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  elephantine
       
          Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs
          (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and
          ignorance) and exceedingly hairy in source form.  An
          elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but
          (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's
          tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm,
          difficult to maintain).  In extreme cases, hackers have been
          known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive
          proboscatory mime at the mention of the offending program.
          Usage: semi-humorous.  Compare "has the elephant nature" and
          the somewhat more pejorative monstrosity.  See also
          second-system effect and baroque.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
       

  Elephantine \El`e*phan"tine\, a. [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr.
     ?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]phantin.]
     Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant
     (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of
     elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the
        existence of large pachyderms. --Mantell.
  
     Elephantine tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a huge land tortoise;
        esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian
        Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

  elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous
     hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and
     ignorance) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An elephantine
     program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke
     about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the
     same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain). In extreme cases,
     hackers have been known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive
     proboscatory mime at the mention of the offending program. Usage:
     semi-humorous. Compare `has the elephant nature' and the somewhat more
     pejorative monstrosity. See also second-system effect and baroque.
  
  

  Elephantine \El`e*phan"tine\, a. [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr.
     ?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]phantin.]
     Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant
     (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of
     elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
  
     Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the
        existence of large pachyderms. --Mantell.
  
     Elephantine tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a huge land tortoise;
        esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian
        Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

  elephantine
       adj : of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
             [syn: gargantuan, giant, jumbo]

  elephantine
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la elephantinus  voc m s)

  Elephantine
     Latin n.
     (l en Elephantine) (gloss: ancient island city in Egypt)

  elephantine
     a.
     Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.

  Elephantine
     a.
     Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.
     n.
     An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.

  elephantine
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la elephantinus  voc m s)

  Elephantine
     Latin n.
     (l en Elephantine) (gloss: ancient island city in Egypt)

  elephantine
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la elephantinus  voc m s)

  Elephantine
     Latin n.
     (l en Elephantine) (gloss: ancient island city in Egypt)

  Elephantine /eləˈfantiˌneː/ /eləˈfantiˌneːs/ 
  Ελεφάντινη 2.
  Insel im Nil, Teil der Stadt Assuan
   3.
  altägyptische Stadt auf dieser Insel

  Elephantine /eləˈfantiˌneː/ /eləˈfantiˌneːs/ 
  Elefantyna 2.
  Insel im Nil, Teil der Stadt Assuan
   3.
  altägyptische Stadt auf dieser Insel

  Elephantine /eləˈfantiˌneː/ /eləˈfantiˌneːs/ 
  Элефантина 2.
  Insel im Nil, Teil der Stadt Assuan
   3.
  altägyptische Stadt auf dieser Insel

  Elephantine /eləˈfantiˌneː/ /eləˈfantiˌneːs/ 
  Elefantina 2.
  Insel im Nil, Teil der Stadt Assuan
   3.
  altägyptische Stadt auf dieser Insel

  Elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/
  فيلي

  elephantine //ɛl.əˈfæn.taɪn// //ɛl.əˈfæn.tin// //ˈɛl.ə.fən.taɪn// //ˈɛl.ə.fən.tin// 
  слонски
  of or relating to elephants

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/ 
  sloní

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/
  riesig, gigantisch, kolossal 
     Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo
  

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/
  
  ελεφάντινος

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/ 
  1. हाथी~जैसा
        "The wrestler has an elephantine body."

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/
  1. elefántszerû
  2. óriási
  3. ormótlan

  elephantine /elifɑːntain/
  barrinus

  elephantine /eləfæntın/
  1. dramblio, drambliškas
  2. sunkus, nerangus

  elephantine /elifɑːntain/
  elefântico, elefantino

  elephantine /ˈɛlɪfˌantiːn/
  1. fil gibi
  2. çok büyük, iri, çok ağır.

  
/ˌɛɫəˈfænˌtin/

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "elephantine":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, Latinate, abysmal, arid, astronomic, awkward, barren,
     blah, blank, bloodless, bombastic, bulky, characterless, clumsy,
     cold, colorless, colossal, cramped, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead,
     dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
     effete, elephantlike, empty, enormous, epic, etiolated, fade, flat,
     forced, formal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, graceless,
     guinde, halting, heavy, heavy-handed, heroic, ho-hum, hollow, huge,
     hulking, hulky, immense, inane, inexcitable, infinite, inkhorn,
     insipid, jejune, jumbo, labored, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited,
     lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, mammoth, massive,
     massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pale,
     pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous,
     prodigious, profound, sesquipedalian, slow, solemn, spiritless,
     sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, stupendous, superficial,
     tasteless, tedious, titanic, towering, tremendous, turgid,
     ungraceful, uninspired, unlively, unwieldy, vapid, vast, wooden
  
  

  a. 象的,巨大的,粗笨的;

     a. 象的,巨大的,粗笨的