ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.

The United States federal government ( as opposed to the states ) has a variant on a common law system.

A common variant is the " business card " CD, a single with portions removed at the top and bottom making the disk resemble a business card.

In the most common variant ( Double Six ) the values range from blank or 0 ( no pips ) to 6.

As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber ( and with Seafarers, the pirate ) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point.

Hungarian, Slovenian, and Romanian fiddle players are often accompanied by a three-stringed variant of the viola known as the kontra, or as well as double bass, with cimbalom and clarinet being less standard yet still common additions to a band.

Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team.

The most common variant of insertion sort, which operates on arrays, can be described as follows:

The most common depiction of the loa Erzulie Dantor is derived from this variant of the sacred icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The pronunciation is the more common one in the USA, and is the first-listed variant in various American dictionaries ( e. g., Merriam-Webster Collegiate, American Heritage ).

A common variant is the Pirani gauge, which uses a single platinum filament as both the heated element and RTD.

Motorola had intended the EC variant for embedded use, but embedded processors during the 68040's time did not need the power of the 68040, so EC variants of the 68020 and 68030 continued to be common in designs.

occam-π is the common name for the occam variant implemented by later versions of KRoC, the Kent Retargetable occam Compiler.

In one common variant, exactly thirteen hands are played — the final hand, in which each player is dealt 13 cards, is played without a trump suit ( or by cutting the deck to determine trump ).

These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty (" deuces wild " is a common variant ).

There is generally no qualifier to win high, although one common variant is any pair / no pair, where a hand of at least a pair is required to win high and any hand with no pair is required to win low.

The most common type of structured P2P networks implement a distributed hash table ( DHT ), in which a variant of consistent hashing is used to assign ownership of each file to a particular peer, in a way analogous to a traditional hash table's assignment of each key to a particular array slot.

A variant of the draw is the time-limit draw, where the match does not have a winner by a specified time period ( a one-hour draw, which was once common, is known in wrestling circles as a " Broadway ").

Reich was used by itself in the common German variant of the Holy Roman Empire, ().

The variant spelling " smilie " is not as common, but the plural form " smilies " is commonly used.

A typical variant for European swords is the leaf-shaped blade, which was most common in North-West Europe at the end of the Bronze Age, in the British Isles and Ireland in particular.

A common variant is Klondike, which is included with the Windows operating system under the title Solitaire.

Since then, changes to the line length have been a relatively common variant, such that Stephen Burt has written: " sestinas, as the form exists today, not require expertise with inherited meter …".

In addition to the most common three axles variant, cargo trailers with only two or only one axle are in use, again usually with larger single wheels.

Just as the older dictionaries it includes uniquely Canadian words and words borrowed from other languages, and surveyed spellings, such as whether colour or color was the more popular choice in common use.

The Hebrew of Ecclesiastes was not common in the era of Solomon ’ s reign, and the book contains words borrowed from other languages.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

This practice is especially common in certain languages such as Māori and, therefore, in names of animals borrowed from these languages.

Amongst Christians, Yasu — an Arabic transliteration of the name of the Christian Jesus — Yahweh, or Shaddai, translated, that is, " Almighty ", are common, with some other names and titles generally borrowed as transliterations from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

This suggests that the majority of IS signs are not signs borrowed from a specific SL, as other studies found, but rather are common to many natural SLs.

The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions ... in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse ; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces.

Persian words in common parlance were slowly replaced by Sanskrit words, sometimes borrowed wholesale, or in new compounds.

In Western countries, a bride may wear “ something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue ”; a bridal purse ( or money bag ) is also common.

Studies of language change, especially glottochronology ( that is, words changing in form or being replaced by borrowed synonyms ), have given linguists the tools to estimate the point in time when many pairs of languages diverged from their common ancestral tongue.

* In addition to being an Arabic name, Amir is also a common Muslim male name for both Arab and non-Arab Muslims, taken from Arabic just as the Western name Rex (" king ") is borrowed from Latin while Amira is a common Muslim female name.

Vacuum forming and modern sandwich construction techniques borrowed from other industries have become more common in the industry.

The common use of buying on margin ( using borrowed funds ) amplifies gains and losses, such that substantial losses or gains can occur in a very short period of time.

Although it is widely believed that the Latin praenomen Mamercus was of Oscan origin, since Mamers was a Sabine form of Mars, it is not clear to what extent the two cultures ( which sprang from the same origin ) borrowed praenomina from one another, and to what extent they shared names based on roots common to each language.

Luwian hieroglyphic texts contain a limited number of lexical borrowings from Hittite, Akkadian, and Northwest Semitic ; the lexical borrowings from Greek are limited to proper nouns, although common nouns borrowed in the opposite direction do exist.

The AX-60 borrowed many ideas from the Roland Juno series, but used voltage controlled analog oscillators ( VCO ) as a sound source as opposed to Roland's more common digitally controlled analog oscillators ( DCO ), and also allowed the performer to " split " the keyboard ( using different timbres for different ranges of keys ).

For example, classical Latin equus was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, derived from Gaulish caballos ( Delamare 2003 p. 96 ), giving Modern French cheval, Catalan cavall, Occitan caval ( chaval ), Italian cavallo, Portuguese cavalo, Spanish caballo, Romanian cal, and ( borrowed from Anglo-Norman ) English cavalry and chivalry.

A common variation of the above involves the vanishing hitchhiker departing as would a normal passenger, having left some item in the car, or having borrowed a garment for protection against alleged cold ( whether or not the weather conditions reflect this claim ).

Early in its development, there was a relatively common misconception that the Quark Microkernel in MorphOS is related to or borrowed from the QNX operating system.

One of the early settlers, James Blackman, built Bowman Cottage from brick nog, a common construction technique in the colony, using money borrowed from William Cox.

A common style of address for presidents, " Mr. President ," is borrowed from British Parliamentary tradition, in which the presiding Speaker of the House of Commons is referred to as " Mr. Speaker.

In working from original tune to finished hymn, Walker borrowed lyrics from established poets such as Charles Wesley ( a common practice in his tradition ) and added to the tune just a treble ( upper ) part and a bass, creating three-part harmony.