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Verb
/ˈhōmər/,
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homers, plural;
  1. Hit a home run
    • - he homered for the sixth time in seven games
Noun
  1. A home run

  2. A homing pigeon

  3. A referee or official who is thought to favor the team playing at home

  1. hit a home run
  2. a base hit on which the batter scores a run
  3. ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
  4. an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs
  5. United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)
  6. homing pigeon: pigeon trained to return home
  7. Homer is a crater on Mercury.
  8. The Burpee Museum of Natural History is located along the Rock River in downtown Rockford, Illinois at 737 North Main Street.
  9. Homer is a town in Banks County, Georgia, United States. The population was 950 at the 2000 census. The city of Homer has a mayor, Doug Cheek, and five City Councilpersons, Sandra Garrison, Jerry Payne, Chris Tucker, Keven Cape. and Betty Boarders. The city is the county seat of Banks County.
  10. Homer, from Blue Cow Software, was an IRC client for Apple Inc. Macintosh computer systems during the 1990s. It featured an icon view of users in a channel, which would animate when the user posted something to the channel. It also provided notification of incoming CTCP Finger commands. ...
  11. This is a list of current and former Major League Baseball mascots, sorted alphabetically.
  12. A homer (חמר; also kor, כּר) is a unit of volume used by ancient Hebrews for liquids. 1 homer is equal to 10 baths. 1 homer equals 220 litre or 220dm3.
  13. (Homeric) Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer; Epic, heroic, fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer
  14. (HOMERS) Is the acronym for a class of securities initially known as Home Owner Marketable Equity Receipt Securities. This innovative financial vehicle allows for the securitization and hedging the equity-side of real estate. Previously, only hedges were doable for the debt-side of the equation.
  15. A home run. Other terms include: blast, dinger, dong, four-bagger, four-base knock, moon shot, tape-measure blast and tater.
  16. 1) Harry, Skip, and Chip Caray, for their epic poetry.
  17. Literally a "donkey load". [1] An area measure equivalent to about 1.8 ha; [2] also a large capacity measure, equivalent to about 80-100 litres.
  18. Heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev 27:16; Num 11:32) = a COR. (See OMER.) "Half a homer," a grain measure mentioned only in Hos 3:2.
  19. First Greek poet, who lived sometime before 700 According to legend he was blind. His narrative poems the Iliad and the Odyssey rank among the great masterpieces of Western literature. Alexander the Great (q.v.) kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow at night, along with his dagger.
  20. Marvelous esp. in The Odyssey. [This entry will be developed]
  21. "homing" locator device or tactical beacon, a transponder; see LOCATOR BEACON. [cf: Selective Identification Feature (SIF); Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)]
  22. a Unix based server intended for academic research and access to curriculum-based applications such as: Minitab, Matlab, SAS and Mathematica. It currently serves as the University's main web server with Athena, but complete migration (of student accounts) to Athena is underway.
  23. A housebound or handicapped AA member. Since homers can attend few AA meetings, they rely on the Big Book, telephone, or written correspondence to stay sober.
  24. A liquid measurement of about 78 gallons.
  25. Car Homer designed, ruining Herb's company. $82,000 if you're interested.