I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.

They later learned that an NKVD agent was hiding in the bushes outside their window and wrote down every word they said to each other.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

In a partly updated state, the system is particularly vulnerable to " denial of service " attacks as security has been breached, and a vulnerability window will continue to exist as long as some users have not " gotten the word ".

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

The Danish ( but not the Bokmål ) word is pronounced fairly similarly to window.

Many Germanic languages however adopted the Latin word ‘ fenestra ’ to describe a window with glass, such as standard Swedish ‘ fönster ’, or German ‘ Fenster ’.

The word comes from the Latin de-( down or away from ) and fenestra ( window or opening ).

The contact between these languages in the Danelaw caused the incorporation of many Norse words into the English language, including the word law itself, sky and window, and the third person plural pronouns she, they, them and their.

The word referred to an oratoriolum, or oriel window, forming a feature of the earlier property.

They stop in front of the store with the dress in the window and she mutters prekrassnyi ( прекрасный ), the Russian word for " pretty.

* holonym: a word for the whole of which other words are part, in the way house contains roof, door and window ; or car contains steering-wheel and engine ( compare " meronym ")

* meronym: a word that names a part that belongs to and is therefore subordinate to a larger entity ; a part-whole relationship, such as " door " or " window " in " house ", or " engine " or " steering-wheel " in " car " ( compare " holonym ")

In designing user interfaces, the term in situ means that a particular user action can be performed without going to another window, for example, if a word processor displays an image and allows you to edit the image without launching a separate image editor, this is called in situ editing.

According to Fulton, the word " tab " was picked because it conveniently started with ' T ' and put the emphasis on the squeezing feature window title bars, which made them look like folders with tabs.

The word in a locative case refers to the verb, for example, in Sovitan housuja ikkunassa the word ikkunassa " in the window " refers to the verb sovitan " I try on ", not to the adjacent noun housuja " pants ".

However, in context due to the instrumental nature of the window and the word order, the sentence stands for " I'm trying on pants ( on display ) in the window ".

At one point, Ted is stuck in the bathroom window, and the party guest from the beginning of the episode appears in the window above, and utters the word " ice " before being sick.

Applegate has said that she looked outside a window and saw the hotel name Hilton and rearranged the letters to form nothlit, albeit not totally faithful to the word.

The word architrave is also used to refer more generally to the mouldings ( or other elements ) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.

The word was chosen because " all other common terms were overloaded with inappropriate connotations " – since the project's Intrinsics toolkit associated each widget with a window of the underlying X Window System – and because of the common prefix with the word window.

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

The name boron originates from the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah ; which are names for the mineral borax.

Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.

The word originates from Greek — graphein — meaning " to write.

The English word howitzer originates ultimately from the Czech word houfnice.

" The word mesmerize originates from the name of Franz Mesmer, and was intentionally used to separate its users from the various " fluid " and " magnetic " theories embedded within the label " magnetism ".

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

The word " shagreen " originates from France.

The English word measurement originates from the Latin and the verb through the Middle French.

Hence, the word " minestrone " originates from the Latin word " minestrare " or literally " that which is served ,".

The term " nibble " originates from the fact that the term " byte " is a homophone of the English word " bite ".

The word nation came to English from the Old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio () literally meaning " that which has been born ".

The word patent originates from the Latin patere, which means " to lay open " ( i. e., to make available for public inspection ).

The word raster originates from television scanning patterns, and has been widely used to describe similar halftone printing and storage techniques.

" As a word it originates from Thomas Browne in his book Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

The word " personality " originates from the Latin persona, which means mask.

The word " quarantine " originates from the Venetian dialect form of the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning ' forty days '.

The name originates from the use of the word ricordare especiale, which means " remember " in Italian.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

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 ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

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.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular 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.

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 ; ;

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.

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

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.