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The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word is a reduplication of boogie, which was used for rent parties as early as 1913.
The word is generally used only in the context of a specific building ; e. g., " This building has three units " or " I'm going to rent a unit in this building ", but not " I'm going to rent a unit somewhere.
According to other sources, the word farm comes from Middle English ferme (" farm, rent, revenue ; revenue collected from a farmer ; factor, stewardship, meal, feast "), from Old English feorm, farm (" provision, stores of food, supplies, possessions ; provisions supplied to the king or a lord by a tenant or vassal ; rent, feast, benefit, assylum "), from Proto-Germanic * firmō, * firχumō (" means of living, subsistence "), from Proto-Indo-European * perk < sup > w </ sup > u-(" life, strength, force ").
The word continued the same senses of " rent, farmed office, source of revenue, feast ".
The meaning " rent, fixed payment ", which was already present in the Old English word, was further strengthened due to the word's resemblance to the unrelated ( so say these sources ) Latin firmus-a-um (" firm, solid "), and firmitas (" security, firmness ").
Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word in New York City to describe their weekly rent parties, which featured many notable folksingers of the time.
There are references to the word in Medieval England in reference to a tribute or rent payment made with something other than cash.

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Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.
The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin.
This neologism is based on the prefix u-( as in the word utopia, a place that does not exist ) and the Greek for time, chronos.
Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."
" Stagg writes that the word " again " does not include the source of the new kind of beginning
Use of the word in the past, and modern use in some countries, does not necessarily involve gambling.
Since it does not think, it does not have a " mind " in anything like the normal sense of the word, according to Searle.
* Membership: given any word, does?
However, as William Bright noted the word " chocolatl " does not occur in central Mexican colonial sources, making this an unlikely derivation.
The Dutch word klepper does not mean fast horse.
Judaism does not believe in the Christian concept of hell but does have a punishment stage in the afterlife ( i. e. Gehenna, the New Testament word translated as hell ) as well as a Heaven ( Gan Eden ), but the religion does not intend it as a focus.
Hadza, Sandawe, and several of the Bantu languages also allow syllable-initial clicks within roots, but in no language does a click close a syllable or end a word.
But it does not scale to support more keys than the number of bits in a single byte or word.
This writing rule does not apply when the alif that follows a hamza is not a part of the stem of the word, e. g. نتوءات is not written out as نتوآت as the stem نتوء does not have an alif that follows its hamza.
In Spanish, the grapheme ñ is considered a new letter different from n and collated between n and o, as it denotes a different sound from that of a plain n. But the accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú are not separated from the unaccented vowels a, e, i, o, u, as the acute accent in Spanish only modifies stress within the word or denotes a distinction between homonyms, and does not modify the sound of a letter.
In fact, does not merely sound wrong, it sounds like a different word — 桃 ( Pinyin táo, ) " peach ", or 套 " cover " ( distinguished by tone ).
Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word, person, or place that they already know.
The word despotism means to " rule in the fashion of a despot " and does not necessarily require a singular " despot ", an individual.
In Finnish the name for Easter pääsiäinen, traces back to the verb pääse-meaning to be released, as does the Sámi word Beassážat.
The word simply does not connote mutuality.
The word " alone " does not appear in the original Greek text, but Luther defended his translation by maintaining that the adverb " alone " was required both by idiomatic German and Paul's intended meaning.

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( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.
The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.
Aquila is the Latin and Romance language word for eagle and may also refer to:
The word Angula may refer to one of the following:
Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".
In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.
However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.
The abbreviation AGA and the word Aga may refer to:
As balls are one of the most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word " ball " is used to refer to, or to describe, anything spherical or near-spherical.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
The word originally could refer to any small boat ; the modern meaning arose around 1480.
The word " Bahá ' í " is used either as an adjective to refer to the Bahá ' í Faith or as a term for a follower of Bahá ' u ' lláh.
According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.
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.
The word can also refer to a collection of Christian orders of prayers and readings, such as contained in Anglican or Lutheran resources.
In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.
Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states.
For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its " Country name " field to refer to " a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states ".< sup id = Note_1 >
The word changed to refer to a building built for pleasure, usually on the grounds of a larger Italian villa or palazzo.
Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.
** The Dutch still use the word " cijfer " to refer to a numerical digit.
** The Italians and the Spanish also use the word " cifra " to refer to a number.

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