Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
"LISA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God is my oath". |
Date "LISA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
"LISA" is a common misspelling or typo for: lima, lira, lisp, list. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | LISA 1. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Apple Lisa was a revolutionary personal computer designed at Apple Computer during the early 1980s. Much of the design of the Lisa, which was supposedly named after the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was inspired by the graphical user interface of the Xerox Star (8010) workstation. The Lisa project was started at Apple in 1978 and slowly evolved into a project to design a powerful personal computer with a GUI that would be targeted towards business customers. Around 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project, so he joined the Macintosh project instead. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although there are obvious similarities between both systems.
The origin of the name Lisa is shrouded in mystery. Some say it is an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture, others that it was named after Steve Jobs' daughter, and that the acronym was invented later to fit the name.
The Lisa was first introduced in January 1983 (announced on January 19) at a cost of $9,995 US. It was the first personal computer to have a GUI and a mouse. The first Lisa had two 5.25 inch disk drives (nicknamed the "Twiggy" drive) and ran the Lisa OS as its operating system. It ran on a Motorola 68000 CPU and had 512K RAM. It also featured preemptive multitasking, then an extremely advanced feature for a system at this level, but one that was partially responsible for the overall slowness of the system. (The Macintosh did not receive this feature until Mac OS X). The Apple ProFile external hard drive, which was originally designed for the Apple III, could be used with the Lisa. Conceptually, the Lisa resembled the Xerox Star in the sense that it was envisioned as an office computing system; consequently, Lisa had two main user modes: the Lisa Office System and the Workshop.
The Apple Lisa turned out to be a commercial failure for Apple, the largest since the Apple III disaster of 1980. The intended business computing customers balked at Lisa's high price and largely opted to run more inexpensive IBM PCs, which were already beginning to dominate business desktop computing. The Lisa was also seen as being a bit slow in spite of its innovative interface. The nail in the coffin for Lisa was the release of the Macintosh in 1984, which helped discredit the Lisa since the Macintosh also had a GUI and mouse but was far less expensive. The Lisa, like many products, was a victim of being too far ahead of its time. Two later Lisa models were released (the Lisa 2 and the so-called Macintosh XL) before the Lisa line was discontinued in August 1986.
At a time when 96kilobytes of RAM was considered an extravagancy, much of the Lisa's high pricetag, and therefore its commercial failure, can be attributed to the large amount of ram the system came with. Computers were still being sold into the 1990s with smaller amounts of ram onboard than the Lisa had.
Computing folklore has it that Apple had a significant number of their unsold Lisas buried at a landfill.
Like other early GUI computers, working Lisas are today fairly valuable collector-items, which people will pay thousands of dollars for.
External Links
- http://dmoz.org/Computers/Systems/Apple/Lisa/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Apple Lisa."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The LISA is the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.See also: Apple Lisa
External links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "LISA."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional character on the cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith.She is the daughter of Homer and Marge Simpson; Sister of Bart and Maggie.
The brightest kid in town (although this would be disputed by Martin Prince). Her hobbies include playing the saxophone. Lisa is one of the few vegetarians in Springfield. She is seen by some to whine at times or to have persistent sense of superiority that often grows into self-aggrandizement, and is often quite gullible despite her intelligence.
See: Characters from The Simpsons.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lisa Simpson."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LISA | English | Long Term Isolation Safety Assessment(code) | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: LISA |
| Specialty definitions using "LISA": Apple Computer, Inc. ♦ Hackintosh ♦ VINCI ♦ William Gibson. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LISA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (iron), Portuguese (machine stack, stack). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, Lisa, you did it this time (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) I'm Lisa. Guess we'll be working together (Go Fish; writing credit: Adam Herz) Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Lisa, listen to me. I'm not the one who can save Toyland (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Glen MacDonough; Paul Zindel) Looking better Lisa. (Girl, Interrupted; writing credit: James Mangold) | |
Lyrics | Lisa know we kick it when we bust the dust, (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men) Got a Mona Lisa. (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) I've been seeing Lisa now, for a little over a year (I Believe; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) You're my Mona Lisa, you're my rainbow skies, (Beautiful In My Eyes; performing artist: JOSHUA KADISON) Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee I love youYou're from around the way (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Tongue Twisters | Lisa laughed listlessly. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lisa Lisa (1974) Bright and Dark Lisa (1973) Polizeiruf 110 - Der Fall Lisa Murnau (1971) Lisa dagli occhi blu (1969) Donna and Lisa (1969) | |
Song Titles | Heart of the Apple Lisa (performing artist: Jordin Kare) Moanin' Lisa Blues (performing artist: The Simpsons) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bioterrorism Preparedness Press Briefing, August 27, 2002. Moderator: Lisa Swenarski, OC. Credit: CDC. |  | Crewmembers Lisa Glover,Pat Quinanola, Matt Ofsthus, and Terry Gregg help tie up the RONALD H. BROWN in Male, capital of the Maldive Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Senior Airman Chris Hare, guitarist with the Air Force Reserve Band, accompanies recording artist Lisa Angelle during the Operation Seasons Greeting concert at Yokota AB, Japan, Nov. 27. The Yokota Air Base community kicked their heels during a night of f. |  | NRCS soil conservationist Lisa Shanks studies irrigation methods at a California vineyard. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Technician Lisa Burke packages Brassica seeds for distribution at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | ARS geneticist Lisa J. Rowland has collected leaf tissue samples from blueberry plants for DNA analysis and genome mapping. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Natural High / Lisa Pfeiffer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | And here's the famous Mona Lisa!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated, holding glasses. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Golda Lisa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |  |
| "Mona Lisa" by Richard Varga Commentary: "Mona Lisa in the Louvre." | "Lisa and her babies 1" by Guiga Müller Commentary: "Maybe the milk wasn't that good..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joe Esposito | I keep in touch with Priscilla more. Lisa has her own little group of people. A younger crowd, they don't hang around us old guys. |
Kelly Marino | Well, we were having financial problems back then. And my dad's wife, Lisa, you know her, she suggested that they stay in a boys' home for a short period of time, this was going to be a temporary thing. |
Linda Thompson | My phone rang, and it was Lisa Marie, who was only nine years old at the time, and she used to call me from time to time because we were very close. As I said, I loved her a lot then. I love her a lot now. And she said, Linda, it's Lisa. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Lisa Zannata Henn began her story by quoting her father, who promised that he would return to Normandy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "LISA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.76% of the time. "LISA" is used about 1,248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.76% | 1,245 | 6,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,248 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LISA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lisa | First name Female | 704,000 | 11 |
| Lisa | Last name | 400 | 20,128 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "LISA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God is my oath". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "LISA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Elsabeth | Female | N/A | Elizabeth |
| Elisheba | Female | Biblical | Elizabeth |
| Elizabeth | Female | Biblical | N/A |
| Elisabeth | Female | Biblical (Variant) | Elizabeth |
| Alzbeta | Female | Czech | Elizabeth |
| Else | Female | Danish | Elizabeth |
| Liesbeth | Female | Dutch | Elizabeth |
| Liesje | Female | Dutch | Elizabeth |
| Lijsbeth | Female | Dutch | Elizabeth |
| Lisanne | Female | Dutch | Lisa |
| Bess | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Bessie | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Beth | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Betsy | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Bette | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Bettie | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Betty | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elisabeth | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elise | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elissa | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Eliza | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elizabeth | Female | English | N/A |
| Elsie | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elspet | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elspeth | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Isabel | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Leesa | Female | English | Lisa |
| Libby | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lis | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lisa | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lisanne | Female | English | Lisa |
| Lise | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Liz | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Liza | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lizbeth | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lizzie | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Lizzy | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Tetty | Female | English | Elizabeth |
| Elisabeth | Female | French | Elizabeth |
| Isabel | Female | French | Elizabeth |
| Lisette | Female | French | Elizabeth |
| Elisabeth | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Elli | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Else | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Ilse | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Liesa | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Liese | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Liesel | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Liesl | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Lili | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Lisbeth | Female | German | Elizabeth |
| Elisavet | Female | Greek | Elizabeth |
| Elikapeka | Female | Hawaiian | Elizabeth |
| Erzsébet | Female | Hungarian | Elizabeth |
| Eilís | Female | Irish | Elizabeth |
| Elisabetta | Female | Italian | Elizabeth |
| Elisheva | Female | Jewish | Elizabeth |
| Elisaveta | Female | Macedonian | Elizabeth |
| Ealisaid | Female | Manx | Elizabeth |
| Elzbieta | Female | Polish | Elizabeth |
| Isabel | Female | Portuguese | Elizabeth |
| Elisabeta | Female | Romanian | Elizabeth |
| Elizaveta | Female | Russian | Elizabeth |
| Elisabet | Female | Scandinavian | Elizabeth |
| Lis | Female | Scandinavian | Elizabeth |
| Lisbet | Female | Scandinavian | Elizabeth |
| Ealasaid | Female | Scottish | Elizabeth |
| Elspet | Female | Scottish | Elizabeth |
| Elspeth | Female | Scottish | Elizabeth |
| Alzbeta | Female | Slovak | Elizabeth |
| Elizabeta | Female | Slovene | Elizabeth |
| Elian | Male | Spanish | Elizabeth |
| Isabel | Female | Spanish | Elizabeth |
| Bethan | Female | Welsh | Elizabeth |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LISA": Lisa-jane, Lisa-x. | |
Ending with "LISA": Anna-lisa. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
guerrero lisa | 6,652 | lisa matthew | 232 |
lisa marie presley | 3,413 | lisa nicole carson | 226 |
lisa | 2,769 | lisa marie presley picture | 220 |
lisa raye | 2,451 | lisa scott lee | 217 |
mona lisa | 2,179 | gleave lisa | 215 |
lisa boyle | 1,855 | lisa simpson | 209 |
lisa dergan | 1,534 | dergen lisa | 207 |
lisa lipps | 1,271 | lisa ann | 206 |
lisa rinna | 1,035 | joyner lisa | 203 |
lisa marie scott | 747 | lisa robin kelly | 190 |
lisa bonet | 691 | lisa leslie | 190 |
lisa kudrow | 623 | guererro lisa | 188 |
lisa ray | 568 | lisa presley | 183 |
lisa marie | 562 | lisa stansfield | 180 |
lisa loeb | 495 | eye left lisa lopez | 169 |
lisa frank | 463 | eye left lisa lopes | 169 |
lisa ling | 414 | lisa maffia | 168 |
lisa barbuscia | 315 | guerro lisa | 164 |
lisa lopez | 304 | ligon lisa | 159 |
lisa snowdon | 238 | lisa lopes | 157 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "LISA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | antenne spatiale à interférométrie laser. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isalay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words containing "LISA": balisaur, balisaurs, calisaya, calisayas, civilisation, civilisations, externalisation, externalisations, generalisation, generalisations, lexicalisation, lexicalisations, palisade, palisaded, palisades, palisading, specialisation, specialisations, totalisator, totalisators. (additional references) | |
| |
"LISA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alisma, Alisya, Cisa, Clisham, Gisa, Iisi, Ilissa, Ilja, Ilshat, Lesa, Licua, Liestal, Lifa, liisa, Lipa, Lisas, lisbay, Liscano, Lisef, lisi, Liskamm, Lisov, lisq, Lissack, Lissek, Lisu, Litag, Litva, lixa, Loisach, Luisi, lusa, Luzma, Lyosha, lysa, Lysak, Lysg, Olisa, Pliska, Ulias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ails, sail, sial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ail, ais, als, las, lis, sal. | |
-2 letters: ai, al, as, is, la, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: aisle, alias, alifs, alist, anils, arils, axils, bails, basil, dials, fails, glias, hails, jails, kails, laics, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, limas, liras, litas, mails, nails, pails, rails, rials, sails, salic, salmi, sials, silva, sisal, slain, snail, spail, swail, tails, vails, vials, wails. | |
+2 letters: aaliis, ablins, abseil, aiolis, aisled, aisles, alcids, algins, alibis, aliens, aligns, alines, aliyas, aliyos, alkies, allies, aloins, alsike, anvils, argils, ariels, assail, assoil, aswirl, avails, basils, bialis, bialys, blains, brails, brasil, califs, caulis, cavils, claims, dalasi, deasil, dismal, distal, drails, dulias, easily, elains, emails, espial, falsie, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, frails, gaslit, glacis, glairs, grails, halids, ideals, iliads, inlays, instal, island, kalifs, kiblas, ladies, laichs, laighs, lairds, lamias, lanais, lapins, lasing, lassie, lathis, latish, lavish, lazies, liaise, lianas, lianes, liangs, liards, libras, lidars, ligans, ligase, lilacs, limans, limbas, limpas, linacs, lingas, lipase, mailes, maills, mesial, miauls, milpas, miskal, mislay, missal, nasial, oxalis, palais, palish, pastil, phials, pibals, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pipals, plaids, plains, plaits, quails, resail, rivals, riyals, sailed, sailer, sailor, salami, salify, salina, saline, saliva, salmis, salpid, saltie, saluki, salvia, samiel, scilla, serail, serial, sheila, sialic, sialid, signal, silage, silane, silica, silvae, silvan, silvas, sisals, smalti, smilax, snails, social, spails, spinal, spiral, spital, stelai, swails, tahsil, tallis, ticals, tilaks, trails, trials, urials, vakils, valise, villas, vinals, violas, visual, vitals, vizsla, walies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.