Word Power Made Easy

I would like to blog the new words that i find on a day to day basis and keep adding them to this blog post.

dog-ear
:a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place
:to fold down the corner of (a page in a book).

tykes
:any small child.
:a small kids esp a small boy

dissident
:disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude: a ban on dissident magazines.

bon mot
:a witty remark or comment;clever saying;witticism.

serendipity
:an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
:good fortune; luck: the serendipity of getting the first job she applied for.

moppet
:a young child.

patina
:a surface calcification of implements, usu. indicating great age.
:a similar film or coloring appearing gradually on some other substance.

oktoberfest
:an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer

gadfly
:a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc

rolodex
: a small desktop file containing cards for names, addresses, and phone numbers.

ameliorate
:to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.

dissonance
:inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.

hubris
:excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

goo
:a thick or sticky substance.
:maudlin sentimentality.

shod
:a pt. and pp. of shoe.

slush
:partly melted snow.
:a mixture of grease and other materials for lubricating.

prattle
:to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.

misogynistic
: having or showing a hatred and distrust of women.

trenches
: a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.

codger
:an eccentric man, esp who is old.

squalor
:the condition of being squalid, filth and misery

gork
:to understand thoroughly and intuitively.

confetti
: small bits of paper, usually colored, thrown or dropped from a height to enhance the gaiety of a festive event, as a parade, wedding, or New Year's Eve party.

Heffalump : Stuffed Animal.

grub
:an unkempt person.
:any remaining roots or stumps after cutting vegetation to clear land for farming.

synapses
:to join together

tempeh
:a fermented soybean cake.

snarky
:testy or irritable; short.

randy
:rude and aggressive

slimeball
:thin, glutinous mud.
:a viscous secretion of animal or vegetable origin.

loopy
:eccentric or crazy
:befuddled or confused, esp. due to intoxication.

rake
:an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.

ennui
:a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom

hag
:an ugly woman.

parole
:the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed.

salacious
: lustful or lecherous

heinrich
:a male given name, Germanic form of Henry.

bonnet
:a hat, usually tying under the chin and often framing the face, formerly much worn by women but now worn mostly by children.

clogs
:a shoe or sandal with a thick sole of wood, cork, rubber, or the like.

duvet
:a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter. 

garret
:an attic, usually a small, wretched one.

encore
:again; once more (used by an audience in calling for an additional number or piece).
:to call for a repetition of.

coffers
: a box or chest esp. for valuables
: a treasury, fund

bot
: the larva of a bot fly.

zeus
:The principal god of the Greek pantheon, ruler of the heavens, and father of other gods and mortal heroes.

strut
:to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.

dossier
:a collection of files or documents on the same subject. esp. a complete file containing detailed information about a person or topic.

critters
:a domestic animal
:any creature

risque
:daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; off-color: a risqué story.
:indecent

schmaltz
:exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
:fat or grease, esp. of a chicken.

heist
:a robbery or holdup

helmsmanship
:a man who steers a ship.

bard
:any poet
:a person who composed and recited epic and heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre or the like.

sobriquet
:a nick name

protean
:readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
:versatile; able to play many kinds of roles.

portmanteau
:a case or bag to carry clothing in especially while traveling, esp. a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.

pegging
:to drive or insert a peg into.
:to fasten with or with pegs
:to stike or pierce with or as with a peg.

viscera
:the organs in the cavities of the body, esp. those in the abdominal cavity.
:the intestines; bowels.

ubiquitous
:existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time;omnipresent.

puerile
:of or pertaining to a child or to childhood.
:childishly foolish; immature or trivial

pilfer
:to steal especially in small quantities

charette
:a final, intensive effort to finish a project, esp. an architectural design project, before a deadline.

neanderthal
:primitive, unenlightened, or reactionary; culturally or intellectually backward.
:a reactionary; a person with very old-fashioned ideas.

pedants
:a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
:a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
:a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.

pharaoh
:a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
:any person who uses power or authority to oppress others; tyrant.

incest
:sexual intercourse between closely related persons
:the crime of sexual intercourse, cohabitation, or marriage between persons within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden.

labyrinth
:an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.
:a mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a church.

Limbo
:a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs).
:a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date
:an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place

Luge
:a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used esp. in Europe.

craven
:cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
:a coward

perseids
:any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus

coven
:An assembly of 13 witches.

axletree
:a bar, fixed crosswise under an animal-drawn vehicle, with a rounded spindle at each end upon which a wheel rotates.

linchpin
:a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
:something that holds the various elements of a complicated structure together.

bushel
:a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel), and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel). Abbreviation: bu., bush.
:a container of this capacity.
:a unit of weight equal to the weight of a bushel of a given commodity.
:a large, unspecified amount or number.

laxatives
:a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
:of, pertaining to, or constituting a laxative; purgative.
:Stimulating evacuation of the bowels.

bulima
:abnormally voracious appetite or unnaturally constant hunger.
:a habitual disturbance in eating behavior mostly affecting young women of normal weight, characterized by frequent episodes of grossly excessive food intake followed by self-induced vomiting to avert weight gain.

troll
:to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
:to cause to turn round and round; roll.
:to roll; turn round and round.
:a lure used in trolling for fish.

marmite
:a metal or earthenware cooking pot with a cover, usually large and often having legs.
:A small covered earthenware casserole designed to hold an individual serving.

yak shaving
:Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.

amygdala
:an almond-shaped part, as a tonsil.
:a ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression.

crater
:a circular or almost circular area having a depressed floor, almost always containing a central mountain and usually completely enclosed by walls that are often higher than those of a walled plain; ring formation; ring.

jinx
:a person, thing, or influence supposed to bring bad luck
:to destroy the point of: His sudden laugh jinxed the host's joke

mulligan
: Also called mulligan stew. a stew containing meat, vegetables, etc., esp. one made of any available ingredients.
: Golf. a shot not counted against the score, permitted in unofficial play to a player whose previous shot was poor.

staid
: of settled or sedate character; not flight or capracious.
: fixed, settled or premanent.

Java Stored Procedures

Its been a very long time that I have been wanting to execute some java stored procedures in the oracle database. And today finally I got to learn how to do them. This link clearly explained how we can execute java programs in the database and how we can create database procedures to call the java programs. With the help of the above link i created a sample HelloWorld program to be executed on my 11g database.

Below is a simple HelloWorld program that i wrote in java.

public class HelloWorld {
public static void printHello(String name) {
System.out.println("Hello "+name);
}
}

using the below statement I compiled the above code in the database.

loadjava -u nreddy/nreddy -v -j -t HelloWorld.java

After that i create a package with the below specification and body.

create or replace package Hello_World is

procedure Print_Hello(name varchar2);

end Hello_World;
/

create or replace package body Hello_World is

procedure Print_Hello(name varchar2) as language java
name 'HelloWorld.printHello(java.lang.String)';

end Hello_World;
/

Then i set the serveroutput on and execute the below procedure.

exec dbms_java.set_output(2000);

call hello_world.print_hello('Nirmala');

SQL> call hello_world.print_hello('Nirmala');
Hello Nirmala

Call completed.

Isn't that pretty cool. I know its very basic but I am extremely delighted to know how to execute a java program in Oracle.