`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

Helen Deutsch informed us ( The Psychology Of Women, Vol. 2,, 434 ) that in all cultures `` the term ' stepmother ' automatically evokes deprecatory implications '', a conclusion accepted by many.

When used in the broader sense, the term can include many different groups.

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".

The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.

The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

Today, many Ainu dislike the term Ainu because it had once been used with derogatory nuance, and prefer to identify themselves as Utari ( comrade in the Ainu language ).

The term acropolis is also used to describe the central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many Maya cities, including Tikal and Copán.

His works include a treatise on the Holy Eucharist, one on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, many lives of saints, as well as a history of his term as Prior General of the Camaldolese.

How best to define the term “ art ” is a subject of constant contention ; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term “ art ”.

The term is rarely used by younger black people, but remained in use by many older black Americans who had grown up with the term, particularly in the southern U. S.

Later, many AMPS networks were partially converted to D-AMPS, often referred to as TDMA ( though TDMA is a generic term that applies to many cellular systems ).

It is a common term and part of every day conversation on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network ( AVEN ) forums, and many members will refer to themselves as " orientation asexuals ".

Audio CD is an umbrella term that refers to many standards of means of playing back audio on a CD.

Athanasius used the term Arian to describe many of his opponents, except for Miletians.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

The origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.

Whenever the book was written and whatever the historicity of the events recounted in it, clearly by the time it was written the term " Yehudim " ( יהודים-Jews ) already gained a meaning quite close to what it means up to the present — i. e. an ethnic-religious group, scattered in many countries, organised in autonomous communities and a target of hatred.

The term is now applied generally to many other related plants such as Old World soybeans, peas, chickpeas ( garbanzos ), vetches, and lupins.

Individuals who alternate between top / dominant and bottom / submissive roles – whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship – are known as switches, though the term is occasionally seen as derogatory or unnuanced and is rejected by many who might simplistically fit the definition.

New Zealand formerly used the term borough to designate self-governing towns of more than 1, 000 people, although 19th century census records show many boroughs with populations as low as 200.