Alice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪs/
rhymes: -ælɪs
Etymology: From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Adelaide.
Senses: examples: text: "My name is Alice, but—"
"It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
"Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 6:
text: She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
ref: 1968, Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House, Delacorte Press, page xiv:
text: Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.
ref: 2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.
examples: text: Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.
ref: 1978, V.S. Bagad, I.A. Dhotre, Computer Networks, Technical Publications, →ISBN:
text: Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.
ref: 2009, N. David Mermin, It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
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synonyms: Party A
coordinate_terms: Bob
Eve
Mallory
Peggy
Victor
glosses: The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
examples: text: At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
ref: 2002, Sylvia Lawson, “Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance”, in How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays, page 17:
text: In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.
ref: 2003, Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice, page 27:
text: "Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
ref: 2004, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories, page 7:
glosses: The city of Alice Springs, Australia.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.
Derived terms: Alice band
Alice blue
Alice in Wonderland
Alice's fern
Alice Springs
Related terms: sense: given names
word: Adelaide
sense: given names
word: Alicia
sense: given names
word: Alison
sense: given names
word: Allison
sense: given names
word: Alyssa
sense: given names
word: Heidi
word: Bob