The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

E-Prime and Charles Kay Ogden's Basic English may lack compatibility because Basic English has a closed set of verbs, excluding verbs such as " become ", " remain ", and " equal " that E-Prime often uses to describe precise actions or states.

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

For example, the sound of the English letter ⟨ t ⟩ may be transcribed in IPA with a single letter,, or with a letter plus diacritics,, depending on how precise one wishes to be.

“ Thomas Arnold, the leader and classic model of English educators ,” wrote Coubertin, “ gave the precise formula for the role of athletics in education.

The term, which was spelled semeiotics, derives from the Greek σημειωτικός, ( sēmeiōtikos ), " observant of signs " ( from σημεῖον-sēmeion, " a sign, a mark ") and it was first used in English by Henry Stubbes in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs.

The word Geier ( taken from the German language ) does not have a precise meaning in ornithology, and it is occasionally used to refer to a vulture in English, as in some poetry.

No English source mentions a supposed embassy by Archbishop Robert to William conveying the promise of the succession, and the two Norman sources that mention it, William of Jumièges and William of Poitiers, are not precise in their chronology of when this visit took place.

To be more precise, and clear in English, one could use: the Kangxi era Emperor, etc.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

Assuming that the transcriptions are not intended to be precise, only 11 of the 26 — Bravo, Echo, Hotel, Juliet ( t ), Kilo, Mike, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Whiskey, and Zulu — are given English pronunciations by all these agencies, though not always the same English pronunciations.

While this term is a more precise translation, it is neither standard nor widely used in English.

Ingsoc (“ English Socialism ”) originated after the socialist party took over, but, because The Party continually rewrites history, it is impossible to establish the precise origin of English Socialism.

Latin text with old-fashioned and not always philosophically precise English translation.

English speakers can also display elaborate and precise vocabularies for snow and cattle when the need arises.

Though, as in the late 16th and 17th centuries, the 20th-century Royal Family were more or less supportive, British officialdom was far less so with English Heritage, who controlled the site of the real Globe nearby, refusing to allow the archaeology Wanamaker requested in order to ascertain its precise dimensions.

Such precise effects were made immeasurably simpler by the invention in 1827 by the English engineer Edwin Beard Budding of the rotary lawn mower, an extrapolation of machinery commonly being used to cut velvet pile.

While this common description is enough to give a rough idea of the sound, it is not precise ( it is analogous to giving the pronunciation of the English word " shot " as " syot ").

The precise circumstances of this transfer or encroachment have been lost to history, but the English authorities, themselves preparing to claim overlordship in Ulster and the rest of Ireland, still recognized the Bissetts as the lords of the Glynns as late as 1515.

In order to make all of this mathematically precise, one must clearly define the notions of distance, angle, translation, and rotation.

His translation style was distinctive, possessing a flowing smoothness that reflects his prioritization on conveying the meaning as opposed to precise literal rendering.

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The translation of the name as " Mesopotamia " was not consistent-the Septuagint also uses a more precise translation " Mesopotamia of Syria " as well as " Rivers of Syria ".

" He added that, " hate against Israel has crossed the red line, having gone from criticism to unbridled antisemitic venom, which is a precise translation of classical antisemitism whose past results are all too familiar to the entire world.

It is essential to ensure precise correspondence of these rights and duties in the source text and in the translation.

In Poland, the last fragment of Władysław Tarnowski's song Śpij, kolego (" Sleep, friend "), a portion of the larger composition Jak to na wojence ładnie ( the title has no precise English translation, but it is roughly " how nice it is in war ", with a diminutive form conveying a sense of ironic solidarity ) is an integral part of a military funeral.

" ( This less precise translation was glossed in the margin with a more accurate, albeit longer, translation.

Gideon Meir has said that there is no " real, precise " translation of the word hasbara in English or any other language, and has characterized it as public diplomacy, an action undertaken by all governments around the world with the growing importance of what Harvard professor Joseph Nye termed soft power.

This term does not have a precise English translation.

The most famous of the Chinese pilgrims is Xuanzang ( 629 – 644 ), whose large and precise translation work defines a " new translation period ", in contrast with older Central Asian works.

Literal translation can also denote a translation that represents the precise meaning of the original text but does not attempt to convey its style, beauty, or poetry.

It has been said that the word Dīn appears in as many as 79 verses in the Qur ' an, but because there is no exact English translation of the term its precise definition has been the subject of some misunderstanding and disagreement.

Harrington ( 1933 ) gives the most precise transcription, K ( w ) á ’ uwar, in interpreting an 1846 translation of a Spanish text.

Here follows a rough translation of the Table of Opposites, although like all translations the precise meaning does not necessarily carry over from the original Greek.

The goal of the Shlaer-Mellor method is to make the documented analysis so precise that it is possible to implement the analysis model directly by translation rather than by elaboration.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

A precise definition for the word has proved elusive.

Occasionally a code word achieves an independent existence ( and meaning ) while the original equivalent phrase is forgotten or at least no longer has the precise meaning attributed to the code word.

The word " lycanthropy " is sometimes used generically for any transformation of a human into animal form, though the precise term for that is technically " therianthropy ".

Scientific puns rely on the contrast between precise technical and imprecise informal definitions of the same word.

For instance, Radhanites were a medieval guild or group ( the precise meaning of the word is lost to history ) of Jewish merchants who traded between the Christians in Europe and the Muslims of the Near East.

The word " terrorism " is politically and emotionally charged, and this greatly compounds the difficulty of providing a precise definition.

" The Italian word for gargoyle is doccione or gronda sporgente, an architecturally precise phrase which means " protruding gutter.

Blanc continued the stutter ; however, it was harnessed for a more precise comedic effect ( such as stumbling over a simple word only to substitute a longer word without difficulty ).

" Vienna " and the official German name Wien, and the names of the city in most languages, are thought to be derived from the Celtic word " windo -", meaning bright or fair – as in the Irish " fionn " and the Welsh " gwyn " – but opinions vary on the precise origin.

It has also been pointed out that the concepts of " finding ", " music ", " love ", and " ardour "— the precise semantic field attached to the word troubadour — are allied in Arabic under a single root ( WJD ) that plays a major role in Sufic discussions of music, and that the word troubadour may in part reflect this.

In a very broad sense it can refer to the entire chain of Jewish tradition ( see Oral law ), but in reference to the Masoretic Text the word mesorah has a very specific meaning: the diacritic markings of the text of the Hebrew Bible and concise marginal notes in manuscripts ( and later printings ) of the Hebrew Bible which note textual details, usually about the precise spelling of words.

In such cases, the word graut -/ grøtfest is more precise, taking the name from the rice pudding which is served as a course.

However, the word Kanto eventually became more of a generalized umbrella term than a precise definition of a musical genre.

The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word " fugazi " from Mark Baker's Nam, a compilation of stories of Vietnam War veterans, where it was used as slang for " fucked up ", or, to be precise, an acronym for " Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In a body bag ".

This use of the word subluxation should not be confused with the term's precise anatomic usage which considers only the anatomical relationships.

Kuzmin's association with the Symbolists was never definitive, and in 1910 he helped give rise to the Acmeist movement with his essay " O prekrasnoi yasnosti " ( On beautiful clarity ), in which he attacked " incomprehensible, dark cosmic trappings " and urged writers to be " logical in the conception, the construction of the work, the syntax ... love the word, like Flaubert, be economical in means and niggardly in words, precise and genuine -- and you will find the secret of an amazing thing — beautiful clarity — which I would call clarism.

To serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition, he begs to announce the birth of the word " pragmaticism.

A much-quoted statement from Clinton's grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word " is.