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Joy - English Dictionary
 




1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
2. That which causes joy or happiness.
3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
4. To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
5. To give joy to; to congratulate.
6. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
7. To enjoy.
8. Joy A functional programming language by Manfred von Thun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functions take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters from it, and return it with any number of results on it. The concatenation of programs denotes the composition of functions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted programs, of which lists are a special case. Joy Home http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html.
9. something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

Related words

delight elated elation emotion exhilaration exuberance exultation gladden joyful joyous please positive stimulus rejoice sorrow



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