Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from the Latin, and it is the romanisation of the Greek " καμηλοπάρδαλις " meaning " giraffe ", from " κάμηλος " ( kamēlos ), " camel " + " πάρδαλις " ( pardalis ), " leopard ", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

The name Helsingør is derived from the word hals meaning " neck " or " narrow strait ", referring to the narrow strait ( Øresund, or The Sound ) between what is now Helsingør and Helsingborg, Sweden.

The word Anka comes from the word for " necklace ", for the bird's neck is covered with white feathers forming like a necklace.

The word tarlang means " stiff neck " in Sindarin, and was stated by Tolkien to have originally been the name of the mountain ridge, later interpreted by folk as a personal name .</ div >

Its name is thought to be a corruption of the local Aboriginal people's word kurangh, meaning " long neck "; a reference to the shape of the lagoon system.

When it comes to the Nebelung, the operative word is long: long, graceful neck and body, long legs, long coat, and long tail.

It is possible that it comes from the word " óstr " which means " the arch of the neck "-- words for parts of the body are common in Norwegian place names.

Here, the word hals is referring to an isthmus ( neck of land ) between two fjords: Halsafjord and Skålvikfjord.

The name is identical with the word eið which means " isthmus " or " neck of land ".

The word " tassel " comes from the Latin " tassau ", which refers to a clasp ( as for the neck of a garment ).

The Second Edition Oxford English Dictionary also offers an alternative possible derivation from the Middle French word pentacol ( 1328 ) or pendacol ( 1418 ), a jewel or ornament worn around the neck ( from pend-hang, à to, col or cou neck ).

So as Dominguito del Val was walking by one of the Jewish houses in his acolyte's and choirboy's cassock, some great big hands took him by the neck and covered his face with a mantle, blocking his mouth with cloth so he could not say a word.

The word torticollis means wry neck: Acquired torticollis is not the same as congenital torticollis and may develop at any age.

" Demijohn " is an old word that formerly referred to any glass vessel with a large body and small neck, enclosed in wickerwork.

He used the word " like " a lot, and always had an electric guitar hanging from his neck.

Furthermore, each Jew must hang round his neck a piece of lead with the word dhimmi on it.

On returning to England from exile in 1660, Charles II imported with him the latest new word in fashion: " A cravatte is another kind of adornment for the neck being nothing else but a long towel put about the Collar, and so tyed before with a Bow Knott ; this is the original of all such Wearings ; but now by the Art and Inventions of the seamsters, there is so many new ways of making them, that it would be a task to name, much more to describe them ".

In addition to its clear allusions to Adam and Eve, forbidden fruit, and temptation, there is much in the poem that seems overtly sexual, such as when Lizzie, going to buy fruit from the goblins, considers her dead friend Jeanie, " Who should have been a bride ; / But who for joys brides hope to have / Fell sick and died ", and lines like " She sucked until her lips were sore ", " She sucked their fruit globes fair or red "; " Lizzie uttered not a word ;/ Would not open lip from lip / Lest they should cram a mouthful in ;/ But laughed in heart to feel the drip / Of juice that syruped all her face ,/ And lodged in dimples of her chin ,/ And streaked her neck which quaked like curd.

The word " steel " in the name comes from the metal tone bar, which is called a " steel ", and which acts as a moveable fret, shortening the effective length of the string or strings being plucked as the player moves it up and down the neck with one hand.

The word derives from the Old French word machecol, mentioned in Medieval Latin as machecollum and ultimately from Old French macher ' crush ', ' wound ' and col ' neck '.

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.