Abbé ( from Latin abbas, in turn from Greek αββας = abbas father, from Aramaic abba ) is the French word for abbot.

* Abbé, the French word for abbot

The word is said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book: it is a custom under the Rule of Saint Benedict that monks gather daily for a meeting to discuss monastery business, hear a sermon or lecture, or receive instructions from the abbot, and as the meeting begins with a reading of a chapter from the Rule, the meeting itself acquired the name " chapter ", and the place where it is held, " chapter house " or " chapter room ".

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

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

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

It was the only meaning of the word that he had ever known.

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 ; ;

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

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.

The meaning of the word is quite physical, to begin with.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs.

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

The word adobe has existed for around 4, 000 years, with relatively little change in either pronunciation or meaning.

offer an informal meaning of the word in the following quotation:

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

The word dēmiourgos properly describes his relation to the material ; he is the father of that which is animal like himself.

Hoxha assembled the entire population in the capital's largest square, requested that they kneel, and made them take a two-thousand word oath of " eternal fidelity " and " gratitude " to their " beloved father " and " great liberator " to whom the people owed " everything.

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them.

Apart from the mythical derivation of Lazio given by the ancients as the place where Jupiter " lay hid " from his father seeking to kill him, a major modern etymology is that Lazio comes from the Latin word " latus ", meaning " wide ", expressing the idea of " flat land " meaning the Roman Campagna.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

The pope ( from ; from ( pappas ), a child's word for father ) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

Pachomius himself was hailed as " Abba " ( father ) which is where we get the word Abbot from.

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), the " father " of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.

Mick became his tall, loving, father figure, English self, taking in every word they said, remaining calm ( at least on the outside ) inspiring them.

Two years later, Tubman received word that her father had harbored a group of eight escaped slaves, and was at risk of arrest.

Pietas, possibly the key quality of any ' honorable ' Roman, consisted of a series of duties: duty towards the gods ( hence the English word piety ), duty towards one's homeland, duty towards one's followers and duty to one's family — especially one's father.

The cover was created by S. Neil Fujita whose design featured a large Gothic-style letter " G " with a long curl at the top emphasizing the first three letters of the title, accompanied by the hands of a puppeteer holding a set of strings over the " father " portion of the word.

One classic example of PIE * t → PGmc * d is the word for ' father '.

Franz Halberg of the University of Minnesota, who coined the word circadian, is widely considered the " father of American chronobiology.

* Ab ( Semitic ), also Abba, word for father in most Semitic languages, name of God the Father in the Gospel of Mark

The name Joab () is derived from Yahweh (), the name of the God of Israel, and the Hebrew word ' av ' (), meaning ' father '.

When word reaches Bobby that his father is dying, he goes home to see him, reluctantly bringing along his pregnant girlfriend, Rayette ( Black ), a dimwitted waitress.

" Koto " is a Malagasy word for " little boy ", and " baba " is a term for " father ", so the word " babakoto " may be translated as " father of a little boy.

It is speculated by some that she was possibly a goddess of the morning, or of man's waking sense, which causes him to wake up in the morning ; the Doric form of her name is akin to the Greek word for " rooster " ( Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, Alektor, the Greek word for " rooster "), while the Greek form Electryone is akin to the word for " amber " ( Ἠλέκτρα, Elektra ), as in the amber color of sunrise ( as opposed to sunset, implied by Helios being her father ); naturally, either of which would be an appropriate name for a solar goddess.

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.

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.

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.