The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

The young Gaius earned the nickname Caligula ( meaning " little soldier's boot ", the diminutive form of caliga, n. hob-nailed military boot ) from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania.

He was soon given his nickname Caligula, meaning " little ( soldier's ) boot " in Latin, after the small boots he wore as part of his uniform.

His nickname Unræd is usually translated into present-day English as " The Unready ", though, because the present-day meaning of " unready " no longer resembles its ancient counterpart, this translation disguises the meaning of the Old English term.

The government put itself under the control of Spain, earning it the nickname of " España Boba " ( meaning " The Idiot Spain ").

As the athletic nickname of Indiana University Bloomington, the Hoosier is the subject of debate, primarily concerning the term's meaning and origin.

( Esau referred to the dish as " that same red pottage ", giving rise to his nickname, (` Edom, meaning " Red ").

( paralleling his nickname, (` Edom, meaning " Red ").

He also was to become a painter, with the nickname of lo Scheggia meaning " the splinter.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had been given the nickname Kozaru, meaning " little monkey ", from his lord Oda Nobunaga because his facial features and skinny form resembled that of a monkey.

Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term refers to the Dutch nickname and surname Janneke ( from Jan and the diminutive-eke, meaning " Little John " or Johnny in Dutch ), Anglicized to Yankee ( in Dutch, the letter " J " is pronounced the same as the English consonantal " Y " sound ) and " used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times ".

Referential indexical signs are signs where the meaning shifts depending on the context hence the nickname " shifters.

" Fionn " is actually a nickname meaning " blond ", " fair ", " white ", or " bright ".

They worked on her second album under her new nickname, N. I. N. A, meaning New Identity Not Applicable.

The Cherokee gave him a nickname meaning " The Raven.

His nickname, Curthose, comes from the Norman French Courtheuse, meaning short stockings ( curt & hose ), or Shortstockings.

Eumenes names the city after his brother, Attalus, whose loyalty earns him the nickname, " Philadelphus ", literally meaning " one who loves his brother ".

The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny in Ivan's nickname, but the modern English usage of terrible, with a pejorative connotation of bad or evil, does not precisely represent the intended meaning.

These include names, also known as eke-names, based on appearance such as " Schwartzkopf ", " Short ", and probably " Caesar ", and names based on temperament and personality such as " Daft ", " Gutman ", and " Maiden ", which according to a number of sources was an English nickname meaning " effeminate ".

* Ix, the nickname of Ford Prefect from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, meaning " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven " ( because he is in fact a " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.

* Baba ( nickname ), meaning father in Farsi ( Persian ), Pakistan ( Urdu language ), Indian ( Marathi / Maharastra ), Middle Eastern, Greek, and African cultures & grandmother in Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian and other Slavic languages

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

In the adult world, there are a number of rather general and diffuse sources of ideological diffusion that further compound the adolescent's search for meaning during this particular identity crisis.

Obviously what we are confronted with here is the identification of `` professional '' with narrow skills and specialization, the effective servicing of a client, rather than responsiveness to the wider and deeper meaning and associations of one's work.

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

In most cells, the cell wall is flexible, meaning that it will bend rather than holding a fixed shape, but has considerable tensile strength.

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

Just as in an alphanumeric system, the DDC is hierarchical ; it also uses some aspects of a faceted classification scheme, combining elements from different parts of the structure, to construct a number representing the subject content ( often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and geographical and temporal elements ) and the form of an item, rather than drawing upon a list containing each class and its meaning.

In his Logical Investigations, Husserl mentions Frege only twice, once in a footnote to point out that he had retracted three pages of his criticism of Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, and again to question Frege's use of the word Bedeutung to designate " reference " rather than " meaning " ( sense ).

It may have been largely a court ( meaning place rather than a judicial setting ) to teach manners, as the French courts would be known for in later generations.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

It is usually used to advance the story as a whole ( often to suggest the passage of time ), rather than to create symbolic meaning.

Like the French originals, they suggest a meaning related to the season but are neologisms, rather than preexisting words.

Furigana are sometimes also used to indicate meaning, rather than pronunciation.

English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.

( To make the confusion even greater, where Knecht in German received a military meaning — in " Landsknecht "— it denoted foot soldiers rather than cavalry ).

The word derives from the old Norse " gata ", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.

By way of a folk memorial, he is recalled in the Australian vernacular expression " do a Harold Holt " ( or " do the Harry "), rhyming slang for " do a bolt " meaning " to disappear suddenly and without explanation ", although this is usually employed in the context of disappearance from a social gathering rather than a case of presumed death.

Similar to a parabola, a hyperbola is an open curve, meaning that it continues indefinitely to infinity, rather than closing on itself as an ellipse does.

The word hotel is derived from the French hôtel ( coming from hôte meaning host ), which referred to a French version of a townhouse or any other building seeing frequent visitors, rather than a place offering accommodation.

Many automotive Hall effect sensors have a built-in internal NPN transistor with an open collector and grounded emitter, meaning that rather than a voltage being produced at the Hall sensor signal output wire, the transistor is turned on providing a circuit to ground through the signal output wire.

Information theory, however, does not consider message importance or meaning, as these are matters of the quality of data rather than the quantity and readability of data, the latter of which is determined solely by probabilities.

While the common meaning of the word " lift " assumes that lift opposes gravity, lift in its technical sense can be in any direction since it is defined with respect to the direction of flow rather than to the direction of gravity.