Meaning of super | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In any of various contexts, a specifically named instance of a super, such as a particular superintendent, supervisor, or super-weapon.
2. Clipping of superannuation.
   Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal
3. Clipping of supercomputer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
4. Clipping of superhero.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, slang
5. Clipping of superhive.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
6. Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal
7. Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, neologism
8. Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
9. Clipping of supertanker.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
10. Clipping of supervisor.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
11. A superimposed caption or image.
    colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.”

““I want to make it clear, compassionate release of super should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said.”

“The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.”

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.”

“There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.”

“For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.”

“The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.”

“That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.”

“Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry.”

“You better call the Super if you want your repairs done [the specific superintendent in the implicit context of a specific apartment building; parallel with "President" versus "president"]”

“Teller and Oppenheimer discussing the feasibility of the Super [super atomic bomb, i.e., as later known, the hydrogen bomb]”

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