The term " filial ", meaning " of a child ", denotes the respect and obedience that a child, originally a son, should show to his parents, especially to his father.

The term can also be applied to general obedience, and is used in religious titles in Christian Churches, like " filial priest " or " filial vicar " for a cleric whose church is subordinate to a larger parish.

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 ).

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 ''.

In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

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 ".

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 ).

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

The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as, an exonym meaning " ancient enemies " although it is now used in the term " ancient people, or " ancient ones.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".

This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

The second suggestion is " vine ", which is reached through * Ambilō, which may be related to the Greek term ámpelos, itself meaning " vine, liana ".

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

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

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

Astrologia later passed into meaning ' star-divination ' with astronomia used for the scientific term.

The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.

Furthermore, it is clear that even the basic meaning of the term " art " has changed several times over the centuries, and has continued to evolve during the 20th century as well.

A typical dish prepared by the latter is the curanto ( a term meaning " hot stone ").

The intended meaning was likely the first, which would be translated as Latin causātīvus or effectīvus, but the Latin term was a translation of the second.

Jean Piaget applied the term in child psychology in reference to an implicit understanding of the world in a child's mind which assumes that all events are the product of intention or consciousness.

* Disruption ( of adoption ) is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed.

The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends.

The term child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.

Some anti-prostitution feminists, such as Sheila Jeffreys, prefer the term prostituted woman ( and analogous terms such as " prostituted child ") to emphasize the victimization they see as inherent in such activity.

# No one has so far been able to manipulate IQ to a significant degree through changes in environmental factors — except for child adoption and that they conclude is not large in the long term — and in light of these failures, such approaches are becoming less promising.

The gender-neutral names " parent " and " child " have largely displaced the older " father " and " son " terminology, although the term " uncle " is still used for other nodes at the same level as the parent.

By the end of his term, however, Schmidt had turned away from deficit spending, due to a deteriorating economic situation, and a number of welfare cuts were carried out, including smaller increases in child benefits and higher unemployment and health contributions.

* Chester, a prison slang term for a child molester ( see Child sex abuse )

Often a corner ( hence the common term corner time ) or a similar space where the child is to stand or sit during time-outs is designated.

Baby farming was a term used in late-Victorian Era Britain ( and, less commonly, in Australia and the United States ) to mean the taking in of an infant or child for payment ; if the infant was young, this usually included wet-nursing ( breast-feeding by a woman not the mother ).

The term " a spanky child " was late 19th century – early 20th century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler.

When a human child learns to walk, the term toddler may be used instead.

Infant is also a legal term referring to any child under the age of legal adulthood.

During his first term as Premier, Lang carried out many social programmes, including state pensions for widowed mothers with dependent children under fourteen, a universal and mandatory system of workers ' compensation for death, illness and injury incurred on the job, funded by premiums levied on employers, the abolition of student fees in state-run high schools and improvements to various welfare schemes such as child endowment ( which Lang's government had introduced ).

Medical advances may eventually make childbearing possible by using a donor uterus long enough to carry a child to term as anti-rejection drugs do not seem to affect the fetus.

The term " othermother " or " other mother " is also used in some contexts for women who provide care for a child not biologically their own in addition to the child's primary mother.

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child ; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor.

A military brat is a colloquial term for a child with at least one parent who served as an active duty member ( vice reserve ) in the armed forces.