Ruth
Pronunciation: rųth
| n. | 1. | Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. |
| 2. | That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. |
| Noun | 1. |  Ruth - United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) |
| 2. | Ruth - the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament | |
| 3. |  ruth - a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" | |
| 4. | Ruth - a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died Synonyms: Book of Ruth |
| RUTH - D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University. Real-time language
based on LispKit. Uses timestamps and real-time clocks. ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming", D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314]. |