David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

It is also possible that the term derives from the Welsh Brit Gweldig, the term for a ruler of Britain.

The term " Bronze Age " ultimately derives from the Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology.

The name " Bohemia " derives from the Latin term for the Celtic tribe inhabiting that area, the Boii, who were called Boiohaemum in the early Middle Ages.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus ( blood relative ).

The term derives from the same Latin root as the word " city ", civis, meaning citizen.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

This version of " critical " theory derives from Kant's ( 18th-century ) and Marx's ( 19th Century ) use of the term " critique ", as in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Marx's concept that his work Das Kapital ( Capital ) forms a " critique of political economy.

The term derives its etymology from the Daedalus Labyrinth or " complicated maze ".

The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós, " distinguishing ").

The term Houge derives from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning a mound or barrow.

The term ethology derives from the Greek word èthos ( ήθος ), meaning character.

The term derives from the Greek ( esôterikos ), a compound of ( esô ): " within ", thus " pertaining to the more inward ", mystic.

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium ( power, authority ).

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 ).

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

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

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

The term allocution differs from distribution as distribution implies that the original party loses some kind of control over the information.

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.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

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 Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

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

In the 20 years following Bligh's campaign the term " The Ashes " largely disappeared from public use.

The term the Government always takes a plural verb in British civil service convention, perhaps to emphasize the principle of cabinet collective responsibility.

In general, the term copula is used to refer to the main copular verb ( s ) in a language.

The term is also used as a verb, to describe carbonation: the process of raising the concentrations of carbonate and bicarbonate ions in water to produce carbonated water and other carbonated beverages — either by the addition of carbon dioxide gas under pressure, or by dissolving carbonate or bicarbonate salts into the water.

The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun (), which means " the abandonment ", " the downfall ", or " the darkening of a heavenly body ", which is derived from the verb () which means " to abandon ", " to darken ", or " to cease to exist ," a combination of prefix (), from preposition (), " out ," and of verb (), " to be absent ".

In French, the term " frigate " became a verb, meaning ' to build long and low ', and an adjective, adding further confusion.

The term has been used in English since 1727, borrowed from glyphe ( in use by French antiquaries since 1701 ), from the Greek γλυφή, glyphē, " carving ," and the verb γλύφειν, glýphein, " to hollow out, engrave, carve " ( cognate with Latin glubere " to peel " and English cleave ).

The term tense is therefore at times used in language descriptions to represent any combination of tense proper, aspect, and mood, as many languages include more than one such reference in portmanteau TAM ( tense – aspect – mood ) affixes or verb forms.

The term is derived from the verb to handfast, used in Middle to Early Modern English for the making of a contract of marriage.

The term is used for several kinds of Italian cheeses that are made using spinning and then cutting ( hence the name, as the Italian verb means " to cut "):

The etymology of the Greek term is often given as oros " mountain " + the verb ganousthai " delight in ", but the Oxford English Dictionary notes it is quite likely a loanword from an unknown North African language.

The original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, “ obstruct, oppose ,” as it is found in Numbers 22: 22, 1 Samuel 29: 4, Psalms 109: 6.

Its verb form, " to stream ", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner ; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.

The metaphorical use of the term " snuff " to denote killing appears to be derived from a verb for the cutting short of a candle wick.

The term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to separate, sift or select.

As alcohol had long been used as a basis for medicines, this implies the term vodka could be a noun derived from the verb vodit ’, razvodit ’ ( водить, разводить ), " to dilute with water ".

Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used " blog " as both a noun and verb (" to blog ," meaning " to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog ") and devised the term " blogger " in connection with Pyra Labs ' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.

The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner.

The term harmony derives from the Greek ἁρμονία ( harmonía ), meaning " joint, agreement, concord ", from the verb ἁρμόζω ( harmozo ), " to fit together, to join ".

However, the term " collective noun " is often used to mean " mass noun " ( even in some dictionaries ), because users confound two different kinds of verb number invariability: ( a ) that seen with mass nouns such as " water " or " furniture ", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete ( although it may or may not be etically nondiscrete ); and ( b ) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its ( both grammatically and etically ) discrete constituents.

The term used in Ottoman documents is sürgün, from the verb sürmek, to displace.