When trying to recall some words, he would frequently substitute a synonym of a similar-sounding word, such as trying to say " char " but instead saying " burn " ( a synonym of " char ") and " friend " ( a synonym of " chum ").

His friend, the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, said: " A favorite word of Freeman's about doing science and being creative is the word subversive.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

The original word had both the meanings " friend " and " relative " but lost various degrees of the " friend " sense in Scandinavian languages, while it mostly lost the sense of " relative " in English.

Yet another Spanish / English false friend is " America / América ", where the word " America " in English, and singular, is usually used to talk about the United States of America, and the word " América " in Spanish is used to talk about the whole American continent.

A Portuguese / English double false friend is for example the English word " ordinary " ( which has the roughly the same meaning as " normal " or " regular ") in Portuguese means " vulgar ".

Co-star Ted Lange called him and received word his beloved TV friend was doing well.

For instance, in Swahili the word rafiki ‘ friend ’ belongs to the class 9 and its " plural form " is marafiki of the class 6, even if most nouns of the 9 class have the plural of the class 10.

The term philology is derived from the Greek ( philologia ), from the terms ( philos ), meaning " love, affection, loved, beloved, dear, friend " and ( logos ), meaning " word, articulation, reason ", describing a love of learning, of literature as well as of argument and reasoning, reflecting the range of activities included under the notion of.

The term " society " came from the Latin word societas, which in turn was derived from the noun socius (" comrade, friend, ally "; adjectival form socialis ) used to describe a bond or interaction among parties that are friendly, or at least civil.

The word is a Delaware Indian word for " welcome " ( more precisely the Delaware word is which can mean " welcome " or " friend " in the Delaware Language ).

Chris and Billy, who happened to be making love inside, receive word from Billy's friend of what has happened to Chamberlain, and Billy plans on leaving town with Chris.

Page says that, while there are no shortages of etymologies for the word, it is tempting to link the word with " Old Norse vinr, ' friend ', and Latin Venus, ' goddess of physical love.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

When Langley received word from his friend Octave Chanute of the Wright brothers ' success with their 1902 glider, he attempted to meet the Wrights, but they politely evaded his request.

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.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

In category theory, an automorphism is an endomorphism ( i. e. a morphism from an object to itself ) which is also an isomorphism ( in the categorical sense of the word ).

For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.

Abbreviations can also be used to give a different context to the word itself, such as " PIN Number " ( wherein if the abbreviation were removed the context would be invalid ).

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

* In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself being an anagram of Scrabble, tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.

The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas.

The word " conservative " itself is a term of abuse in France.

The word ' catapult ' comes from the Latin ' catapulta ', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης ( katapeltēs ), itself from ( kata ), " downwards " + πάλλω ( pallō ), " to toss, to hurl ".

The word chaparral is a loan word from Spanish chaparro, meaning both " small " and " dwarf " evergreen oak, which itself comes from the Basque word txapar, with exactly the same meaning.

The word " corona " itself derived from the Latin, meaning crown, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κορώνη ( korōnē ) meaning " garland " or " wreath ".

As for the origin of the Sanskrit word itself there have been various theories proposed.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

A recursive definition, sometimes also called an inductive definition, is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

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.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

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.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

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 ; ;

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

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.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

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.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

Of his own will he has begotten us by the word of truth.

Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".