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go·pher G0176700 (gō′fər)n.1. Any of various short-tailed, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae of North America, having fur-lined external cheek pouches. Also called pocket gopher.2. Any of various ground squirrels of North American prairies.3. See gopher tortoise.
[Probably short for earlier megopher, gopher tortoise, probably of Muskogean origin; akin to Choctaw kofussa, a hollow, an excavation.]gopher (ˈɡəʊfə) n1. (Animals) Also called: pocket gopher any burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, of North and Central America, having a thickset body, short legs, and cheek pouches2. (Animals) another name for ground squirrel3. (Animals) any burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, of SE North America4. (Animals) gopher snake another name for bull snake[C19: shortened from earlier megopher or magopher, of obscure origin]go•pher1 (ˈgoʊ fər)
n. 1. Also called pocket gopher. any New World burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, having a stout body, a short tail, and external cheek pouches. 2. ground squirrel. 3. (cap.) a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname). [1785–95; earlier megopher, magopher a burrowing land tortoise] go•pher2 (ˈgoʊ fər)
n. Slang. gofer. [1925–30; resp. of gofer by association with gopher1] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | gopher - a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)gofferbusy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie, sharpy - an alert and energetic person | | 2. |  Gopher - a native or resident of Minnesota MinnesotanAmerican - a native or inhabitant of the United States | | 3. |  gopher - any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy cropsspermophile, ground squirrelsquirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tailCitellus, genus Citellus, genus Spermophilus, Spermophilus - typical ground squirrelsantelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, Citellus leucurus, whitetail antelope squirrel - small ground squirrel of western United StatesCitellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel - common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunkCitellus citellus, souslik, suslik - rather large central Eurasian ground squirrelCitellus richardsoni, flickertail, Richardson ground squirrel - of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and CanadaCitellus variegatus, rock squirrel - large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United StatesArctic ground squirrel, Citellus parryi, parka squirrel - large ground squirrel of the North American far north | | 4. |  gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North Americapocket gopher, pouched ratpocket rat - any of various rodents with cheek pouchesfamily Geomyidae, Geomyidae - North American pocket gophersGeomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher - gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North AmericaGeomys pinetis, southeastern pocket gopher - gopher of Alabama and Georgia and FloridaThomomys bottae, valley pocket gopher - of valleys and mountain meadows of western United Statesnorthern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides - greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States | | 5. |  gopher - burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North Americagopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemustortoise - usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarcticagenus Gopherus, Gopherus - gopher tortoises |
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goferOne who completes errands for someone else, typically someone significantly more powerful or important. The word is an alteration of "go for." If you need anything at all, just let me know, and I'll have my gofer get it. I hate that I'm just my boss's gofer—I mean, isn't there something more important I could be doing than running around in search of a very specific pair of black socks?gopher ballIn baseball, a pitch that the batter hits for a home run. "Gopher" is an alteration of "go for," referring either to the batter "going for" extra bases or home plate, or the ball "going for" a home run. It's 3-2—if he could just hit a gopher ball, he'd tie the game.See also: ball, gophergopher and gofer (ˈgofɚ)1. n. someone who goes for things and brings them back. (From go for.) You got a gopher who can go get some coffee? 2. n. a dupe; a pawn; an underling. The guy’s just a gofer. He has no say in anything. gofer verbSee gophergopher ball n. a baseball pitch that is hit as a home run. (When it is hit, the batter will go for home.) The center fielder did a dive over the fence trying to get the gopher ball. See also: ball, gophergopher
gopher or pocket gopher, name for the burrowing rodentsrodent,
member of the mammalian order Rodentia, characterized by front teeth adapted for gnawing and cheek teeth adapted for chewing. The Rodentia is by far the largest mammalian order; nearly half of all mammal species are rodents.
..... Click the link for more information. of the family Geomyidae, found in North America and Central America. The gopher is gray, buff, or dark brown. Its combined head and body length is 5 to 12 in. (13–30 cm) depending on the species; its tail is short. The name pocket gopher refers to the fur-lined pouches that open on the outside of its cheeks and are used for carrying food and nesting material. The gopher has extremely long upper and lower teeth, which are always exposed, and broad forepaws armed with enormous claws; it uses its teeth as picks and its forepaws as shovels as it tunnels through the ground. Because gophers do not hibernate, they must accumulate stores of food for the winter. They live and do most of their foraging underground, feeding chiefly on roots and tubers. Except for brief pairing during the mating season, gophers are solitary—a single animal occupies each tunnel system. Although their extensive, ramifying tunnels sometimes damage earth dams and banks, gophers are of some value as agents of soil aeration and in forming humus by burying organic matter. Eastern pocket gophers, species of the genus Geomys, are found in the United States from the Rocky Mts. to the Mississippi valley and on the Gulf Coast. Western pocket gophers, species of Thomomys, are found from the Rocky Mts. to the Pacific and from S Canada to the Mexican border. The Mexican pocket gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, ranges from the SW United States to central Mexico. Other genera are found in Mexico and Central America. The name gopher is also applied to the ground squirrelground squirrel,
name applied to certain terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family. In North America the name refers to members of the genus Citellus and sometimes to the closely related genera Tamias (chipmunk), Cynomys (prairie dog), and Marmota
..... Click the link for more information. in some regions. Gophers are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Geomyidae.gopher[′gō·fər] (vertebrate zoology) The common name for North American rodents composing the family Geomyidae. Also known as pocket gopher.
Gopher[′gō·fər] (computer science) A menu-based program for browsing the Internet and finding and gaining access to files, programs, definitions, and other Internet resources. gopher1. any burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, of North and Central America, having a thickset body, short legs, and cheek pouches 2. another name for ground squirrel3. any burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, of SE North America 4. gopher snake another name for bull snakegopher (networking, protocol)A distributed document retrievalsystem which started as a Campus Wide Information System atthe University of Minnesota, and which was popular in theearly 1990s.
Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like aprimitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks theMIME features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of adocument's MIME type with a one-character code for the"Gopher object type". At time of writing (2001), all Webbrowers should be able to access gopher servers, although fewgopher servers exist anymore.
Tim Berners-Lee, in his book "Weaving The Web" (pp.72-73),related his opinion that it was not so much the protocollimitations of gopher that made people abandon it in favor ofHTTP/HTML, but instead the legal missteps on the part of theuniversity where it was developed:
"It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the Universityof Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee fromcertain classes of users who wanted to use gopher. Since thegopher software being picked up so widely, the university wasgoing to charge an annual fee. The browser, and the act ofbrowsing, would be free, and the server software would remainfree to nonprofit and educational institutions. But any otherusers, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopherserver software.
"This was an act of treason in the academic community and theInternet community. Even if the university never chargedanyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it wasreserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopherprotocols meant it had crossed the line. To use thetechnology was too risky. Industry dropped gopher like a hotpotato."GopherA protocol for searching file names and resources on the Internet that presents hierarchical menus to the user. As users select options, they are moved to different Gopher servers. Where links have been established, Usenet news and other information can be read directly from Gopher.
Thousand of Servers in its Heyday
Originally introduced in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, there were more than 7,000 Gopher servers on the Internet at one time. Gopher popularity declined as content on the Web increased throughout the 1990s, and by 2007, there were barely 100 servers remaining. Gopher client support was added to Web browsers for a while, but was not always complete and later abandoned in most cases. See Veronica, Archie, Jughead, WAIS and World Wide Web.
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gopher Graduate education A denigrating term for a medical student who is treated as a scut monkey and told to get things for the department through which he or she is rotating at the time. See Rotater, Scut monkey. LegalSeeInternetFinancialSeeGoferGOPHER
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| GOPHER➣[not an acronym] older protocol for transmission of text-based documents (developed at the University of Minnesota, hence the name) |
gopher
Related to gopher: GeomyidaeSynonyms for gophernoun a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)SynonymsRelated Words- busy bee
- eager beaver
- live wire
- sharpie
- sharpy
noun a native or resident of MinnesotaSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New WorldsSynonyms- spermophile
- ground squirrel
Related Words- squirrel
- Citellus
- genus Citellus
- genus Spermophilus
- Spermophilus
- antelope chipmunk
- antelope squirrel
- Citellus leucurus
- whitetail antelope squirrel
- Citellus lateralis
- mantled ground squirrel
- Citellus citellus
- souslik
- suslik
- Citellus richardsoni
- flickertail
- Richardson ground squirrel
- Citellus variegatus
- rock squirrel
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Citellus parryi
- parka squirrel
noun burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouchesSynonymsRelated Words- pocket rat
- family Geomyidae
- Geomyidae
- Geomys bursarius
- plains pocket gopher
- Geomys pinetis
- southeastern pocket gopher
- Thomomys bottae
- valley pocket gopher
- northern pocket gopher
- Thomomys talpoides
noun burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North AmericaSynonyms- gopher tortoise
- gopher turtle
- Gopherus polypemus
Related Words- tortoise
- genus Gopherus
- Gopherus
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