The modern Turkish name İstanbul derives from the Greek phrase eis tin polin ( εις την πόλιν ), meaning " in the City " or " to the City ".

The phrase " tilting at windmills " to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies derives from an iconic scene in the book.

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 name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning first fruits of the harvest.

The phrase " the Old Religion ," used by Wiccans and Neopagans to describe an ancestral pagan religion, derives from Murrayite theory.

The title derives from the phrase " the manufacture of consent " that essayist – editor Walter Lippmann ( 1889 – 1974 ) employed in the book Public Opinion ( 1922 ).

'" Other scholars suggest that it derives from the Latin phrase " crambe repetita " meaning " reheated cabbage ", which was expanded in Elizabethan usage to " Crambe bis posita mors est " (" twice served cabbage is deadly "), which implies " a boring old man " who spouts trite rehashed ideas.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

* Nigger as " defect " ( a hidden problem ), derives from " nigger in the woodpile ", a US slave-era phrase denoting escaped slaves hiding in train-transported woodpiles.

The computer term boot is short for bootstrap or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

According to Thomas Erskine Holland writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, Jeremy Bentham's coinage " international law " derives from the phrase jus inter gentes implied by Zouch's 1650 choice of title.

It derives from the Greek phrase ( grammata hieratika ; literally " priestly writing "), as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.

Every term of the series after the first is the harmonic mean of the neighboring terms ; the phrase harmonic mean likewise derives from music.

" The word " Mass " derives from this phrase.

The colloquial phrase " good Samaritan ," meaning someone who helps a stranger, derives from this parable, and many hospitals and charitable organizations are named after the Good Samaritan.

Ganguro practitioners say that the term derives from the phrase.

The band's name derives from a 1950s slang phrase meaning " square ", but is often mistaken for a reference to the sex position, " 69 ".

The name fancy rat derives from the idea of animal fancy or the phrase " to fancy " ( to like, or appreciate ).

Zydeco derives from the French phrase Les haricots ne sont pas salés, which, when spoken in the regional French, sounds as " leh-zy-dee-co sohn pah salay ".

More reliable references note this jocular American English phrase " used as a greeting after prolonged separation " was first recorded in 1900 for a Native American's speech, and thus more likely derives from American Indian Pidgin English.

It has been suggested that this derives " crambe " or " crambo ", derived from a Latin phrase meaning " reheated cabbage ", implying " a boring old man " who spouts trite rehashed ideas.

Etymologist W. W. Skeat reports that, while folklore has long attributed mystical powers to a dead man's hand, the specific phrase " hand of glory " is in fact a folk etymology: it derives from the French " main de gloire ", a corruption of mandragore, which is to say mandrake.

The region's name, Shōnan, derives from a scenic region in Hunan, China, encapsulated in the phrase 瀟湘湖南 ( Chinese pinyin: " xiāo xiāng hú nán "; Japanese: " shōshō konan ").

One theory is that it derives from the phrase " by Our Lady ", a sacrilegious invocation of the Virgin Mary.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase.

The program or server carries out an exhaustive search of a database of words, to produce a list containing every possible combination of words or phrases from the input word or phrase.

Some think that the " Pay Lay Ale " sentence is derived from the Hebrew phrase " pe le-El ", פה לאל ' mouth to God '.

The Piano Sonata is an example — the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.

) is a Latin phrase meaning " from the founding of the City ( Rome )", traditionally dated to 753 BC.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

β Capricorni's traditional name comes from the Arabic phrase for " the lucky stars of the slaughterer ".

The original phrase " chariot ( s ) of fire " is from 2 Kings 2: 11 and 6: 17 in the Bible.

In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase " Impeach Nixon ".

Most denominations ( a notable exception being the Seventh Day Adventists ) would affirm the statement from the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( above ), with the exception of the parenthetical phrase, " through a purification or immediately.