Two thousand years ago, the Suebi or Suevi were an Elbe Germanic tribe whose origin was near the Baltic Sea, which was thus known to the Romans as the Mare Suebicum ( today, the term " Swabian Sea " is applied to Lake Constance ).

Apart from describing their idiom as closer to the British language than — as must be inferred — to the language of the Suebi, Tacitus mentions their term for amber in an apparently Latinised form, glesum ( cf.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

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.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

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 " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

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

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

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 ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

Rebated doors, a term chiefly used in Britain, are double doors having a lip ( i. e. a Rabbet ) on the vertical edge where they meet.

XIII by James of Bulgaria ), which would be passed to mean " funeral meal " and then " food to serve " during this office ( see today's μαχαρωνιά-macharōnia in Eastern Thrace, in the sense of " rice-based dish served at the funeral "), in which case the term would be composed of the double root of μακάριος " blessed " and αἰωνίος ( aiōnios ), " eternally ", and the second from the Greek μακαρία " barley broth ", which would have added the suffix-one.

From about 1900, the term género ínfimo (" degraded " or " low genre ") was coined to describe an emerging form of entertainment allied to the revista (" revue "): these were musical works similar to the género chico zarzuela but lighter and bolder in their social criticism, with scenes portraying sexual themes and many verbal double entendres.

* The term mesentery is often used to refer to a double layer of visceral peritoneum.

A common markup is using double square brackets around the term to be wikilinked, for example, the following input: < nowiki > wiki software </ nowiki > — will be converted by wiki software to look like this: wiki software.

The term double star may be used synonymously with binary star, but more generally, a double star may be either a binary star or an optical double star which consists of two stars with no physical connection but which appear close together in the sky as seen from the Earth.

The more general term double star is used for pairs of stars which are seen to be close together in the sky.

Thus " double star " remains a useful term for pairs whose status is not fully known.

The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning.

The phrase "... as the actress said to the bishop " is used in a similar way, usually in England, and United States military pilots often use the term " so to speak ", and will deliberately construct sentences to avoid giving others the chance to call double entendres.

In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature.

For example, the term ω-3 signifies that the first double bond exists as the third carbon-carbon bond from the terminal CH < sub > 3 </ sub > end ( ω ) of the carbon chain.

The term originated as an abstraction of the sequence: single, double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple, octuple, ..., ‑ tuple, ..., where the prefixes are taken from the Latin names of the numerals.

This is called a double stop, a term borrowed from the string instrument vocabulary.

After a double dissolution election Section 13 of the Constitution requires the Senate to divide the senators into two classes, with the first class having a three year term, and the second class six.

The term " double taxation " is sometimes used ( unconventionally ) by opponents of the dividend income tax for investors.

Economists use the term " double taxation " in reference to the tax on dividends due to the fact that dividend income is paid out of corporate profits and represent a portion of the profit stream owned by shareholders.

The song's popularity hinged on its double entendre catchphrase, " Don't mess with my toot-toot ", containing both a drug and sex connotation, while its real meaning was a Cajun term of endearment meaning sweet heart, as in ' ma chère tout-tout.

Discussing English grammar, the term " double negative " is often though not universally applied to the non-standard use of a second negative as an intensifier to a negation.

Mastercam's name is a double entendre: it implies mastery of CAM ( computer-aided manufacturing ), which involves today's latest machine tool control technology ; and it simultaneously pays homage to yesterday's machine tool control technology by echoing the older term master cam, which referred to the main cam or model that a tracer followed in order to control the movements of a mechanically automated machine tool.