The cross examiner will assume the witness has been told that and begin asking supporting questions about where the witness was, what time it was, what the witness saw, what they said, and sooner or later upon asking again the witness may use a different word that will give the cross-examiner a chance to ask the question again doubtfully and pointedly implying contradiction.

To reflect how the people belonging to the upper castes saw them, the Finnish word for " obscene ", säädytön, has the literal meaning " estateless ".

The word cola may have been introduced into mainstream culture by the major producer Coca-Cola, as it saw its trademark slipping into common use, like other genericized trademarks.

Note that chair does not change form between " the chair is here " ( subject ) and " I saw the chair " ( direct object ), a distinction made by word order and context.

The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental " hyperediting " functions in word processors and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later analogous to the World Wide Web.

The Maya saw these powerful felines as their companions in the spiritual world, and a number of Maya rulers bore names that incorporated the Mayan word for jaguar ( b ' alam in many of the Mayan languages ).

George Lucas is said to have mentioned in an interview that he saw a " Jidaigeki " program in TV while in Japan a year or so before A New Hope was made and liked the word.

However, the complex pronunciation of the ' v ' in Kariva saw the Western constructors produce a sound much like a ' b ' hence the creation of the word Kariba.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Toltec " came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

The same year saw Waits provide spoken word contributions to Devout Catalyst, an album by one of Waits ' greatest influences, Ken Nordine, on the songs " A Thousand Bing Bangs " and " The Movie.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tōllān ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Tōltēcatl " ( singular ) or " Tōltēcatl " ( plural ) came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

In a dream, Marcian claimed he saw Attila's bow broken before him, and a few days later, he got word that his great enemy was dead.

Jean Mill and the Kents worked hard to popularize the breed, and when the public saw the result of their work, word spread quickly.

The first centuries AD saw the creation of various apocalyptic works ; the best known ( due to its inclusion in the New Testament ) is the Book of Revelation ( from which the word apocalypse originated, meaning " revelation of secrets "), which is replete with prophecies of destruction.

According to Theodore Roosevelt: " We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land the Midwest and saw the great natural meadows of long grass — sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt — they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.

" When " people who to a real degree shared Elvis Presley ’ s class background, and whose lives were formed by his music ," visited the inside of Graceland, Greil Marcus says in similar terms, they " have returned with one word to describe what they saw: ' Tacky.

That same month, Pound's book Ripostes was published with an appendix called The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, which carried a note that saw the first appearance of the word Imagiste in print.

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

The 1999 film Stir of Echoes starring Kevin James had scenes shot on location in Joliet at the Rialto Square Theatre ( the hypnotism scenes in which James saw the word " Dig " on the movie screen ), at the corner of Scott Street and Washington, and at the old Menards that took over the Wieboltd's building at Jefferson Square Mall.

Knud Olson Bergo, who was living just across the town line in Spring Grove, on getting up one morning, saw that a fire had swept over the prairie in the south part of the town ... It's charred appearance at once suggested to his mind a certain bluff located in Slidre Valders, Norway, which was Mr. Bergo's birthplace, and so he exclaiming in Norwegian, " Sort Hammer ," which signifies Black Bluff, and the people have had the good sense to retain the name to this day, which, it will be perceived, is composed of an English and a Norwegian word.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

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.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

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.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

The first item in the operand, IOCSIXF, is used to specify the first IOCS index word for programs using tape files.

I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

The word Applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine.

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.