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An example of the usage of this word is as follows: "... Thomas Fraser, Gregor Van Iveren and John Schaver having some time since been Confirmed by the Committee of the County of Albany for being Persons disaffected to the Cause of America and whose going at large may be dangerous to the State, Ordered Thereupon that a Mittimus be made out to keep them confined till such time as they be discharged by the Board or any other three of the Commissioners.
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For example, one meta-analysis reviewing human brain lesions has shown a left hemisphere bias during tool usage.
In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.
William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.
The informal content of this naive set theory supports both the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics ( for example Venn diagrams and symbolic reasoning about their Boolean algebra ), and the everyday usage of set theory concepts in most contemporary mathematics.
Another example of ecumenism is the invention of and growing usage of the Christian Flag, which was designed to represent all of Christendom.
For example, it is correct British English or American English usage to say: " None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.
This usage can be seen as either an abuse of history, or as a good example of the ever-changing nature of rhyming slang.
For example, a physics lab course might ask students to record lengths in centimetres, and masses in grams, but force ( a derived unit ) in newtons, a usage consistent with the SI system.
This usage is seen in statements that describe a patient as being " in critical condition ", for example.
The nomenclature of describing the two alkyl groups and appending " ether ", e. g. " ethyl methyl ether " in the example above, is a trivial usage.
The Dutch in New York, for example, used the patronymic system of names until 1687 when the advent of English rule mandated surname usage.
The term derives most immediately from galun, galon in Old Northern French, but the usage was common in several languages, for example jale in Old French and gęllet ( bowl ) in Old English.
However, this usage was not always consistent, as, for example, West Berliners frequently applied the term Westdeutschland to denote the Federal Republic.
It is possible to put stations or spacecraft on orbits that cycle between different planets, for example a Mars cycler would synchronously cycle between Mars and Earth, with very little propellant usage to maintain the trajectory.
However, within the language of Internet slang, there is still an element of prescriptivism, as seen in style guides, for example Wired Style, which are specifically aimed at usage on the Internet.
For example, the point is sometimes made that " we " have decided to enact a certain policy, and sometimes this usage is used to imply that the entity known as " society " supports the policy and thus it is justified.
In some cases, the third letter is the initial for " new " in that country's language, to distinguish it from an older currency that was revalued ; the code sometimes outlasts the usage of the term " new " itself ( for example, the code for the Mexican peso is MXN ).
A well-known example of this legal usage is The Cases of Judge Dee ( 狄公案 Di Gongan in Chinese ), a Ming dynasty novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.
An ordinary English-language usage predating guided weapons is simply any thrown object, for example objects thrown by rowdy football spectators at players.
An example of this usage can be found in the published edition of the Latin Cathar text, the Liber de duobus principiis ( Book of the Two Principles ), which was described as " Neo-Manichaean " by its publishers.
The Mac OS X 10. 6 file manager is a notable example of this usage in software.
Marketing decisions have obvious potential connection to the numerator of ROI ( profits ), but these same decisions often influence assets usage and capital requirements ( for example, receivables and inventories ).
The Shakespeare quote is probably an example of such a usage.
Military usage includes attacking enemy surface ships or submarines, aircraft carrier protection, blockade running, ballistic missile submarines as part of a nuclear strike force, reconnaissance, conventional land attack ( for example using a cruise missile ), and covert insertion of special forces.
The modern American usage of the term came about during the course of the 19th century, as improvements in transportation and sanitation made it possible for wealthy developments to exist on the outskirts of cities, for example in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
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The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.
For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.
For example, the inflected forms of a word can be represented, insofar as regular inflection allows, by a stem and a set of endings to be attached.
For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.
For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.
For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.
If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.
For example the word learn can be signed two different ways.
For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.
Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".
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.
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.
A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.
The most well known example is the capital, Canberra named after a local language word meaning " meeting place ".
An example is the Aran Valley ( now a Gascon-speaking part of Catalonia ), for ( h ) aran is the Basque word for " valley ".
The word bandwidth applies to signals as described above, but it could also apply to systems, for example filters or communication channels.
The word " self " ( atman ) is used in a way idiosyncratic to these sutras ; the " true self " is described as the perfection of the wisdom of not-self in the Buddha-Nature Treatise, for example.
When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.
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