Haeckel advanced a version of the earlier " recapitulation theory ", previously set out by Étienne Serres in the 1820s and supported by followers of Geoffroy including Robert Edmond Grant, which proposed a link between ontogeny ( development of form ) and phylogeny ( evolutionary descent ), summed up by Haeckel in the phrase " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

" Video game " ( or " videogame ") has evolved into a catchall phrase that encompasses the aforementioned along with any game made for any other device, including, but not limited to, mobile phones, PDAs, advanced calculators, etc.

He based the phrase on a concept in anthropology, the cargo cult, which describes how some pre-scientific cultures interpreted technologically advanced visitors as religious or supernatural figures who brought boons of cargo.

Justice Douglas's concurrence reflected the absolutist position that only he and Black, among Supreme Court justices, ever fully subscribed to, namely that the phrase " no law " in the First Amendment ought to be interpreted very literally, and that all speech is immune from prosecution, regardless of the governmental interests advanced in suppressing some particular instance of speech.

Various theories have been advanced, including it being a play on the phrase " black as a devil ", with the words " black acid devil " ( or black acid evil ) run together in a portmanteau.

In advanced mathematics, as well as colloquially in popular culture, especially geek culture, the phrase " order of magnitude " is used to denote a change in a numeric quantity, usually a measurement, by a factor of 10 ; that is, the moving of the decimal point in a number one way or the other, possibly with the addition of significant zeros.

* The English phrase concludes Isaac Asimov's science fiction short story " The Last Question ", symbolizing the godlike growth in power of an extremely advanced computer as it creates a new universe from the ashes of a dead one, drawing comparisons and suggesting an explanation for the biblical Book of Genesis.

Although the phrase echoes statements made by Lincoln, and although versions of the sentiment have been advanced at various times in American history, the precise phrase " suicide pact " was first used by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

* Redundancy ( linguistics ), the construction of a phrase that presents some idea using more information, often via multiple means, than is necessary for one to be able to understand the idea

The omission of a word from a phrase or sentence is not elision but ellipsis or, more accurately, elliptical construction.

Hacking adds that the following claims are also often, though not always, implied by the use of the phrase " social construction ":

As we step from the phrase to the world of human beings, " social construction " analyses can become more complex.

Because the participial phrase in an absolute construction is not semantically attached to any single element in the sentence, it is easily confused with a dangling participle.

In this construction, the conjunction that is optional when joining a sentence to a verb phrase with know.

Most basic sigil work recapitulates Spare's technique, including the construction of a phrase detailing the magical intent, the elimination of duplicate letters, and the artistic recombination of the remaining letters to form the sigil.

It is, however, possible to account for the Luwian possessive construction as a result of case attraction in the Indo-European noun phrase.

While the phrase " et in arcadia ego " is a nominal phrase with no finite verb, it is a well-formed construction because substantive and copular verb omission is perfectly acceptable in Latin.

But if this noun phrase is lengthened to include the adjectival prepositional phrase in the car to modify man, the resulting construction is the man in the car's, as in the man in the car's hat ( not the man's in the car hat or the man's hat in the car ).

The phrase Socialist state, or Communist states in the West, is widely used by Leninists and Marxist – Leninists in reference to a state under the control of a vanguard party that is organizing the economic, social and political affairs of said state toward the construction of socialism.

The phrase " Tinker-toy model " is also sometimes used in this context, and refers to a particular children's construction toy that allows objects to be built easily but somewhat unrealistically.

The phrase is an ablative absolute construction.

In some languages the most common is a single word or fixed phrase, whereas in others it is formed by a regular grammatical construction.

While the packaging and postage reinforces the NZ connection, the washing instructions contain the phrase " Final construction in China to Swanndri NZ standards ".

After Green MP Gabriela Moser and Falter published transcripts of police recordings of Grasser's telephone conversations with one of his friends, Walter Meischberger, in which Meischberger could not describe the services for which he was paid hundreds of thousands of euros by the Porr construction company, the phrase " Was war meine Leistung?

Non-union construction employers have also adopted the phrase " merit shop " to describe their operations.

Jon Levenson and Baruch Halpern suggest that the phrase suggests " David's theft of Saul's wife ", and that the verse supports the construction that Ahinoam, the wife of Saul is the same Ahinoam who became David's wife.

His great-grandson Michael Ignatieff suggests that Grant used the phrase in a nation-building effort during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The phrase, `` emotional death '', interesting and, to a non-scientific mind, rather touching, suggests that this woman may have some flair for words, perhaps even something of the temperament regrettably called `` creative ''.

A specimen of Proto-Sinaitic script containing a phrase which may mean ' death to Baalat '.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

BDSM is currently frequently used as a catch-all phrase to includes a wide range of activities, forms of interpersonal relationships, and distinct subcultures which may or may not fit well into the original three intended categories.

Note that the concept of an indirect object may be rendered by a prepositional phrase.

A registered naturopathic doctor may only use the title “ doctor ” in written format if she or he also uses the phrase, " naturopathic doctor " immediately following his or her name.

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

He says that he has acquired shida we-shidot, an ambiguous phrase that may refer to a harem ( shdh or " breasts "); he describes how he could not find a virtuous woman ; and he exhorts the reader to enjoy ( re ' a ) life with his wife.

The origin of the divergence of the term " extreme sports " from " sports " may date to the 1950s in the appearance of a phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway.

The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy.

Also many on the left such as Tony Benn tend not to use the phrase to refer to themselves even though they share many of their criticisms of the European Union and they may use phrases such as euro-critical or just call themselves democrats or socialists and their scepticism as part of their wider belief in democracy or socialism.

Furigana may be added by character, in which case the furigana characters that correspond to a kanji are centered over that kanji ; or by word or phrase, in which case the entire furigana word is centered over several kanji characters, even if the kanji do not represent equal shares of the kana needed to write them.

Gematria or gimatria ( ) is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like.

Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine.

The phrase " little eyases " in the First Folio ( F1 ) may allude to the Children of the Chapel, whose popularity in London forced the Globe company into provincial touring.

However, the term lucid was used by van Eeden in its sense of " having insight ", as in the phrase a lucid interval applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as a reference to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid.

Thanks to a series of popular horror movies based on a supernatural killer who haunted mirrors, the phrase " Candyman " may be substituted for Mary.

The phrase may also refer to a hand in progress with cards yet to be dealt, as the player can be said to have the nuts at that time.

Early usages of the phrase " politically correct " have been found in various contexts, which may not relate to the current terminology.

But the decision proved the precursor of the long Avignon Papacy, the " Babylonian captivity " ( 1309 – 77 ), in Petrarch's phrase, and marks a point from which the decay of the strictly Catholic conception of the pope as universal bishop may be dated.

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that may be read the same way in either direction, with general allowances for adjustments to punctuation and word dividers.