An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

The word in the middle is " ahimsa ".

The name comes from the uppercase " humps " in the middle of the compound word, suggestive of the humps of a camel.

Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.

Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot ; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus.

Like journey, the distance that could be travelled in a day, the title ' journeyman ' derives from the French words for ' day ' ( jour and journée ) from which came the middle English word journei.

" arming shirt " or pannzar / pannzarum, another loan word from middle high German.

* A word with four syllables should not stand in the middle of a verse.

That is, when they hear this word, Korean speakers perceive the same sound in both the beginning and middle of the word, whereas an English speaker would perceive different sounds in these two locations.

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

In the middle of the 19th century, the word samba defined different types of music made by African slaves when conducted by different types of Batuque, but it assumed its own characteristics in each Brazilian state, not only by the diversity of tribes for slaves, but also the peculiarity of each region in which they were settlers.

Although not so indicated in the lyrics, the chorus is traditionally sung with a pause in the middle of the term " Cracker Jack ", and the second word ( pronounced " jacks ") is elided into the beginning of the next verse.

During the late Middle Ages, two forms of " v " developed, which were both used for its ancestor u and modern v. The pointed form " v " was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form " u " was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound.

First attested in English in the middle of the 13th century, the word " rice " derives from the Old French ris, which comes from Italian riso, in turn from the Latin oriza, which derives from the Greek ὄρυζα ( oruza ).

The meaning of the word " game " in middle English evolved to include an animal which is hunted.

The word Ides comes from the Latin word " idus ", a word that was used widely in the Roman calendar indicating the approximate day that was the middle of the month.

Its name may be a contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning " bag tied in the middle ".

* Equivocation consists in employing the same word in two or more senses, e. g. in a syllogism, the middle term being used in one sense in the major and another in the minor premise, so that in fact there are four not three terms.

The name was used in the King James Version of the Bible for the Hebrew word " elah ", a word that more modern translations translate as " terebinth " or " oak – this seems to be the chief source of Web references to the name, but the linden tree does not grow in the middle east where the Bible verses were describing, so it seems unlikely that the KJV translation was correct.

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.