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.

It is claimed that like ' macaco ' ( monkey ), ' belo ' ( beautiful ) was another slang term for the policemen.

In summary, there are three common uses of the term " ape ": non-biologists may not distinguish between " monkeys " and " apes ", or may use " ape " for any tailless monkey or nonhuman hominoid, whereas biologists traditionally used the term " ape " for all non-human hominoids as shown above.

A slang term for peanut butter in World War II was " monkey butter ".

Often heard among crews was " crummy " ( as in a crummy place to live, not elegant, often too hot or too cold, and perhaps not especially clean ), " clown wagon ", " hack ", " waycar ", " dog house ", " go cart ", " glory wagon ", " monkey wagon " ( a term that indirectly insulted the principal functionary who rode therein, no doubt coined by an engineer ), " brain box " ( the conductor was supposedly the brains of the train, as opposed to the " hogger " or engineer, who was presumed to be pigheaded ), " palace ", " buggy " ( Boston & Maine / Maine Central ), " van " ( eastern and central Canada, usage possibly derived from the UK term for the caboose ), and " cabin ", or a variation heard at least on the Southern Railway, " cab ".

In general the term " animal language " is reserved for the modeling of human language in animal systems ; though there is some comparative interchange in certain cases ( e. g. Cheney & Seyfarth's vervet monkey call studies ).

The term monkey wrench is also used colloquially ( and mistakenly ) to refer to the pipe wrench, owing to their broadly similar shapes.

This was patented in 1841 and the tools were advertised and sold in the United States as monkey wrenches, a term which was already in use for the English handle-set coach wrenches.

The term " modern " red-heel sock monkeys is normally relegated to sock monkey dolls created after Fox River Mills, Inc .( Osage, IA ) acquired Nelson Knitting Company in 1992.

He is credited with the first published use of the term " hundredth monkey " in his 1979 book, Lifetide.

A Scratch Monkey is a term used in hacker jargon, as in " Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey ", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices.

According to local folklore, the term originates from an incident in which a monkey was hanged in Hartlepool.

The reference to the testes ( as the term balls is commonly understood to mean ) of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th century variant on the expression, prefigured by a range of references to other body parts, especially the nose and tail.

Because of this, net points ( a percentage of the net income ( i. e. gross income minus expenses ), as opposed to a percentage of the gross income ) are sometimes referred to as " monkey points ," a term attributed to Eddie Murphy, who is said to have also stated that only a fool would accept net points in his or her contract.

, literally meaning " monkey elbow ", is a term for an elbow strike by the Japanese martial art of karate.

The constitution explicitly bars changes to some of its clauses, including the term limit, and the move precipitated a Constitutional Crisis.

The term Karaoke only started becoming popular during the 90s when bars started adding them and using the Japanese term to cater to influx of Japanese tourists and businessmen who requested them.

The amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, or once if that person served more than half of another president's term.

Originally the term was used literally, for a matrix switch controlled by a grid of crossing metal bars, and later was broadened to matrix switches in general.

Importantly, the pharmaceutical company involved in the neem case argued that as traditional Indian knowledge of the properties of the neem tree had never been published in an academic journal, such knowledge did not amount to " prior art " ( prior art is the term used when previously existing knowledge bars a patent ).

But within that term, a wide variety of products exists, ranging from solid chocolate bars to multiple layerings or mixtures of ingredients such as nuts, fruit, caramel or fondant containing no chocolate.

The term " banding " referred to the phenomenon occurring on the screen as two bars.

Contemporaneously, the term lounge music also denotes the types of music played in hotels ( the lounge, the bar ), casinos, and piano bars.

In the Southeastern US, honky tonk gradually replaced the term juke joint for bars oriented towards blues and jazz.

The term is often confused with the military flail ( fléau d ' armes in French and Kriegsflegel in German ), which consists of a wooden shaft joined by a length of chain to one or more iron-shod wooden bars ( heavy sword pommels have also been used as weights ).

" This term is applied, as a synecdoche, to drinking establishments called " bars.

As a result, the term " bar " has come to be differentiated from the term " pub ", in that bars are usually ' themed ' and often have a dance floor ( such as a dance bar ), as opposed to establishments which call themselves pubs, which are often much more similar to a British tavern in style.

In addition to longshore bars discussed above that are relatively small features of a beach, the term shoal can be applied to larger geological units that form off a coastline as part of the process of coastal erosion.

The band got its name because, Deisler explained, " I think it was a slang term I'd heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars.

Black and tan is a more ubiquitous term used to describe any lager / ale that will support the Guinness draught, although some Irish-themed bars shun the term for its association with the Black and Tans.

These bars give rise to the former portion of the casual term, " bars and tone ".

Contemporaneously, the term lounge music also denotes the types of music played in hotels ( the lounge, the bar ), casinos, and piano bars.

The term " Tiki mugs " is a generic, blanket term for sculptural drink ware that depict imagery from Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, and of more recent is also used to describe these mugs depicting anything tropical, wahines, surf or other images or themes connected to the escapism and cultures those bars draw inspiration from and conjure.

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

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

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.

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 term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.

It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

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 Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

The Latin synonym is " sonic ", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".