The term is used as a matter of convenience by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and other Churches to refer to books of their Old Testament which are not part of the Masoretic Text.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).

This is true for the Coptic Orthodox Church ; use of the term and order of services are somewhat different in the Ethiopian, Syrian, and the other Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Most African and Asian allies not part of the British Commonwealth or France are often excluded from the term, though irregular Arabian and Ethiopian forces fought along the Western Allies.

A cognate term in Ge ' ez is found in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: Qidduse Qiddusan, referring to the innermost sanctuary of an Orthodox Christian church, where the tabot is kept and only clergy may enter.

This term is considered derogatory to Ethiopian Jews.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ( 1977 ) this term includes groups such as Jewish Christians, Quartodecimans, Ethiopian Christians, descendants of English Puritanism such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church and others, who claim the necessity of obedience to the Mosaic Laws which are found in the first five books of the Christian Old Testament.

Similarly, another term for Siddis, habshi ( from Al-Habsh, the Arabic term for Abyssinia ), is held to be derived from the common name for the captains of the Ethiopian / Abyssinian ships that also first delivered Siddi slaves to the subcontinent.

Enkutatash is the word for the Ethiopian new year in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, while it is called Ri ' se Awde Amet ( Head Anniversary ) in Ge ' ez, the term preferred by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The Aramaic irin " watchers " is rendered as " angel " ( Greek angelos, Coptic malah ) in the Greek and Ethiopian translations, although the usual Aramaic term for angel malakha does not occur in Aramaic Enoch.

The term nəgusä nägäst and alternative forms means " king of kings ", or Emperor, although authors often incorrectly shortened this as Negus ; see also Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles.

The Arabic word ‘ arif has also been borrowed into the vernacular of Amharic and other Ethiopian languages, but with a change of meaning: it is used as a slang term corresponding to English " cool " or " neat ".

The term Eastern Ethiopian was a historical term used by the ancient Greeks to refer to dark skinned inhabitants of eastern regions.

* Highlander, a term sometimes used by Ethiopian and Eritrean lowlanders for a person from the Ethiopian Highlands

The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.

Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

* Bourbon vanilla or Bourbon-Madagascar vanilla, produced from V. planifolia plants introduced from the Americas, is the term used for vanilla from Indian Ocean islands such as Madagascar, the Comoros, and Réunion, formerly the Île Bourbon.

* January 9 – Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive, 5 days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean. Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, began his second term on January 20

The first part of the term " Atlantic Ocean " refers to " Sea of Atlas ", the term " Atlantis " refers to " island of Atlas ".

The term was coined in reports from the UNEP Indian Ocean Experiment ( INDOEX ).

The Mayor of Ocean Gate is Paul J. Kennedy ( R, term ends December 31, 2014 ).

One issue of his term in office was the Black Ocean Society, which operated with the support of certain powerful figures in the government and in return was powerful enough to demand concessions from the government.

More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The term " dhow " is sometimes also applied to certain smaller lateen-sail rigged boats traditionally used in the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf area, as well as in the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to the Bay of Bengal.

** Pacific Rim, political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean as well as the various island nations within the region

* Pacific Theater of Operations, the term used in the United States for all military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it during World War II

During the 16th century the Portuguese used " rume " and " rumes " ( plural ) as a generic term to refer to the Mamluk-Ottoman forces they faced then in the Indian Ocean.

The term " Pacific Basin " includes the Pacific Rim and islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The term is especially useful in marine biology, ichthyology, and similar fields, since many marine habitats are continuously connected from Madagascar to Japan and Oceania, and a number of species occur over that range, but are not found in the Atlantic Ocean.

In the article, the term ‘ Indo-Pacific ’ refers to the maritime space comprising the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.

The term Beiyang (; pinyin: Běiyáng ; Wade-Giles: Peiyang ; meaning ' Northern Ocean ') originated toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it referred to the coastal areas of Zhili ( Traditional Chinese: 直隸, Simplified Chinese: 直隶, pinyin: Zhílì ) ( today's Hebei ), Liaoning, and Shandong in northeast China.

New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean.

Lapita is a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia, Micronesia, and some coastal areas of Melanesia.

Student services organises orientations, valedictories and excursions during term breaks to locations such as Mount Baw Baw, Uluru, the Great Ocean Road and Sydney.

The term wolfpack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic and submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.

Sometimes he uses it as a subjective, descriptive term, and sometimes as an objective, diagnostic one.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

Naturally occurring asphalt is sometimes specified by the term " crude bitumen "; its viscosity is similar to that of cold molasses .< ref >

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

The term " ataxia " is sometimes used in a broader sense to indicate lack of coordination in some physiological process.

The term " alloy " is sometimes used in everyday speech as a synonym for a particular alloy.

In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).

The term " aviation " is sometimes used interchangeably with aeronautics, although " aeronautics " includes lighter-than-air craft such as airships, and includes ballistic vehicles while " aviation " does not.

Else Christensen's Odinism, which is sometimes identified with the term Ásatrú, originated around the same period.

Prior to the emergence of the term Mizrahi, the term " Arab Jews " was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world.

The term antidepressant is sometimes applied to any therapy ( e. g., psychotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy, acupuncture ) or process ( e. g., sleep disruption, increased light levels, regular exercise ) found to improve a clinically depressed mood.

In professional and research contexts, the term " alcoholism " sometimes encompasses both alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, and sometimes is considered equivalent to alcohol dependence.

In music, the term abstraction can be used to describe improvisatory approaches to interpretation, and may sometimes indicate abandonment of tonality.

Professional mathematicians sometimes use the term ( higher ) arithmetic when referring to more advanced results related to number theory, but this should not be confused with elementary arithmetic.

The term " aspiration " is sometimes also used for the replacement of a ( usually fricative ) consonant with an sound, but that process is more accurately termed debuccalization.

Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok ( also spelled amuk, from the Malay meaning " mad with uncontrollable rage ") is a term for a killing spree perpetrated by an individual out of rage or resentment over perceived mistreatment.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

To refer explicitly to the technical meaning of " at bat " described above, the term " official at bat " is sometimes used.