If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

`` Darling '' -- she said, and the single word mingled love and exasperation in an equal blend.

Abbreviations were of two kinds: the use of a single letter for a single word,

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

In Australia and the United Kingdom it has been held that a single word is insufficient to comprise a copyright work.

The relative order of clitics in a cluster is usually strictly fixed ( just as affixes appear in a strict order within a single word ):

For devices with only a few switches ( such as the buttons on a joystick ), the status of each can be encoded as bits ( usually 0 for released and 1 for pressed ) in a single word.

But it does not scale to support more keys than the number of bits in a single byte or word.

In order to preserve the rhythmic close, Latin poets avoided the placement of a single syllable or four-syllable word at the end of a line.

: But from the Sage it is so hard at any price to get a single word

It is difficult to provide a single concise definition for dharma, as the word has a long and varied history and straddles a complex set of meanings and interpretations.

The word encyclopaedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία, from Greek, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning " general education ": enkyklios ( ἐγκύκλιος ), meaning " circular, recurrent, required regularly, general " + paideia ( παιδεία ), meaning " education, rearing of a child ", but it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts.

In the most extreme cases, patients may be able to produce only a single word.

The Hebrew Bible does not have a unique word for guilt, but uses a single word to signify: " sin, the guilt of it, the punishment due unto it, and a sacrifice for it.

In this sense of the word organism, it is argued under the theory that the entire biomass of the Earth is a single organism ( as Johannes Kepler thought ).

Tacitus suggests that this was the original way the word " Germani " was used – as the name of a single tribal nation, ancestral to the Tungri ( who lived in the same area as the earlier Germani reported by Caesar ), and not a whole race ( gentis ).

In normal handwriting, even long words are often written " joined up ", without the pen leaving the paper, and the form of each written letter will often vary depending on which letters precede and follow it, but that does not make the whole word into a single glyph.

Thus, the word " haibun ", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese ( ha-i-bu-n ); and the word " on " itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal

IKEA products are identified by single word names.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

No attempt is made by Ptolemy to weld into a single scheme ( a-la-Aristotle ), these independent predicting-machines.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world.

What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??

First, the present situation is too varied to be systematized by any single formula.

These factors practically insure that no single financing formula is feasible ; ;

The Machine Tool Division is currently producing Brown & Sharpe single spindle automatic screw machines, grinding machines of many types, and knee and bed-type milling machines.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The last exercise of Roland Claude's prescribed program for Henri is a single exercise, done in individual sets with a bit longer pause between sets.

Every single problem touched on thus far is related to good marketing planning.

Goodis said that single rooms account for 95 percent of the accomodations in some hotels.

Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

When this happens, the carbon atoms are said to be in solution, or mixed with the iron, forming a single, homogeneous, crystalline phase called austenite.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

When these principles are written down into a single collection or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to comprise a written constitution.

When Sun Yat-sen was asked by one of the leading revolutionary generals to what he ascribed the success, he said, " To Christianity more than to any other single cause.

In 1916, chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed the concept of the electron-pair bond, in which two atoms may share one to six electrons, thus forming the single electron bond, a single bond, a double bond, or a triple bond ; in Lewis's own words, " An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively.

It is said that he attended only a single scientific conference, which was in Berlin in 1828.

In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any point in time, meaning that the CPU is actively executing instructions for that task.

Pigeons generally have very small clutches, and the Dodo is said to have laid a single egg.

In 1498, Annio published his antiquarian miscellany titled Antiquitatum variarum ( in 17 volumes ) where he put together a fantastic theory in which both the Hebrew and Etruscan languages were said to originate from a single source, the " Aramaic " spoken by Noah and his descendants, founders of Etruscan Viterbo.

One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Greenpeace also states that " there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organization all can be said to have separate lineages ".

Aspect can be said to describe the texture of the time in which a situation occurs, such as a single point of time, a continuous range of time, a sequence of discrete points in time, etc., whereas tense indicates its location in time.

Noted psychologist William James called the studies “ heroic ” and said that they were “ the single most brilliant investigation in the history of psychology ”.

French individualist anarchist Emile Armand shows clearly opposition to capitalism and centralized economies when he said that the individualist anarchist " inwardly he remains refractory – fatally refractory – morally, intellectually, economically ( The capitalist economy and the directed economy, the speculators and the fabricators of single are equally repugnant to him.

Intuitively, a lambda abstraction represents an anonymous function that takes a single input, and the is said to bind in, and an application represents the application of input to some function.

In an interview in Playboy magazine in January 1979, Brando said: " You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an image of the kike because the Jews were ever so watchful for that — and rightly so.

An mRNA molecule is said to be monocistronic when it contains the genetic information to translate only a single protein chain ( polypeptide ).