token(1) (iou) and pudical (medicine)

token(1) (iou)

token noun & adjective.
[Old English tac(e)n = Old Frisian tek(e)n, Old Saxon tecan (Dutch teeken), Old High German zeihhan (German Zeichen) Old Norse teikn, Gothic taikns, from Germanic base rel. to TEACH verb.]
A. noun.
A thing serving as a sign or symbol; a visible or tangible representation of something abstract or immaterial. OE.
F. Burney A cordial slap on the back, and some Other equally gentle tokens of satisfaction. E. H. Gombrich The power of Art to rouse the passions is..a token of its Magic.
b. Any of the twelve signs of the zodiac. rare. OE-M16.
c. A thing given as an expression of affection, or to be kept as a memento, esp. a keepsake given at parting. LME.
J. Aiken Notes and tokens are fine, but it is your dear presence that I..need.
d. Linguistics. A particular example of a linguistic unit, as an individual occurrence in speech or Writing, as opp. to the type or class of linguistic unit of which it is an instance. Cf. TYPE noun 10. E20.
e. Computing. The smallest meaningful unit of information in a sequence of data. M20.
f. Computing. A marker whose presence or absence at a point in a system indicates the status of that point. L20.
a. A mark or indication serving to distinguish an object from others; a characteristic or distinctive mark. arch. OE.
Sir W. Scott The tokens on his helmet tell The Bruce, my Liege.
b. A spot on the body indicating disease, esp. the plague. obsolete exc. Hist. ME.
a. A thing serving as proof of a fact or statement; a piece of evidence. arch. OE.
J. Barnes What the expedition should take as tokens of goodwill..to the peasants.
b. A vestige or trace bearing evidence as to something which formerly existed. ME-E17.
a. = SIGN noun 7b. OE.
b. = SIGN noun 7a. OE.
A signal; a sign or gesture to attract attention or give an order. Now rare or obsolete. OE.
Swift Tokens to let them know, that they might do with me what they pleased.
A mark, word, or object conferring authority on or serving to authenticate the holder or speaker; a password. ME.
F. Herbert I give you the..ducal signet as token that I write truly.
A badge or favour worn to indicate service or allegiance to a person or party. L15.
An object representing evidence of entitlement to a right or privilege, which when presented enables the right or privilege to be exercised (long rare or obsolete); spec. (now chiefly Hist.) a stamped piece of lead etc. given as a voucher of Fitness to receive Holy Communion. M16.
a. Chiefly Hist. A stamped piece of metal, often similar in appearance to a coin, issued as a medium of exchange by an employer, trader, or company, on the undertaking to take it back at its nominal value, giving goods or legal currency for it. L16.
b. A voucher exchangeable for goods, usu. given as a gift. Freq. with specifying word. E20.
book token, gift-token, record token, etc.
c. A small metal or plastic disc to be used in operating a machine or in exchange for Services. Freq. with specifying word. M20.
Washington Post 10-cent student bus tokens.
Printing (now Hist.). A measure of presswork completed; a certain number of sheets of paper (usu. 250) passed through the press. L17.
A person chosen as a nominal representative of a minority or under-represented group. US. M20.
b. adjective. Serving to acknowledge a principle only; done as a matter of form; constituting a symbolic or tokenist gesture; nominal, perfunctory. OE.
S. Wynter His resistance was only a token gesture before surrender. City Limits The token black on a Madison Avenue team..becomes chairman. J. Trollope Nelson stirred in his basket out of token politeness. Sanity To have moved token American forces into Saudi Arabia to reinforce the warning..to Iraq.
Phrases: by the same token, (arch.) by this token, by that token (a) for the same reason; in the same way; similarly; (b) (now arch. & dial.) the proof of this being that. in token of as a sign, symbol, or evidence of. more by token arch. still more, the more so.
Comb. & special collocations: token booth US a booth from which tokens are sold, esp. those for obtaining subway tickets; token economy Psychiatry the principle or practice of rewarding desirable behaviour with tokens which can be exchanged for goods or privileges, and sometimes punishing undesirable behaviour by withholding or withdrawing such tokens; token estimate a provisional statement of a sum of money, placed before Parliament to allow discussion to proceed; token payment (a) the payment of a small proportion of a sum due, to acknowledge that the Debt has not been repudiated; (b) a nominal payment; token-reflexive noun & adjective (Logic) (denoting) a word the referent or temporal or spatial orientation of which is contextually determined, as I, now, today; token ring (a) a ring worn as a token of an engagement or pledge; (b) Computing an arrangement with a circulating sequence of bits acting as a token for the ability of a point to transmit information; token stoppage, token strike a brief strike to demonstrate strength of feeling only; token vote a parliamentary vote of money on the basis of a token estimate.
tokenize verb trans. (Computing) divide (a sequence of data) into separate tokens L20.
tokenless adjective (rare) M18.

pudical (medicine)

pudical
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Source: Websters Dictionary

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