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Definitions of Nerd on the Web:

Someone so unfortunate as to believe that all conversations might productively revolve around computing and IT issues. Interestingly, only a nerd might know that the word derives from the 1950 Dr. Seuss book 'If I Ran the Zoo' from which: "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo - And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo - A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" See Geek.
www.pads.ahds.ac.uk:81/glossary2.html
那些三句话不离计算机和IT的人。有趣的是：Nerd最早出现于1950年Seuss博士的儿童读物《如果我来管动物园》：原文……略
Something akin to the term 'Geek', the exact distinction has been lost (at least by me, and this is my list!). Ages and ages ago, a group of friends, some of Electrical Engineering majors and others Computer Science majors had decided that EEs were one, and CS were the other. I don't recall which was which. I have also seen it said a nerd is someone who is immersed in technology, a geek is a nerd that enjoys it. Whatever. -O- Open Archetecture: Something good, but rarely defined past that. Our system is Open Archetecture, the competition's system is not. Few people will argue with that definition. I've seen almost every computer, including the IBM AS/400 at one time or another called "Open Archetecture" It is supposed to mean something about being able to put other manufacturers hardware and software on a system, but truely closed systems no longer exist, so now it is mostly a way of self-praise and competitor bashing.
www.nickh.org/computer/glossary.html
和geek不同的是: nerd迷失了自己，多年以前，那些电子工程系的人认为自己是前者，那些计算机系的人认为自己是后者，具体我想不起谁是谁了，nerd是指那些过度沉湎于技术，而geek虽然是nerd，但只是享受技术带来的快乐。

A person who spends too much time at the computer. A person, for example, who wanders away from dinner parties to check the computer to see whether any good electronic mail has arrived.
www.laynetworks.com/users/webs/n.htm
那些在电脑上花费太多时间的人，比如那些在在晚餐聚会上还想着去检查电子邮件的人。

The "n" word, this term is deragatory when used by outsiders, but acceptable when used to describe a fellow nerd. While geeks must be born, nerds are made, the most famous case being Bill Gates.
www.msg.net/kadow/answers/n.html
嫉妒的出局者往往会形容胜利者是nerd，但还是比较客气的，只不过geek是天生的，而nerd是后天的：最好的例子就是比尔盖茨。

1. A creature in a Dr. Seuss children's book, If I Ran the Zoo. 2. A socially inept or unattractive person. 3. A person who is more interested in pursuing intellectual interests than in keeping up with trends in fashion. Since the Internet revolution, "nerd" has become a less pejorative term, and "computer nerd" is even used with admiration.
www.aot.state.vt.us/CaddHelp/cadd/glossary/gloss_n.htm
1 来自于Dr. Seuss 的儿童读物《如果我来管动物园》中创造的词，2 社交中：比较别扭的人，3 那些喜欢追赶先进知识兴趣胜于追改时髦事务的人。随着互联网革命，nerd已经越来越少的轻蔑色彩，而且说一个人是计算机狂('Computer nerd')有时还带有一点赞扬的色彩，

An idiot totally lacking in personal hygiene and social skills.
www.kacmac.com/html/app2/
白痴：不讲个人卫生，缺乏社交能力

n. A person that tends to be immersed in cerebral interests, often at the expense of social functionality. These people can be recognized by their distinctive pit-stained polyester shirts and pocket-protectors. (See also geek)
www.earthsea.com/metrogamers/game.htm
沉浸于一些思考技术问题，通过单色衬衫和老式的Pocket-protector：可以识别出这种人，参见geek
Pocket-protector: 一种放在口袋里防止圆珠笔或钢笔漏水的塑料袋，有种衣服和工具合而唯一的感觉。

A slang term describing a computer boffin. Unlike other slang terms such as Anorak, Geek, Techie and Trainspotter, the term Nerd has acquired mainly positive connotations in recent times, as in the 1996 TV series "Triumph of the Nerds: the Rise of Accidental Empires", which tells the history of the rise of the computer boffins such as Microsfot's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs, both of whom are described as Nerds: see http://www.pbs.org/nerds.
www.hull.ac.uk/ict4lt/en/en_glossary.htm
形容计算机狂的俚语，和：ANORAK geek TECHIE和TRANSPOTTER（注：《猜火车》）不同，最近nerd已经越来越变得正面，如1996年的系列片“nerd的胜利：新帝国的成长”，表现了那些计算机狂的发展历程：微软的比尔盖茨，苹果的Steve Jobs，都被称之为“nerds”

A nerd is very similar to a geek, but with more RAM and a faster modem. Nerds often find geeks dull because geeks don't spend enough time talking about computers.
www.scotsmist.co.uk/glossary_n.html
nerd和geek差不多，但他们会用更多的内存和更好的调制解调器，nerd总是认为geek太枯燥：因为geek总是不肯花时间与他人讨论计算机。

A person with limited social, but advanced technological skills and interests.
www.vvm.com/~jhunt/compupedia/comp_glos/l_n.htm
那些不善社交，但是在技术方面能力很强而且兴趣浓厚的人。

a technically bright but socially inept person. The classic image of the nerd has been the thick-lensed glasses and plastic pocket protector. But, as computers become common, our portrayal of the nerd has become more pleasant.
www.wiseowlops.com/articles/definitions.html
技术闪光而不善言词的人，传统nerd的形象是戴着厚厚的眼镜，连衣服口袋里总是装着工具的人，随着计算机的普及，被形容为nerd越来越让人感到开心。

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
那些默不做声并且总是被挖苦的“学习狂”

我猜会用Google的define:命令的而且还用自己blog总结发表出来的，十有八九是个nerd……