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Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.
Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase.
For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.
However, perhaps it is ultimately taken from the Persian word for brass, birinj.
The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.
Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).
Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".
Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.
* When strings contain spaces or other word dividers, the decision must be taken whether to ignore these dividers or to treat them as " letters " preceding all other letters of the alphabet.
Although this word, in English, has taken on purely military connotations, in reality it covers the vast range of human enterprise-family life, work, spiritual development, and, at the end of all this, justified defensive warfare.
Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.
The word was used to describe the fighters, and their tactics ( e. g. " the town was taken by the guerrillas ").
" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.
The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates ה ֵ יל ֵ ל as lucifer, meaning " the morning star, the planet Venus " ( or, as an adjective, " light-bringing "), The Septuagint renders ה ֵ יל ֵ ל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος ( heōsphoros ) meaning " morning star ".
A lexeme () is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word.
The Hebrew word taken from Exodus means either a " horn " or an " irradiation.
The word " mambo " means " conversation with the gods " in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba.
Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat's of 1549 – 50.
As for the word Provençal, it should not be taken as strictly meaning the language of Provence but of Occitania as a whole, as, " in the eleventh, the twelfth, and sometimes also the thirteenth centuries, one would understand under the name of Provence the whole territory of the old Provincia Romana and even Aquitaine ".
The word " panarchy " has since taken on additional, separate meanings, with the word " panarchism " referring to the original definition by de Puydt.

word and its
I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.
if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.
Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.
If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??
This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.
Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.
We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.
Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??
Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.
In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.
In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

word and dictionary
This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.
Thus, one can think of a dictionary entry as a word rather than a form.
An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.
It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.
Also you can spell, without consulting a dictionary for every other word.
German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.
Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.
In this section we consider codes, which encode each source ( clear text ) character by a code word from some dictionary, and concatenation of such code words give us an encoded string.
To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word.
He read an unabridged dictionary ( the 13th edition of Webster ’ s ) through, word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their derivations from ancient languages.
The word dictionary ( unqualified ) is usually understood to refer to a monolingual general-purpose dictionary.
Another theory says that the name " Dada " came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to ' dada ', a French word for ' hobbyhorse '.
The paradigmatic case was, of course, the Jewish diaspora ; some dictionary definitions of diaspora, until recently, did not simply illustrate but defined the word with reference to that case.
A simple example would consist of looking up a given word in a dictionary, then proceeding to look up the words found in that word's definition, etc., also comparing with older dictionaries from different periods in time, and such a process would never end.
Several historically attested religions emphasize secret or hidden knowledge, and are thus esoteric in the dictionary sense, without necessarily being esoteric movements in the scholarly sense of the word.

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