Adobe

Software company that brings us PostScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat/PDF, GoLive, InDesign, ImageReady, Pagemaker and a bunch of other stuff.

Once described as the only software developers that Microsoft wouldn't be able to run out of business.

A*do"be (a*dO"bA), n. [Sp.]

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

© Webster 1913

A*do"be (?), n.

1.

Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.]

2. (Geol.)

Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.

© Webster 1913