Since in German there is only one usual term Ostdeutschland, meaning East Germany or Eastern Germany, the German rather ambiguous term never gained prevailing use for the GDR as did the English term.

The German Democratic Republic ( GDR ; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR ), informally known as East Germany ( German: Ostdeutschland ), was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

The Bund Junges Ostpreußen is a subsidiary youth organization of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen ; its predecessor, Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland, was disassociated from the parent organization in 2000.

In 2009, the NPD joined the Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland in a demonstration on the anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II.

Fremd und Fremd-Sein in der DDR: Zu historischen Ursachen der Fremdfeindlichkeit in Ostdeutschland.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In English, the term Arabic numerals can be ambiguous.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

Biotechnology ( see also relatedly bioengineering ) can be a somewhat ambiguous term, sometimes loosely used interchangeably with BME in general ; however, it more typically denotes specific products which use " biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof.

Currently we all use the term consciousness in many different and often ambiguous ways.

The meaning of " free market " has varied over time and between economists, the ambiguous term " free " facilitating a diversity of uses.

A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify ( or leave ambiguous ) which meaning is intended.

Instead, Godfrey himself seems to have used the more ambiguous term princeps, or simply retained his title of dux from Lower Lorraine.

The ambiguous term key recovery is applied to both types of systems.

In 1998, the term open source was suggested as a substitute to free software because it avoided the ambiguous double-meaning of ‘ free ’ in English and was not as value-laden as the term free software.

The term remains ambiguous and it can follow any one of the following common definitions:

As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).

When applied to polymers, the term crystalline has a somewhat ambiguous usage.

It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube ( CRT ) and flat panel or projection displays using fixed-element arrays.

In biology the term " race " is used with caution because it can be ambiguous.

To a minority of Christians, nontrinitarians, the term " Son of God ", applied to Jesus in the New Testament, is accepted, while the non-biblical but less ambiguous " God the Son " is not.

When a term is ambiguous, a “ scope note ” can be added to ensure consistency, and give direction on how to interpret the term.

The ambiguous term wu-wei () constitutes the leading ethical concept in Taoism.

Theory of value is an ambiguous term, and may mean:

The term " cypherpunk " is mildly ambiguous.

* The Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea

The ambiguous term " anti-psychiatry " came to be associated with these more radical trends, but there was debate over whether it was a new phenomenon, whom it best described, and whether it constituted a genuinely singular movement.

The actual use of diacritics for Filipino, however, is rare, and is meant only to distinguish between homonyms with different stresses and meanings that either occur near each other in a text or to aid the reader in ascertaining its otherwise ambiguous meaning.

He argued that in Berkeley's case the fallacy is not obvious and this is because one premise is ambiguous between one meaning which is tautological and another which, Stove argues, is logically equivalent to the conclusion.

Even though this sentence may be somewhat ambiguous to some laypersons, who can, and who have actually interpreted it as meaning that they will not get a lawyer until they confess and are arraigned in court, the U. S. Supreme Court has approved of it as an accurate description of the procedure in those states.

Thus, the algorithm matched locally unambiguous meanings ( for instance, while the word seal as such is ambiguous, there is only one meaning of " seal " in the animal subhierarchy ).

The words are too ambiguous to make an exact determination of Pytheas ' meaning, whether diurnal or spring and neap tides are meant, or whether full and new moons or the half-cycles in which they occur.

The words protein, polypeptide, and peptide are a little ambiguous and can overlap in meaning.

Pedobaptists point out that the passage is ambiguous enough to interpret that a person becomes a disciple directly through baptism, meaning children could be baptized.

In French the word flûte is similarly ambiguous ( the French translation is " flûte à bec ", literally " beaked flute "), and it is also called flauta de pico in Spanish, meaning the same.

Critical translations of the Old Testament, while using the Masoretic Text as their basis, consult the Septuagint as well as other versions in an attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, undeniably corrupt, or ambiguous .. For example, the Jerusalem Bible Foreword says, "... only when this ( the Masoretic Text ) presents insuperable difficulties have emendations or other versions, such as the ... LXX, been used.

Originally co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of UNCLE ambiguous so it could be viewed as either referring to " Uncle Sam " or the United Nations.

In statutory interpretation, it refers to the problem of giving meaning to groups of words where one of the words is ambiguous or inherently unclear.

In this line of thinking, the words curelom and cumom were transliterated instead of translated, meaning that while the ancient word is roughly transmitted, the actual animal intended is ambiguous.

The name amphibole ( Greek αμφιβολος-amphibolos meaning ' ambiguous ') was used by René Just Haüy to include tremolite, actinolite, tourmaline and hornblende.

The expression survives, with an increasingly ambiguous meaning.

After Caul has worked his magic on merging and filtering different tapes, the final result is a sound recording in which the words themselves become crystal clear, but their actual meaning remains ambiguous.

* a third linguistic work on words of ambiguous or uncertain meaning, comprising at least seven books

Obfuscation ( or beclouding ) is the hiding of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, wilfully ambiguous, and harder to interpret.

Another possible meaning is the ambiguous northern use, which refers ironically to small-time troublemakers, usually young, as " likely ", either as an ironic comment on the above sense or as an expression of the sentiment that they are likely to be the cause of any trouble.

She also tells him that there is a way for him to " survive ", but her meaning is ambiguous.

Many groups have translation checkers to reduce the chances of letting translation errors slip through, and / or to give an alternative wording / meaning of a certain line to aid in editing an ambiguous translation.

Usually, only those words with a specialized or ambiguous meaning are printed in hanja.