Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

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

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

The word was formerly written in English as " Accomptant ", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the " p ", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form ( see also comptroller ).

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

The word " Bohemian " was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word " Czech " became prevalent in English.

In the Baroque world, additional instruments could be optionally added to the continuo ; in the Classical world, all parts were noted specifically, though not always notated, as a matter of course, so the word " obbligato " became redundant.

With open software specifications and the possibility of software licensing, new opportunities arose for software tools that then became the de facto standard, such as DOS for operating systems, but also various proprietary word processing and spreadsheet programs.

Some believe that the word " chicamo " somehow became " chicano ", which ( unlike " chicamo ") reflects the grammatical conventions of Spanish-language ethno-and demonyms, such as " americano " or " castellano " or " peruano ".

For example, the Greek word κίνημα ( kinēma, " movement ") became French cinéma ( cf.

The first attestations of the word “ mail ” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “ maille ” “ maile ”, or “ male ” or other variants, which became “ mailye ” “ maille ” “ maile ”, “ male ”, or “ meile ” in Middle English.

Because this theory could account for the presence of diluvium, the word drift became the preferred term for the loose, unsorted material, today called till.

The Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, founded in 1945, was receiving considerable attention both in city newspapers and on television, so much so that the word “ Unitarian ” became a household world, though its meaning was not that widely known.

The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).

The character of Don Quixote became so well known in its time that the word quixotic was quickly adopted by many languages.

By the time Bramah's beer pumps became popular, the use of the word draught to mean the act of serving beer was well established and transferred easily to beer served via the hand pumps.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

The name was transmitted via the Latin delphinus ( the romanization of the later Greek δελφῖνος – delphinos ), which in Medieval Latin became dolfinus and in Old French daulphin, which reintroduced the ph into the word.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

35 or 50-between 98 and 117 ), one of the Apostolic Fathers, mentions the Eucharist as " the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ ", and Justin Martyr speaks of it as more than a meal: " the food over which the prayer of thanksgiving, the word received from Christ, has been said ... is the flesh and blood of this Jesus who became flesh ... and the deacons carry some to those who are absent.

Caesar was not the first to hold it, but following his assassination it became a skunked word in Rome.

Still, even when used in this second sense, the word is often restricted to apply only to societies that have attained a particular level of advancement — especially the founding of cities.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

In the Japanese language, the word tennō is restricted to Japan's own monarch ; kōtei ( 皇帝 ) is used for foreign emperors.

Because of Latin's gender based declension, this word may be restricted by some English speakers to describing a male.

As well as complete false friends, use of loanwords often results in the use of a word in a restricted context, which may then develop new meanings not found in the original language.

An important difference between inflection and word formation is that inflected word forms of lexemes are organized into paradigms, which are defined by the requirements of syntactic rules, whereas the rules of word formation are not restricted by any corresponding requirements of syntax.

This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

In other cases, however, it may be the word ' plosive ' which is restricted to the glottal stop.

In 1926, Henry Watson Fowler recommended that the word be restricted to this grammar-related meaning only:

They are often called basal ganglia, but the word ganglion is best restricted to clusters of neurons outside the Central Nervous System ( CNS ).

Tabu itself has been derived from alleged Tongan morphemes ta (" mark ") and bu (" especially "), but this may be a folk etymology ( note that Tongan does not actually have a phoneme / b /), and tapu is usually treated as a unitary, non-compound word inherited from Proto-Polynesian * tapu, in turn inherited from Proto-Oceanic * tabu, with the reconstructed meaning " sacred, forbidden ".< ref name = POLLEX > In its current use on Tonga, the word tapu means " sacred " or " holy ", often in the sense of being restricted or protected by custom or law.

The minimum acceptable word length can be adjusted to a player's skill level ( for example, in a game with adults and children playing together, the children may be permitted to form four-letter words, while the adults are restricted to words of at least five or six letters ).

The word prudonce ( prudence caution ) can also be used to allow restricted working to resume on that channel.

A kite, as defined above, may be either convex or concave, but the word " kite " is often restricted to the convex variety.

* In a less restricted sense, internationalism is a word describing the impetus and motivation for the creation of any international organizations.

SMBus is restricted to nine of those structures, such as read word N and write word N, involving a single slave.

Another, concerned with entropy, probability, Shannon-Weaver information theory, physical patterns ( in-form-ing ), and related topics, is sometimes referred to as the “ physics of information .” Also, the word information is, of course, used in information technology ( IT, also ICT, for information and communication technologies ), but largely restricted in practice to the use of electronics for communication and computation.

The Inuit word iglu ( plural igluit ) can be used for a house or home built of any material, and is not restricted exclusively to snowhouses ( called specifically igluvijaq, plural igluvijait ), but includes traditional tents, sod houses, homes constructed of driftwood and modern buildings.