alice — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

accepted, early, hard, knowing, mean, pleased, present, proposed

Alice was pleased when her daughter finally accepted the job offer in London.

VERB + ALICE

name, party, seems

The party seems to have taken place at Alice's house last weekend.

ALICE + NOUN

bed, everybody, home, it's, something, weidel

Alice went home early because she wasn't feeling well that day.

PREP.

after, down, into, on, up

Alice went down the rabbit hole and found herself in a strange magical world.

ADV.

already, doubtfully, possibly, really

Alice already knew that her brother would be late to dinner.

Definitions

name

1

A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.

"My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."

She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.

2

The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.

Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.

Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.

3

The city of Alice Springs, Australia.

At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.

In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.

4

A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

5

A city in North Dakota.

noun

1

Acronym of All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment.

2

Acronym of Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity.

After ALICE was introduced on Pandorabots’s platform in the early 2000s, one of its interlocutors was the film director Spike Jonze. He would later cite their conversation as the inspiration for his movie “Her,” which follows a lonely man as he falls in love with his artificial intelligence operating system.

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Example Bank

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"My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dump

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02

She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. So

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03

Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.

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After ALICE was introduced on Pandorabots’s platform in the early 2000s, one of its interlocutors was the film director Spike Jonze. He would later cite their conversation as the inspiration for his m

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05

Johnny proposed to Alice and she accepted.

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06

Jack, Jill and Alice went up the hill.

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Usage Notes

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