In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

One main type of malocclusion is characterized by a receding chin and protruding upper front teeth.

The flowers are in the main not particularly distinctive, being of a general ' lily type ', with six tepals, either free or fused from the base.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

A modern main battle tank incorporates advances in automotive, artillery, and armour technology to combine the best characteristics of the historic medium and heavy tanks into a single, all around type.

* The bogie frame: This can be of inside frame type where the main frame and bearings are between the wheels, or ( more commonly ) of outside frame type where the main frame and bearings are outside the wheels.

The two main types of dualism are substance dualism ( which holds that the mind is formed of a distinct type of substance not governed by the laws of physics ) and property dualism ( which holds that the laws of physics are universally valid but cannot be used to explain the mind ).

Both the Federal Reserve and the ECB are composed of one or more central bodies that are responsible for the main decisions about interest rates and the size and type of open market operations, and several branches to execute its policies.

Another typology divides them into 3 main types, the table type, the go-table type and the unsupported capstone type.

One of the main additions to the game is commodities, which are a type of secondary resource produced only by cities.

The main drawback of this type of aircraft was its lack of speed.

As the main difference among fuel cell types is the electrolyte, fuel cells are classified by the type of electrolyte they use.

The engineering properties of soils are affected by four main factors: the predominant size of the mineral particles, the type of mineral particles, the grain size distribution, and the relative quantities of mineral, water and air present in the soil matrix.

The main job responsibility of a Graphic Designer is the arrangement of visual elements in some type of media.

More generally, people often build houses out of the nearest available material, and often tradition and / or culture govern construction-materials, so whole towns, areas, counties or even states / countries may be built out of one main type of material.

The main data type is a fixed-point ones ' complement fractional number, originally of 15 bits but more in later implementations.

It is the main type of " chrome-free " leather, often seen in automobiles and shoes for infants.

It was the type of performance that later led critic Stanley Crouch to write, " Brando's main achievement was to portray the taciturn but stoic gloom of those pulverized by circumstances.

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

After naming the main characters after his own family members ( except for Bart, an anagram of " brat ", which he substituted for his own name ), Groening refused to name Grampa after his grandfather, Abraham Groening.

The main differences are that the rounds last only 30 seconds instead of 45 ; there are only three numbers rounds, only one contestant chooses the letters in each round and the " duels " are replaced with the " Countdown Conundrum ", a nine-letter anagram.

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, named the main characters after his own family members ( except for Bart, an anagram of brat, which he substituted for his own name ), but refused to name Grampa after his grandfather, Abraham Groening.

Achieving this would require retyping it once, but thereafter it would always be accessible for computer searching – as well as for whatever new editions of the dictionary might be desired, starting with an integration of the supplementary volumes and the main text.

The dictionary has approximately 450, 000 main entries, and is expected to be complete around 2017.

He displayed his acid wit in two books: The Devil's Bedside Book in 1980, a collection of cynical dictionary definitions in the style of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, and The Lowest Form of Wit in 1981, a collection of biting bon mots, stinging retorts, and insults divided into six main sections, illustrated with cartoons ( by Honeysett ) and including a definitive guide and a history of sarcasm.

Since the 1961 publication of the Third, Merriam-Webster has reprinted the main text of the dictionary with only minor corrections.

Bwythan has privately researched the ten-thousand most popularly used words in forty-three of the main VUE languages and has produced a comparative dictionary.

One of its main goals was to publish a complete dictionary catalog for their collection.

The main advantage of single-field dictionaries is that they can easily be maximizing dictionaries, i. e. attempt to cover as many terms of the subject field as possible without being a dictionary in several volumes.

The main edition is usable by determined consumers in conjunction with a medical dictionary.

A precondition for a successful experiment with teaching a true sign language to primates ought to be ensuring that the main contact persons are all native speakers of the sign language, as it is otherwise analogous to trying to raise a human child as a speaker of a language to which you possess only a dictionary — with mispronunciations and worst of all giving only a pidgin model.

The main body of the grammar and dictionary was compiled from 1590 – 1603 ; when finished, it was a truly comprehensive volume with the dictionary alone containing some 32, 798 entries.

Both sets of kanji remain in use today to write the word ; the authoritative Japanese dictionary Kōjien describes the " cuisine for a get-together " as a banquet meal where the main beverage is sake ( Japanese rice wine ), and the " bosom-stone " cuisine as the simple meal served in chanoyu.

The main features of XDI are: the ability to link and nest RDF graphs to provide context ; full addressability of all nodes in the graph at any level of context ; representation of XDI operations as graph statements so authorization can be built into the graph ( a feature called XDI link contracts ); standard serialization formats including JSON and XML ; and a simple ontology language for defining shared semantics using XDI dictionary services.

The main difference between LZ77 and LZSS is that in LZ77 the dictionary reference could actually be longer than the string it was replacing.

Judson Church, inside the main campus of the University, is a Baptist church, and like Judson College, named after Adoniram Judson, a 19th century American missionary who compiled the first Burmese-English dictionary.

He wrote several books, including a Japanese grammar work entitled Arte da Lingoa de Iapam in 1604, and he is wrongly supposed to have been the main compiler of the Nippo Jisho or Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam, the first Japanese to Portuguese dictionary published in 1603 He was born in Portugal ; when he was 15 years old he moved to Japan and enrolled in the Jesuit seminary.

Volume 13 also contains a Hoi ( 補遺, " Appendix ") listing 1, 062 Chinese characters that the dictionary uses in definitions but does not include as main entries, plus the official 1850 Japanese tōyō kanji for general use, and 517 simplified Chinese characters.

This index comprehensively lists every compound word listed in the main dictionary, including terms, phrases, four-character idioms, etc.