AIDS
    n 1: a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system
         transmitted through blood products especially by sexual
         contact or contaminated needles [syn: AIDS, acquired
         immune deficiency syndrome]

AIDS
       Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service
       

AIDS

    /aydz/ A* Infected Disk Syndrome ("A*" is a
   glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple
   Computer), this condition is quite often the result of
   practicing unsafe SEX.

   See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-04-13)

AIDS, Engl. law. Formerly they were certain sums of money granted by the
tenant to his lord in times of difficulty and distress, but, as usual in
such cases, what was received as a gratuity by the rich and powerful from
the weak and poor, was soon claimed as a matter of right; and aids became a
species of tax to be paid by the tenant to his lord, in these cases: 1. To
ransom the lord's person, when taken prisoner; 2. To make the lord's eldest
son a knight; 3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter, by giving her a
suitable portion. The first of these remained uncertain; the other two were
fixed by act of parliament at twenty shillings each being the supposed
twentieth part of a knight's fee, 2 Bl. Com. 64.