The ancient Pythagorean pentagram, with two legs up, represented the Pentemychos ( πεντέμυχος " of five sanctuaries "), a cosmogony written by Pythagoras ' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros.

The ancient Pythagorean pentagram was drawn with two points up and represented the doctrine of Pentemychos.

Twenty-seven assessors stated that they were in favor of improved means for assessing movable personal property, and only five were opposed.

By mid-1896 all of Satie's financial means had vanished, and he had to move to cheaper and much smaller lodgings, first at the, and two years later, after he'd composed the two first sets of in 1897, to Arcueil, a suburb some five kilometres from the centre of Paris.

Go means five, moku is a counter word for pieces and narabe means line-up.

The Japanese name means " five colours ".

Entrants to graduate-entry courses ( as in the USA ), usually lasting four or five years, have previously completed a three-or four-year university degree, commonly but by no means always in sciences.

* Telepathy: Transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses.

For example, during the annual ARRL's Field Day contest, making a QSO ( ham-to-ham contact ) using " QRP battery power " is worth five times as many points as a contact made by conventional means.

Variously said to have taken place in 1647 under the Shunzhi Emperor, in 1674 under the Kangxi Emperor, or in 1732 under the Yongzheng Emperor, this destruction is also supposed to have helped spread Shaolin martial arts through China by means of the five fugitive monks.

Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam, and is expected to be paid by all practicing Muslims who have the financial means ( nisab ).

Historically, the counties of Meath, Westmeath and small parts of surrounding counties constituted the province of Mide, which was one of the " Five Fifths " of Ireland ( in the Irish language the word for province, Cuige, from Cuig, five means " a fifth "); however, these have long since become the three northernmost counties of Leinster province.

* Lima, a number word in Indonesian language, that means " five "

One of the latter, entitled " On the orders and genera of quadratic forms containing more than three indeterminates ," enunciates certain general principles by means of which he solves a problem proposed by Eisenstein, namely, the decomposition of integer numbers into the sum of five squares ; and further, the analogous problem for seven squares.

Equines are both heterodontous and diphyodontous, which means that they have teeth in more than one shape ( there are up to five shapes of tooth in a horse's mouth ), and have two successive sets of teeth, the deciduous (" baby teeth ") and permanent sets.

Twenty-one Douglas DC-4 airliners were converted into car ferries as the ATL-98 Carvair, a major task that included replacing the aircraft's original forward fuselage with an extended version incorporating the flight-deck above the cargo hold and a side-hinged nose door through which five cars could be loaded, one at a time, by means of a mobile, ground-based " scissor " lift.

Hetu further has five characteristics: ( 1 ) It must be present in the Paksha, ( 2 ) It must be present in all positive instances, ( 3 ) It must be absent in all negative instances, ( 4 ) It must not incompatible with the minor term or Paksha and ( 5 ) All other contradictions by other means of knowledge should be absent.

* In season five of the television series Angel, recurring villain Lindsey McDonald has symbols derived from Enochian tattooed on his body to avoid detection by any means other than the naked eye, including the powers of the Senior Partners.

Between five and six million people use Tok Pisin to some degree, although by no means do all of these speak it well.

Note also that if a piece of land, say a large park, is described as five kilometres square, that means it has the shape of a square, each side of the square being five kilometres long.

This means that the park has an area of twenty-five square kilometres ( and not five square kilometres ).

Betting now begins with the player whose upcards make the best poker hand ( since fewer than five cards are face up, this means no straights, flushes, or full houses ).

Since fewer than five cards are face up, this means no straights, flushes, or full houses will count for this purpose.

Western Spotted Skunk also called a zorrillo, which means ' little fox ' in Spanish. Skunks are reluctant to use this weapon, as they carry just enough of the chemical for five or six uses – about 15 cc – and require some ten days to produce another supply.

rim-fires by means of adapter sleeves in the chambers.

Prior to that time, gas chambers and other means were commonly employed.

On the inner walls of these chambers are stalked hairs, which when stimulated by the touch of an insect send out delicate filaments by means of which the insect is killed and digested.

The right atrium ( in older texts termed the " right auricle ", which now means the right atrial appendage ) is one of four chambers ( two atria and two ventricles ) in the hearts of mammals ( including humans ) and archosaurs ( which include birds and crocodilians ).

The chambers also have a consultative function ; this means the chambers must be consulted whenever a new law related to industry or commerce is proposed.

Before that, gas chambers and other means were commonly employed.

Both chambers of Congress are elected concurrently with the president by means of a proportional representation system.

This means that a single leak will not result in loss of pressure throughout the boat, and that air can be bled between chambers to compensate for loss in one.

* Zyklon B Also spelled Cyclon B – tradename of a cyanide-based insecticide used to kill more than one million Jews, Gypsies, communists, and prisoners of war in Nazi gas chambers ( total number of deaths in the Holocaust total about six million people ; the others were killed by other means ).

The dual runners were switched by means of a butterfly valve assembly, unfortunately in early models, the screws were prone to backing out and subsequently making their way through the motor, wreaking havoc on the piston faces, combustion chambers, and possibly valves on the way through.

Products include devices that emit ultrasonic sound that allegedly irritates mice and drives them away, and more swift, painless means of death such as mini electrocution or gas chambers.

It was he, not de Louvois, who formed the idea of annexation during a time of peace, by means of the chambers of reunion.

Hypobaric chambers are also finding increasing use as a means of improving athletic performance.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

The epithet Amathusia in Roman poetry often means little more than " Cypriote ," attesting to the fame of the city.

The word asymptote is derived from the Greek ἀσύμπτωτος ( asumptotos ) which means " not falling together ," from ἀ priv.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

Jonah, whose name literally means " dove ," is introduced to the reader in the very first verse.

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

For example, Lowell, Massachusetts, considered to be " The Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution ," has of canals, built from around 1790 to 1850, that provided water power and a means of transportation for the city.

Hiranya means " gold ," and kasipu means " a soft cushion or bed.

For instance, while the Hebrew word chutzpah means " impudence ," its Arabic cognate ḥaṣāfah means " sound judgment ;" even more contradictorily, the English word black and Polish biały, meaning white, both derive from the PIE, meaning, " to burn or shine.

She constantly struggled for perfection, " A perfect technique in anything ," she stated in an interview, " means that there has been no break in continuity between the conception and the act of performance.

There is no precise definition for the term " Chicagoland ," but it generally means the city and its suburbs combined together.

In Malay, " cakera " means " disc ," e. g. " cakerva padat " = " compact disc.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

The word used for " head ," transliterated from Greek, is kephalē — which means the anatomical head of a body.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

* Dé / Te 德 basically means " virtue " in the sense of " personal character ," " inner strength " ( virtuosity ), or " integrity.

* Jīng / Ching 經 as it is used here means " canon ," " great book ," or " classic.

Dharma also means " mental contents ," and is paired with citta, which means heart-mind.