According to OED (" A member of a class of robbers in India and Burma, who plunder in armed bands.

According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to " key in " text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " accent of ' turning away ', or elision "), through Latin and French.

According to the OED, the adjectival form of the moon's name is Janian.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the term bumblebee was first recorded as having been used in the English language in the 1530 work Lesclarcissement by John Palsgrave, " I bomme, as a bombyll bee dothe.

According to the OED, the word is first attested in 1926, defined in the Wise-Crack Dictionary by Main and Grant as " a device used for making a fair game crooked ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the first recorded use in the English language of the term " nore " (" north ") in association with the points of the compass and wind direction was by Dekker in 1612: " How blowes the winde Syr?

According to the OED, the first recorded use of the term " nor ' easter " occurs in 1836 in a translation of Aristophanes.

According to the OED ( 2nd edition, 1989 ), whom is " no longer current in natural colloquial speech ".

According to the OED, " In English the form hurrah is literary and dignified ; hooray is usual in popular acclamation.

According to OED, he first used the word tesseract in 1888 in his book A New Era of Thought.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the term " redskin " came from the reddish skin color of some Native Americans, as in the terms red Indian and red man.

According to scholar Elizabeth Knowles, who studied the Murray-Hall correspondence in the OED archives, Hall spent ' four hours a day ... on proofs ' and that ' for much of the rest of the time, he was reading for vocabulary '.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary ( OED ) the etymology of the words that make up the phrase " information infrastructure " are as follows:

According to OED, the first recorded usage of the term in English was found in a letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dated 1718.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name derives from the seat " partly resembling a bucket in shape ".< ref name =" OED "> bucket, n .< sup > 1 </ sup >.

According to the researchers, the results suggest that altruistic behavior may originate from how people view the world rather than how they act in it.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to archaeologists Patricia Crown and Steadman Upham, the appearance of the bright colors on Salada Polychromes in the 14th century may reflect religious or political alliances on a regional level.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration:

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to the definition above, two relations with the same graph may be different, if they differ in the sets and.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

According to moral values, human behavior may also depend upon the common, usual, unusual, acceptable or unacceptable behavior of others.

() According to the book of Leviticus, blood from sacrificed animals may only be placed on the altar of the Great Temple in Jerusalem ( which no longer existed at the time of the Christian blood libels ).

According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to a study at the University of Texas, ClearType " may not be universally beneficial ".

According to Richard Dawkins in his book The Ancestor's Tale, chimps and bonobos may be descended from Australopithecus.

According to Nielsen ( 2008 ) a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: ( 1 ) it has been prepared for one or more functions ; ( 2 ) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions ; and ( 3 ) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.