A distinction is sometimes made between " true " homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate ( glide on ice ) and skate ( the fish ), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth ( of a river ) and mouth ( of an animal ).

The name of hockey itself has no clear origin, though the first known mention of the word ' hockey ' in English dates to 1363.

Another hypothesis for the origin of the term dates back to 1907, " when John Brandtjen convinced two young machinists from Oslo, Norway named Abel and Eneval Kluge to service and install presses for his fledgling printing equipment firm " ( see external link, history of the Kluge Platen Press ).

In some Israeli cities, street signs identify Esperanto's creator and give his birth and death dates, but refer to him solely by his Jewish name Eliezer ( a variant of which, El ' azar, is the origin of Lazarus ).

The earliest fossils attributed to the Polaes dates to the late Cretaceous period about 65. 5 million years ago, though some studies ( e. g., Bremer, 2002 ) suggest the origin of the of the group may extend to nearly 115 million years ago, likely in South America.

This practice, still in force at the end of the fourth century, dates apparently from the period when the great cemeterial basilicas were built in Rome, and owes its origin to the solemn commemoration services of martyrs, held at their tombs on the anniversary of their burial, as early as the third century.

The origin of the obsolete term plastique dates back to the Nobel 808 explosive introduced to the U. S. by the British in 1940.

This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.

Babylonian astronomers before Kidinnu's time apparently already knew the Saros cycle ( old eclipse observations were collected in tables organised according to the Saros cycle since the late 5th century BC ) and the Metonic cycle ( the dates of the lunar calendar in the Saros tables follow a regular 19-year pattern of embolismic months at least since 498 BC ); both cycles are also used in System B. Schnabel computed specific years ( first 314 BC and later 379 BC ) for the origin of the System B lunar theory, but Franz Xaver Kugler and Otto E. Neugebauer later disproved Schnabel's calculations.

The earliest account of the origin of the Delphic oracle is provided in the Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo, which recent scholarship dates within a narrow range, ca.

Although the proliferation of costumes is of twentieth-century origin, the occasional use of costumes dates back almost to the date of casting, the oldest costume on display in the City Museum being of seventeenth-century origin.

Its origin is not really known, but it dates back several centuries.

The earliest stromatolite of confirmed microbial origin dates to 2. 724 billion years ago.

According to the written sources we have about the settlements of the Ligurians ( Ligures ), the presence of this people of Mediterranean origin dates back to the first millennium B. C.

The route 128 number dates from the origin of the Massachusetts highway system in the 1920s.

While the dates of origin and other evolutionary details of the European bowed yoke lyres continue to be disputed among organologists, there is general agreement that none of them were the ancestors of modern orchestral bowed stringed instruments, as once was thought.

The origin of the super-rich Howell character dates back to 1949 radio when Backus portrayed " Hubert Updike III " on The Alan Young Show.

The origin of this particular writing is difficult to substantiate because scholars disagree about the exact dates of the composition of the Upanishads, but agree that all Upanishads have been passed down through oral tradition.

Although its origin and purpose is unknown, the imiut fetish dates as far back as to the First Dynasty ( 3100-2890 BC ).

The Scottville Clown Band's origin dates back to 1903 when a group of local merchants dressed in costume and performed for local festivals.

There was also a lot of drift-sand whose origin, according to geological experts, dates back to the last ice age.

The origin of this desert dates back to around 100 million years ago, during which it was covered by a shallow sea.

Hickory Valley's origin dates back to the blending of three independent pioneer settlements in the area that were founded by three men: William Shinault in 1820, Drury Wood in 1826 and William Barnett in 1827.

Hickory Valley's origin dates back to the blending of three independent pioneer settlements in the area that were founded by three men: William Shinault in 1820, Drury Wood in 1826 and William Barnett in 1827.

UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to whom it describes as other persons " of concern ," including internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization for African Unity Convention, or some other treaty if they left their country, but who presently remain in their country of origin.

UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to what it describes as other persons " of concern ," including internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization for African Unity Convention, or some other treaty if they left their country, but who presently remain in their country of origin.

Gray reported in 1951 that Annie's origin lay in a chance meeting he had with a ragamuffin while wandering the streets of Chicago looking for cartooning ideas.

Alamgir Hashmi ( Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی ) ( also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi ) ( born November 15, 1951 ) is a major English poet of Pakistani origin in the latter half of the 20th century.

* 1951 – In response to a civil rights movement which originated in opposition to racial discrimination in Dresden, Ontario, the government of Leslie Frost passes Canada's first Fair Employment Practices Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, creed, colour, nationality, ancestry or place of origin.

* Carlos Panini ( died 1951 ), wealthy Mexican businessman of Italian origin

The next day claimed Carlos Panini, Italian in origin, and a pioneer of Mexican aviation-in 1927 he had established Mexico's first scheduled airline, which he sold in 1951 with plans for his retirement.

known rabbi, the rav gaon Avraham Arie Leib Rosen ( 1870 – 1951 ), of Galician origin.

It was then known as Adevĕrul, which also reflected the veritas origin, and the ĕ, although obsolete by the early 20th century, was kept as a distinctive sign by all the paper's owners until 1951.

In 1951, after Colombia suspended by FIFA due to recruiting international players without a pass, signed the Pact of Lima where the CONMEBOL in October of that year arranging the situation and decided that all players who had come of any irregular shape, should return to their countries of origin in October 1954 ( maximum in December of that year ); factor that helped the departure of Alfredo Di Stefano in February 1953, as well as FC Barcelona bids and then Real Madrid ( who paid $ 1 million and a half pesetas $- 70, 000-Pass by the Millionaires had the other half was River Plate ).

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

Unfortunately the Nepōhualtzintzin and its teaching were among the victims of the conquering destruction, when a diabolic origin was attributed to them after observing the tremendous properties of representation, precision and speed of calculations.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber.

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

These drugs are used along with analgesics to modulate and / or modify the action of opioids when used against pain, especially of neuropathic origin.

A returning boomerang has two or more airfoil wings arranged so that the spinning creates unbalanced aerodynamic forces that curve its path so that it travels in an elliptical path and returns to its point of origin when thrown correctly.

Currently, the word " Bohemians " is sometimes used when speaking about persons from Bohemia of non-Czech or mixed ethnic origin, especially before the year 1918, when the Kingdom of Bohemia ceased to exist ; also when there is need to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part ( Bohemia proper ) of Czechia, and the eastern ( Moravia ) or the north-eastern part ( Silesia ).

The canonical hours of the Breviary owe their remote origin to the Old Covenant when God commanded the Aaronic priests to offer morning and evening sacrifices.

Estimates differ as to when the Comminales evolved, but most suggest an origin and diversification sometime during the mid-to late Cretaceous.

Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.

The actual origin of this anomaly is clearly established in a long line of disputes and temporary agreements which was finally concluded in 1804, when southern Southwick, ( whose residents sought to leave Massachusetts ), was split in half.

While the first application of the term " clipper " in a nautical sense is by no means certain, it seems to have had an American origin when applied to the Baltimore clippers of the late 18th century.

Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars ; they are treating it ( like the adjacent constellation Argo Navis ) as if it were a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in-ō ( like Io or Callisto or Argo ), names that have a genitive ending in-ūs.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.

Eusebius said, “ The Creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law ; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, because he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, As, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, as having by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment.

Although that instrument still survives in working order, it is no longer in use and now the meridian of origin of the world's longitude and time is not strictly defined in material form but from a statistical solution resulting from observations of all time-determination stations which the BIPM takes into account when co-ordinating the world's time signals.

This archaic sense is the origin of the meaning of galvanic when meaning " affected / affecting, as if by a shock of electricity ; startled ".

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

Debate about the Asian origin of the Huns has been ongoing since the 18th century when Joseph de Guignes first suggested that the Huns should be identified as the Xiong-nu of Chinese sources.

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and eroge.