'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

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.

When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.

by this term he means to ridicule their professions of acting in the interest of the Church despite their own education and manner of life -- a gibe, in other words, at the `` Presbyterianism '' in Harley's family and at Bolingbroke's reputed impiety.

As used in this Act, the term ' saline water ' includes sea water, brackish water, and other mineralized or chemically charged water, and the term ' United States ' extends to and includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

* Animalia ( disambiguation ), other uses of the term

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

The term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.

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 ).

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

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

Another occasionally used term for the genre is " allohistory " ( literally " other history ").

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

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

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 term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

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.

Thus, the term " maternal surname " means the patrilineal surname which one's mother inherited from either or both of her parents.

" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.

The term midwife is derived from, literally " with-woman ", i. e. " the woman with ( the mother at birth ), the woman assisting " ( in Middle English and Old English, mid

However, due to some difficulties in conclusively identifying these figurines with " mother goddess ", some scholars prefer using the term " female figurines with likely cultic significance ".

In the Hymskvidha, Tyr's father is named as the etin Hymir – the term " Hymir's kin " was used a kenning for etinkind – while his mother goes unnamed, but is otherwise described in terms that befit a goddess.

In monotremes, mammals which lay eggs, namely the platypus and the echidnas, either the term uterus or oviduct is used to describe the same organ, but the egg does not develop a placenta within the mother and thus does not receive further nourishment after formation and fertilization.

Theodoret shared in the petition of John I of Antioch to Nestorius to approve of the term theotokos (" mother of God "), and upon the request of John wrote against Cyril's anathemas.

Although " nurture " has historically been referred to as the care given to children by the parents, with the mother playing a role of particular importance, this term is now regarded by some as any environmental ( not genetic ) factor in the contemporary nature versus nurture debate.

Tuvok expressed his love for his wife on a few occasions ( without actually using the term ), Sarek openly expressed affection for both his Human wives, and a clear bond of love existed between T ' Pol and her mother, T ' Les.

" One might then term Edith Nourse Rogers, R-Mass., who helped write and who co-sponsored the legislation, as the " mother of the G. I.

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 ).

Subsequently she was forced to drop out when her father died and her recently widowed mother could not afford the fees of £ 20 a term.

Martin, meanwhile, is rejected by his mother ( Marjorie Main ) and repulsed by his ex-girlfriend, Francie ( Claire Trevor ), who is now a prostitute and " sick " ( a coded reference to her suffering late term stages of syphilis ).

The latter has given rise to the term " mother " for someone who engages in this activity-sometimes written with a hyphen ( moth-er ) to distinguish it from the more common word of the same spelling.

** Diploid parthenogenesis: When the megagametophyte develops without completing meiosis, so that the megagametophyte and all cells within it are meiotically unreduced ( aka diploid, but diploid is an ambiguous term ), this is called diploid parthenogenesis, and the plant that develops from the embryo will have the same number of chromosomes as the mother plant.

Conversely, when paired with an adjective, it can become a term denoting such things as originality and masculinity, as in the related phrase " bad ass mother fucker ".

A surrogate mother is, commonly, a woman who bears an embryo, that is from another woman's fertilized ovum, to term for a couple biologically unable to have children.

* Iyale-Depending on inflection or spelling, the term could either refer to the senior wife in a polygamous household ( Iyá Ilé, or iyálé, when contracted ) meaning " mother of the household "; or to a communal female personage who is a custodian of secrets and is therefore wise ( Iyá Ilè, iyálè when contracted ), meaning " Earth Mother ".

He was carried and brought successfully to term by a surrogate mother from another more common species, in this case a domestic cow named Bessie.

In fact, " Amma " is a term meaning mother.

One short term historical figure was Herman Melville, who in 1840 had been residing with his mother in Lansingburgh, but who taught for a half year at a one room schoolhouse in Brunswick.

Madonna is a medieval Italian term for a noble or otherwise important woman, and has long been used commonly in reference to images of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.

With her term ending in 1943, Rankin knew she didn ’ t have the support to win another election, and so she returned home to Montana to care for her aging mother.