Meanings
plural Haskells · alternative Hascall · alternative Heiskell
- countableuncountableA surname.
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But with Haskell having the advantage of the incumbent — losing in the primary would be a big upset — and Conklin running as a third-party independent, with her legal experience as a Clallam County prosecutor 35 years in the past, the big fight to advance to the general from the Aug. 2 primary could come down to Stephanie vs. Stefanie.
2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2025 - countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
- countableuncountablecomputer languagesA general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.
2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5 - countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.
Origin
- Old NorseÁskell
- EnglishHaskell
* The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982). * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell. Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin. * As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above. * As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.
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Arabic هاسكل
- هاسكلlanguage
Dutch Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
Esperanto Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
French Haskell, en Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
- en HaskellThe programming language
- de Haskellof or relating to Haskell
- Haskellof or relating to Haskell
German Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
Italian Haskell, Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
- Haskellof or relating to Haskell
Japanese Haskell [sic]
- Haskell [sic]language
Polish Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
Portuguese Haskell
- Haskelllanguage
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Haskell
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Haskell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell
“Haskell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Haskell,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell.
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