HARBOUR

Harbour

Harbour is a modern computer programming language, primarily used to create database/business programs. It is a modernized, open sourced and cross-platform version of the older and largely DOS-only Clipper system, which in turn developed from the dBase database market of the 1980s and 90s.

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harbour

Noun


  1. Shelter, refuge.
  2. A place of shelter or refuge.
    The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
  3. A house of the zodiac.
  4. A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
    The city has an excellent natural harbour.
  5. The mansion of a heavenly body.
  6. A mixing box for materials in glass-working.

Verb

  1. To provide shelter or refuge for.
    The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
  2. To accept, as with a belief.
    That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.


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