Definition of gimps Gimps

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What does gimps mean?

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  • gimps (Noun)
    Plural of gimp.

Part of speech

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  • gimps, verb, present, 3rd person singular of gimp (infinitive).
  • gimps, noun, plural of gimp.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

gimp - disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
  lameness, limping, gimpiness, gameness, claudication
  disability of walking a disability that interferes with or prevents walking

Verb

gimp - walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"
  limp, hobble, hitch
  walk obtain a base on balls
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  • gimp (Noun)
    A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also.
  • gimp (Noun)
    Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
  • gimp (Noun)
    The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou lanyard making; or, the process itself.
  • gimp (Noun)
    Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep.
  • gimp (Noun)
    A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
  • gimp (Noun)
    A crippled leg.
  • gimp (Noun)
    A limp or a limping gait.
  • gimp (Noun)
    A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp sadomasochism in Wikipedia.
  • gimp (Verb)
    Of yarn, cord, thread, etc. To wrap or wind surround with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating gimped yarn, etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
  • gimp (Verb)
    To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
  • gimp (Verb)
    To limp; to hobble.
  • gimp (Adjective)
    Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • gimp (a.)
    Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
  • gimp (n.)
    A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
  • gimp (v. t.)
    To notch; to indent; to jag.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • gimp
    A raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • gimp
    gimp, n. a kind of trimming, &c., of silk, woollen, or cotton twist.—v.t. to make or furnish with gimp. [Fr. guimpe, from Old High Ger. wimpal, a light robe; Eng. wimple.]

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  • The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP or "The GIMP", is a free software picture maker.

    It is often used for making logos, making photographs bigger or smaller, changing colours, making many pictures part of one picture, making pictures nicer to look at, and changing file formats.

    GIMP is often used as a free software rival for the most popular Adobe Photoshop, but it is made to be an Adobe Photoshop. The GIMPs mascot is a coyote named Wilber.

    The GIMP was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now taken care of by a group of volunteers as part of the GNU Project. The newest version of GIMP is v.2.6.4 and it was available since January 2009. The GIMPs license is the GNU General Public License, GIMP is free software.

    File types.

    GIMP can be used for opening and changing many types of file formats. GIMPs own file format is XCF, which is the name of the building where GIMP was written.

    Some file formats that GIMP can be used with are bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. GIMP can also read and write path information from SVG files and GIMP can read Adobe PDF files and the raw image formats used by digital cameras, but cannot write to these formats.

Part of speech

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  • gimp, verb, present, 1st person singular of gimp (infinitive).
  • gimp, verb (infinitive).
  • gimp, noun, singular of gimps.

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