A frigate () is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.

The term " frigate " was used because such ships still mounted their principal armament on a single continuous upper deck.

The term " frigate " implied a long hull design, which relates directly to speed ( see hull speed ) and also, in turn, helped the development of the broadside tactic in naval warfare.

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

Under the rating system of the Royal Navy, by the middle of the 18th century, the term " frigate " was technically restricted to single-decked ships of the fifth rate, though small 28-gun frigates were classed as sixth rate.

Since they are related to the pelicans, the term " frigate pelican " is also a name applied to them.

Just like the term " frigate ", the term " galleon " was originally applied to certain types of war galleys in the Middle Ages.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the term ' frigate ' fell out of use.

The term for the mountain peaks varies by nation and language: words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, and berg are used in German speaking regions: mont and aguille in French speaking regions ; and monte or cima in Italian speaking regions.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

The concept was that because Italian bond futures had a less liquid market, in the short term Italian bond futures would have a higher return than U. S. bonds, but in the long term, the prices would converge.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The term is related to the modern Italian word fascio, used in the 20th century to designate peasant cooperatives and industrial workers ' unions.

The term " battente ," which means " to beat " in Italian, has do with the style the guitar is generally played in, which is principally as a rhythm instrument.

Sale could, however, have found the term periclyte transliterated into Arabic in one of the marginal notes to the Italian manuscript.

The term is derived from the name of Italian scientist Luigi Galvani.

The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, and essentially means " story painting ", rather than the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense in modern English, for which the term historical painting may be used, especially for 19th century art.

Although the use of the term infantry in English dates from the 15th century ( from French Infanterie, itself from the Italian Infanteria ), the foot troops of the previous eras in history who fought with a variety of weapons before the introduction of the firearms are also referred to as infantry.

the term `` State '' includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any possession of the United States ; ;

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

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 ).

*( b ) limited, as when the Sovereign grants letters of denization to an alien, and the alien's male heirs, or to an alien for the term of their life ;

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

The class did not survive the Revolution ; but the courtesy title of abbé, having long lost all connection in people's minds with any special ecclesiastical function, remained as a convenient general term applicable to any clergyman.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

* Asa, alternate term for naboot ; a staff used in Egyptian stick fencing

It lacks the NH < sub > 2 </ sub > group because of the cyclization of the side-chain and is known as an imino acid ; it falls under the category of special structured amino acids .</ ref > where R is an organic substituent known as a " side-chain "); often the term " amino acid " is used to refer specifically to these.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

However, this is not required ; endothermic reactions can proceed spontaneously if the TΔS term is large enough.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

* 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis ; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term " Stockholm syndrome ".

The term is derived from the Greek ( allotropia ; variability, changeableness ).