Eager

  • 31eager — adjective strongly wanting to do or have something. ↘keenly expectant or interested. Phrases eager beaver informal an enthusiastic person who works very hard. Derivatives eagerly adverb eagerness noun Origin ME (also in the sense pungent, sour ) …

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  • 32eager — [13] As its close etymological connection with vinegar and acid might suggest, the underlying sense of eager is ‘sharp’. It comes ultimately from the Indo European base *ak ‘sharp, pointed’, amongst whose other English descendants are acne, edge …

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  • 33Eager Beaver Baseball Association — Eager Beaver Baseball Association, Inc. (EBBA) is a baseball league for youths in London, Ontario, Canada, that was first organized in 1955 by former Major League Baseball player Frank Colman, London sportsman Gordon Berryhill and Al Marshall.In… …

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  • 34eager beaver — {n. phr.}, {slang} A person who is always eager to work or do anything extra, perhaps to win the favor of his leader or boss. * /Jack likes his teacher and works hard for her, but his classmates call him an eager beaver./ * /The man who was… …

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  • 35eager beaver — {n. phr.}, {slang} A person who is always eager to work or do anything extra, perhaps to win the favor of his leader or boss. * /Jack likes his teacher and works hard for her, but his classmates call him an eager beaver./ * /The man who was… …

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  • 36Eager evaluation — or strict evaluation is the evaluation strategy in most traditional programming languages. In eager evaluation an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable. This is generally more efficient as a low level strategy in simple… …

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  • 37Eager (band) — Eager was a band created by Patrick Andrew of the band PFR. Patrick began forming the new band with Greg Pope in 1995. Greg (also a songwriter) had been touring with PFR as a backup guitarist. To quell rumors of the impending PFR breakup, Patrick …

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  • 38Eager Haskell — is an implementation of the Haskell programming language that uses eager evaluation. Sources and External Links * [http://csg.csail.mit.edu/pubs/haskell.html Eager Haskell page at MIT] …

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  • 39eager beaver — A person who is extremely keen is an eager beaver …

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  • 40eager to please — phrase willing to do anything that other people want Thesaurus: willing to do or accept somethingsynonym Main entry: eager …

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