* National Arab American Heritage Month ( United States )

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).

In 1998, Steven Longbaugh and David Heritage, two American deckhands from a fishing boat based in California, were stranded on the island for three weeks.

* American Heritage Dictionary, " Conspiracy theory "

* American Heritage Dictionaries, Central America.

The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.

The History of Cash Registers ", Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto, California, March 29 to July 7, 1996, Exhibit Companion

The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.

The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.

Allenton and other parts of Eureka have become part of a $ 500 million redevelopment plan proposed by a partnership including The Jones Company and American Heritage Homes.

* Leonard, John, The Ed Sullivan Age, American Heritage, May / June 1997, Volume 48, Issue 3

In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".

In economics, a study ( done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute ) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.

The Indo-European root of the " pour " derivation would be * gheu-d-as it is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary ( AHD ).

Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary.

Maple Leaf Heritage Investments is a subsidiary of B-Bay Inc. Its CEO and chairman is American businesswoman, Anita Zucker, widow of Jerry Zucker.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".

The American Heritage Dictionary claims that a hogshead can consist of anything from ( presumably ).

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

* Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

This also has to do with the different models preferred by British and American players .< ref name =" Harvard Dictionary of Music ">

The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology: the Origins of American English Words.

* — Extensive database of hymns and hymnology resources ; incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology

* New tribalist American author Daniel Quinn identifies himself as an animist and defines animism not as a religious belief but a religion itself, though with no holy scripture, organized institutions, or established dogma.

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as " the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

The American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ), Standard 1100, defines the requirements of meeting the ANSI standard for being a certifying organization.

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

The American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as " a factual film which is dramatic.

although the American Institute of Bisexuality defines it as physical or romantic attraction to " those of the same gender or to those of another gender ".

The American Birding Association ( ABA ) lists the Ivory-billed Woodpecker as a Class 6 species, a category the ABA defines as " definitely or probably extinct.

The U. S. Department of Transportation defines Hispanic as, " persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central or South American, or others Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race.

The American Psychological Association ( APA ) defines medical psychology as " that branch of psychology that integrates somatic and psychotherapeutic modalities into the management of mental illness and emotional, cognitive, behavioral and substance use disorders ".

Although the Academy of Medical Psychology defines medical psychology as a " specialty " and has established a " specialty board certification ," it is important to note that the American Psychological Association does not currently recognize medical psychology as a " specialty.

Also in the United States, the American Podiatric Medical Association ( APMA ) defines podiatrists as physicians and surgeons that fall under the department of surgery in hospitals.

The American Asatru Folk Assembly defines Ásatrú as " an expression of the native, pre-Christian spirituality of Europe " postulating it as " native European religion " in general " just as there is Native American religion and native African religion ".

Pennington argues that American Beauty defines its characters through their sexuality.

The American sociologist Lewis A. Coser ( following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler ) defines an apostate to be not just a person who experienced a dramatic change in conviction but “ a man who, even in his new state of belief, is spiritually living not primarily in the content of that faith, in the pursuit of goals appropriate to it, but only in the struggle against the old faith and for the sake of its negation.

The American Public Transportation Association ( APTA ) in its Glossary of Transit Terminology defines light rail as: " An electric railway with a ' light volume ' traffic capacity compared to heavy rail.

The American Film Institute defines western films as those " set in the American West that embod the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.

" However, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines logistics as " the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies " and the Oxford Dictionary online defines it as, " the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation :" Another dictionary definition is " the time-related positioning of resources.

In the context of warrants, the Oxford Companion to American Law defines probable cause as " information sufficient to warrant a prudent person's belief that the wanted individual had committed a crime ( for an arrest warrant ) or that evidence of a crime or contraband would be found in a search ( for a search warrant )".