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The word is an example of Time magazine's habit of supplying new words through " unusual use of affixes ", although Time itself objected to the term's inclusion in the 1991 Random Webster's College Dictionary, citing it as an example of the dictionary " straining ... to avoid giving offense, except to good usage " and " authority to scores of questionable usages, many of them tinged with politically correct views.
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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.
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The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.
For example, the inflected forms of a word can be represented, insofar as regular inflection allows, by a stem and a set of endings to be attached.
For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.
For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.
For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.
If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.
For example the word learn can be signed two different ways.
For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.
Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".
For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.
A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.
The most well known example is the capital, Canberra named after a local language word meaning " meeting place ".
An example is the Aran Valley ( now a Gascon-speaking part of Catalonia ), for ( h ) aran is the Basque word for " valley ".
The word bandwidth applies to signals as described above, but it could also apply to systems, for example filters or communication channels.
The word " self " ( atman ) is used in a way idiosyncratic to these sutras ; the " true self " is described as the perfection of the wisdom of not-self in the Buddha-Nature Treatise, for example.
In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.
When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.
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