Abigail's self-styling as a handmaid led to Abigail being the traditional term for a waiting-woman, for example as the waiting gentlewoman in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Lady, published in 1616.

The lack of moving parts makes them appropriate for long term use in exposed automated weather stations and weather buoys where the accuracy and reliability of traditional cup-and-vane anemometers is adversely affected by salty air or large amounts of dust.

Ward Christensen coined the term " Bulletin Board System " as a reference to the traditional cork-and-pin bulletin board often found in entrances of supermarkets, schools, libraries or other public areas where people can post messages, advertisements, or community news.

The Japanese term baku has two current meanings, referring to both the traditional dream-devouring creature and to the zoological tapir ( e. g., the Malayan tapir ).

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

He extended the summer court session, as well as the winter term, by shortening the traditional breaks.

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

The term " storage " is often ( but not always ) used in separate computers of traditional secondary memory such as tape, magnetic disks and optical discs ( CD-ROM and DVD-ROM ).

In many modern armies, the term cavalry is still often used to refer to units that are a combat arm of the armed forces which in the past filled the traditional horse-borne land combat light cavalry roles.

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering ; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

" The criticism is that the idea of " traditional society " is simply a catch all term for early non-Western society and implies that all such societies are similar.

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

), while the traditional term ' accompaniment ' conflates the categories of manner ( nasal, affricated ), phonation ( voiced, aspirated, breathy voiced, glottalized ), as well as any change in the airstream with the release of the posterior articulation ( pulmonic, ejective ), all of which are transcribed with additional letters or diacritics, as in the nasal alveolar click, ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ or — to take an extreme example — the voiced ( uvular ) ejective alveolar click, ⟨⟩.

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

The College functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as " big weekends " or " party weekends ".

The term ' decorative arts ' is a traditional term used in historical discourses to describe craft objects, and also sits within the umbrella of Applied arts.

There does exist in Filipino an equivalent, gender-neutral term for the professional that carries the more general notion of " healer ", traditional ( for example, an albuláryo ) or otherwise: manggagámot.

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term that may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education ( for all age groups and levels of education ).

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

The term " progressive " was engaged to distinguish this education from the traditional curriculum of the 19th century, which was rooted in classical preparation for the university and strongly differentiated by socioeconomic level.

Aside from the traditional usage, the term empire can be used in an extended sense to denote a large-scale business enterprise ( e. g. a transnational corporation ), or a political organisation of either national -, regional-or city scale, controlled either by a person ( a political boss ) or a group authority ( political bosses ).

While some conservative evangelicals believe the label has broadened too much beyond its more limiting traditional distinctives, this trend is nonetheless strong enough to create significant ambiguity in the term.

The English term " folklore ", to describe traditional folk music and dance, entered the vocabulary of many continental European nations, each of which had its folk-song collectors and revivalists.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Gov. Vandiver is expected to make the traditional visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.