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The computer term bootstrap began as a metaphor in the 1950s.
The term " the Goddess " may also be understood to include a multiplicity of ways to view deity personified as female, or as a metaphor, or as a process.
The term ' family ' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree or in a subsequent modification to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy.
However, the term " mouse " is commonly used as a metaphor for devices that move the cursor.
The metaphor has been extended by coining the term syntactic salt, which indicates a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
In this context, " almost surely " is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the " monkey " is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters and symbols ad infinitum.
The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.
* Touchstone ( metaphor ) for metaphorical and literary uses of the term
The term " witch-hunt " since the 1930s has also been in use as a metaphor to refer to moral panics in general ( frantic persecution of perceived enemies ).
In English, the term guinea pig is commonly used as a metaphor for a subject of scientific experimentation, or any experiment or test in modern times.
The term is a metaphor which compares a government to a puppet controlled by strings by an outside puppeteer.
Both historians ’ interpretations of the prophecy of Haggai appear to understand the term of the “ signet ring ” as being a metaphor for Zerubbabel attaining God ’ s authority on earth.
A primary tenet of this theory is that metaphors are matter of thought and not merely of language: hence, the term conceptual metaphor.
The term broadcast was first adopted by early radio engineers from the Midwestern United States, treating broadcast sowing as a metaphor for the dispersal inherent in omnidirectional radio signals. Broadcasting is a very large and significant segment of the mass media.
In classical antiquity, the sea shell was a metaphor for a woman's vulva ( perhaps still perpetuated by the slang term " clam ").
The term " good Samaritan " is used as a common metaphor: " The word now applies to any charitable person, especially one who, like the man in the parable, rescues or helps out a needy stranger.
He developed an extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis and coined the term brief therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions.
Irwin, Jones, McGovern ( 2008 ) believe that the term ' scab ' is part of a larger metaphor involving strikes.
: A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “ A mighty fortress is our God .” Compare mixed metaphor, simile def.
Cohen maintains that " panic " is a suitable term when used as an extended metaphor.
Recent literary critics have used the term to mean simply the style of extended and heightened metaphor common in the Renaissance and particularly in the 17th century, without any particular indication of value.
Some have characterized this metaphor as one for laissez-faire, but Smith never actually used the term himself.
In the popular 1863 story " The Children of the Public ", Edward Everett Hale used the term pork barrel as a homely metaphor for any form of public spending to the citizenry .< ref > The story first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 24 and Jan. 31, 1863.
White people, rather than being a straightforward description of skin color, is a term denoting a specific set of ethnic groups and functions as a color metaphor for race.

term and is
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.
Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.
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 term of loans for working capital is 6 years.
Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.
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 ; ;
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 collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.
The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.
This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.
Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).
As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

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