 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
limp
adjective
1: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid
muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp
handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all
desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" [syn: {flaccid},
{lax}, {slack}]
2: not firm; "wilted lettuce" [syn: {wilted}]
noun: the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured
leg [syn: {hitch}, {hobble}]
verb
1: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old
woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: {hobble},
{hitch}]
2: proceed slowly or with difficulty; "the boat limped into the
harbor"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limp \Limp\ (l[i^]mp), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Limped} (l[i^]mt;
215); p. pr. & vb. n. {Limping}.] [Cf. AS. lemphealt lame,
OHG. limphen to limp, be weak; perh. akin to E. lame, or to
limp, a [root]120.]
To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limp \Limp\, noun
A halt; the act of limping.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limp \Limp\, noun (Ore Washing)
A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limp \Limp\, adjective [Cf. Icel. limpa limpness, weakness, and E. lap,
n., lop, verb (used with an object) Cf. {Limber}, adjective]
1. Flaccid; flabby, as flesh. --Walton.
2. Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "limp":
amble, andante, anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning,
barge, bloodless, bowl along, bundle, chicken, claudicate,
claudication, clump, cowardly, cower, crawl, creep, dead march,
debilitated, dodder, doddering, dogtrot, drag, drag along,
drag out, droop, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, enervated,
etiolated, exhausted, faint, faintish, falter, faltering, fatigued,
feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, floppy, flounce, foot,
footpace, footslog, frail, funeral march, gait, gallop, gimp,
go dead slow, go slow, gone, gutless, halt, hippety-hop, hitch,
hobble, hobbling, hop, idle, imbecile, impotent, inch, inch along,
ineffective, ineffectual, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump,
lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, laze,
leisurely gait, limber, listless, lock step, loose, lop, lop-eared,
loppy, lukewarm, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, lustless,
marrowless, mince, mincing steps, mosey, muddle, namby-pamby,
nerveless, nodding, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pithless,
pliable, plod, poke, poke along, pooped, powerless, prance, quiver,
rack, relaxed, roll, rubbery, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy,
sapless, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble,
shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, sinewless, single-foot, skip, slack,
sleazy, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion,
slowness, soft, spent, spineless, spiritless, stagger,
stagger along, staggering, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle,
straggle, strengthless, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut,
stumble, stump, supple, swag, swagger, swing, teeter, tired,
tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, tottering,
traipse, tread, tremble, trip, trot, trudge, unhardened, unnerved,
unstrung, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wasted, weak, weakly,
wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along, worn out
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
LIMP
["Messages in Typed Languages", J. Hunt et al, SIGPLAN Notices
14(1):27-45 (Jan 1979)].
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