hamming

Definition of hamming in English English dictionary: poor acting by a ham actor
hamming up: Simple past of ham up
Ham: A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
ham: Archaic spelling of home
ham: The thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat
ham: An actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style
ham: To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions
ham: A person whose hobby is ham radio
ham: The back of the thigh
ham: The thigh of a hog cured for food
ham: Ham is meat from the top of the back leg of a pig, specially treated so that it can be kept for a long period of time. ham sandwiches
ham: {i} smoked meat from the hindquarter of a hog; bad actor; amateur radio operator
ham: If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused. Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad. In the Bible, a son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem. hammed hamming ham it up to perform with too much false emotion when acting. Cut of meat consisting of the thigh of a hog, usually preserved through a curing process that involves salting and smoking or drying. In addition to preserving the meat, curing gives it additional flavour. Sugar or honey and spices are sometimes added to further enhance flavour. Produced throughout the Old World except where forbidden by religious edict (principally by observant Muslims and Jews), ham became a favoured food on farms of North America. The distinctive qualities of hams of various regions of the world result from unique combinations of hog-raising and meat-processing techniques. Virginia hams, for example, are cut from razorback hogs fed on peanuts and peaches and smoked over apple-and hickory-wood fires. Ham is a source of high-grade animal protein, thiamine, and iron
ham: {n} a leg of pork cured, end of the thigh, house
Richard Wesley Hamming: born Feb. 11, 1915, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 7, 1998, Monterey, Calif. U.S. mathematician. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. In 1945 he was the chief mathematician for the Manhattan Project. After the war, he joined Claude E. Shannon at Bell Laboratories, where in 1950 he invented Hamming codes. He realized that, by the appending of a parity check (an extra bit or block of bits) to each transmitted "word," transmission errors could be corrected automatically, without having to resend the message. He is famous for saying, "The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers." He received the Turing Award in 1968
ham: (Old Testament) son of Noah
ham: The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking
ham: According to Genesis, a son of Noah (Gen 5: 32; 6: 10; 7: 13; 9: 18, 22) and the father of Canaan (Gen 9: 22), Ham was considered the progenitor of various nations in Phoenicia, Africa, and West Arabia (1 Chron 8) "The land of Ham" is usually taken to be Egypt (Pss 78: 51; 105: 23; etc )
ham: A hind leg of pork/hog cured in various ways The leg is cut from the carcase and brined seperately Ham may be cooked, raw or smoked The french term Jambon refers to ham and also to a leg of fresh pork see also Ham pictures see also cooking a Ham
ham: n daging babi (daging)
ham: One of the sons of Noah; he abused his father and Canaan, his son, was cursed for it
ham: The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock
ham: (Virginia, Smithfield) The nearest tasting to Chinese ham Very salty
ham: janbon
ham: Home
ham: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
ham: exaggerate one's acting
ham: a licensed amateur radio operator
ham: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) an unskilled actor who overacts a licensed amateur radio operator (Old Testament) son of Noah
ham: an amateur radio operator; not no be confused with DXer and DXing
ham: an unskilled actor who overacts
ham: Sanskrit word meaning the gross body or instrument of the soul The soul is the doer and the gross body is the instrument Ham also refers to the ego