The term dao 道 is analyzable in terms of Chinese characters, alternate dào " way " or dǎo " guide " pronunciations and meanings, a possible Proto-Indo-European etymology, and loanwords such as English Dao or dao.

An alternate etymology states that the original sense of the word was that of " predator, one who preys on others " from the German Schorck, a variant of Schurke " villain, scoundrel " ( cf.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

An alternate etymology is given by John de Garlande, ( ca 1225 ): " Artavus, called ' kenivet ' in French, namely a small knife which stretches in length, is named after ' ars ' ( art or craft ), because it is used by artisans.

R. K. Sharma follows this alternate etymology and translates the name as " Terrible " in his glossary for the Shiva Sahasranama.

An alternate etymology, proposed by the Dutch scholar Lauran Toorians, would derive the name Gawain not from the Middle Welsh Gwalchmei, but rather from the medieval Dutch name Walewein ( attested in Flanders and Northern France c. 1100 AD ).

" An alternate etymology may have arisen from the Algonquin language words ronon (" nation "), or Irri-ronon (" Erie Nation ").

Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 – 1916 ) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures ( also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris ), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies " troni ponderacionem "— which the Public Record Commissioners translates as " troy weight ".

The modern German version is spelled Delikatessen, which may have helped support the alternate popular etymology that the-essen part of the word derives from the German verb essen (), or the noun das Essen ().

An alternate, later etymology credits a different man named Mulligan — John A.

An alternate etymology derives it from the praenomen Artor, which may be of Etruscan origin ( perhaps a Latinization of the Etruscan name Arnthur ).

An alternate etymology derives the name of the river from a Pecheneg word, transliterated into Romanian as argiş ( meaning " higher ground ").

A connection between Bragi and the bragarfull ' promise cup ' is sometimes suggested, as bragafull, an alternate form of the word, might be translated as ' Bragi's cup '.

Asides from derivation from tamgas, an alternate possibility of derivation from the Chinese script have been suggested by V. Thomsen in 1893, in which Chinese script itself is possibly derived from the Neolithic-era Banpo symbols and Jiahu script found at locations less than a thousand miles south of the Orkhon Valley.

It was suggested to him as an alternate form of Russell's paradox, which he had devised to show that set theory as it was used by Georg Cantor and Gottlob Frege contained contradictions.

Although Kuntz did not own the creative rights to Robilar and no longer worked at TSR, he unofficially suggested an alternate storyline that Robilar had been visiting another plane and in his absence, a clone or evil twin of Robilar was responsible for the attack.

See 1773 date below, and the alternate suggested name " Action ".

The official explanation is that his plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested.

An earlier WRR response to a request by MBBK authors presented results from additional experiments that used the specific " alternate " name and date formats which MBBK suggested had been intentionally avoided by WRR.

However, a number of alternate sites have been suggested in and around the Rivelin valley.

He suggested that when orbital eccentricity is high, then winters will tend to be colder when the Earth is farther from the sun in that season and hence, that during periods of high orbital eccentricity, ice ages occur on 22, 000 year cycles in each hemisphere, and alternate between southern and northern hemispheres, lasting approximately 10, 000 years each.

Initial analysis of Mydoom suggested that it was a variant of the Mimail worm — hence the alternate name Mimail. R — prompting speculation that the same persons were responsible for both worms.

This was an immense space to vault over, and moreover, it followed that every alternate pier served no purpose, so far as the support of the nave vault was concerned, and this would seem to have suggested an alternative, viz.

Yao Weiyuan 姚薇元 suggested in the past that ' Dugu ' was an alternate form of ' Tuge ' 屠各, the Xiongnu aristocratic clan that had adopted the surname of Liu 刘, members of which also ruled the Former Zhao state.

Hutier suggested an alternate approach, combining some previous and some new attacks in a complex strategy

Kingsfoil and athelas are suggested to be two separate plants, but in the books they are alternate names.

Possible solutions suggested to relieve the HRBT include variable tolls to be highest during peak periods, to encourage motorists to select alternate routes or times of day.

Viggiano suggested an alternate model, based on the radius ( or other fundamental dimension ) of the dot growing in relative proportion to the perimeter of the dot, with empirical correction the duplicated areas which result when the corners of adjacent dots join.

This was the first episode sponsored by American Tobacco ( on alternate weeks ), on behalf of Pall Mall cigarettes, who suggested that Rod and some of the guest stars and supporting players " light up " during the episodes.

It is suggested that each team will alternate every other year between ending their season at the appropriate Missouri rival and in the late time slot.

An alternate way to play, as suggested by Peter Drake in his book " Data Structures and Algorithms in Java ", is as follows:

In the late 1980s, Georgia broadcast syndicator / record producer Johnny Carter was in the process of incorporating his business, and when the State of Georgia rejected his original name request, he suggested an alternate name, and it was under the name National Recording Corporation that the new company began operation, producing syndicated radio and television programs, and setting up a manufacturing facility in Rome, GA, which now includes a state-of-the-art soundstage / studio, one of the largest in Georgia.

Returning to the planet, Jetfire helped the Autobots there evacuate, relocating once more to Earth, where he suggested the Autobots revisit the idea of taking on Earthly vehicle alternate modes to hide themselves from the populace, adopting for himself a new cargo plane alternate mode.

However, this would involve the rebuilding of the station buildings and signal boxes at Abermule and several other small stations, and it was suggested that alternate single-line sections use the electric tablet system and the older electric staff system ; there would be no possibility of mistaking a staff for a tablet.

Although selling a portion of the Memorial Centre was suggested in recommendation 7 of the mayors Taxk Force Report the steering committee made alternate recommendations regarding funding the new centre which did not include selling any portion of the Memorial Centre grounds to the joy of most of the community.

As you can see, in this Push-Pull Super Set the entire chest-back-shoulder area is vigorously exercised in alternate sectors by alternate exercises so the complete torso remains pumped-up all the time!!

Squat-style lifters and leg-split lifters would both benefit enormously by practicing those variations providing that they remember to make alternate sets with the left and right leg to the front.

In many areas drivers have established alternate tracks to avoid the worst parts of the surface, although careful attention must be paid to the presence or absence of landmine warning markers by the side of the road.

The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

* Althistory Wikia-an alternate history wiki, maintained by Wikia.

* Changing The Times, is an Alternate History Electronic Magazine written and maintained by alternate historians.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

One particularly notable example was an alternate adaptor designed by BMUG and commercialized by Farallon as PhoneNet.

* Autodynamics, an alternate to special relativity proposed by Ricardo Carezani in physics

If the individual is seeking death an alternate method is often suicide by cop.

Since then, many alternate proofs have been found out by various authors as collected in ().

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

These events are usually separated by periods of " normal " mood ; but, in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, which is known as rapid cycling.

Individuals who alternate between top / dominant and bottom / submissive roles – whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship – are known as switches, though the term is occasionally seen as derogatory or unnuanced and is rejected by many who might simplistically fit the definition.

The term originally signified a chant by alternate choirs, but has quite lost this meaning in the Breviary.

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

An alternate form of ( 2 ) – the machine successively prints all n of the digits on its tape, halting after printing the n < sup > th </ sup > – emphasizes Minsky's observation: ( 3 ) That by use of a Turing machine, a finite definition – in the form of the machine's table – is being used to define what is a potentially-infinite string of decimal digits.

Chinese checkers ( alternate spelling Chinese chequers ) is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.