* Miss Pinkerton, Fräulein Weiner, Mademoiselle Chic, Signorina Tasso ( Angy's Governesses ) – Nina Sevening, Mary Fraser, Mabel Hirst, Joan Keddie

The Signorina, the only woman to walk across the Niagara on a tightrope, once crossed while blindfolded and another time with her hands and legs in manacles.

* the " Tutti mi chiedono " section in Figaro ’ s Largo al factotum from Act 1 of Rossini's The Barber of Seville ( 1816 ), and the " Signorina, un ' altra volta " section in Bartolo's " A un dottor della mia sorte " in the same Act.

Blondin's success inspired other acrobats, such as William Leonard Hunt (" The Great Farini "), Samuel Dixon, Clifford Calverly, and Signorina Maria Spelterini, to emulate and try to surpass his acts at the same spot.

Brunetti serves the vain and self-serving buffoon, Vice-questore Patta, while Sergente Vianello and the all-knowing and well-connected Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary, assist Brunetti on the ground and through research.

When Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her.

With two ballet-pantomimes completed in the years 1928-29, Signorina Gioventù and Nikotina, Novák regained some of the respect he had lost among his colleagues ; their vibrant layering of orchestral effects ( including mixed meters and even references to tango ) won him new admirers among the younger generation, most notably Iša Krejčí and Alois Hába.

In several languages the title for married women, such as Madame, Señora, Signora, or Frau, is the direct feminine equivalent of the title used for men ; the title for unmarried women is a diminutive: Mademoiselle, Señorita, Signorina, or Fräulein.

Written on the photo is Signorina Pierina Legnani, Première danseuse assoluta.

Written on the photo is Signorina Pierina Legnani, Première danseuse assoluta.

However, a new suitor, the Earl of D, appears, and it emerges that Grandison promised himself to an Italian woman, Signorina Clementina della Porretta.

Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).

It is not exactly known when Wimsey recruited Miss Climpson to run an undercover employment agency for women, a means to garner information from the otherwise inaccessible world of spinsters and widows, but it is prior to Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), in which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient.

Miss Amelia Dedham ( Allen ) is a " proper " young lady " of means " from Boston, who has become the chairman of the board of the Dedham Shipping Company.

Similarly, well dressing was revived at this time in Youlgreave, to celebrate the supplying of water to the village " from a hill at some distance, by means of pipes laid under the stream of an intervening valley ", largely due to the support of a " Miss Bowman ".

* Miss Western ( the Squire's unmarried sister, who wrongly believes herself to ‘ know the World ‘ both in international and national politics and in social mores, tries to impose Blifil to Sophia but with less violent means than her brother ’ s )

" Holmes replies scathingly that Miss Adler is indeed on a much different level from the King ( by which he means higher — an implication lost on the King ).

* One of Miss Trunchbull's means of punishments is forcibly to make an overweight boy named Bruce Bogtrotter eat an enormous cake to try to make him sick after finding him guilty of stealing food from the kitchen ( in many of Dahl's novels there is a rude character that is overweight, Augustus Gloop for example, though Bruce Bogtrotter is portrayed as more sympathetic and even becomes somewhat of a hero to the kids by actually managing to finish the cake ).

Of The Perilous Chapel which featured a moving sculptural set by Carlus Dyer and was selected as one of the Best New Works of the Season by Dance Magazine, Doris Hering wrote, " When the dance was over one realized that by means of purely physical and visual elements, Miss Erdman had succeeded in giving a moving picture of the experience of an artist through phases of isolation and realization.

In 1894-1896 Dr Murray directed some excavations in Cyprus undertaken by means of a bequest of £ 2000 from Miss Emma Tournour Turner.

In his will, dated 18 January 1699, and proved 28 June 1700, he divided his means into two parts, one of which he left to his sister Bridget Bastard for the use of his father during his lifetime and afterwards for herself, while he left the other moiety to Miss Playdell and appointed her sole executrix.

Subplots include another professor wooing the disappointed Miss Carlisle, Biff Hawk's ineligibility for basketball due to failing Brainard's class, Alonzo Hawk's schemes to gain wealth by means of Flubber, the school's financial difficulties and debt to Mr. Hawk, and Brainard's attempts to interest the government and military in uses for Flubber.

The claim was pressed by the family with extraordinary pertinacity for many years, and when all available means had been exhausted, Miss Shedden, Ralston's only sister, took up the pleadings, and on one occasion she conducted the case before a committee of the House of Lords for a period extending over thirty days.

During the disastrous Miss Twin Peaks Pageant, the Log Lady is impersonated in a bizarre disguise by the insane former FBI Agent Windom Earle, who is seeking to abduct the winning girl to help provide the means to enter the Black Lodge.

Miss Vanity is Veronica, who gained her powers through unknown means ( they appear to be stress-related ).

Miss Jones is certain that Ginger Ted means to rape her as soon as the sun goes down.

* Lo mein – The term means " stirred noodles "; these noodles are frequently made with eggs and flour, making them chewier than simply using water.

Sapir replied stating that it " should by all means be published "; however, it was not until 1993 that it was prepared for publication by Lyle Campbell and Frances Karttunen.

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.

Cytology ( from Greek, kytos, " a hollow "; and ,-logia ) means " the study of cells ".

The word cryogenics stems from Greek and means " the production of freezing cold "; however, the term is used today as a synonym for the low-temperature state.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

The archaic form Alpdruck means " elf pressure "; it was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest ( incubi ).

Similarly, the Ainu language consistently does not distinguish between " be " and " become "; thus ne means both " be " and " become ", and pirka means " good ", " be good ", and " become good " equally.

The exact meaning of his name is uncertain: the common translation is " Lord of the Earth ": the Sumerian en is translated as a title equivalent to " lord "; it was originally a title given to the High Priest ; ki means " earth "; but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning " mound ".

He defines functional programs as being built up in a hierarchical way by means of " combining forms " that allow an " algebra of programs "; in modern language, this means that functional programs follow the principle of compositionality.

Arya means " noble ", " not ordinary "; sacca means " truth " or " reality ".

Due to its similarity to an oblique minuscule " y ", an actual " Y " is substituted in modern pseudo-old-fashioned usage as in " Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe "; the first word means and should be pronounced " the ", not " ye " ( archaic form of " you ").

For example, Finnish tie means " road "; the pronunciation is, unlike English, which in turn means " or " in Finnish.

Additionally, in some languages a " concourse " ( Swedish konkurs, Finnish konkurssi, German Konkurs ) takes its meaning from " concourse of debtors "; that is, it means bankruptcy, while in Russian конкурс takes one more meaning and refers to contest.

" The Chinese word for " gunpowder " is, which literally means " Fire Medicine "; however this name only came into use some centuries after the mixture's discovery.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).