An alternative suggestion derives the term from Hurrian Kinahhu, purportedly referring to the colour purple, so that Canaan and Phoenicia would be synonyms (" Land of Purple "), but it is just as common to assume that Kinahhu was simply the Hurrian rendition of the Semitic.

Tablets found in the Mesopotamian city of Nuzi use the term Kinahnu (" Canaan ") as a synonym for red or purple dye, laboriously produced by the Kassite rulers of Babylon from murex shells as early as 1600 BC, and on the Mediterranean coast by the Phoenicians from a byproduct of glassmaking.

The term " porphyria " is derived from the Greek πορφύρα, porphyra, meaning " purple pigment ".

The term " porphyry " is from Greek and means " purple ".

As languages develop, they next adopt a term for brown ; then terms for orange, pink, purple and / or gray, in any order.

The term derives from the Ancient Roman mulleus calceus a red or purple shoe worn by the three highest magistrates, although there is little indication of any structural resemblance.

The term lavender may also be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, medium, or grayish violet colors, as well as some pale or light pinkish, magenta, or purple colors as well as some pale or light blueish-indigo colors.

The August 1999 timetable revision saw the term Inner West Line used for the first time, and the line was colour coded purple which it has maintained to the present day.

The use of this dye was extended to various dignitaries, such as members of the Roman senate who wore stripes of Tyrian purple on their white togas, for whom the term purpuratus was coined as a high aulic distinction.

However, although the color " purple " is inaccurately used by many people as a synonym for violet or a color close to violet, professional artists who use the RYB color wheel generally use the term " purple " to specifically refer to a pigment color that is equivalent to red-violet ( i. e., the tertiary color between violet and red on the RYB color wheel ) in order to give themselves a larger and more balanced palette of pigments to work with.

The term purple patch is also used in a more general, and more unequivocally positive, sense to refer to a period of outstanding achievement.

Many pulp genres have become infamous for excesses of purple prose, including romance, mystery, and adventure ; likewise, in journalism, the term is often used to refer to writing that places tone and emotional heft over factual reporting.

In prose sometimes the term (, " sea of death ") is used, due to the scarcity of aquatic life there.

The specific term furry fandom was being used in fanzines as early as 1983, and had become the standard name for the genre by the mid-1990s, when it was defined as " the organized appreciation and dissemination of art and prose regarding ' Furries ', or fictional mammalian anthropomorphic characters.

In the context of the Vedas, the term mantra refers to the entire portion which contains the texts called Rig, Yajur or Sama, that is, the metrical part as opposed to the prose Brahmana commentary.

Fletcher invented the term ' polyphonic prose ' to describe some poetic experiments of Amy Lowell, a form he himself, also experimented with in his Goblins & Pagodas.

The term is used by classical grammarians and by philologists mostly to refer to satires in prose ( cf.

However, even a very loose term like fiction (" literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation ") is not universally applied to all fictitious literature, but instead is typically restricted to the use for novel, short story, and novella, but not fables, and is also usually a prose text.

However, this term can also refer to the length of lines, stanzas, or cantos in poems, as well as sentences, paragraphs, or chapters in prose.

Incorrect forms such as " objet-d ' art ", " object ( s ) d ' art " are sometimes seen, and the term should not be capitalized in running prose.

The term " rayok " has also become applied to rhymed humorous " talk shows " without any peeping, a special kind of rhymed prose.

Note that the use of fu in yuefu is different than the other Chinese term fu, referring to a type of poetry or literature: although homonyms in English, the other fu () instead refers to a rhapsodic poetry / prose form of literature.

The island of Savai ' i is also referred to by Samoans as Salafai, a classical Samoan term used in oratory and prose.

In common literary prose, the term malakos is an adjective applied to things:

" In Hawaiian prose and chant, the term " Kahiki " is applied in reference to any land outside of Hawai ' i, although the linguistic root is conclusively derived from Tahiti.

* Purple prose, a literary term

) The term and the concept have been popularised in standard Serbian through short prose and plays by Vranje born fin-de-siècle writer Borisav Stanković.

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by the English critic James Wood in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful, detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena.

In response, Zadie Smith described hysterical realism as a " painfully accurate term for the sort of overblown, manic prose to be found in novels like my own White Teeth and a few others he was sweet enough to mention.

The term off-color humor ( also known as vulgar humor or crude humor ) is an Americanism used to describe jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy, insult comedy, cringe comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture.

Swan also coined the term “ the burden of adjustment ” to describe the adjustment demanded of readers by sexist or racist prose.

Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself.

The term off-color humor ( also known as dirty jokes ) is an Americanism used to describe jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy and skits that deal with topics considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture.

However the term " anti-roman " ( anti-novel ) had been used by Charles Sorel in 1633 to describe the parodic nature of his prose fiction Le Berger extravagant.

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.