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"The first three octets provide more than enough data to divine the country you are surfing from," divine???
by dennisgorelik 15y ago
"The first three octets provide more than enough data to divine the country you are surfing from,"
divine???
- cmhamill 15y agodivine v. [trans.]: to discover or locate (as water or minerals underground) usually by means of a divining rod. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine
- dennisgorelik 15y agoThat definition is not there (merriam-webster.com). Even more - when I Google for "divine v. [trans.]: to discover or locate" -- the only link is to your comment on hackerstream.
- akkartik 15y agoWow, I didn't realize they were crawling us that fast. I see that definition at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine?show=2 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine?show=2 (To not have the creators of hackerstream come crawling out of the woodwork, you may refer to it as 'that which shall not be named'.)
- yohui 15y agoYou need to click on "divine (verb)", third on the list of "entries found". Or the direct URL: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine[3] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine[3]
- caf 15y agoThe root is from the Latin word divinare - to forsee / predict / prophesy.
- losvedir 15y agoSure, doesn't sound strange to me at all. Basically a synonym for "determine". (Native English speaker, California)
- sixtofour 15y agoEver heard of a devining rod?
- sixtofour 15y agoAhem ... divining.