Alice

Proper noun

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...
   • She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream...
   • Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany. - 2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has...
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,...
   • Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's. - 2009, N....

   Synonyms: Party A

   Coordinate Terms: Bob Eve Mallory Peggy Victor

3. The city of Alice Springs, Australia.
   • 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. - 2002, Sylvia Lawson,...
   • In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice. - 2003, Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice, page 27:
   • "Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for." - 2004, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories, page 7:
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.