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The word feral used to describe domesticated species returning to the wild derives from Latin fera, " a wild beast ".
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The related term buccaneer is derived from the Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame for smoking meat, hence the French word boucane and the name boucanier for hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola ( now Haiti and the Dominican Republic ).
From this became derived in French the word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola ( now Haiti and the Dominican Republic ).
In modern usage, the word is seldom used any longer to refer to a " wild ," or more accurately, a feral horse, because today, the modern rodeo bucking horse is a domestic animal.
The Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse, is a children's book that follows the story of Mila ( translated as an abbreviated form of the Spanish word for " miracle "), a feral child raised by a pod of dolphins around the Florida Keys and Caribbean.
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It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
The one- or two-digit number of the index word or electronic switch was used in the operand of a symbolic machine instruction to specify indexing or as a parameter which is always an index word or electronic switch, e.g., 3.
The one- or two-digit number of the index word or electronic switch was used in the operand of an EQU statement, e.g.,
If the one- or two-digit address of an index word or electronic switch is used or is included in the operand of an XRESERVE or SRESERVE statement ( see page 99 ), the corresponding index word or electronic switch is reserved.
Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.
The first item in the operand, IOCSIXF, is used to specify the first IOCS index word for programs using tape files.
The second item in the operand, IOCSIXG, is used to specify the second IOCS index word for programs using tape files.
The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;
The word that is not used can be as important as the word that is used ; ;
I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.
This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.
When the cowboy used the word `` tailin's '', he meant stragglers.
`` Sabinas '' was a Spanish word used to describe cattle of red and white peppered and splotched colorin'.
This is not to attempt to say what spirit is, but only to employ a commonly used word to designate or simply identify a common experience.
Instead of inflecting a verb or using an unattached particle to indicate the past or future, Siddo used an entirely different word.
The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).
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The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.
And so today when we examine the structure of our knowledge of the atom and of the universe, we are forced to conclude that the best word to describe our universe is music.
The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.
Some more recent studies have used the word anthophyte to describe a group which includes the angiosperms and a variety of fossils ( glossopterids, Pentoxylon, Bennettitales, and Caytonia ), but not the Gnetales.
In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.
It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.
( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.
There is no documented evidence for this theory, however, and, the word liti was probably borrowed from 16th-18th century writings in Latin, where the word lituus could describe various wind instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett.
Gesalec proved incompetent, and in 511 king Theodoric assumed the throne of the kingdom ostensibly on behalf of Amalaric — Heather uses the word " hijacked " to describe his action.
The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.
Roger Penrose uses the word aeon to describe the period between successive and cyclic big bangs within the context of conformal cyclic cosmology.
The word " anthem " is commonly used to describe a celebratory song or composition for a distinct group, as in the term " national anthem ".
The term " anthemic " is a modern word coined to describe music with a celebratory connotation.
The word " apoptosis " () is used in Greek to describe the " dropping off " or " falling off " of petals from flowers, or leaves from trees.
To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.
The term is derived from the Greek word anemos, meaning wind, and is used to describe any airspeed measurement instrument used in meteorology or aerodynamics.
Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.
As balls are one of the most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word " ball " is used to refer to, or to describe, anything spherical or near-spherical.
The word " baptism " or " christening " is sometimes used to describe the inauguration of certain objects for use.
Others continue to use the word to describe the style of breakthrough warfare practised by the Axis powers of this period, even if it were not a formal doctrine.
The word " tumors " is used in most English translations to describe the sores that came upon the Philistines.
The word was first used to describe a fast-based lifestyle within Catholic tradition, which holds that certain saints were able to survive for extended periods of time without food or drink other than the Eucharist.
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