Alice

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专有名词
  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.
    — "My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
  2. The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
    — Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.
  3. The city of Alice Springs, Australia. Australia,often,slang,with-definite-article
    — At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
  4. A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  5. A city in North Dakota.
  6. A city, the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.

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Etymology tree
Old High German Adalheidbor.
Old French Alysbor.
Middle English Alice
English Alice
From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Adelaide.
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