The term " adiabatic " literally means impassable, coming from the Greek roots ἀ-(" not "), διὰ-(" through "), and βαῖνειν (" to pass "); this etymology corresponds here to an absence of heat transfer.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

Meanwhile, Buddy and Phyllis join their spouses and the foursome reminisces about the old days of their courtship and the theatre, their memories vividly coming to life in the apparitions of their young counterparts (" Waiting For The Girls Upstairs ").

The rabbis determined that the matter should be left until Elijah ( in reference to the notion that Elijah's arrival would precipitate the coming of the Messiah, at which time all halakhic questions will be resolved ) and the fifth cup came to be known as the Kos shel Eliyahu (" Cup of Elijah ").

* Když duben přichází (" When April is coming ")

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

The form Tartar has its origins in either Latin or French, coming to Western European languages from Turkish and Persian Tātār (" mounted courier, mounted messenger ; postrider ").

Later, after Explorer 3, it was concluded that the original Geiger counter had been overwhelmed (" saturated ") by strong radiation coming from a belt of charged particles trapped in space by the Earth's magnetic field.

They begin to hear music (" Brigadoon ") coming from a nearby village ; strangely, the village isn't on their map of the area.

German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann had used the word in the title of his anti-British novel Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Träume (" The World War: German Dreams ") as early as 1904, published in English as The coming conquest of England.

Gasshō (" 合掌 " in Japanese, meaning " two hands coming together ") is a meditative state where both palms of the hands are placed together, and was practised each time at the beginning of Usui's Reiki workshops and meetings.

Here, for the first time, was someone who could tell us from her own experience what it was like to be extremely sound sensitive (" like being tied to the rail and the train's coming ")... She was asked many questions: " Why does my son do so much spinning?

Results on the field were slow in coming, with Collingwood finishing 16th, the last position (" wooden spoon "), in his first year in charge.

The center of mass being high and not far behind the front wheel meant any sudden stop or collision with a pothole or other obstruction could send the rider over the handlebars (" taking a header " or " coming a cropper ").

(" I did not know that he would be coming.

(" I knew that he would not be coming.

(" He will not be coming because he is sick.

He had a formal Bar mitzvah (" coming of age ") ceremony in the Kimberley synagogue when he turned thirteen.

To get rid of him and prevent the dreams from coming true, they attempt fratricide, but then they sell Joseph as a slave to some passing Ishmaelites (" Poor, Poor Joseph "), who take him to Egypt.

Also, there is an art to truly constructive criticism: being well-intentioned is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for constructively criticizing, since one can have good intentions but poor delivery (" I don't know why my girlfriend keeps getting mad when I tell her to stop with the fries already ; I'm just concerned about her weight "), or egocentric intentions but appropriate delivery (" I'm sick of my subordinate coming in late for work, so I took her aside and we had a long, compassionate talk about her work-life balance.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

The etymology of the word " plague " is believed to come from the Latin word plāga (" blow, wound ") and plangere (“ to strike, or to strike down ”), cf.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

However, according to recent research, the original form was indeed Avalokitasvara with the ending a-svara (" sound, noise "), which means " sound perceiver ", literally " he who looks down upon sound " ( i. e., the cries of sentient beings who need his help ; a-svara can be glossed as ahr-svara, " sound of lamentation ").

Losing balance without losing consciousness is referred to as being knocked down (" down but not out ").

It passed the Self-denying Ordinance, by which all members of either House of Parliament laid down their commands, and re-organized its main forces into the New Model Army (" Army "), under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Cromwell as his second-in-command and Lieutenant-General of Horse.

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

Eventually their best joke is used in action (" There were zwei peanuts, walking down the straße, und one was ' assaulted '... peanut "), but proves in English to be hopelessly bad.

The Roman Republic's constitution or mos maiorum (" custom of the ancestors ") was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent.

Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (" A Scandal in Bohemia ") and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (" The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ").

Bristol's soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat (" down tempo ").

At 15 he began to write lyrics (" I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants " MixMag 1996 ).

If food or liquid does enter the trachea and contacts the vocal folds because of a failure of this safeguard (" going down the wrong pipe "), it causes a cough reflex to expel the matter in order to prevent choking.

Tony arrives to see Maria, and in a fit of rage she throws her fists at him until he finally calms her down and they plan to run away together ; as the walls of Maria's bedroom disappear, they find themselves in a dreamlike world of peace (" Somewhere ").

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge ( in places only wide ) called the Siq (" the shaft "), a natural geological feature formed from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and serving as a waterway flowing into Wadi Musa.

Center counter symmetry allows either player to decide whether to switch his King and Withdrawer (" Queen ") around, and then corner counter symmetry requires each player to decide which of his " Rooks " will be turned upside down.

From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").

Eleven southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (" the Confederacy "); the other 25 states supported the federal government (" the Union ").

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

The Etymologicum Magnum presents a medieval learned pseudo-etymology, explaining Aphrodite as derived from the compound habrodiaitos (" she who lives delicately " from habros + diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a " familiar " characteristic of Greek " obvious from the Macedonians ".

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

It has also been speculated that the English " curd " comes from the Latin crudus (" raw ").

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

The first meaning, " elm tree ", is problematic, and is reached by deriving * Elm-la from * Almilōn and subsequently to almr (" elm ").

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.