The modern terms " electricity " and " electron " derive from the Greek word for amber, and come from William Gilbert's research showing that amber could attract other substances.

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.

The original meaning of the word " neuron " in Greek is " vegetable fiber " and recent research has shown that most of the intraorganismic plant communication processes are neuronal-like.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

The research team went on to " point out that, in recognition of the fact that dysprosium is named on the basis of a Greek word meaning ' difficult to get at ,' that the searchers for another element a century ago found it difficult to get to California.

In German language-speaking countries, the word Doktor refers to a research doctorate awardee in formal language ( similar to a PhD ), and is distinct from Arzt, a medical practitioner.

In some fields, quantitative research may begin with a research question ( e. g., " Does listening to vocal music during the learning of a word list have an effect on later memory for these words?

FamilySearch also includes an 1880 United States federal census index, an 1881 British census index, an 1881 Canadian census index, and the U. S. Social Security Death Index, as well as research guides and genealogical word lists.

D ' Anghiera added another name, Quizqueia ( supposedly " Mother of all Lands "), but later research shows that the word does not seem to derive from the original Arawak Taíno language.

However, research has revealed some extremely early loanwords, such as szó (' word '; from the Turkic languages ) and daru (' crane ', from the related Permic languages.

The origin of the word jazz has had wide spread interest – the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century — which has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented.

Academic institutions are subscribing to electronic journals databases, providing research and scholarly writing software, and usually provide computer workstations or computer labs for students to access journals, library search databases and portals, institutional electronic resources, internet access, and course-or task-related software ( i. e. word processing and spreadsheet software ).

In his book, Rhine popularized the word " parapsychology ," which psychologist Max Dessoir had coined over 40 years earlier, to describe the research conducted at Duke.

For example, research was carried out and regular conferences held in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union although the word parapsychology was discarded in favour of the term " psychotronics ".

A broad definition of research is given by Martin Shuttleworth-" In the broadest sense of the word, the definition of research includes any gathering of data, information and facts for the advancement of knowledge.

According to recent research, the word dates from before the sail was taken into use by the Germanic peoples of North-Western Europe, because the Old Frisian spelling shows that the word was pronounced with a palatal k and thus in all probability existed in North-Western Germanic before that palatalization happened, i. e. in the 5th century or before ( in the western branch ).

In the book, Adams asserted that existing scientific research supported that phonics is an effective method for teaching students to read at the word level.

Since the word is found frequently in the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, regarded by some as indigenous writing not influenced by Christianity, some authors have proposed that the name was originally used for an indigenous Maya deity, which was later transferred to the Christian god but recent research has shown this to be unlikely.

After careful research the word " Arcoon " was recommended.

More recent research suggests the pre-Indo-European word for a rockface was pal or bal and that the name refers to Pau's position at the foot of the mountains.

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.