Loving-kindness living: Boaz and Ruth are models of an altruism for which the word " loving-kindness " has been coined ( approximately translating Hebrew hesed ).

" Cyril had apparently understood the Greek word physis to mean approximately what the Latin word persona ( person ) means, while most Greek theologians would have interpreted that word to mean natura ( nature ).

Where " embarrassed " in English means approximately " ashamed ", a similar-sounding Spanish word, " embarazada ", means " pregnant ".

The compound word " spread-sheet " came to mean the format used to present book-keeping ledgers — with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect — which were, traditionally, a " spread " across facing pages of a bound ledger ( book for keeping accounting records ) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

Such an accelerator and its gantries costs between $ 60 million and $ 100 million, and makes Uppsala Academic Hospital one of the approximately 40 centers in the word to provide such cancer treatment.

The names of the " Mars " missions do not need to be translated, as the word " Mars " is spelled and pronounced approximately the same way in English and Russian.

; March 2005: Allah inscription: The word " Allah ", in approximately a foot-tall Arabic script, was found newly carved into the ancient stones, an act viewed by Jews as vandalism.

The word " Naskapi " appeared for the first time in 1733, at which time the group so described was said to number approximately forty families and to have an important camp at Lake Achouanipi.

After the completion of the terminal in 1915, the county decided it would call it Ravenna which stems from the word " Ravine " but it was reported by early railroad officials that an Italian foreman and interpreter with a construction crew of approximately 60 Italian men building the railroad yards, requested that the railroad officials name the station in honor of his birthplace, Ravenna, Italy and it was so granted by the railroad officials in charge of such matter.

By the 1870 ’ s Mary was telling her students “ Some day I will have a church of my own .” In 1879 she and her students established the Church of Christ, Scientist, “ to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing .” In 1892 at Eddy ’ s direction, the church reorganized as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, “ designed to be built on the Rock, Christ ....” Some years later in 1881, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students in Boston, Massachusetts between the years 1882 and 1889.

The rotating drum memory ( photo ) provided 2, 000 signed 10-digit words of memory ( five characters per word ) at addresses 0000 to 1999, which is approximately 8. 5 KB in today's units.

Unlike the standard written Chinese, which is logographic ( with each character representing a word or part of a word ), Nüshu is phonetic, with each of its approximately 600-700 characters representing a syllable.

The word is linked to the music genre itself and, although both meanings are approximately the same in the two languages, Portuguese speakers seldom utilize the word fado referring to destiny or fate.

The ounce ( abbreviated: oz, the old Italian word onza, now spelled oncia ; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass with several definitions, the most commonly used of which are equal to approximately 28 grams.

The Portuguese word is pronounced approximately.

The name also forms the basis for the Arabic word for the Egyptian pound الجنيه el-Gineih, as a sum of 100 qurush ( i. e., one pound ) was worth approximately 21 shillings at the end of the 19th century.

In approximately 1590, the word began appearing in the English language as booby, meaning " stupid person, slow bird ".

This constraint can be observed in the pronunciation of the word blue: originally, the vowel of blue was identical to the vowel of cue, approximately.

His popular nickname was " bai Tosho " ( approximately " Ol ' Uncle Tosho ") or occasionally ( and later ), " Tato " ( a dialectal word for " Dad " or " Pop ").

Both surveys indicate that approximately 60 % of American English speakers preserve the contrast, while approximately 40 % make the merger, although in a more recent interview, Labov stated that " Half of this country has a merger of the word classes, cot, caught, don, dawn, hock, hawk.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

Note that while the terms demon and demonic are used in monotheistic faiths as antonyms to divine, they are in fact derived from the Greek word daimón ( δαίμων ), which itself translates as divinity.

The English term " empiric " derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word " experience " and the related " experiment ".

The German word Flügel translates into English as wing or flank.

The island's name in English translates as ' strong fortune ' or ' strong wind ', the Spanish word for wind being ' viento '.

The Welsh word for honeymoon is mis mêl, which translates as " honey month ", and similarly the Ukrainian ( Медовий місяць ), Polish ( miesiąc miodowy ), Russian ( Медовый месяц ), Arabic ( شهر العسل shahr el ' assal ), Greek ( μήνας του μέλιτος ) and Hebrew ( ירח דבש yerach d ' vash ) versions.

In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning " struggle ".

The word " Jedi " may be derived from the Japanese word " Jidaigeki " ( 時代劇 ) which translates as " period adventure drama ".

The Manx word for kipper is which literally translates as red herring.

The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates ה ֵ יל ֵ ל as lucifer, meaning " the morning star, the planet Venus " ( or, as an adjective, " light-bringing "), The Septuagint renders ה ֵ יל ֵ ל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος ( heōsphoros ) meaning " morning star ".

Each translator only translates one word of the joke, so as not to be killed by reading the whole joke.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

All eight elements of the Path begin with the word " right ", which translates the word samyañc ( in Sanskrit ) or sammā ( in Pāli ).

In Hebrew, the word נ ְ ב ִ יא ( navi ), " spokesperson ", traditionally translates as " prophet ".

Theology translates into English from the Greek theologia ( θεολογία ) which derived from theos ( θεός ), meaning God, and logia ( λόγια ), meaning utterances, sayings, or oracles ( a word related to logos, meaning word, discourse, account, or reasoning ) which had passed into Latin as theologia and into French as théologie.

The word taiji translates to " great pole / goal " or " supreme ultimate ", and is believed to be a pivotal, spiraling, or coiling force that transforms the neutrality of wuji to a state of polarity depicted by the taijitu.

) Vin is a common name on old farms from Norse times in Norway, and present-day use of the word are Bjørgvin, the Norse ( and Icelandic ) name of Bergen, and Granvin, where-vin translates as ' pasture ' in both.

The word vanilla, derived from the diminutive of the Spanish word ( vaina itself meaning sheath or pod ), simply translates as little pod.

The word translates as " sacred fire pit.

The word masopust translates literally from old Czech to mean " meat fast ", and the festival often includes a pork feast in preparation for Lent.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

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.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

Alfred walked past him without a word and got into the car.

From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

But when a board of inquiry was called to look into the charges of cowardice made against him, the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux, refused to say a harsh word against him.

Then the man he saved turned and looked squarely into the truck driver's face, without saying a word.

The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.

He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting.

for as it was Christ, the Word of God, who came to rescue man, so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world, and all our woe.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

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.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.