The name of the city comes from the French word dalle ( meaning either " sluice " or " flagstone " and referring to the columnar basalt rocks carved by the river, what the French-Canadian employees of the North West Company called the rapids of the Columbia River between the present-day city and Celilo Falls.

The name ' Grey Stanes ', given by Nelson Lawson, came from the outcrops of basalt on Prospect Hill, " Grey " being its colour and " Stanes " being the Scottish word for stones.

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.

More word class ratios determined in more languages will no doubt ultimately answer the question.

Also from there is the word bung, from the Sydney pidgin English ( and ultimately from the Sydney Aboriginal language ), meaning " dead ", with some extension to " broken " or " useless ".

However, perhaps it is ultimately taken from the Persian word for brass, birinj.

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

The word derives ultimately from vitula, meaning a stringed instrument.

The name " coyote " is borrowed from Mexican Spanish coyote, ultimately derived from the Nahuatl word cóyotl.

The two meanings of critical theory — from different intellectual traditions associated with the meaning of criticism and critique — derive ultimately from the Greek word kritikos meaning judgment or discernment, and in their present forms go back to the 18th century.

It is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse.

are all ultimately borrowings of the French word.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

The English word howitzer originates ultimately from the Czech word houfnice.

The word ultimately derives from the Ancient Egyptian âb, âbu " elephant ", through the Latin ebor-or ebur.

The English word " jackal " derives from Persian, via Turkish çakal, ultimately from Sanskrit.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

The origins of this word lie in the Old Javanese and thus ultimately in the Sanskrit language.

The word is derived from knot and ultimately from the Old English cnyttan, to knot.

The word was adopted into English in the nineteenth century from medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, in particular the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and derives ultimately from the Old Norse verb kenna “ know, recognise ; perceive, feel ; show ; teach ; etc .”, as used in the expression kenna við “ to name after ; to express thing in terms of ”, “ name after ; refer to in terms of ”, and kenna til “ qualify by, make into a kenning by adding ”.

The English word " language " derives ultimately from Indo-European " tongue, speech, language " through Latin lingua, " language, tongue ", and Old French langage " language ".

The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The word derives from Latin olīva which is cognate with the Greek ἐλαία ( elaía ) ultimately from Mycenaean Greek e-ra-wa (" elaiva "), attested in Linear B syllabic script.

The word ' oil ' in multiple languages ultimately derives from the name of this tree and its fruit.

The term pharaoh ultimately was derived from a compound word represented as, written with the two biliteral hieroglyphs " house " and " column ".