To this extent some stretching of the literal meaning of the Committee Report seems justified, since the literal meaning conflicts with the clear implication, if not the language, of the statute.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The literal translation of Benjamin is son of right ( as opposed to left ), generally interpreted as meaning son of my right hand, though sometimes interpreted as son of the right side.

They say that the literal meaning is true but that hidden behind this historical account are many allegories.

Interpretation as the literal, ' plain meaning ' implies ( i. e. rejection of typological and allegorical methods, although not rejecting types or allegories as being present in the Scriptures per se ).

To reflect how the people belonging to the upper castes saw them, the Finnish word for " obscene ", säädytön, has the literal meaning " estateless ".

It appears to have arisen over theological contentions concerning the meaning, figurative or literal, of a sentence from the Gospel of John: " the Word was made Flesh ".

: the intelligible and the sensible, the spontaneous and the receptive, autonomy and heteronomy, the empirical and the transcendental, immanent and transcendent, as the interior and exterior, or the founded and the founder, normal and abnormal, phonetic and writing, analasis and synthesis, the literal sense and figurative meaning in language, reason and madness in psychoanalysis, the masculine and feminine in gender theory, man and animal in ecology, the beast and the sovereign in the political field, theory and practice as distinct dominions of thought itself.

Note that the term " selflessness " is similar in literal meaning ( ego is the Greek word for " I ") but differs in nuance and usage.

# In French film practice, " montage " has its literal French meaning ( assembly, installation ) and simply identifies editing.

The literal meaning of jihad is " to strive hard " to progress in all aspects of life.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

The literal meaning of Tirthankara is " ford-builder ".

While the sound remained more or less the same when pronounced in Japanese, the literal meaning of the name changed from " Beating Dog " to " High Hero ".

According to the PaRDeS approaches to exegesis, interpretation of Biblical texts in Judaism is realized through peshat ( literal or plain meaning, lit.

All of these concepts depend for their meaning on the supposition that the text of Bible has been properly interpreted, with consideration for the intention of the text, whether literal history, allegory or poetry, etc.

The literal meaning of the Hebrew is " between the two evenings ", a phrase which is, however, not defined.

Predestination in this sense takes on a very literal meaning: pre-( before ) and destiny, in a straightforward way indicating that some events seem bound to happen.

* Shih-Te, a Zen Chinese poet ( literal translation: " Pick-Up " meaning " Foundling ")

The literal meaning of perestroika is " restructuring ", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.

The word derives from the Hebrew mephitz, meaning " destroyer ", and tophel, meaning " liar "; " tophel " is short for tophel shequer, the literal translation of which is " falsehood plasterer ".

The English term derives through Old French pontif from Latin pontifex, a word commonly held to come from the Latin root words pons ( bridge ) + facere ( to do, to make ), and so to have the literal meaning of " bridge-builder ".

The phrase derives from the literal, specific description of a mother who transports and watches her children play soccer.

It derives from the Spanish word sombra, meaning " shade " or " shadow "; thus a literal English translation would be " shade maker ".

The literal meaning is equivalent in English to " having guts ", and the word derives from sisus, which means something inner or interior.

Though kapporeth is probably derived from kaphar, which is often considered to mean cover, the literal meaning of kaphar is wipe out, implying that kapporeth means thing of wiping out / thing of cleansing ; the cognate Arabic term kaffarat ( also generally taken to mean cover, but from which the word kafir also derives ) is used in modern legal contexts to refer to any mechanism of rectifying illegality ( ranging from rectifying the failure to fast during Ramadan to the rectification of murder ), for example the freeing of slaves after the slave has suffered shocking circumstances could be considered as a kaffarat.

" The term derives from the Latin word " quidditas ," which was used by the medieval scholastics as a literal translation of the equivalent term in Aristotle's Greek.

' Geography ' derives from the from Greek-geographia, a literal translation of which would be " to describe or write about the Earth ".

The name derives from a literal translation of the genus name Lysimachia, derived from the name of an ancient king of Sicily, being analyzed as Greek λυσις, " loosening ," and μαχη, " battle.

The name derives from the Old English language word March or border, hence Border Field being the literal translation.

The name of the city derives from Mongolian, and its literal meaning in the local Western Mongolian is " Rivers ".

A possible meaning is suggested on phrases. org. uk, which suggests that the phrase " derives from a literal usage of the exclamation.

These areas, by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern, stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued -- and set to shuttling again -- only by conventional perspective ; ;

The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief.

Abstraction is a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (" real " or " concrete ") concepts, first principles, or other methods.

Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world — it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art.

Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.

The literal translation of the phrase ex nihilo is " from nothing " but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation ex nihilo or creation from chaos.

This work ( also known as " Megillat HaHasmonaim ", " Megillat Hanukkah " or " Megillat Yevanit ") is in both Aramaic and Hebrew ; the Hebrew version is a literal translation from the Aramaic original.

" Refusing to give a literal reading to the state-granted charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which specified that the company could " collect and receive such tariffs ... as it may prescribe, Hughes contended that this clause " necessarily implies that the charges shall be reasonable and does not detract from the power of the State ... to prescribe reasonable rates.

Just as Paul expects Onesimus ( and, at a later time, himself ) to be freed literally from his yoke, as fellow servants of Christ, they expect to realize their status of brotherhood and thus equality with Christ ( before the Father ) in a literal, temporal fashion, upon Christ's return to earth.

In the Mouth of Madness took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the madman he was hired to track down.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

The name Halakha is derived from the Hebrew halakh ה ָ ל ַ ך ְ, which means " to walk " or " to go "; thus a literal translation does not yield " law ", but rather " the way to go ".

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Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.

In French, it is called " Nouvelle-Ecosse ", which is a literal translation from Latin to French.

In the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, as well as in the Church of the East, creation is not considered to be a literal " part of " God, and the Godhead is distinct from creation.

His influence ranges from similarities in idea to full literal translations woven into plays.

In the years following the Second World War, as component " Hi-Fi " ( high-fidelity ) and, later, " stereo " ( stereophonic ) sound systems slowly evolved from an exotic specialty item into a common feature of American homes, the literal description of the record-spinning component as a " record changer " ( which could automatically play through a stacked series of discs ) or a " turntable " ( which was usually meant to be burdened with only one disc at a time ) entered common usage.

The literal translation would be " at first face " or " at first appearance ", from the feminine form of primus (" first ") and facies (" face "), both in the ablative case.