The name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

The phrase or acronym is also occasionally used ( without code ) for a signature.

These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODESSA, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

A bacronym or backronym is a phrase constructed purposely such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word.

A common mnemonic for remembering lists is to create an easily remembered acronym, or, taking each of the initial letters of the list members, create a memorable phrase in which the words with the same acronym as the material.

It was originally known as RECAP, an acronym for the phrase Recover A Penis.

NASA often uses the phrase Environmental Control and Life Support System or the acronym ECLSS when describing these systems for its human spaceflight missions.

The GK School District's team name is the Cogs, an acronym created from the phrase " Community of Genoa Schools " that also evokes a feeling of teamwork not unlike the cogs in a machine, however some local history states that it stands for " Consolidation of Genoa Schools ".

The GK School District's team name is the Cogs, an acronym created from the phrase " Community of Genoa Schools " that also evokes a feeling of teamwork not unlike the cogs in a machine.

A typical acronym for the phrase " anti-ship missile " is ASM, but AShM can also be used to avoid confusion with air-to-surface missiles, anti-submarine missiles, and anti-satellite missiles.

Fans of Billy Milano and the band Stormtroopers of Death have often used the term mosh as an acronym for the phrase " move over shit head " during crowded shows.

Nili (, an acronym of a phrase נצח ישראל לא ישקר ( I Samuel 15: 29 ; transliteration: Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yishaker, translation: " The Eternity ( GOD ) of Israel will not lie ") was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine during World War I.

At this point also his followers appeared to start using for him the title of AMIRAH, which is a Hebrew acronym for the phrase " Our Lord and King, his Majesty be exalted " ( Adoneinu Malkeinu Yarum Hodo ).

* Among sub-editors at The Guardian, " gratuitous synonyms " are called " Povs ": an acronym of " popular orange vegetables ", a phrase removed from the draft of an article about carrots in the Liverpool Echo.

) The expansion of an acronym like PIN or HIV may be well known to English speakers, but the acronyms themselves have come to be treated as words, so little thought is given to what their expansion is ( and " PIN " is also pronounced the same as the word " pin "; disambiguation is probably the source of " PIN number "; " SIN number " for " Social Insurance Number number " is a similar common phrase in Canada.

NIMBY or Nimby is an acronym for the phrase " not in my back yard ".

A project code name is a code name ( usually a single word, short phrase or acronym ) which is given to a project being developed by industry, academia, government, and other concerns.

It is an acronym of the phrase " Do communications over the mobile network.

WoO is an acronym / abbreviation, derived from the German musical catalog phrase ( English: " Works without opus number ").

The letters " MIP " in the name are an acronym of the Latin phrase multum in parvo, meaning " much in little ".

The terms themselves are occasionally referred to as " RAP phrases " (" redundant acronym phrase phrases ").

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The phrase " branched-chain amino acids " or BCAA refers to the amino acids having aliphatic side-chains that are non-linear ; these are leucine, isoleucine, and valine.

The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase " Big Brother is watching you ", which is the core " truth " of the propaganda system in this state.

" The phrase catalysed processes was coined by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1836 to describe reactions that are accelerated by substances that remain unchanged after the reaction.

Clitics do not always appear next to the word or phrase that they are associated with grammatically.

In linguistics, some authors use the term phrase structure grammar to refer to context-free grammars, whereby phrase structure grammars are distinct from dependency grammars.

The phrase " in anger he turned back to his own " probably indicates that this annal is drawn from saga material, as perhaps are all of the early Wessex annals.

Class actions are commonly referred to as class action suits ; however, this phrase is redundant as the historical distinction between " actions " at law and " suits " in equity is no longer recognized.

The phrase in question reads " et Dunenaldus filius Ede elig < sub > 7 </ sub >".</ ref > Finally, the deaths of Flann Sinna and Niall Glúndub are recorded.

Among these choices, Gaussian units are the most common today, and in fact the phrase " CGS units " is often used to refer specifically to CGS-Gaussian units.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

The Hebrew title is taken from the opening phrase Eleh ha-devarim, " These are the words ..."; the English title is from a Greek mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase mishneh ha-torah ha-zoth, " a copy of this law ", in, as to deuteronomion touto-" this second law ".

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

But because he is not God, but only a graven image of God, his self-expression must deal with limits ; properly with limits that are strict and even small .” Chesterton summed up his distributist views in the phrase " Three acres and a cow ".

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.

Much as in a sunset, the atmosphere tends to more strongly scatter light with shorter wavelengths, so the illumination of the Moon by refracted light has a red hue, thus the phrase ' Blood Moon ' is often found in descriptions of such lunar events as far back as eclipses are recorded.

The patient is also instructed to use the left hand to tap the syllables of the phrase while the phrases are spoken.