Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

In English a voiceless plosive that is p, t or k is aspirated whenever it stands as the only consonant at the beginning of the stressed syllable or of the first, stressed or unstressed, syllable in a word.

Technically, it is inaccurate, since the word literally refers to a stance where a person stands with their elbows bent and their hands on their hips ( arms akimbo ) not a posture well suited to shooting.

In Maltese the word is L-Għid, where " Għ " stands for the common Semitic consonant Ayin, and is directly derived from Arabic ʿĪd, which in both cases means " festival ".

Historically, the word " maser " is derived from the original upper-case acronym MASER, which stands for " Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation ".

The first letter ( in boldtype ) of each word in the above mnemonic stands for the following:

It is the object for which the word stands.

For Wittgenstein, the thing that the word stands for does not give the meaning of the word.

The word Commmons has three M's because the 3rd M stands for music.

When an SI prefix is affixed to a root word, the prefix carries the stress, while the root drops its stress but retains a full vowel in the syllable that is stressed when the root word stands alone.

The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol ( sun ) and sistere ( to stand still ), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination ; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun's path ( as seen from Earth ) comes to a stop before reversing direction.

If the symbol "#" stands for a word boundary ( initial or final ), the notation "/ __ #"

In Jung's view, a sign stands for something known, as a word stands for its referent.

* spelling alphabet: a set of words used instead of alphabetic letters in radio communication ; each word stands for its initial letter

The ' w ' stands for ' word ', where ' word ' is the native word size of the platform's hardware architecture.

Zilog, Inc., previously known as ZiLOG ( which stands for " Z ( the last word of ) integrated logic "), is an American manufacturer of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series.

F. S. Kipping coined the word " silicone " in 1901 to describe polydiphenylsiloxane by analogy of its formula, Ph < sub > 2 </ sub > SiO, with the formula of the ketone benzophenone, Ph < sub > 2 </ sub > CO ( Ph stands for phenyl, C < sub > 6 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub >).

The name Charing probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word cerring, a bend, as it stands on the outside of a 90-degree bend in the River Thames ( see Charing in Kent ).

Also, as in Latvian the word for daughter ( meita ) also stands for maiden, it is uncertain who exactly is getting married.

Another literary theme was suggested by Edmund M. Green in The Elgar Society Journal ( November 2004, Vol. 13, No. 6 ) in which he suggested that the " larger " theme is Shakespeare's sixty-sixth Sonnet and that the word " Enigma " stands for the real name of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The word also made him feel hate, sincere hate, for those so labeled.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.