The necromantic change from the palace at Sparta to Faust's Gothic castle directs us to the aesthetic meaning of the myth -- the translation of antique drama into Shakespearean and romantic guise.

In other words, like automation machines designed to work in tandem, they shared the same programming, a mutual understanding not only of English words, but of the four stresses, pitches, and junctures that can change their meaning from black to white.

The word adobe has existed for around 4, 000 years, with relatively little change in either pronunciation or meaning.

Changing the allophone used by native speakers for a given phoneme in a specific context usually will not change the meaning of a word but the result may sound non-native or unintelligible.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The use of personal names as rhymes continued into the late 20th century, for example " Tony Blairs " meaning " flares ", as in trousers with a wide bottom ( previously this was " Lionel Blairs " and this change illustrates the ongoing mutation of the forms of expression ) and " Britney Spears ", meaning " beers ".

Some languages, such as Jalapa Mazatec, use creaky voice as a linguistically significant marker ; that is, the presence or absence of creaky voice can change the meaning of a word.

The kahakô over a vowel can completely change the meaning of a word that is spelled the same but without the kahakô.

Under Java or C ++ the visibility of an object is defined in the code itself, meaning that to support a similar change the programmer would be forced to re-write the definitions completely, and could not have two versions at the same time.

Brentano argued that every categorical proposition can be translated into an existential one without change in meaning and that the " exists " and " does not exist " of the existential proposition take the place of the copula.

Changes from western ( Inupiaq ) to eastern dialects are marked by the dropping of vestigial Yupik-related features, increasing consonant assimilation ( e. g., kumlu, meaning " thumb ," changes to kuvlu, changes to kublu, changes to kulluk, changes to kulluq ), and increased consonant lengthening, and lexical change.

Although it had always included a euphemistic meaning for " poison " (" being given "), over the following centuries it gradually suffered a full semantic change to the sole present German meaning " poison ".

In bilingual situations, false friends often result in a semantic change — a real new meaning that is then commonly used in a language.

But because the substitution of any of these for any other cannot change the meaning of a word, they are considered to be allographs of the same grapheme, which can be written ⟨ a ⟩.

It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships.

Future Virginia Governor and U. S. Secretary of War James Barbour concluded that " unconstitutional " included " void, and of no force or effect ", and that Madison's textual change did not affect the meaning.

Then note how the meaning would change if the second premise were parallel to the rest of the syllogism:

The freshness condition ( requiring that is not in the free variables of ) is crucial in order to ensure that substitution does not change the meaning of functions.

Diachronic lexical semantics was interested without a doubt in the change of meaning with predominantly semasiological approach, taking the notion of meaning in a psychological aspect: lexical meanings were considered to be psychological entities ), thoughts and ideas, and meaning changes are explained as resulting from psychological processes.

This bold self-assertion, after decades of humble subservience, is indeed a twentieth-century phenomenon, an abrupt change in the Southern way of existence.

However, after you've seen all the historical piazzas and plazas, the places and forums, the churches and museums, the palaces and castles, and begin to feel at home in the capitals of Europe, you'll want to change your course and follow the by-roads at will, far from the market places.

The change in perceptions by some of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects, after they had been informed of the possibilities of normal reactions, suggests that their constriction and guardedness is associated with their general mode of responding to strange or unknown situations.

She had reason to change the one she made right after Mr. Meeker's death.

Most amphibians go through metamorphosis, a process of significant morphological change after birth.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

While the peace after the 1656 war did not change the status quo, the fourth Peace of Aarau in 1712 brought about a reorganization of power relations.

A recent change in legislation now allows Indiana residents to purchase alcohol on Election Day after all polls are closed.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

* Style → There is a sudden change in style and theology after chapter 40 ; numerous key words and phrases found in one section are not found in the other.

In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates ( see Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ), although it took until 1933 for Georges Lemaître to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was an unphysical coordinate singularity.

The name of the Yugoslavia entity was altered in the Factbook the month after the change.

This microprogram is sometimes rewritable so that it can be modified to change the way the CPU decodes instructions even after it has been manufactured.

Uribe was reelected in 2006 after a change in the constitution allowed presidents to be reelected.

* is the rate of change in atmospheric pressure with respect to time at t seconds after the skydiver's jump and is proportional to the buoyant force on the skydiver at t seconds after his jump.

For example, suppose that we want to compute the rate of change in atmospheric pressure ten seconds after the skydiver jumps.

Tombaugh's widow Patricia stated after the IAU's decision that while Clyde may have been disappointed with the change since he had resisted attempts to remove Pluto's planetary status in his lifetime, he would have accepted the decision now if he were alive.

Rockies first baseman Andrés Galarraga won the batting title, hitting. 370 for the season after Manager Don Baylor persuaded Galarraga to change from a standard batting stance into an open one in which he squarely faced the pitcher, allowing him to see incoming pitches properly.

A change in management and shortly after a change in club ownership led to severe problems, such as the reckless signing of former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen, and the club looked like it would go out of business.

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

A short break interval of 2 minutes occurs after the end of each quarter ( a longer break of 15 minutes at halftime ), and the two teams then change goals.