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.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

Of his own will he has begotten us by the word of truth.

Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.

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.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

There is no definite philological and linguistic basis for asserting unilaterally that the name Dravida also forms the origin of the word Tamil ( Dravida -> Dramila -> Tamizha or Tamil ).

West of the red line the definite article goes before the word as in English or German ; east of the line it takes the form of a suffix.

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

( The Arabic name, with the definite article, is the source of the word ' lute '.

The contemporary Italian word is zucchero, whereas the Spanish and Portuguese words, azúcar and açúcar respectively, have kept a trace of the Arabic definite article.

The use of the word tomte in Swedish is now somewhat ambiguous, but often when one speaks of jultomten ( definite article ) or tomten ( definite article ) one is referring to the more modern version, while if one speaks of tomtar ( plural ) or tomtarna ( plural, definite article ) one could also likely be referring to the more traditional tomtar.

* Insular uncial ( not to be confused with the separate insular script ) generally has definite word separation, and accent marks over stressed syllables, probably because Irish scribes did not speak a language descended from Latin.

In France, the word ' Ardennes ' in the plural, together with the definite article, is commonly used to refer to the French department of that name.

This includes inflectional affixes for nouns and verbs which are still productive with borrowed vocabulary, the shift to VO word order, and the adoption of a preposed definite article.

In common usage the word Dáil is accompanied by the definite article but Dáil Éireann is not.

It is usually transliterated as a proper name by dropping the definite article ( Ha ) from the Hebrew word for " help " ( Ezer ) and putting it together with the Hebrew word for " stone " ( Even ) to create: " Ebenezer.

The definite articles ( the ) are Ju-masculine singular ( pronounced like the English word you ), La-feminine singular, Ji-masculine plural ( pronounced Yee ), and Le-feminine plural ( pronounced like the English word Lay ).

Frequently connected with individual totemism are definite ideas about the human soul ( or souls ) and conceptions derived from them, such as the idea of an alter ego and nagualism — from the Spanish form of the Aztec word naualli, " something hidden or veiled "— which means that a kind of simultaneous existence is assumed between an animal or a natural object and a person ; i. e., a mutual, close bond of life and fate exists in such a way that in case of the injury, sickness, or death of one partner, the same fate would befall the other member of the relationship.

Most variants among the manuscripts are minor, such as alternative spelling, alternative word order, the presence or absence of an optional definite article (" the "), and so on.

Other languages may capitalize the initial letter of the orthographic word, even if it is not present in the base, as with definite nouns in Maltese that start with certain consonant clusters.

An example is the word sequence " Caesar is a prime number "; every word has a definite meaning, but the sequence has no meaning.

Hope was sustained until now, however, by the failure to receive definite word.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

It was the only meaning of the word that he had ever known.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

The meaning of the word is quite physical, to begin with.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs.

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

The word adobe has existed for around 4, 000 years, with relatively little change in either pronunciation or meaning.

offer an informal meaning of the word in the following quotation:

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.