The word TWAIN is from Rudyard Kipling's " The Ballad of East and West " — "... and never the twain shall meet ..." — reflecting the difficulty at the time of connecting scanners and personal computers.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

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.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

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

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

Oddly, the official titles of two of the series ' episodes employed the word pregnant: " Lucy Is Enceinte ", employing the French word for pregnant, and " Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable ", although the episode titles never appeared on the show itself.

The word " fighter " did not become the official English term for such aircraft until after World War I.

On one occasion, the use of the word niggardly led to the resignation of a U. S. public official because it sounded similar to the word nigger, despite the two words being unrelated etymologically ).

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Livy claims that his original Etruscan name was Lucumo, but since Lucumo ( Etruscan Lucius ) is the Etruscan word for " King ", there is reason to believe that Priscus ' name and title have been confused in the official tradition.

The English word " mandarin " ( from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning " minister or counsellor "), originally meant an official of the Chinese empire.

The word Ensi was used to describe the official who organized the work of all facets of temple agriculture.

Unification Church official Michael Jenkins ( who later became president of the Unification Church of the United States ) commented in 1989 on his views of why the Unification Church was shifting its public stance regarding use of the word: " Why, after so many years, should we now be taking such a stand to eliminate the term ' Moonie?

At last, the official word was released on 1 November 1948: GM resumed management control of Adam Opel AG.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

Parousia () is an ancient Greek word meaning presence, arrival, or official visit.

The official Scrabble board designKey: 2 × LS = Double letter score 3 × LS = Triple letter score 2 × WS / ★ = Double word score 3 × WS = Triple word score

The airport's official English name, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, reflects the original Dutch word order ( Luchthaven Schiphol ).

This led the 3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) of 1901 to officially declare " The word weight denotes a quantity of the same nature as a force: the weight of a body is the product of its mass and the acceleration due to gravity ", thus distinguishing it from mass for official usage.

The word nigger features in official place-names, such as " Nigger Bill Canyon ", " Nigger Hollow ", and " Niggertown Marsh ".

In the United States, the word " seal " is sometimes assigned to a facsimile of the seal design ( in monochrome or color ), which may be used in a variety of contexts including architectural settings, on flags, or on official letterheads.

When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, it seemed at first that most of the pirates in Nassau would accept.

The word piece in chess literature usually excludes pawns, though this distinction between " pieces " and " pawns " is not found in the official rules.

In North America, the word " spanking " has often been used as a synonym for an official paddling in school, and sometimes even as a euphemism for the formal corporal punishment of adults in an institution.

The word Holy had never been used as part of that title in official documents.