wanness.html - noun
and adjective Also written wannabee (Youth Culture) In young people's slang (originally in the US): noun: An avid fan or follower who hero-worships and tries to emulate the person he or she admires, modelling personal appearance, dress, etc. on this person. Also, more generally, anyone who wants to be someone else. adjective: Aspiring, would-be; like a wannabe; inspired by envy. Etymology : A respelling of want to be (as in the sixties song I Wan'na Be Like You by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman), treated as a single word which can operate as a noun ( someone whose appearance etc. seems to say 'I wanna be like you') or an adjective. History and Usage : The noun was first used in the mid eighties to refer to White youths in the US who dressed and behaved like members of Black gangs, but were actually relatively harmless . It was probably most widely popularized, though, by its application to the female fans of the rock star Madonna, many of whom adopted a style of dress and make-up which almost turned them into Madonna look-alikes. There are also the sporting wannabes, the people who own all the kit that goes with the sport and manage to look the part, but have not yet the ability to fulfil the role. The adjective wannabe developed during the second half of the eighties. Scores of Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi wannabees raided British lingerie shops for skimpy lace and satin undies recently. Australasian Post 23 Apr. 1988, p.
16 Madonna's appeal to adoring wannabes rests less on her...personal life than her music, a blend of tweaking lyrics...and a beat that dares you not to dance . Life Fall 1989, p.
84 Today, whose in-house motto is 'Green and Greed' (it loves environment stories as well as 'wannabe' lifestyle ones) thought up a cheeky wheeze for last week's world conference in Bergen. Observer 20 May 1990, p. 49

wanness.html - {n.} A small advertisement on a special page in a newspaper that offers employment opportunities and merchandise. * /"You want a temporary job?" he asked the recent arrival in town. "Go and look at the want ads!"/

wanness.html - acronym (Science and Technology) Short for wide area network, a computer network (see networkÜ ) in which computers over a wide area are enabled to communicate and share resources. Etymology: The initial letters of Wide Area Network. History and Usage: The wide area network was developed in the early eighties to perform a similar function to the local area network (or LAN) but over longer communication links. WAN seems to have been used almost immediately as a pronounceable acronym, probably under the influence of the pre-existence of LAN. A 'WAN'--wide area network--facility so that your organisation can talk to the computers of other organisations. Your Business Mar. 1986, p.
47 One only has to have lived through a few disasters to know that an effective network management system can quite literally be worth as much as the network itself. This is why the transition to a corporatewide, LAN/WAN network can leave many LAN administrators feeling like they're living their worst nightmare. InfoWorld 14 Jan. 1991, Enterprise Computing Supplement, p. 6

wanness.html - noun
and adjective Also written wannabee (Youth Culture) In young people's slang (originally in the US): noun: An avid fan or follower who hero-worships and tries to emulate the person he or she admires, modelling personal appearance, dress, etc. on this person. Also, more generally, anyone who wants to be someone else. adjective: Aspiring, would-be; like a wannabe; inspired by envy. Etymology : A respelling of want to be (as in the sixties song I Wan'na Be Like You by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman), treated as a single word which can operate as a noun ( someone whose appearance etc. seems to say 'I wanna be like you') or an adjective. History and Usage : The noun was first used in the mid eighties to refer to White youths in the US who dressed and behaved like members of Black gangs, but were actually relatively harmless . It was probably most widely popularized, though, by its application to the female fans of the rock star Madonna, many of whom adopted a style of dress and make-up which almost turned them into Madonna look-alikes. There are also the sporting wannabes, the people who own all the kit that goes with the sport and manage to look the part, but have not yet the ability to fulfil the role. The adjective wannabe developed during the second half of the eighties. Scores of Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi wannabees raided British lingerie shops for skimpy lace and satin undies recently. Australasian Post 23 Apr. 1988, p.
16 Madonna's appeal to adoring wannabes rests less on her...personal life than her music, a blend of tweaking lyrics...and a beat that dares you not to dance . Life Fall 1989, p.
84 Today, whose in-house motto is 'Green and Greed' (it loves environment stories as well as 'wannabe' lifestyle ones) thought up a cheeky wheeze for last week's world conference in Bergen. Observer 20 May 1990, p. 49

wanness.html - adj.
1 (of a person's complexion or appearance) pale; exhausted; worn.
2 (of a star etc. or its light) partly obscured; faint.
3 archaic (of night, water, etc.) dark, black.

wanly adv. wanness n. [OE wann dark, black, of unkn. orig.]

wanness.html - n.
1 a a supposedly magic stick used in casting spells by a fairy, magician, etc. b a stick used by a conjurer for effect.
2 a slender rod carried or used as a marker in the ground.
3 a staff symbolizing some officials' authority.
4 colloq. a conductor's baton.
5 a hand-held electronic device which can be passed over a bar-code to read the data this represents. [ME prob. f. Gmc: cf. WEND, WIND(2)]