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Satire ['sætaɪə] n
comp., MS Satira (One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID 110)
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SATIRE ['sætaɪə] abbr.
abbr., el. semi-automatic technical information retrieval
mil. semiautomatic technical information retrieval
tech., abbr. semiautomatic technical information retrieval system
satire ['sætaɪə] n
lit. An attack on any idiocy or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. Satire is not solely written for entertainment purposes, but generally has an aim or agenda to present. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is an example of a satire.