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(glĭb) 
adj., glib·ber, glib·best.
glibness glib'ness n.
adj., glib·ber, glib·best.
- Performed with a natural, offhand ease: was fascinated by his unfailingly glib conversation.
- Characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern.
[Possibly of Low German origin.]
glibly glib'ly adv.glibness glib'ness n.
SYNONYMS glib, slick, smooth-tongued. These adjectives mean being, marked by, or engaging in ready but often insincere or superficial discourse: a glib denial; a slick commercial; a smooth-tongued hypocrite.
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"Glib" is what Tom Cruise called his interviewer, Matt Lauer, on the Today show, when Lauer asked him about his well-known opposition to psychiatric drugs:
"'Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib,' Cruise responded. 'You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done.'"
Link: Cruise, Lauer argue on 'Today'
Posted June 26, 2005.
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glib
adjective
- Characterized by ready but often insincere or superficial discourse: facile, slick, smooth-tongued. See surface/depth, words.
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adj
Definition: slick, smooth-talking
Antonyms: inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, taciturn, tongue-tied, uncommunicative
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IN BRIEF: Ready and smooth but not sincere.
Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue.
— Peter F. Drucker.
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Glib
- Release Date: 1983
- Genre: Traditional
- Style: Board Game
Game Description
Created by board game manufacturer Selchow & Richter, Glib is an interesting word game, which in itself is an odd genre to find on the Atari VCS. Two rows of seven blocks each are displayed on the screen, and at the beginning of each round random letters cycle through the seven upper blocks. At the press of the action button, the letters are halted, and one is moved to the first block of the lower row -- and now the player has to come up with an actual word by moving the seven available letters around.As with Scrabble, each letter has an individual point value, so in some cases -- where possible -- the more unusual the word, the better. If nothing can be done with the letters presented, players can move their joystick-controlled cursor to the "Pass" button and reject the current selection, starting over again from the beginning of the round. Glib can be played with or without a time limit, with one or two players, and there's even a game variation in which the letters in the upper row scroll relentlessly from right to left. (Oddly, the number of players is determined by the setting of the left difficulty switch -- "A" for one player, "B" for two.)
Glib is a neat little game, and unique in the Atari VCS library, but it's far better suited to a computer with a drag-and-drop capability; as much as an Atari VCS word game was unusual in itself, many casual players may not have the patience to do the joystick jockeying necessary to play it. But it's also one of the rarest cartridges in the entire Atari VCS library, so anyone who's looking for it now probably can't be described as a "casual player" by any means.
~ Earl Green, All Game Guide
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Not to be confused with glibc, the GNU implementation of the C standard library or gnulib, a portability library.
| Developer(s) | GNOME Foundation |
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| Stable release | 2.32.1 / April 14, 2012 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Library |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/ |
GLib is a cross-platform software utility library that began as part of the GTK+ project. However, before releasing version 2 of GTK+, the project's developers decided to separate non-GUI-specific code from the GTK+ platform, thus creating GLib as a separate product. GLib was released as a separate library so other developers, those who did not make use of the GUI-related portions of GTK+, could make use of the non-GUI portions of the library without the overhead of depending on a full-blown GUI library.
Since GLib is a cross-platform library, applications using it to interface with the operating system are usually portable across different operating systems without major changes.[1]
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Features
GLib provides advanced data structures, such as memory chunks, doubly and singly linked lists, hash tables, dynamic strings and string utilities, such as a lexical scanner, string chunks (groups of strings), dynamic arrays, balanced binary trees, N-ary trees, quarks (a two-way association of a string and a unique integer identifier), keyed data lists, relations and tuples. Caches provide memory management.
GLib implements functions that provide threads, thread programming and related facilities such as primitive variable access, mutexes, asynchronous queues, secure memory pools, message passing and logging, hook functions (callback registering) and timers. Also message passing facilities such as byte order conversion and I/O channels.
Some other features of GLib include:
- standard macros
- warnings and assertions
- dynamic loading of modules
- a type system, GType
- an object system, GObject
Similar projects
For many applications, C with GLib is an alternative to C++ with STL (see GObject for a detailed comparison).
The Apache Portable Runtime has a large functional overlap with GLib, and provides many similar OS-portable threading, network and data structure implementations in C.
Other widget toolkits usually also provide low-level functions and implementations of data structures. For instance, in the wxWidgets library the non-GUI functions are in the wxBase library, and in Qt the non-GUI parts are in the QtCore module, which is written in C++.
Components
GLib package consists of 5 libraries:
References
- ^ Krause, Andrew (2007). Foundations of GTK+ Development. Expert's Voice in Open Source. Apress. p. 5. ISBN 1-59059-793-1. "[GLib] provides a cross-platform interface that allows your code to be run on any of its supported operating systems with little to no rewriting of code!"
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Translations:
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Glib
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rapmundet, letflydende og overfladisk
Nederlands (Dutch)
welbespraakt maar onoprecht, gemakkelijk/ informeel, ondoordacht, oppervlakkig, ongehinderd
Français (French)
adj. - désinvolte
Deutsch (German)
adj. - zungenfertig, gewandt, aalglatt
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μαλαγάνικος
Italiano (Italian)
loquace, sciolto (discorso, movimento), levigato
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - desembaraçado, fluente, loquaz
Русский (Russian)
чуб, бойкий на язык, правдоподобный, податливый, гладкий, делать гладким, двигаться плавно
Español (Spanish)
adj. - de mucha labia, locuaz, poco sincero
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lätt och ledig, hal (åld.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
能说善道的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 能說善道的
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 口の達者な, 屈託のない
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) عفوي, طبيعي
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - קל-לשון, מהיר-דיבור, לא רציני, חלק, לא אמיתי
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