The word xylem is derived from the Greek word ξύλον ( xylon ), meaning " wood "; the best-known xylem tissue is wood, though it is found throughout the plant.

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type.

:: In a Hypertext database, any word or a piece of text representing an object, e. g., another piece of text, an article, a picture, or a film, can be linked to that object.

The word factoid is now sometimes also used to mean a small piece of true but valueless or insignificant information, in contrast to the original definition.

The word gnutella today refers not to any one project or piece of software, but to the open protocol used by the various clients.

In Arabic the word ( ) means ' a piece of information conveyed either in a small quantity or large '.

At one time, the word, " Engine " ( from Latin, via Old French, ingenium, " ability ") meant any piece of machinery — a sense that persists in expressions such as siege engine.

In the early days of lithography, a smooth piece of limestone was used ( hence the name " lithography ": " lithos " ( λιθος ) is the ancient Greek word for stone ).

The examples are usually drawn from fusional languages, where a given " piece " of a word, which a morpheme-based theory would call an inflectional morpheme, corresponds to a combination of grammatical categories, for example, " third person plural.

The word psalms is derived from the Greek Ψαλμοί ( Psalmoi ), perhaps originally meaning " music of the lyre " or " songs sung to a harp " and then to any piece of music.

On the contrary, a sacred thing can be " a rock, a tree, a spring, a pebble, a piece of wood, a house, in a word, anything can be sacred ".

In most armed forces the term " gun " is incorrect when referring to small arms ; in military parlance, the word " gun " refers to an artillery piece or crew-served machine gun.

He also recorded a spoken word piece, " Frank's Wild Years ", influenced by Ken Nordine's " word jazz " records of the 1950s.

* Code, a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type

The Irish traditional music concept of the word " ornamentation " differs somewhat from that of European classical music in that ornaments are more commonly changes in how a note is articulated rather than the addition of separately-perceived notes to the piece.

Some surviving early medieval pieces depict the piece as a queen, and the word fers became grammatically feminized in several languages, for example alferza in Spanish and fierce or fierge in French, prior to its replacement with names such as reine or dame ( lady ).

In chess, the word " piece " has three meanings, depending on the context.

The word piece in chess literature usually excludes pawns, though this distinction between " pieces " and " pawns " is not found in the official rules.

The word coda, meaning a passage that ends a musical piece following the main body, was therefore chosen as a title.

It mirrors the ambiguity of the word " dance ", which may mean a dance event, the dancing of an individual to the playing of one piece of music, or dancing in general.

An exploit ( from the same word in the French language, meaning " achievement ", or " accomplishment ") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a software " bug " or " glitch " in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic ( usually computerized ).

The Middle English word " candy " began to be used in the late 13th century, coming into English from the Old French çucre candi, derived in turn from Persian Qand (= قند ) and Qandi (= قندی ), " cane sugar ", probably derived from Sanskrit word khanda ( खण ् ड ) " piece ( of sugar )," perhaps from Dravidian ( cf.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

The word ' hockey ' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: " oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Possibly a borrowing ( probably via Frankish or Old High German ) of the Medieval Latin word foresta " open wood ", foresta was first used by Carolingian scribes in the Capitularies of Charlemagne to refer specifically to the king's royal hunting grounds.

The term was not endemic to Romance languages ( e. g. native words for " forest " in the Romance languages evolved out of the Latin word silva " forest, wood " ( English sylvan ); cf.

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

The word graal, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French graal or greal, cognate with Old Provençal grazal and Old Catalan gresal, meaning " a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal " ( or other various types of vessels in Southern French dialects ).

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Its name is derived from the Arabic word العود al -‘ ūd ' the wood ', which is probably the name of the tree from which the oud was made.

In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called " hautbois " ( French compound word made of haut (" high, loud ") and bois (" wood, woodwind "), " hoboy ", or " French hoboy ".

Before this time, ink and hand-stamps ( hence the word ' stamp '), usually made from wood or cork, were often used to frank the mail and confirm the payment of postage.

The name Perth comes from a Pictish word for wood or copse.

The name Perth derives from a Pictish-Gaelic word for wood or copse.

The term tannin ( from tanna, an Old High German word for oak or fir tree, as in Tannenbaum ) refers to the use of wood tannins from oak in tanning animal hides into leather ; hence the words " tan " and " tanning " for the treatment of leather.

The word itself may be derived from the word " tie ," which refers to the outer steel ring part of a wooden cart wheel that ties the wood segments together ( see Etymology below ).

The name of this wood is derived from the Greek word thuon, " fragrant wood " or thuein, “ to sacrifice ”, and it was so called because it was burnt in sacrifices, on account of its fragrance.

It is made of " gopher " wood, a word appears only here in the entire bible, and is divided into qinnim, a word which always refers to birds ' nests elsewhere, leading some scholars to amend this to qanim, reeds, the material used for the boat of Atrahasis, the Babylonian flood-hero.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

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.

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.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

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 ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

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.

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

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.