If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

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.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

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.

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.

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.

In our disbelief we think that we can no longer even use the word and so are unable to even name the elemental power which is so vividly real in this play.

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??

The same use of an entirely different word applied for all the other tenses.

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 use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

* Different dialects of a language may use different phonemes for the same word.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

Contemporary Hopi use the word " Hisatsinom " in preference to Anasazi.

The bill called for former President George W. Bush to recognize and use the word genocide in his annual April 24 speech which he never used.

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

Hermann Kolbe was the first person to use the word synthesis in the present day meaning.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

In the Hebrew of the contemporary State of Israel, the word pilegesh is often used as the equivalent of the English word, mistress — i. e. the female partner in extramarital relations, regardless of legal recognition.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

( Contrary to popular misuse, the word " colt " refers to a young male horse only ; " filly " is a young female.

Similarly, gender is also not implied in the word kami, which can be used to refer to either male or female kami.

The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an adjective, to describe characteristics of an object or activity related to female same-sex desire.

The use of " Lesbian " in medical literature became prominent ; by 1925, the word was recorded as a noun to mean the female equivalent of a sodomite.

In a manner very similar to, the Gospel of Philip presents Mary Magdalene among Jesus ' female entourage, adding that she was his koinônos, a Greek word variously translated in contemporary versions as partner, associate, comrade, companion.

An ovum ( plural ova, from the Latin word ovum meaning egg or egg cell ) is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete.

The word lesbian derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos, while her name is also the origin of the word sapphic ; neither word was applied to female homosexuality until the nineteenth century.

In casual conversation, the word vagina is often used to refer to the vulva or to the female genitals in general.

Besides basic properties of semantics, semantic property is also sometimes used to describe the semantic components of a word, such as man assuming that the referent is human, male, and adult, or female being a common component of girl, woman, and actress.

One theory is derivation from the old German word " Mähre " ( ahd, meaning female horse ), where misinterpretation of the German name Meerrettich (" sea radish ") became Mährrettich (" mare radish ").

" Nightmare " evokes the modern word for a female horse but the terms are wholly unrelated.

Cunt () is a word that primarily describes the female genitalia, and is widely considered to be highly vulgar.

The word " bitch ", literally meaning a female dog, is a common slang term in the English language, especially used as a denigrating term applied to a person, commonly a woman.

It also may have been derived from the Old Norse word bikkja for " female dog.

" Many female hip hop artists have challenged male rappers ' use of the word bitch to refer to women, with Queen Latifah asking in her 1993 song " U. N. I. T. Y.

Since the word zadeh could refer to either a male or female descendant, Shahzadeh had the parallel meaning of " princess " as well.

German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word " pseudohermaphroditism " in his taxonomy of intersexuality in 1876, although the word is clearly not his invention as is sometimes reported ; the history of the word " pseudohermaphrodite ," and the corresponding desire to separate " true " hermaphrodites from " false ," " spurious ," or " pseudo " hermaphrodites, dates back to at least 1709, when Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch used it in a publication describing a subject with testes and a mostly female phenotype.