In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.

They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

' Academic insularity is colloquially criticized as being " ivory tower "; when used pejoratively, this term is criticized as anti-intellectualism.

The term " ars sacra " (" sacred arts ") is sometimes used for medieval Christian art in metal, ivory, textiles and other high-value materials from this period, though this does not cover the even rarer survivals of secular works.

On the way, he wanders into the town of Arfrica ( a human population, in spite of its name ), digs up an ivory scepter that he mistakes for a bone, and is proclaimed First Magistrate for a term of nine years.

The first modern usage of " ivory tower " in the familiar sense of an unworldly dreamer can be found in a poem of 1837, " Pensées d ’ Août, à M. Villemain ", by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, a French literary critic and author, who used the term " tour d ' ivoire " to describe the poetical attitude of Alfred de Vigny as contrasted with the more socially engaged Victor Hugo: " Et Vigny, plus secret, Comme en sa tour d ’ ivoire, avant midi rentrait ".

The term has a rather negative flavor today, the implication being that specialists who are so deeply drawn into their fields of study often can't find a lingua franca with laymen outside their " ivory towers ".

Chryselephantine ( from Greek χρυσός, chrysós, gold, and ελεφάντινος, elephántinos, ivory ) is a term that refers to the sculptural medium of gold and ivory.

There are known examples, from the 2nd millennium BC, of composite sculptures made of ivory and gold from areas that became part of the Greek world, most famously the so-called " Palaikastro Kouros " ( not to be confused with the Archaic statues known by that term ) from Minoan Palaikastro, circa 1500 BC.

It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.

The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.

April 6, 2008, p. 4 ; excerpt, "... a skyscraper that Nouvel ( adapting a term from the artist Brâncuşi ) called the “ tour sans fins ,” or endless tower.

During his 11 year term, Urechean committed himself to the restoration of the church tower of the Catedrala Nașterea Domnului, as well as improvements in public transport.

In the short term Price would commission Nash to design Castle House Aberystwyth ( 1795 ), its plan took the form of a rightangled triangle, with an octagonal tower at each corner, sited on the very edge of the sea, this marked a new and more imaginative approach to design in Nash's work.

Dunleavy seconds this, suggesting that the mental health of long term tower block residents may have been detrimentally affected.

Their developers market these properties by using the American term ' apartment buildings ', perhaps in an effort to distance these newer buildings from the older tower blocks from the 1950s and 1960s.

The term was military slang, used at the Trinity site where the weapon tower for the first nuclear weapon was at " point zero ", and moved into general use very shortly after the end of World War II.

The Million Programme ( Miljonprogrammet ) is the familiar term for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 with the aim of building one million new dwellings in 10 years ; in the beginning strongly influenced by the " Garden City " developments in England during the 40's – 50's, but towards the end the developments were mostly built as single family homes along curving streets and cul-de-sacs and / or as immense tower blocks, similar to many residential districts built in Eastern Europe.

Generically, the term solar tower has many more uses especially for a type of power production using Earth's Sun.

The term has also been used to refer to other structures used for experimental purposes, such as the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment ( STACEE ), which is being used to study Cherenkov radiation, and the Weizmann Institute solar power tower.

The term " tower " is also sometimes used to refer to firefighting equipment with an extremely tall ladder designed for use in firefighting / rescue operations involving high-rise buildings.

Two of the four Area " D " blocks had also been razed, and in the longer term, these and the entire Area " B " estate ( scheduled for a further refurbishment ) will be the only tower blocks left in the Gorbals.

The raised design of most signal boxes ( which gave rise to the term " tower " in North America ) also provided the signalman with a good view of the railway under his control.

A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Burma and other parts of Asia.

* Control Tower Operator, an aviation term for certain personnel working in a control tower

* A monopole, a common term for a tubular self-supporting telecommunications mast, especially as distinguished from a lattice tower or pylon

* The term power tower is occasionally used, in the form " the power tower of order n " for

The term derives from the use of " stick ", in broadcasting industry jargon, as a term for a broadcast transmitter tower.

The term Campanile (; ) is synonymous with ' bell tower '; in American English it tends to be used to refer to free standing bell towers ; the term is Italian, deriving from the word ' campana ' meaning bell.

The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

Some modern descendants of this culture often choose to use the term " Ancestral Pueblo " peoples.

The term atomic physics is often associated with nuclear power and nuclear bombs, due to the synonymous use of atomic and nuclear in standard English.

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 term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ).

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

For example, the term is used to describe systems such as verlan and louchébem, which retain French syntax and apply transformations only to individual words ( and often only to a certain subset of words, such as nouns, or semantic content words ).

The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact.

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 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.

Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

Anti-realism in the sense that Dummett uses the term is also often called semantic anti-realism.

The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.

Somewhat confusingly this term is often used to include the adeleorins.

In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.

In non-Anglo-Saxon or French contexts, the term dodecasyllable is often used.

While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.

From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.