dictionary.js

var exports = exports || {};

exports.dictionary = {
  currying: "The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments so that it can be called as a chain of functions, each with a single argument.",

  partial: "A function that is 'partially' executed and is ready for immediate execution given the remainder of its expected arguments.",

  closure: "A function that 'captures' values that were nearby where it was born.",

  "first-class": "Something that is just a value.  A first-class function is one that can go anywhere that any other value can go.",

  scope: "The variable value resolution scheme determining the context where a variable contains some given value."
};