The derogatory term rabiblanco (" white tail "), of uncertain origin, has been used for generations to refer to the usually Caucasian members of the elite families.

* Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, " Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Indo-European, and Northern Caucasian " discusses the difficulties and disagreements faced by linguists working in this area, the term Alarodian being created especially for the Hurro-Urartian-Nakh-Avar languages as a family.

The term Caucasian generally describes people whose ancestry can be traced to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Northwest Caucasian languages have been suggested as being related to the Northeast Caucasian languages and both are often merged under the blanket term " North Caucasian languages "; several linguists, notably Sergei Starostin, posit a phylogenetic link between these two families.

However, the term oblique is also used for languages without a nominative case, such as ergative – absolutive languages ; in the Northwest Caucasian languages, for example, the oblique-case marker serves to mark the ergative, dative, and applicative case roles, contrasting with the absolutive case, which is unmarked.

The term Caucasian Iberia ( or Eastern Iberia ) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day countries of Spain, Portugal and Andorra are located.

North Caucasian languages ( sometimes called simply Caucasic as opposed to Kartvelian, and to avoid confusion with the concept of " Caucasian race ") is a blanket term for two language phyla spoken chiefly in the north Caucasus and Turkey: the Northwest Caucasian family ( Pontic, Abkhaz – Adyghe, Circassian, West Caucasian ) and the Northeast Caucasian family ( Caspian, Nakh – Dagestanian, East Caucasian ); the latter includes the former North-central Caucasian ( Nakh ) family.

The term octoroon referred to a person with one-eighth African ancestry ; that is, someone with family heritage of one biracial grandparent, in other words, one African great-grandparent and seven Caucasian great-grandparents.

Blond hair is most common in Caucasian infants and children, so much so that the term " baby blond " is often used for very light colored hair.

In just about any area that fell under the crown's dominion, the term was made use of, and anyone of mixed Caucasian and conquered races could be properly described as being half-caste.

The term " Caucasian race " was coined by the German philosopher Christoph Meiners in his The Outline of History of Mankind ( 1785 ).

However, in 1795, a colleague of Meiners from the University of Göttingen, Blumenbach, one of the earliest anthropologists, adopted the term Varietas Caucasia (" Caucasian Variety "), for a new major hypothetical racial division.

Some anthropologists in the latter half of the 20th century, used the term " Caucasoid " in their literature, such as Boyd, Gates, Coon, Cole, Brues and Krantz replacing the earlier term " Caucasian " as it had fallen out of usage.

In the 19th century, the term was used more broadly for all ethnic groups speaking non-Nakh Northeast Caucasian languages, including Caucasian Avars, Laks, and many others ( although the Vainakh peoples, who were Northeast Caucasian language speakers were referred to as " Circassians ").

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

The term caste was applied to Indian society in the 17th century, via Portuguese casta " breed, race, caste ".

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

Since the American Civil War the term " discrimination " generally evolved in American English usage as an understanding of prejudicial treatment of an individual based solely on their race, later generalized as membership in a certain socially undesirable group or social category.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

In Switzerland public discrimination or invoking to rancor against persons or a group of people because of their race, ethnicity, is getting penalized with a term of imprisonment until 3 years or a mulct.

** Aryan race, a 19th century and early 20th century term for those peoples who are the native speakers of Indo-European languages

The earliest use of the term " Industrial Revolution " seems to be a letter of 6 July 1799 by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise.

Two years after the term was coined, the race, which had been run in mid-May since inception, was changed to the first Saturday in May to allow for a specific schedule for the Triple Crown races.

The ability of corporations to shift their supply chains from one country to another with relative ease could be the starting gun for a " regulatory race to the bottom ", whereby nation states are forced into a merciless downward spiral, not only slashing tax rates and public services with it but also laws that in the short term cost employers money.

The central uses of the term relate to particular issues of race, gender, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture and worldviews, and encompass both the language in which issues are discussed and the viewpoints that are expressed.

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

The term phylogenetics derives from the Greek terms phyle ( φυλή ) and phylon ( φῦλον ), denoting " tribe " and " race "; and the term genetikos ( γενετικός ), denoting " relative to birth ", from genesis ( γένεσις ) " origin " and " birth ".

( The term “ race hatred ” had also been used by sociologist Frederick Hertz in the late 1920s.

the term " racial discrimination " shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

— to " drop the term race altogether and instead speak of ethnic groups ".

The European concept of " race ", along with many of the ideas now associated with the term, arose at the time of the scientific revolution, which introduced and privileged the study of natural kinds, and the age of European imperialism and colonization which established political relations between Europeans and peoples with distinct cultural and political traditions.

Lieberman and Jackson argued that while advocates of both the Multiregional Model and the Out of Africa Model use the word race and make racial assumptions, none define the term.

In biology the term " race " is used with caution because it can be ambiguous.

However, it is customary to use the term race rather than subspecies for the major subdivisions of the human species as well as for minor ones.

It replaced the term " race music ", which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world.

This term is used to differentiate such a car from a race car, a special, custom-built car designed only for racing purposes.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

The term altruism may also refer to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others.

Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

The term may also refer to the physical region where the electron can be calculated to be, as defined by the particular mathematical form of the orbital.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

Use of the word " artiste " can also be a pejorative term.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.

The term “ amber ” is loosely used to describe a scent that is warm, musky, rich and honey-like, and also somewhat oriental and earthy.

) The book also introduces the term " Absalonism ", as a generic term for a son's rebellion against his father.