The term " ivory tower " often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism.

The use of this term usually carries strong connotations of shadowy corners, back rooms and insidious influence ; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish ; because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions.

The usage of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to expulsion, slavery, racism, or war, especially nationalist conflict.

In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.

There does exist in Filipino an equivalent, gender-neutral term for the professional that carries the more general notion of " healer ", traditional ( for example, an albuláryo ) or otherwise: manggagámot.

Derrida is careful to avoid this term because it carries connotations of a procedural form of judgement.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

Gibberish ( sometimes spelled Jibberish ) is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning.

The criminal charge of " Provoking ethnic, racial and religion based animosity and intolerance " carries a minimum six months prison term and a maximum of ten years.

The term ovule is used for the young ovum of an animal, as well as the plant structure that carries the female gametophyte and egg cell and develops into a seed after fertilization.

" Safer sex " is thought to be a more aggressive term which may make it more obvious to individuals that any type of sexual activity carries a certain degree of risk.

* Sometimes it refers to XSL-FO: this usage can be justified by the fact that the XSL-FO specification carries the title Extensible Stylesheet Language ( XSL ); however, the term XSL-FO is less likely to be misunderstood

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to " others than full or partial negroes " is " felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity "; but the second edition ( 1965 ) states: " N. has been described as ' the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.

The term " arterial blood " is nevertheless used to indicate blood high in oxygen, although the pulmonary artery carries " venous blood " and blood flowing in the pulmonary vein is rich in oxygen.

Digital signatures are often used to implement electronic signatures, a broader term that refers to any electronic data that carries the intent of a signature, but not all electronic signatures use digital signatures.

As a result of the assumption that a mercenary is essentially motivated by money, the term mercenary usually carries negative connotations.

However, in the early tales, Faust is irrevocably corrupted and believes his sins cannot be forgiven ; when the term ends, the Devil carries him off to Hell.

As applied to an individual, the term " Hampstead Liberal " is not synonymous with " champagne socialist " but carries some of the same connotations.

In the United States of America, the term " ethnic " carries a different meaning from how it is commonly used in some other countries due to the historical and ongoing significance of racial distinctions that categorize together what might otherwise have been viewed as ethnic groups.

The first use of the term coaching to mean an instructor or trainer arose around 1830 in Oxford University slang for a tutor who " carries " a student through an exam.

Used in this original sense, the term carries no connotation of re-uniting the historically separated Christian denominations.

) However, the term " fancy " for an intense liking of something, while being of a different etymology, coincidentally carries a less intense but somewhat similar connotation to " fanatic ".

For many people, the term carries a moral or religious association, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies and cultures.

Existentialist philosophers use the term " angst " with a different connotation.

Contrary to modern usage, the term did not have the extended connotation of overweening pride, self-confidence or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.

The term " anthemic " is a modern word coined to describe music with a celebratory connotation.

The term " common law " ( connotation 2 ) is often used as a contrast to Roman-derived " civil law ", and the fundamental processes and forms of reasoning in the two are quite different.

It has recently come to be known as an " extreme sport " by some ( though not commonly considered as such by its practitioners, who may dislike the term for its perceived connotation of disregard for safety ).

However it is worth noting that the term has fallen out of general usage with respect to women who are dominant in their private relationships, and has taken on more and more, the connotation of " professional.

Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the latter 19th century suggested ' economics ' as a shorter term for ' economic science ' that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to ' mathematics ', ' ethics ', and so forth.

The Old French term esbat ( Modern French ébat ) meant amusement or diversion, with a connotation of frolicking.

The term usually has a religious connotation indicating unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.

In reaction to the increasing media use of the term exclusively with the criminal connotation, the computer community began to differentiate their terminology.

The wider dominance of the pejorative connotation is resented by many who object to the term being taken from their cultural jargon and used negatively, including those who have historically preferred to self-identify as hackers.

At the same time, scholars have objected to the pejorative connotation of the term Hinayana and some scholars do not use it for any school.

The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.

The term had a strong sexual connotation, and the shame reflected on the perpetrator as well.

Over time, the term " idiot " shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment – individuals who are " stupid ".

The term may convey a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, or other unscientific motives.

Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.

In modern academic usage, the term Mesopotamia often also has a chronological connotation.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

The term began taking a pejorative connotation in mid 19th century, when it was appropriated from religion to the political sphere.

The distinction between the embedded description and the bearer itself is similar to that between the extension and the intension of a general term, or between connotation and denotation.

Today the term rhetoric can be used at times to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.