The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

A program that translates between high-level languages is usually called a language translator, source to source translator, or language converter.

A language rewriter is usually a program that translates the form of expressions without a change of language.

The crankshaft, sometimes usually abreviated to crank, is the part of an engine that translates reciprocating linear piston motion into rotation.

In languages other than English and Russian, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as " artistic skating ".

For single phase-systems, this usually translates to uniform concentration throughout the phase, while for multiphase systems chemical species will often prefer one phase over the others and reach a uniform chemical potential only when most of the chemical species has been absorbed into the preferred phase, as in liquid-liquid extraction.

Ākāsa is identified as the first arūpa jhāna ( arūpajhāna ), but usually translates as " infinite space.

Chardonnay grapes usually have little trouble developing sugar content, even in cooler climates, which translates into high potential alcohol levels and limits the need for chaptalization.

In English, past participles usually end in-ed ( e. g., destroyed ), and embarazado therefore translates directly into English as " impregnated ".

He might also have been motivated by the Irish version of the Constitution, which states that the President uses his discretionary powers as a chomhairle féin, which usually translates to " under his own counsel "-- meaning that no contact whatsoever could take place with the opposition.

In countries which do not speak English, the rank title usually translates as " lieutenant ", but may also translate as " first lieutenant " or " senior lieutenant ".

This form, similar to the second-person imperative form, except conjugated in the first-person plural, usually translates to English as let's ( short for let us ).

Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually entitled simply Democracy in America.

In several other languages its name translates as " blueberry ", and this may cause confusion with the related plants more usually known as " blueberry " in English, which are in the separate section Cyanococcus of the Vaccinium genus.

This is because Owen apparently finds her superfluously elaborate form of talking annoying ( despite usually being easily able to understand her ) and she dislikes the way in which he translates her complex words into layman's terms.

While the organization's Chinese name translates as " April Fifth Action ", English-language media in Hong Kong usually refer to it as the April Fifth Action Group.

In Iran the Persian term used for patio is < i > hayat khalvat < i > which translates to ' a small quiet and private yard ,' and is usually a courtyard within the dwelling or walled within the property, for women's privacy without hijab.

On modern computer systems, localhost as a hostname translates to an IPv4 address in the < tt > 127. 0. 0. 0 / 8 </ tt > ( loopback ) net block, usually < tt > 127. 0. 0. 1 </ tt >, or < tt >:: 1 </ tt > in IPv6.

Its full name ( usually prefaced in speech by the French article " le ") translates literally as " The Network of Sports " ( i. e. a translation of the network's English counterpart, The Sports Network, TSN ).

is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ( tokusatsu literally translates as " special filming " in Japanese ).

The original Italian title literally translates into English as Bicycle Thieves, biciclette and ladri being plural, but the film has usually been released in the United States as The Bicycle Thief.

Socratici viri is a Latin phrase which translates as " Socrates ' men "-though it is more usually used to mean " disciples of Socrates " or " followers of Socrates ".

The name translates from Māori as " footprint of the rainbow ", though is usually regarded as being named after Chief Tapuaenuku.

He regularly translates rules for his orthogonal board games to the hexagonal grid, resulting in new versions with altered properties ( usually enhanced tactics and strategy options, and fewer draws ).

This compassionate state of being is termed " metta ", which usually translates as " loving kindness ".

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

In modern logic texts, Gödel's completeness theorem is usually proved with Henkin's proof, rather than with Gödel's original proof.

The earliest Mahāyāna texts often use the term Mahāyāna as an epithet and synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, but the term Hīnayāna is comparatively rare in early texts, and is usually not found at all in the earliest translations.

In non-philological texts ( such as Discordian ones ) the word is usually spelled as καλλιστι.

The textual sources for Arthur are usually divided into those written before Geoffrey's Historia ( known as pre-Galfridian texts, from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus ) and those written afterwards, which could not avoid his influence ( Galfridian, or post-Galfridian, texts ).

In English texts the latitude angle, defined below, is usually denoted by the Greek lower-case letter phi ( φ or ɸ ).

The term semilethal dose is occasionally used with the same meaning, in particular in translations from non-English-language texts, but can also refer to a sublethal dose ; because of this ambiguity, it is usually avoided.

Availability of WYSIWYG (" what you see is what you get ") publishing software supplanted much use of these languages among casual users, though serious publishing work still uses markup to specify the non-visual structure of texts, and WYSIWYG editors now usually save documents in a markup-language-based format.

These were two or three part compositions in which several different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a Latin cantus firmus that once again was usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant.

In his dedication to King Henri II, Nostradamus describes " emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility ", but his frequent references to the " bronze tripod " of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words " as though " ( compare, once again, External References to the original texts ).

Coloured pencils are sometimes used by teachers or editors to correct submitted texts but are more usually regarded as art supplies, especially those with waxy core binders that tend to smear on paper instead of erasing.

In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital ; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down.

The diphthongs are usually pronounced about 1. 5 times as long as the short vowels, though most grammatical texts place them with the long vowels.

These texts reflect varying degrees of bias and reliability, but not more so than is usually the case in early medieval writings, and they remain very important.

In earlier pre-Roman Greek texts anastauro usually means " impale.

In scholarly texts, at least the first or main use of the binomial name is usually followed by the " authority " – a way of designating the scientist ( s ) who first published the name.

Aside from historical texts, it can usually be found in temple inscriptions.

Blackboard bold is a typeface style that is often used for certain symbols in mathematical texts, in which certain lines of the symbol ( usually vertical or near-vertical lines ) are doubled.

Syriac sources mention it as, and in medieval Arabic texts the name is usually Ṭaysafūn ( طيسفون ) or Qaṭaysfūn ( قطيسفون ), in Modern Arabic al-Mada ' in ( المدائن ).

As the assigned texts are typically case law, the Socratic method, if properly used, can display that judges ' decisions are usually conscientiously made but are based on certain premises, beliefs, and conclusions that are the subject of legitimate argument.

Yet the majority of works in Bibliotheca are by Christian patristic authors, and most of the secular texts in Bibliotheca are histories, grammars or literary works, usually rhetoric, rather than science, medicine or philosophy.

In linguistics, a corpus ( plural corpora ) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts ( nowadays usually electronically stored and processed ).