Today, the word has largely shed this radical political meaning.

* Compound ( linguistics ), a word that consists of more than one radical element

Although the more radical consequences of the global communication network predicted by some cyberspace proponents ( i. e. the diminishing of state influence envisioned by John Perry Barlow ) failed to materialize and the word lost some of its novelty appeal, it remains current as of 2006.

* Pictographic-phonetic compound ideograms ( 形声字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts with the intended phonetic properties to create a new character that phonetically mimicks the intended sound of the new word, e. g. the character for " bark ", which combines the pictogram " mouth " as the radical with the pictogram for " dog ";

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

* In an inflected language such as English or Spanish, the radical verbs ( also called ' radical-changing ') are exceptions to the standard patterns of word change ( e. g., to be is in most Indo European languages ).

* Root ( linguistics ), also called a " radical ", the form of a word after any prefixes and suffixes are removed

" At the time of the album's release — which followed, chronologically, the up-tempo single version of the song, " Revolution " — that single word " in " was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases.

During and after the Reformation, the word " Donatist " ( sometimes " neo-Donatist ") was commonly used by the magisterial reformers as an incriminating label for the more radical reformers such as the Anabaptists.

Etymologically, the word sharashka is derived from a Russian slang expression sharashkina kontora (" Sharashka's office ", possibly from the radical meaning " to beat about "), an ironic, derogatory term to denote a poorly organized, impromptu, or bluffing organization.

Those who see Eliade's fascination with the primordial as merely reactionary in the ordinary political or religious sense of the word do not understand the mature Eliade in a sufficiently radical way.

These consist of gematria where each of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet have their own number and are added together in words to make metaphorical sympathy ; aiq baqir, also called " Qabalah of the Nine Chambers ", which converts any letter in a word to its radical equivalent, such as " A " (= 1 ) to " I " (= 10 ) or " Q " (= 100 ), hence " AIQ " for the radical no.

Nearing's aggressive social activism in the classroom and through the printed word brought him into conflict with his own employers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, resulting in his dismissal and his emergence as a cause célèbre of the American radical movement for the next decade.

Because of the Thermidorian reaction — 9 Thermidor Year II — the overthrow of revolutionary radical Maximilien Robespierre and his followers in that month, the word " Thermidor " has come to mean a retreat from more radical goals and strategies during a revolution, especially when caused by a replacement of leading personalities.

Some academics have criticised the usage of the word radical because of its supposed ambiguity.

Since the radical of a European word is not only its root but also the portion bearing the core of its meaning, some have applied the term radical not to the original root of a character, such as the 采 in the above example, but to any portion bearing meaning.

The first known use of the word " aromatic " as a chemical term — namely, to apply to compounds that contain the phenyl radical — occurs in an article by August Wilhelm Hofmann in 1855.

The character is made up of the " 艸 " ( pinyin: cǎo ) radical in its reduced form of " 艹 " and the word " 余 " which gives the phonetic cue.

Poetic modernism was an overtly revolutionary literary movement, a ' revolution of the word ', and, for a number of its practitioners, this interest in radical change spilled over into politics.

The word " red " in " red-baiting " is derived from the red flag signifying radical left-wing politics.

This is the science of etymology which explains the reciprocal relation and radical composition between the root and derived word.

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.