* Katana ( 大刀 daitō, Odachi, Nodachi ) is sometimes translated from the Japanese language as longsword

It bears a strong resemblance to Tang sword, zhanmadao, Tachi or Odachi in form: extant examples show a handle approximately 25. 5 cm long, with a gently curved blade 80 cm long.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

In most Slavic languages, the name for Easter either means " Great Day " or " Great Night ".

The Norse called the Great Auk geirfugl, which means " spearbird ".

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

He introduced the Islamic Legion in 1972, a Libyan-sponsored pan-Arab paramilitary force by means of which Gaddafi aspired to establish a " Great Islamic State of the Sahel ".

Hīnayāna is contrasted with Mahāyāna, which means the " Great Vehicle.

For example, he linked Amaterasu ( the sun goddess and ancestor of the Imperial family ) with Dainichi Nyorai, a central manifestation of the Buddhists, whose name means literally " Great Sun Buddha ".

Indeed, the island of Great Britain takes its name from tattooing, with Britons translating as ' people of the designs ' and the Picts, who originally inhabited the northern part of Britain, which literally means ' the painted people '.

* In-yer-face theatre – a term for drama that emerged in Great Britain in the 1990s to describe work by young playwrights who present vulgar, shocking, and confrontational material on stage as a means of involving and affecting their audiences.

3, parashat Nasso ( pp. 127b-145a ), and its name means " The Great Assembly.

Marie and Atlantic Railway as a means to get their product to the Great Lakes ports but avoid the high tariffs of Chicago.

Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).

is Spanish for " Big River " and means " Great River of the North ".

Manchuria has historically also been referred to as Guandong (), which literally means " east of the pass ", a reference to Shanhai Pass in Qinhuangdao in today's Hebei province, at the eastern end of the Great Wall of China.

The link replaces the ferry service which had been the primary means of crossing the Great Belt.

Great Britain was particularly important in this research: demand for cadavers grew so great there that body-snatching and even anatomy murder came into use as a means of obtaining them.

According to Raeder: " The British have always considered the Mediterranean the pivot of their world empire ... Germany, however, must wage war against Great Britain with all the means at her disposal and without delay before the United States is able to intervene effectively. Gibraltar must be taken.

Over the remaining years of the Great Depression, the once-common practice of sharecropping and tenant farming became exceedingly rare, and vast amounts of tenant farmers were put out, without homes or means of income.

Though the identity of the Šahíya is not known, many Great Plains tribes assume it means Cree or some other people who spoke an Algonquian language related to Cree and Cheyenne.

Dechen Phrodrang means " Palace of Great Bliss.

The elemental nature of each sword also provides a necessary means of traversing otherwise impassable obstacles ; certain barriers succumb to the power blasts of individual swords, and the Sword of Water creates a bridge of ice across some shallow, narrow sections of rivers., also some enemies are immune to certain types of elements and must be killed using their opposite element ( Ice creatures are weak against fire ).

In Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East, the Pit Lord's ability Vorpal Sword means at least one creature of the opposing stack must die during an attack.

No elaborate means of transferring the Pink Ranger power was used, such as the earlier Sword of Light, which had been used in the middle of season two to transfer the powers of the original Red, Black and Yellow Rangers onto their replacements.

His name means " Bright Sword ", which he took in recognition of the territorial victories he had in Middle-earth as a renowned captain of Númenor.

Iota Orionis has the traditional names Hatsya ( sometimes with the typographic error Hatysa ) and in Arabic, Na ’ ir al Saif, which means simply " the Bright One of the Sword.

Kal ’ enedral is a word used to describe the Sword-Sworn, in their own language, the term Swordsworn being what they are known by to outlanders, but the term Kal ’ enedral means alternatively, in Shin ’ a ’ in, either “ Children of Her Sword ” or “ Her Sword-Brothers .” The Kal ’ enedral are taught by former Kal ’ enedral, usually ones dead for at least a century, and the term used to describe these teachers is leshya ’ e Kal ’ enedral.

* Haedong jingeom ( 해동진검 ; 海東劍 ) This literally means ' East Asian Practical Sword '.

* Sainchamsageom: This sword's name literally means ' Great Four Tiger Sword '.

* Janggeom ( 장검 ; 長劍 ): Literally means " long Sword ".

Nicknamed " Sword Devil " ( 劍魔 ) to reflect his prowess in and devotion to the practice of swordplay, he attains the philosophical level of " swordsmanship without a sword ", which means that he uses swordplay techniques in combat without the physical existence of a sword.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The name " Yu-lin " means " feathers and forests ", referring to the numerous light-footed soldiers represented by these faint stars.

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

This is sometimes expressed as " everything that is true is provable ", but it must be understood that " true " here means " made true by the set of axioms ", and not, for example, " true in the intended interpretation ".

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

By " impressions ", he means sensations, while by " ideas ", he means memories and imaginings.

By " chance ", he means all those particular comprehensible events which the viewer considers possible in accord with their experience.

By " necessary connection ", Hume means the power or force which necessarily ties one idea to another.

In the words " monarchy " and " oligarchy ", the second element arche ( ἀρχή ) means " rule ", " leading " or " being first ".

The word aeon (), also spelt eon or æon, originally means " life ", and / or " being ", though it then tended to mean " age ", " forever " or " for eternity ".