( In contrast, the Greek historian Ctesias refers to a similar father-in-law / general figure named Onaphas.

The number of effects is proportional to the kW · h / m < sup > 3 </ sup > of water recovered figure, and refers to the volume of water recovered per unit of energy compared with single-effect distillation.

The stronger term " congruent " refers to the idea that an entire figure is the same size and shape as another figure.

1972 ), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped " Human Bacon " by some butchery tool / ( He is you ) / Social Security took care of this lad.

The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation ; it refers to the youngest of the three Parcae ( the minor Roman deities also called The Fates ), though for some readers the connection with that mythological figure is tenuous and problematic.

Though he is no relation to this great figure of Scottish history, MacDonald's Robert Bruce constantly refers to the story of " his ancestor and the spider ," even when it is totally irrelevant to the conversation at the moment.

A figure is slain with a sword in the subsequent plate and the phrase above the figure refers to Harold's death ( Interfectus est, " he is slain ").

* In the 1976 film Network, the network programming executive played by Faye Dunaway refers to crusading reporter Howard Beale as a " a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, a strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday.

In its most common usage, the word " blivet " refers to an indecipherable figure, illustrated above.

* In Biblical Astronomy, Seir refers to the name of a star in the constellation Orion, which is considered to be a Messiah figure representing Christ.

Inscriptions in the Archilocheion identify Archilochus as a key figure in the Parian cult of Dionysus There is no evidence to back isolated reports that his mother was a slave, named Enipo, that he left Paros to escape poverty, or that he became a mercenary soldier — the slave background is probably inferred from a misreading of his verses ; archaeology indicates that life on Paros, which he associated with " figs and seafaring ", was quite prosperous ; and though he frequently refers to the rough life of a soldier, warfare was a function of the aristocracy in the archaic period and there is no indication that he fought for pay.

The hubristic Marsyas in surviving literary sources eclipses the figure of the wise Marsyas suggested in a few words by the Hellenistic historian Diodorus Siculus, who refers to Marsyas as admired for his intelligence ( sunesis ) and self-control ( sophrosune ), not qualities found by Greeks in ordinary satyrs.

For clarity, when the figure refers to the Sun, the term " solar analemma " is sometimes used in place of the single word " analemma ".

However, in the Cuban vernacular, the term refers to the figure shown below in the first measure.

If, as according to Axel Kock, Fárbauti as " dangerous striker " refers to " lightning ", the figure would appear to be part of an early nature myth alluding to wildfire ( Loki ) being produced by lightning ( Fárbauti ) striking dry tinder such as leaves ( Laufey ) or pine needles ( Nál ).

The expression " discrediting tactics " in politics refers to personal attacks against a public figure intended to discourage people from believing in the figure or supporting their cause ( see damaging quotations ).

State mourning or, in the case of a monarchy, court mourning refers to displays of mourning behavior on the death of a public figure or member of a royal family.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that a cult of the Vanir may have influenced a cult of the Æsir in the waning days of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia, potentially resulting in the figure of Óðr in Norse mythology, which she refers to as a " strange double of Odin ".

While the margin of error typically reported in the media is a poll-wide figure that reflects the maximum sampling variation of any percentage based on all respondents from that poll, the term margin of error also refers to the radius of the confidence interval for a particular statistic.

Around the second half of the 8th century, Old English tales of a figure named " Thunor "— the Old English form of Thor's name — are recorded, a figure who likely refers to an Old English cult of the god.

It is not clear whether the Irish-born are considered " Irish Australians " or if the term only refers to their Australian-born descendants.

In Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the name for Wednesday also refers to fasting, as it is Dé Céadaoin in Irish Gaelic and Di-Ciadain in Scottish Gaelic, which comes from aoine, " fasting " and means " first day of fasting ".

In Ireland, the Gaeltacht, or an Ghaeltacht, refers individually to any, or collectively to all, of the districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant language, that is, the vernacular spoken at home.

On a much more intelligible level, the Abecedarian hymn Altus prosator, a sequence traditionally attributed to the 6th-century Irish mystic Saint Columba ( but see Stevenson, below ), shows many of the features of Hiberno-Latin ; the word prosator, the " first sower " meaning creator, refers to God using an unusual neologism.

* In the British Army and the Irish Army, " Armoury " refers to a specific compound, building or room where weapons, ammunition and related stores are kept under lock and key.

The title refers to the Klondike gold rush, ruathar an óir, at the end of the 19th century, and the hardship Irish gold-seekers endured on their way to tír an óir, the gold country.

Slip jig refers to both a style within Irish music, and the Irish dance to music in slip-jig time.

The corresponding Irish word Gaeltacht however refers strictly to an Irish speaking area.

* The term often refers to the English reneging on the Treaty of Limerick of 1691, which ended the war between the predominantly Catholic Jacobite forces and the English forces loyal to William of Orange under favourable terms for the Irish.

In his novel The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ), Irish novelist Erskine Childers refers to the Dybbøl, when protagonists Davies and Carruthers encounter the ( then present ) German victory monument during a stop at Sønderborg on their Baltic yachting expedition.

Irish sources describe him as a sapiens, a term from the Latin for wise that refers to a scholar not usually associated with a particular church.

# English Canadian, in some historical contexts, refers to Canadians who have origins in England ( in contrast to Scottish Canadians, Irish Canadians etc.

While the various manuscript revisions of the poem refer to the Renaissance, French Revolutions, the Irish rebellion, and those of Germany and of Russia, Richard Ellman and Harold Bloom suggest the text refers to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The account by Fred Lillywhite ( 1829 – 66 ) of the first English cricket tour to Canada and the United States in 1859 refers to the " base-ball game somewhat similar to the English and Irish game of ' rounders.

* Andy M. Stewart, on the album By the Hush, title song refers to the Irish immigrants fighting under Gen. Meagher during the Civil War.

The original Irish name Teach Mealóg refers to a chapel named after Saint Mel that was built there in about 1273.

The town's name comes from the Irish and refers to a Cistercian abbey founded in the 13th century.

The Flight of the Wild Geese refers to the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.

The term refers to the Irish habit of frequenting public houses ( pubs ) or bars.

The ancient name for Lahinch, Leacht Uí Chonchubhair, which is still commonly used in Irish instead of the shortened official name An Leacht, refers to the memorial cairn ( Leacht ) marking the burial place of one of the O ’ Connor chieftains, who were the ruling clan of the district of Corco Modhruadh Iartharach.

The town's name in Irish refers to the river in the case of " The Little Whirlpool ", or " The Sickle " refers to the shape of Ballinskelligs Bay on which the town sits ; the name however has been transplanted onto the lake with the Irish name being Loch Luíoch or Loch Luidheach.