Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

Because of their shared histories and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary and accent of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken languages are often grouped together under a single category.

Because of this heritage, OS / 2 shares similarities with Unix, Xenix, and Windows NT in many ways.

Because of these similarities the contingent vote tends to elect the same winner as the two round system, and often produces different results to instant-runoff voting.

Because of the similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear, it was fairly easy for SMS games to be ported to Game Gear cartridges ; the Master Gear Converter, released during the system's lifetime, even allowed original SMS cartridges to be played on the Game Gear directly.

Because of the similarities between the Meta-Object Facility M0-model and UML structure models, Meta-Object Facility metamodels are usually modeled as UML class diagrams.

Because of the similarities to lightning-caused pulses and the widespread use of lightning protection technology, the E2 pulse is generally considered to be the easiest to protect against.

Because of the similarities found in this type of speech and speech directed to a small child, it is also sometimes called baby talk.

Because of the sociohistoric similarities amongst many ( but by no means all ) of the creoles, the Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the European colonies have been emphasized as factors by linguists such as.

Because Phobos has similarities to C-type asteroids and because the Kaidun meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite, Kaidun is not a Martian meteorite in the strict sense.

Because of its similarities to the tenets of Discordianism, The Church of the SubGenius is often described as a syncretic offshoot of that belief.

Because the date of the material underlying the compilation of the Historia Brittonum is disputed, and could be later than the Chronicle, some argue that the Historia Britonum took its material from a source close to the Chronicle ; but after reading both accounts side by side, one has to wonder at their similarities and differences, and wonder if both do not draw upon an earlier tradition.

Because of the similarities between the MOF M3-model and UML structure models, MOF metamodels are usually modeled as UML class diagrams.

Because of similarities between the innate immune system of insects and mammals, insects can replace mammals in certain types of studies.

Because of structural and stylistic similarities, Mrs Dalloway is commonly thought to be a response to James Joyce's Ulysses, a text that is often considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century ( though Woolf herself, writing in 1928, apparently denied this ).

Because of the similarities in morphology of feminine and masculine grammatical gender inflections in Indo-European languages, there is a theory that in an early stage the Proto-Indo-European language had only two grammatical genders: animate and inanimate / neuter.

Because of the similarities between Kürten and the film's villain, Hans Beckert, the film was known as The Vampire of Duesseldorf in some countries.

Because of the similarities between the conditions, polysomnography plays an important role in confirming RBD diagnosis.

Because of this, most museum staff, knowledgeable researchers and collectors require provenance or a documented history for an image to support physical similarities that might exist.

Because Nashe apparently alludes to Thomas Kyd in the same passage, and because of similarities between the Shakespearean Hamlet and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, it has sometimes been posited that Kyd is the author of the Ur-Hamlet, and that the play was never published and is now lost.

Because of their similarities, the San works may illustrate the reasons for ancient cave paintings.

Because of the similarities between TOC1. 0 and TOC2. 0, they are better defined by their differences, of which there are only a few:

Because of the similarities between these Iberian languages, it is difficult to ascertain whether a certain feature is derived from Portuguese, Spanish or Ladino, after the adaptation to Papiamento rules.

Because of morphological similarities, the Sumatran rhinoceros is believed to be closely related to the extinct woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ).

Because of alleged similarities to the Macintosh GUI, NewWave was the subject of an unsuccessful " look and feel " lawsuit by Apple ( see Apple v. Microsoft ).

Because children attend school longer now and have become much more familiar with the testing of school-related material, one might expect the greatest gains to occur on such school content-related tests as vocabulary, arithmetic or general information.

Because of their different history, Universities created since 1992 ( the so-called " New Universities ") have a different scheme of governance, and a different vocabulary to accompany it.

Because English itself borrowed a great amount of French vocabulary after the Norman Conquest, some Anglicisms are actually Old French words that dropped from usage in French over the centuries but were preserved in English and have now come full circle back into French.

Because the Isan language was absent in most media outlets and formal spheres, plus the high rate of bilingualism with Thai, Isan and Lao have diverged significantly in recent years, with Thai pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar making inroads.

Because of its largely Portuguese vocabulary, and perhaps also as a result of migrations and cultural exchange along trade routes, Kristang has much in common with other Portuguese-based creoles, including the extinct creoles of Indonesia and East Timor.

Because the songs and oral history of the Kuna are in a higher linguistic register with specialized vocabulary, the Saila's recitation will frequently be followed by an explanation and interpretation from one of the voceros in everyday Kuna language.

Because of this the designation "( Tektronix ) 4014 " has entered the traditional computing vocabulary, leading to the memory of the terminal long after the actual hardware became obsolete and otherwise disappeared.

Because the power of harmonic opposition, both between tonic and dominant and between major and minor, had less force in the Romantic vocabulary, stereotypes of the " character " of themes became stronger.

Because written language is much more diverse than spoken language, print vocabulary begins to expand beyond oral vocabulary.

Because of the influx of other Caribbean nationals to Antigua, due to natural migration and to the CSME, Antigua's everyday vocabulary is being influenced by Jamaican Creole, bajan Creole, Guyanese Creole and Trinidadian Creole.

Because of Babur's cultural origin, his prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure, morphology, and vocabulary, and also contains many phrases and smaller poems in Persian.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent.

Because the People of the Book recognize the God of Abraham as the one and only god, as do Muslims, and they practice revealed faiths based on divine ordinances, tolerance and autonomy is accorded to them in societies governed by sharia ( Islamic divine law ).

Because of their complexity and inventiveness in structure and style, his novels are often challenging to read ; for example, his National Book Award winners J R and A Frolic of His Own are written almost entirely in dialogue form and without much description, which sometimes confuses which character is speaking.

Because the two main singers in Rockpile had recording contracts with different record labels and managers, albums were always credited to either Lowe or Edmunds, so there is only one official Rockpile album, which was not released until the waning days of the collaboration: 1980's Seconds of Pleasure, featuring the Lowe songs " When I Write The Book " and " Heart ".

Among her 19 other books, The Argument Culture, received the Common Ground Book Award, and I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults, received a Books for a Better Life Award.

Because of this, Pitter was frequently overlooked by critics of her day, and has only in recent years been seen as important: her reputation was helped by Larkin's respect for her poetry ( he included four of her poems in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ).

Because of the distinct belief in the Book of Mormon among Smith's followers, people outside the church began to refer them as " Mormonites " or " Mormons.

Because the 0. 9 mm thickness of the DualDisc CD layer did not conform to Red Book CD Specifications, which called for a layer no less than 1. 1 mm thick, some CD players could not play the CD side of a DualDisc due to a phenomenon called spherical aberration.

Because the DualDisc CD layer did not conform to Red Book specifications, Philips and Sony refused to allow DualDisc titles to carry the CD logo and most DualDiscs contain one of two warnings:

* Because of the fact that a number of skilled players could play indefinitely on the factory settings, it was decided to put the machines on a harder setting for the annual Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard / Guinness Book Masters Tournament, where the player would have six initial shields but NO bonus shields, and thus the game would be a test of skill rather than endurance.

Because Swanley only consisted of a few homesteads, so it was not mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Because of the infatuation of Himmler's with the Oera Linda Book and its consequent association with Nazi occultism, it became known as " Himmler's Bible ".

He replied: Because the people of the Book have killed him.

Because Comic Book Guy is usually sarcastic and unfriendly, the series ' staff found it hard to make the character seem likable.

" Because of this and with Schrab producing, directing and writing The Sarah Silverman Program for Comedy Central, the Complete Scud Book was not out by the 2007 Comic Con but it was out in time for the 2008 Comic Con.

Because of the Fraternity's non-secret nature, the Ritual Book is available for public viewing on the fraternity website.

Because of the scorched earth policy, much of the land was laid waste and depopulated, a fact to which the Domesday Book, written almost two decades later, readily attests.

Because Ostler adopts the Expansion Theory, he affirms that the Book of Mormon was translated through the gift of God and reflects a revelation of the content of an ancient source though we have access only to its modern translation.