It is important to note that these are " politically correct " terms and that in normal parlance, the adjective " American " and its direct cognates are almost always used unless the context does not render the nationality of the person clear.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

The article is also used for inalienable possession of body parts and kin terms, where English would use a possessive adjective:

The adjective is not used in the New Testament, but Clement of Alexandria in Book 7 of his Stromateis speaks of the " learned " ( gnostikos ) Christian in complimentary terms.

When speaking in terms of a labor theory of value, value, without any qualifying adjective should theoretically refer to the amount of labor necessary to the production of a marketable commodity, including the labor necessary to the development of any real capital employed in the production.

Examples of terms that include the adjective libre: libre software, FLOSS, libre knowledge and libre cultural works.

Related terms are common in the medical literature, where the nouns tumefaction and tumescence ( derived from the adjective tumefied ), are current medical terms for non-neoplastic swelling.

: ) and the adjective bourgeois are terms that describe a historical range of socio-economic classes.

These terms are debated, however, since the adjective joglaresc would seem to imply " in the manner of the jongleurs ".

In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant.

The phrase is one of the few cases in the English language where the adjective is a postmodifier — some other phrases, such as the legal terms attorney general and court martial, also follow that pattern, largely due to the influence of Norman French.

Many stereotypes have developed regarding people who live in trailer parks, which are similar to stereotypes of the poor and the term Trailer trash often used as an adjective in the same vein as the derogatory American terms white trash or ghetto.

Meyer-Eppler's German terms Aleatorik ( noun ) and aleatorisch ( adjective ), however, both mean " aleatory ".

In another hymn Surya is spoken of in terms prasavitr ( Vivifier ), an adjective usually applied to Savitr, and in the third verse Savitr is apparently mentioned as the same god as Surya.

The capitalization of geographic terms in English text generally depends on whether the author perceives the term as a proper noun, in which case it is capitalized, or as a combination of an established proper noun with a normal adjective or noun, in which case the latter are not capitalized.

When expressing possibility, English speakers often use potentially pleonastic expressions such as: It may be possible or maybe it's possible, where both terms ( verb may / adverb maybe and adjective possible ) have the same meaning under certain constructions.

The terms blind ( adjective ) or to blind ( transitive verb ) when used in this sense are figurative extensions of the literal idea of blindfolding someone.

Generally the terms “ equality of opportunity ” and “ equal opportunity ” are interchangeable, with occasional slight variations: “ equality of opportunity ” has more of a sense of being an abstract political concept, while “ equal opportunity ” is sometimes used as an adjective, usually in the context of employment regulations, to identify an employer, a hiring approach, or law.

The terms " sect of the Nazarenes " and " Jesus of Nazareth " both employ the adjective nasraya ( ܕܢܨܪܝܐ ) in the Syrian Aramaic Peshitta, from Nasrat ( ܢܨܪܬ ) for Nazareth.

Schneider coined the terms endogenous depression, derived from Emil Kraepelin's use of the adjective to mean biological in origin, and reactive depression, more usually seen in outpatients, in 1920.

) Another peculiarity of terms for body parts is that they are inalienably possessed, requiring a possessive adjective prefix to complete them, so one cannot say " head " alone, but only " my, or his, or your, etc.

Other terms that may be confused with folkloristics include the adjective “ folkloristic ,” to mean an academically oriented study and the term “ folkloric ” to mean materials having the character of folklore or tradition.

The month of May ( Latin Maius ) was supposedly named for Maia, though ancient etymologists also connected it to the maiores, " ancestors ," again from the adjective maius, maior, meaning those who are " greater " in terms of generational precedence.

Divine — capitalized — may be used as an adjective to refer to the manifestations of such a Divinity or its powers: e. g. " basking in the Divine presence ..."

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

In Fudge, character Traits such as Attributes and Skills, are rated on a seven-level, ascending adjective scale: Terrible, Poor, Mediocre, Fair, Good, Great, and Superb.

Furthermore, various institutions, monuments and the like, are named for current or previous heads of state, such as streets and squares, schools, charitable and other organizations ; in monarchies ( e. g. Belgium ) there can even be a practice to attribute the adjective " royal " on demand based on existence for a given number of years.

Noting that the modifying component in Germanic compound words can take the form of a genitive or a bare root, he points to behavioural similarities between genitive determinants and the modifying element in regular Old Norse compound words, such as the fact that neither can be modified by a free-standing ( declined ) adjective.

As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology.

By extension, the term " manichean " is widely applied ( often disparagingly ) as an adjective to a philosophy or attitude of moral dualism, according to which a moral course of action involves a clear ( or simplistic ) choice between good and evil, or as a noun to people who hold such a view.

The Welsh word " Maes ", meaning " field " or " area of activity "; it is typical for " maes " to be followed by an adjective, such as " fair field ", " Maes teg ".

Machiavelli has become infamous for such political advice, ensuring that he would be remembered in history through the adjective, " Machiavellian.

There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as ' dozen ', which is a noun, ' first ', which is an adjective, or ' twice ', which is an adverb.

Double prefixes have been used in the past, such as micromillimetres ( now nanometres ), micromicrofarads ( now picofarads ), hectokilometres ( now 100 kilometres ) and the derived adjective hectokilometric ( typically used for qualifying the fuel consumption measures ).

The endorsement by the IHEU of the capitalization of the word " Humanism ", and the dropping of any adjective such as " secular ", is quite recent.

Tradition is often used as an adjective, in contexts such as traditional music, traditional medicine, traditional values and others.

When the <- ως > ending is used to transform an adjective whose tonal accent is on the third syllable from the end, such as < επίσημος > (< epísimos >, " official "), the corresponding adjective is accented on the second syllable from the end ; compare < επίσημα > (< epísima >) and < επισήμως > (< episímos >), which both mean " officially ".

In modern Japanese, kanji are used to write parts of the language such as nouns, adjective stems, and verb stems, while hiragana are used to write inflected verb and adjective endings ( okurigana ), particles, and miscellaneous words which have no kanji or whose kanji is considered obscure or too difficult to read or remember.

The adjective " transverse " is most often used when it is used in combination with additional error control coding, such as a longitudinal redundancy check.

In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions ( such as " one ", " two ", or " three or more ").

The meaning of the word " reason " in senses such as " human reason " also overlaps to a large extent with " rationality " and the adjective of " reason " in philosophical contexts is normally " rational ", rather than " reasoned " or " reasonable ".

From the 19th century, the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, and its name was supplemented by the adjective Górnicza ( which refers to mining ) in 1919, to distinguish it from such towns, as Dąbrowa Tarnowska and Dąbrowa Białostocka.

For instance, the prepositional phrase at the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby.

Many compound words contain an adjective, such as belle-mère (" mother-in-law "; distinct from belle mère, " beautiful mother ").

Some of them use an archaic form of the feminine adjective that lacks the final-e and sometimes show an apostrophe instead of a hyphen, such as grand ' route (" main country road "; distinct from grande route, " long way ") and grand-mère (" grandmother "; distinct from grande mère, " tall mother ").