aids

AIDS
    n 1: a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system
         transmitted through blood products especially by sexual
         contact or contaminated needles [syn: {AIDS}, {acquired
         immune deficiency syndrome}]
    

AIDS

   <jargon> /aydz/ A* Infected Disk Syndrome ("A*" is a
   {glob} pattern that matches, but is not limited to, {Apple
   Computer}), this condition is quite often the result of
   practicing unsafe {SEX}.

   See {virus}, {worm}, {Trojan horse}, {virgin}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-04-13)
    

AIDS
       Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service
       
    

AIDS, Engl. law. Formerly they were certain sums of money granted by the
tenant to his lord in times of difficulty and distress, but, as usual in
such cases, what was received as a gratuity by the rich and powerful from
the weak and poor, was soon claimed as a matter of right; and aids became a
species of tax to be paid by the tenant to his lord, in these cases: 1. To
ransom the lord's person, when taken prisoner; 2. To make the lord's eldest
son a knight; 3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter, by giving her a
suitable portion. The first of these remained uncertain; the other two were
fixed by act of parliament at twenty shillings each being the supposed
twentieth part of a knight's fee, 2 Bl. Com. 64.