Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. Chimeras. [L. chimaera a chimera
(in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf.
Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as
having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the
imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chimera
n 1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's
head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
Typhon [syn: Chimaera]
2: a grotesque product of the imagination [syn: chimaera]
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "chimera":
airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble,
daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism,
dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief,
fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, golden dream,
hallucination, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery,
imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot,
make-believe, misbelief, misconception, mosaic, myth, phantasm,
phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pomato, potomato, quixotic ideal,
rainbow, romance, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion,
sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, topato, trick, trip, unreal hope,
utopia, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams,
wrong impression
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Chimera
A modular, X Window System-based World-Wide Web browser
for Unix. Chimera uses the Athena widget set so Motif
is not needed. Chimera supports forms, inline images, TERM,
SOCKS, proxy servers, Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local
file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external
programs. New protocols can easily be added and alternate
image formats can be used for inline images
(e.g. PostScript).
Version 1.60 is available for
(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera).
Home (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/).
Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000
AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with
X11R[3-6], imake and a C compiler.
(1994-11-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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