Source : WordNet®

Ruth
     n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
          hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: {Babe Ruth}, {George
          Herman Ruth}, {Sultan of Swat}]
     2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
        the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
     3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
        others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: {commiseration},
         {pity}, {pathos}]
     4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
        was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
        stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
        [syn: {Book of Ruth}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

RUTH
     
        D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University.  Real-time language
        based on LispKit.  Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.
     
        ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming",
        D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages
        Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].