Definition: mad

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

mad
     adj 1: (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"-
            Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so
            early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
            [syn: huffy, sore]
     2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
        [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed,
         sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
     3: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of
        delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their
        gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited,
         frantic, unrestrained]
     4: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind
        the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge
        between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mad \Mad\, n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.]
   1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]

   2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies;
      and hence, sometimes, any fairy. --Shak.

Mad \Mad\, obs.
   p. p. of Made. --Chaucer.

Mad \Mad\, a. [Compar. Madder; superl. Maddest.] [AS. gem?d,
   gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel.
   mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.]
   1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

            I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of
            griefs would make men mad.            --Shak.

   2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason;
      inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or
      appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad
      against political reform.

            It is the land of graven images, and they are mad
            upon their idols.                     --Jer. 1. 88.

            And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
            them even unto strange cities.        --Acts xxvi.
                                                  11.

   3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing
      distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme
      rashness. ``Mad demeanor.'' --Milton.

            Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years
            of peace.                             --Franklin.

            The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd.).

   4. Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.'' --Shak.
      ``Fetching mad bounds.'' --Shak.

   5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the
      lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia;
      rabid; as, a mad dog.

   6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
      [Colloq.]

   7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
      [Colloq.]

   Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to
      run like mad. --L'Estrange.

   To run mad.
      (a) To become wild with excitement.
      (b) To run wildly about under the influence of
          hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.

   To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of
      infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running
      mad after farce.'' --Dryden.

Mad \Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Madded; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Madding.]
   To make mad or furious; to madden.

         Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would
         have madded me.                          --Shak.

Mad \Mad\, v. i.
   To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. [Archaic]
   --Chaucer.

         Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.
                                                  --Wyclif
                                                  (Acts).

Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and
   prob. to E. moth.] (Zo["o]l.)
   An earthworm. [Written also made.]

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

MAD

   <language> 1. Michigan Algorithm Decoder.

   2. A data flow language.

   ["Implementation of Data Structures on a Data Flow Computer",
   D.L. Bowen, Ph.D. Thesis, Victoria U Manchester, Apr 1981].

   (1999-12-10)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001

MAD
        Memory Address Driver strength (BIOS)

MAD
        Message Address Directory

MAD
        Militaerischer AbschirmDienst (mil., org.)

MAD, adj.  Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence;
not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by
the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority;
in short, unusual.  It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad
by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane.  For
illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no
firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any
madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead
of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he
may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum
and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many
thoughtless spectators.