Although the Greek word " techně " is often mistranslated as " art ," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft.

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

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 ".

Although it is usually translated as " element ", the Chinese word xing literally means something like " changing states of being ", " permutations " or " metamorphoses of being ".

Although the term " clitic " can be used descriptively to refer to any element whose grammatical status is somewhere in between a typical word and a typical affix, linguists have proposed various definitions of " clitic " as a technical term.

Although the more radical consequences of the global communication network predicted by some cyberspace proponents ( i. e. the diminishing of state influence envisioned by John Perry Barlow ) failed to materialize and the word lost some of its novelty appeal, it remains current as of 2006.

Although Judaism provides Jews with a word to label God's transcendence ( Ein Sof, without end ) and immanence ( Shekhinah, in-dwelling ), these are merely human words to describe two ways of experiencing God ; God is one and indivisible.

Although the word has a pejorative meaning nowadays, it was once a legitimate title of office in the Byzantine Empire.

Although espagnole is the French word for Spanish, the sauce has little connection with Spanish cuisine.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

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.

Although derived from the Latin word feodum or feudum ( fief ), then in use, the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the medieval period.

Although the word guitar is descended from the Latin word cithara, the modern guitar itself is not generally believed to have descended from the Roman instrument.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

Although the letter g of the eponymous Gerry is pronounced as in go, the word gerrymander is most commonly pronounced, with a as in gentle.

Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, " gryphon " appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers.

Although the word Gurmukhī has been commonly translated as " from the Mouth of the Guru ," the term used for the Punjabi script has somewhat different connotations.

Although the word " on " is sometimes translated as " syllable ", one on is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an " n " at the end of a syllable.

Although the word has many senses, its meaning comes into focus when contrasted to the supernatural or to appeals to authority.

Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.

Although the word jackal has been historically used to refer to many small-to medium-sized species of the wolf genus of mammals, Canis, today it most properly and commonly refers to three species: the black-backed jackal and the side-striped jackal of sub-Saharan Africa, and the golden jackal of northern Africa and south-central Eurasia.

Although the word Jell-O is a brand name, it is commonly used in the United States as a generic and household name for any gelatin products.

Although a number of the Drúedain came with the Edain to Númenor, they had left or died out before the Akallabêth, as had the Púkel-men of Dunharrow.

Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.

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.

Although Muslim scholars have often debated over who this verse refers to, most classical commentators and modern translators have taken the opinion that this refers to Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron.

Although these churches hold much in common, their theology differs on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millennium, and whether the sanctuary of refers to the one in heaven or one on earth.

" Upham's book refers to Robert Calef 25 times with the majority of these regarding documents compiled by Calef in the mid-1690s and stating: " Although zealously devoted to the work of exposing the enormities connected with the witchcraft prosecutions, there is no ground to dispute the veracity of Calef as to matters of fact.

Although The Porisms is lost, we know three lemmas contained there, since Diophantus refers to them in the Arithmetica.

Although the words faith and belief are sometimes erroneously conflated and used as synonyms, faith properly refers to a particular type ( or subset ) of belief, as defined above.

Although the Greek-language-origin prefix geo refers to Earth, " geology " is often used in conjunction with the names of other planetary bodies when describing their composition and internal processes: examples are " the geology of Mars " and " Lunar geology ".

Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

Although the term lycanthropy properly speaking refers to metamorphosis into a wolf ( see werewolf ), lycanthropy is in popular practice used of transformation into any animal, even though the proper term is therianthropy.

Although Plato famously condemned poetic myth when discussing the education of the young in the Republic, primarily on the grounds that there was a danger that the young and uneducated might take the stories of Gods and heroes literally, nevertheless he constantly refers to myths of all kinds throughout his writings.

"( ) Although the term is not specifically used of her in the New Testament, Eastern Christianity refers to her as " Equal to the Apostles "), and later traditions name her as " the apostle to the apostles.

Although drying may refer to evaporation of the solvent or thinner, it usually refers to oxidative cross-linking of the binders and is indistinguishable from curing.

Although energy generated by stimulated emission is always at the exact frequency of the field which has stimulated it, the above rate equation refers only to excitation at the particular optical frequency corresponding to the energy of the transition.

Although " terrorism " originally referred to acts committed by a government, currently it usually refers to the killing of innocent people by a non-government group in such a way as to create a media spectacle.

Although the most common colloquial use of the word " collision " refers to accidents in which two or more objects collide, the scientific use of the word " collision " implies nothing about the magnitude of the forces.

Although journal is sometimes used as a synonym for " magazine ", in academic use, a journal refers to a serious, scholarly publication that is peer-reviewed.

Although it generally refers to religious beliefs that are accepted regardless of evidence, they can refer to acceptable opinions of philosophers or philosophical schools, public decrees, or issued decisions of political authorities .< ref >, " Dogma " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

Although changes of quantum state occur on the submicroscopic level, in popular discourse, the term " quantum leap " refers to a large increase.

Although the word flange generally refers to the actual raised rim or lip of a fitting, many flanged plumbing fittings are themselves known as ' flanges ':

Although painterly generally refers to a certain use of paint in art, it happens that some forms of sculpture make use of apparently random surface effects which, if not exactly resembling brushstrokes, contain the traits of painterliness ( see Wood as a medium ).

Although the term commonly refers to wireless data transfer mechanisms ( e. g. using radio, hypersonic or infrared systems ), it also encompasses data transferred over other media such as a telephone or computer network, optical link or other wired communications like phase line carriers.

Although several other groups of crustaceans have the word " lobster " in their names, the unqualified term " lobster " generally refers to the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae.