wo

Wo \Wo\, n. & a.
   See {Woe}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Woe \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D.
   wee, OS. & OHG. w[=e], G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve,
   Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. {Wail}.]
   [Formerly written also {wo}.]
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   1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
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            Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
            Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. --Milton.
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            [They] weep each other's woe.         --Pope.
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   2. A curse; a malediction.
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            Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of
            vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
                                                  --South.
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   Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of
         sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." --Isa. vi. 5.
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               O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. --Chaucer.
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               Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! --Isa.
                                                  xlv. 9.
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   {Woe worth}, Woe be to. See {Worth}, v. i.
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            Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,
            That costs thy life, my gallant gray! --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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WebObjects
WO

   <operating system> {Apple Computer, Inc.}'s {application
   server} {framework} for developing dynamic {web applications}.

   WebObjects applications accept {HTTP} requests either directly
   (usually on a specific {port}) or via an adaptor that sits
   between them and the web server.  Adaptors are either {CGI}
   programs or web server plug-ins ({NSAPI} or {ISAPI}).

   The server processes special tags in {HTML} pages to produce
   dynamic but standard HTML.  Tools are provided to easily set
   and get object properties and invoke methods from these tags.
   Applications can maintain {state} over multiple {HTTP}
   request-response transactions (which are intrinsically
   stateless).  Applications can also use Apple's {Enterprise
   Object Framework} {object relational mapping} libraries for
   {object persistence} and database access.

   WebObjects was originally based on {Objective C} and a simple
   scripting language but now is more likely to be used with
   {Java}.  Versions are available for {OS X}, {Windows} and
   {Unix}.

   Apple acquired WebObjects from {NeXT}, along with {Steve
   Jobs}.

   WebObjects Home (http://apple.com/webobjects/).

   (2005-01-14)