gopher

1. HBAa North and Central American animal like a large rat that lives in holes in the ground 〔生活在北美洲和中美洲的〕囊地鼠

2. (also Gopher) trademark a computer program that helps people find and use information quickly on the Internet Gopher程序，地鼠程序〔供在因特网上快速查找资料的计算机程序〕

Examples from the Corpus

gopher• Gophers, rather: moles would be gophers here.• You can find it, along with a great many other political documents, at a gopher called Internet Wiretap.• The ramparts are also popular among gophers and ground squirrels, whose Byzantine burrows are often a key culprit in levee breaks.• For instance, many colleges, universities and government agencies store on-line information using a system called gopher.• There are dozens of gopher computers out there, full of valuable data and open to the public.• An adult owl will normally gobble about one gopher or two mice a night, experts say.• With gophers, he searches for small mounds.

From Longman Business Dictionary

gophergo·pher /ˈgəʊfəˈgoʊfər/ (also GOPHER) noun [uncountableU]

COMPUTING a computer PROGRAM that quickly collects information from many different places across the Internet

Significant developments are taking place in the use of software, such as WAIS and GOPHER, to enable users to search multiple catalogues of holdings.

→ see also gofer

Origin gopher

(1700-1800) Perhaps from Canadian French gaufre “honeycomb”

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