Since wordplay is often unique to the language in question, translators are faced with a choice of either staying faithful to the original — in this case the English adjective and virtue earnest — or creating a similar pun in their own language.

Alternatively, hoax could have been derived from the Irish Gaelic olcas, pronounced olkəs and h-olkəs, an adjective used to describe behaviour similar to mischief, naughtiness, spite, wickedness, evil.

Many stereotypes have developed regarding people who live in trailer parks, which are similar to stereotypes of the poor and the term Trailer trash often used as an adjective in the same vein as the derogatory American terms white trash or ghetto.

It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means'all right, good ,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.

Under this definition, heterodoxy is similar to unorthodoxy, while the adjective " heterodox " could be applied to a dissident.

When this is done, it is necessary to specify when classic Euler angles are referred, using an adjective like " proper " or similar.

Verbs also have a verbal noun and verbal adjective, and continuous constructions similar to those using the English present participle may be formed from the verbal noun and an appropriate tense of bí.

Typically, it measures the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.

A similar Greek word peripatetikos () refers to the act of walking, and as an adjective, " peripatetic " is often used to mean itinerant, wandering, meandering, or walking about.

The adjective " slutty " carries a similar connotation, but can be applied both to people and to clothing and accessories, such as Halloween costumes.

That's because it's very similar to numerous constructs that are used to turn a noun into a verb, an adjective or an adverbial:

* Multiracial ( similar to biracial or mixed-racial group ) is an adjective describing people who are more than a single racial group.

The word commode comes from the French word for " convenient " or " suitable ", which in turn comes from the Latin adjective commodus, with similar meanings.

However, almost the exact word exists in at least some of the Romance languages ( such as Portuguese-plenipotenciário ; French-plénipotentiaire ; Romanian-plenipotenţiar ; Spanish-plenipotenciario ; Italian-plenipotenziario ), with exactly the same meaning ; the Albanian word i / e plotfuqishëm sounds similar, although it has native roots ; other languages have their own equivalents ( for instance, German-Bevollmächtigt ( er ) ( adjective or noun ), Dutch Gevolmachtigd ( e ), Swedish fullmäktig, Norwegian fullmektig-all these Germanic cases are literal parallels ; Serbian punomoćan ( пуномоћан in Cyrillic ), Russian полномочный ( полный = full, мочь = to be in power, to be able ), Czech zplnomocněný ( plno = full, moc = power ), Slovak splnomocnený ( plno = full, moc = power ), Polish pełnomocnik ( pełno = of full, moc = power ), Bulgarian пълномощен ( pǎlnomošten ), Finnish täysivaltainen, Greek πληρεξούσιος, plērexoúsios, Turkish tam yetkili, and Tatar wäqälätle.

It is used as an emphatic adjective with a function similar to the English " fucking ", " bloody " or " god damned ".

Treasure trove is therefore akin to similar Anglo-French or Anglo-French-derived legal terms whereby a post-positive adjective in a noun phrase ( contrary to standard English syntax ) has been reanalysed as a compound noun phrase, as in court martial, force majeure and Princess Royal.

For example, the recall value of a personality trait adjective is higher when subjects are asked whether the trait adjective applies to them than when asked whether trait adjective has a meaning similar to another trait.

The gerundive in Classical Greek is a verbal adjective similar to the Latin one.

" Acomoclitic " is a similar, backward-formed non-standard adjective describing anyone with this personal preference among users of the words.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Super-Set No. 2 is made up of similar exercises, but this time done with dumbbells, and using both `` moon '' and flat benches.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.

) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.

The life history of the alkali bee is similar to that of Andrena, but the first activity of the adults does not take place until summer, and the individuals hibernate in the prepupal stage.

In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.

This theorem is similar to the theorem of Kakutani that there exists a circumscribing cube around any closed, bounded convex set in Af.

In hunger stimulates man too the situation is very similar.

) These general facts are mentioned to make clear that the total situation in the two families is similar enough to warrant comparison.

It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.

For example, suppose another excess profits tax similar to prior laws is enacted, providing for carryover of excess profits credits.

that there would be a similar decline in the market values of other automotive and chemical stocks, with similar losses to the stockholders of those companies ; ;

Among infants the patterns of emotional responses are similar ; ;

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

the majority of such contacts are with people of similar social and economic position ; ;

The inner life of congregations will prosper so long as like-minded people of similar social and economic level can fraternize together ; ;

He must learn to say with true faith what the psalmist said in a similar world: `` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

Although MND refers to a specific subset of pathologically similar diseases ; there are numerous other afflictions of motor neurons that are pathologically distinct from MND and have a different clinical course.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

In order to achieve this, they removed themselves from the economy as much as possible and lived independently ; unlike a similar project named Brook Farm, the participants at Fruitlands avoided interaction with local communities.

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.