. The impost or place where the vertical support for an arch

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summer

summer, 4: S

1. A horizontal beam supporting the ends of floor joists or resting on posts and supporting the wall above; also called a summertree.

2. Any large timber or beam which serves as a bearing surface.

3. The lintel of a door or window; a breastsummer.

4. A stone laid on a column and serving as a support for construction above, as in the construction of an arch.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Summer

Aestas

personification of summer; portrayed as youthful and sprightly. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322]

Ceres

goddess of the season. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 130]

cricket

symbol of summer; weather prognosticator. [Insect Symbolism: Jobes, 382]

naked girl with fruit

personification of summer. [Art: Hall, 130]

sickle and sheaf of corn

representational of the season. [Art: Hall, 129]

Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUMMER

String manipulation and pattern matching language by Klint & Sint at CWI in the late 1970s. It was recently used as the input and implementation language for the Dataflow Compiler Project at CWI.

["An Overview of the SUMMER Programming Language", Paul Klint, 7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp. 47-55].

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