A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

Another variant of that idea was the perforated paper tape.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

The removal of beef from the recipe in 2004 was not without criticism, with many complaining that the new variant did not taste the same and had a different mouth feel.

One of his most famous teachings was a variant of the Golden Rule sometimes called the " Silver Rule " owing to its negative form:

The symbol of fire was a cue pointing towards transformation, the chemical variant being the symbol delta, which is also the classical symbol for fire.

The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.

If anything, this meant it was a more energetic variant, probably involving more kicks.

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

In January 2011 a low power variant ( DECT ULE-ultra low energy ) was discussed at the DECT World and CAT-iq Conference with a whitepaper presented by Sitel ( Now Dialog ) Semiconductor.

In the Nynorsk variant of the language, Norsk Allkunnebok ( 10 volumes, 1948 – 1966 ) was the only encyclopedia until the arrival of Wikipedia.

The Etruscan alphabet employs a Euboean variant of the Greek alphabet using the letter digamma and was in all probability transmitted through Pithecusae and Cumae, two Euboean settlements in southern Italy.

In Sicyon, a variant glyph resembling an X ( x14px ) was used in the same function as Corinthian x14px.

In Thespiai ( Boeotia ), a special letter form consisting of a vertical stem with a single rightward-pointing horizontal bar ( x12px ) was used for what was probably a raised variant of in pre-vocalic environments.

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena ( as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California ).

Again, all of these variant forms were very infrequently used, and when they did occur in American films it was usually in the introductory stages.

Mahler initially devised a narrative programme ( actually several variant versions ) for the work, which he shared with a number of friends ( including Natalie Bauer-Lechner and Max Marschalk ).

A toxic variant of the smokescreen was used and devised by Frank Arthur Brock who used it during the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918, the British Royal Navy's attempt to neutralize the key Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

* Serbian scholars claim that it is just a variant of Serbian Cyrillic ; actually, a minuscle, or Italic script devised at the court of Serbian king Dragutin.

A similar form is the French rondel and its English variant called roundel, devised by the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Nunatsiavut uses a variant of the Latin alphabet devised by German-speaking Moravian missionaries, which includes the letter Κʻ ĸ ( kra ).

This dish much resembles the oysters Rockefeller made famous by Antoine's in New Orleans, though the Palace chef announced it as a variant of Manning's roast oysters.

The 2 exceptions are the " non-standard " or " non-canonical " pyrrolysine — found only in some methanogenic organisms but not humans — and selenocysteine ; both of these are encoded via variant codons signaled by mRNA instead.

A variant of the binomial formula is obtained by substituting 1 for y, so that it involves only a single variable.

As it turned out, neither of the originally-proposed UK-designed warheads were actually fitted, being superseded by Red Snow, an Anglicised variant of the U. S. W-28 thermonuclear warhead of 1. 1 Mt yield.

A variant of Syrokomla Coat of Arms | Clan Syrokomla arms, used by Khmelnytsky as a noble.

An alternate variant allows hops over any symmetrical arrangement, including pairs of pieces, pieces separated by empty positions, and so on.

" Advanced play " ( a variant of association play for expert players ) gives penalties to a player who runs certain hoops in a turn, to allow the opponent a chance of getting back into the game ; feats of skill such as triple peels or better, in which the partner ball ( or occasionally an opponent ball ) is caused to run a number of hoops in a turn by the striker's ball help avoid these penalties.

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However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

Similarly, the Norwegian language is classified as a descendant of West Norse, while the written language used by the vast majority in Norway is derived from an older variant of standard Danish.

Mortality rates in that area never declined to the same dramatic extent, and now constitute the bulk of malarial deaths worldwide, especially following the disease's resurgence as a result of resistance to drug treatments and the spread of the deadly malarial variant caused by Plasmodium falciparum.

Third, a variant of this conjugation trick, which is sometimes preferable because it requires no modification of the data values, involves swapping real and imaginary parts ( which can be done on a computer simply by modifying pointers ).