B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

The highest grade amethyst ( called " Deep Russian ") is exceptionally rare and therefore, when one is found, its value is dependent on the demand of collectors.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

The arrow's manufacturer ( a " fletcher ") can arrange fletching to cause the arrow to rotate along its axis.

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

The Arc de Triomphe ( in English: " Triumphal Arch ") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces.

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.

West Berlin was surrounded by East German territory and East Germany proclaimed East Berlin ( described as " Berlin ") as its capital, a move that was not recognized by the western powers.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

6 ), Uzziah's tzaraas ( commonly translated as " leprosy ") and its cause ( 2 Chr.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

Under his command, a modern update of the doctrinal system called Bewegungskrieg (" maneuver warfare ") and its associated leadership system called Auftragstaktik (" mission tactics "; i. e., units are assigned missions ; local commanders decide how to achieve those missions ) was developed, which was a critical advantage and a major reason for the success of blitzkrieg.

In Czech, the region since the early Middle Ages has been called only Čechy (" Czech ") or Království české (" Czech Kingdom "), and its mainly Czech-speaking inhabitants were called Čechové ( in modern Czech Češi ).

For example, some people pronounce ( meaning " fish ") as, the " r " is dropped and the vowel begins by dipping much lower in tone than standard speech and then rises, effectively doubling its length.

In cold caves, the caver may wear a warm base layer that retains its insulating properties when wet, such as a fleece (" furry ") suit and / or polypropylene underwear, and an oversuit of hard-wearing ( e. g., cordura ) and / or waterproof ( e. g., PVC ) material.

This last term (" von Neumann machine ") is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture proposed by von Neumann, so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

In Samoa the constellation is called Sumu (" triggerfish ") because of its rhomboid shape, while α and β Centauri are called Luatagata ( Two Men ), just as they are in Tonga.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Some Modern Orthodox leaders cooperate and work with the Conservative movement, while haredi (" Ultra-Orthodox ") Jews often eschew formal contact with Conservative Judaism, or at least its rabbinate.

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

Mesopotamia ( from the: " between rivers "; ( bilād al-rāfidayn ); ( beth nahrain ): " land of rivers ") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris – Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.

" eve day atonement ") is the day preceding Yom Kippur, corresponding to the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.

* In the Romanian language, the vast majority of adverbs are simply the masculine singular form of the corresponding adjective – one notable exception being bine (" well ") / bun (" good ").

In most cases the number of these states is two, and they are represented by two voltage bands: one near a reference value ( typically termed as " ground " or zero volts ) and a value near the supply voltage, corresponding to the " false " (" 0 ") and " true " (" 1 ") values of the Boolean domain respectively.

Full and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences had access to still higher level of service (" akademicheskiy zakaz ") and were eligible to live in cottages, considered luxurious by Soviet standards, as most of the population lived in apartments situated in nine-and four-story multi-apartment buildings.

" improvised-borrowed-words ") come into use when a native spoken word has no corresponding character, and hence another character with the same or a similar sound ( and often a close meaning ) is " borrowed "; occasionally, the new meaning can supplant the old meaning.

Tinnitus ( or ; from the Latin word tinnītus meaning " ringing ") is the perception of sound within the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound.

Analogy ( from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, " proportion ") is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject ( the analogue or source ) to another particular subject ( the target ), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.

The sum of two m × n ( pronounced " m by n ") matrices A and B, denoted by A + B, is again an m × n matrix computed by adding corresponding elements:

The ancient Greeks had no terms corresponding to " to create " or " creator " except for the expression " poiein " (" to make "), which only applied to poiesis ( poetry ) and to the poietes ( poet, or " maker ") who made it.

The left black bar shows all the chairpersons ( Bundesparteiobleute, abbreviated as " CP ") of the ÖVP party, and the right bar shows the corresponding make-up of the Austrian government at that time.

Those who want to listen to them send a corresponding RESV ( short for " Reserve ") message which then traces the path backwards to the sender.

These objects are usually called the sites or the generators ( but other names are used, such as " seeds ") and to each such object one associates a corresponding Voronoi cell, namely the set of all

English words for mathematics typically have Greek and Latin roots, while corresponding Chinese words are usually translations of neologisms from Western languages ; thus quadrilateral ( from Latin quadri-" four " and latus " sided ") is generally less informative than Chinese sibianxing 四邊形 ( literally, " four-side-shape ").

In addition, an epoch optionally prefixed by " J " and designated as a year with decimals ( 2000 + x ), where x is positive or negative and quoted to 1 or 2 decimal places, has come to mean a date that is an interval of x Julian years of 365. 25 days away from the epoch J2000 = JD 2451545. 0 ( TT ), still corresponding ( in spite of the use of the prefix " J " or word " Julian ") to the Gregorian calendar date of 2000 Jan 1 at 12h TT ( about 64 seconds before noon UTC on the same calendar day ).

After the Soviet invasion of Poland following the corresponding German invasion that marked the start of World War II in 1939, the Soviet Union annexed eastern parts ( so-called " Kresy ") of the Second Polish Republic ( see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ).

Midsummer is also sometimes referred to by Neopagans and others as Litha, stemming from Bede's De temporum ratione which provides Anglo-Saxon names for the months roughly corresponding to June and July as se Ærra Liþa and se Æfterra Liþa ( the " early Litha month " and the " later Litha month ") with an intercalary month of Liþa appearing after se Æfterra Liþa on leap years.

After each move is made on a given board, the moved piece is transferred ( goes " through the looking-glass ") to the corresponding square on the opposite board.

" Provençal " ( with " Limousin ") is also the customary name given to the older version of the langue d ' oc used by the troubadours of medieval literature, corresponding to Old French or the langue d ' oïl of the northern areas of France.

Maßstab ( English: " measure ") is the proportion, with a colon, as in the corresponding terms " 1: 43 ", " 1: 87. 1 ", and " 1: 220 ".

Justice (" din " corresponding to the Biblical " mishpat ") being God's must be vindicated, whether the object be of great or small value ( Sanh.

This complex consists of a series of interlinked structures corresponding to either a deep bronze ( hence, " rust ") or shiny white (" silver ") hue, surrounding a variety of leafy courtyards.

The practice in the Netherlands is to write the names of stations serving two communities with a hyphen ( corresponding to " and ") between the two names, thus: Beek-Elsloo ; and to use a space where the second term specifies one of two or more stations serving a city or town, thus: Alkmaar Noord.