The Germanics, however, preferred some form of " East Sea " ( in different languages ) until after about 1600, when they began to use forms of " Baltic Sea.

He was an avid fisherman, golfer, painter and bridge player, and preferred active rather than passive forms of entertainment.

They preferred the briefer style associated with elegy in contrast to the lengthier epic forms, and made it the singular medium for short epigrams.

Loss of a positive hydrogen ion ( H < sup >+</ sup >) from the hydroxyl group of a phenol forms a corresponding negative phenolate ion or phenoxide ion, and the corresponding salts are called phenolates or phenoxides, although the term aryloxides is preferred according to the IUPAC Gold Book.

Some of the reasons reference counting may have been preferred to other forms of garbage collection in Delphi include:

These bucolic, nostalgic, home-loving operettas were officially preferred over Berlin-style operettas after 1933, when the Nazis came to power and instituted the Reichsmusikkammer ( State Music Institute ), which deprecated and banned " decadent " music like jazz and similar " foreign " musical forms.

Many green anarchists consider traditional forms of social organization such as the village, band, or tribe to be preferred units of human life, not for some Noble Savage concept of spiritual superiority, but because these social organizations appear to work better than civilization.

The design of the Palau is typical of Catalan modernism in that curves predominate over straight lines, dynamic shapes are preferred over static forms, and rich decoration that emphasizes floral and other organic motifs is used extensively.

It might be worth noting that old editions give " Troynt " as the name of the great boar and " Anir " as the name of Arthur's tragic son, from the Harleian manuscript, but Fletcher suggested the variant readings " Troit " and " Amr " be preferred ( since they are closer to the Welsh forms of those names ).

The article on Zedler published in 1749 in the 61st volume of the Universal Lexicon remarks that Zedler had decided on forms of employment he preferred to the trade after the acquisition of the publishing business by Wolf.

Examples might include income-oriented real estate, preferred shares, and even most forms of publicly-traded stocks.

His own mode of thought he preferred later to describe as an ideal realism, which refused to reduce reality to thought, but asserted a parallelism between the forms of existence and the forms of knowledge.

The lower cost and ease of rubber " Wellington " boot manufacture, and being entirely water-proof, lent itself immediately to being the preferred protective shoe to leather in all forms of industry.

Also, even those with resident identity cards preferred to use other forms of identification.

Technology will probably eventually declare the most preferred forms, but in a market economy, the options with less overall costs generally will be chosen above other sources.

Jewish scholars preferred 3761 BC as the date of creation, which forms the basis of the modern Jewish calendar.

The preferred object of stylistic studies is literature, but not exclusively " high literature " but also other forms of written texts such as text from the domains of advertising, pop culture, politics or religion.

Such forms, however, are sometimes inconvenient to users, as they are not able to use their preferred email client, risk entering a faulty reply address, and are typically not notified about delivery problems.

The word " Sama " is used ( or is the preferred name ) in Central Asia and Turkey, for forms very similar to Qawwali while in Pakistan, the formal name used for a session of Qawwali is " Mehfil-e-Sama ".

Both preferred early Modernism to its later forms.

A golf clap is a form of quiet clapping, so-named because it is the preferred form of applause for golfers ; louder forms of applause are discouraged at golf tournaments so as not to disturb other golfers, who may be in the process of attempting a shot.

It is sometimes preferred over flour because it forms a translucent mixture, rather than an opaque one.

Increasingly, three-dimensional forms such as clay were driven into relative obscurity as the cel method became the preferred method for the studio cartoon.

Collodion-based wet-glass plate negatives with prints made on albumen paper remained the preferred photographic method for some time, even after the introduction of the even more practical gelatin process in 1871.

The paper discussed the prospects of a self-regulating Martian biosphere, and McKay's use of the word has since become the preferred term.

The resulting watermark is generally much clearer and more detailed than those made by the Dandy Roll process, and as such Cylinder Mould Watermark Paper is the preferred type of watermarked paper for banknotes, passports, motor vehicle titles, and other documents where it is an important anti-counterfeiting measure.

A Condorcet winner doesn't always exist because majority preferences can be like rock / paper / scissors: for each candidate, there can be another that is preferred by some majority ( this is known as Condorcet paradox ).

The candidate preferred by each voter is taken to be the one in the pair that the voter ranks higher on their ballot paper.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

In this atmosphere the new paper attracted staff from Murdoch broadsheets who preferred not to move to Wapping.

Degree diplomas generally are printed on high quality paper or parchment ; Individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees.

In Newfoundland, paper birch is preferred.

Although watercolor paper is a preferred medium, cotton, wool and even gelatin sizing on nonporous surfaces have been used.

As his medium he preferred to use the ordinary materials as papier mâchier and for all the light medium polystyrene, in which he could model very fast and switch easily from one work to another, as sketches on paper.

The same goes with the constitution of 1848: voters could hand-write the name of their preferred candidate on their ballot at home ( the only condition was to write on a white paper ) or receive one in a distribution in the street.

Voters cast their ballots by making a hole in the ballot paper with a nail, above the photo of their preferred candidate.

While the classic paper registration is possible, registering with a certified registrar is preferred.

Cigarettes that burn longer due to cigarette paper / tobacco qualities are preferred for mixing and smoking gardaa.

For many applications-especially communicating-computers are preferred over pen, paper, and typewriters because of their ability to duplicate and retain information and ease of editing.

Over the years, he attracted controversy for his reputation for patronage and as a political kingmaker in Putnam County, once telling the local news paper that his preferred method of handling political opposition was to " kill them in the cradle.

In the West, where gold or silver coins were preferred to paper money — use of which was illegal in California in the aftermath of the Gold Rush — the coins saw some circulation.

Voters who disagree with the way their preferred candidate has arranged to transfer his or her votes if eliminated may opt to vote " below the line " of the ballot paper instead.

Yet for many zine creators, the paper format is still the preferred medium, despite the blog phenomenon.

Even the very name of the paper irritated the South African administration as they preferred the land to be called South-West Africa, whereas Namibia was a notion closely related to the independence movement.