 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Ob
noun
1: a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward
and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea [syn: {Ob
River}]
2: the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of
the mother [syn: {obstetrics}, {tocology}, {midwifery}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ob- \Ob-\ [L. ob, preposition Cf. {Epi-}.]
A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely,
etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to;
obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw
against; obovate, reversely, or oppositely, ovate. Ob- is
commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-,
and op-.
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
Ob- /ob/ pref. Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging that
the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic. For
example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone
else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author
may append 'ObSex' (or 'Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette
about some unusual erotic act. It is considered a sign of great
{winnitude} when one's Obs are more interesting than other people's
whole postings.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Ob-
/ob/ prefix Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging
that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter
topic. For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to
a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly
to do with sex, the author may append "ObSex" (or "Obsex") and
toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act.
It is considered a sign of great {winnitude} when one's Obs
are more interesting than other people's whole postings.
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