Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

May we have a word with you ''??

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

We press him to conform to our comfortable conceptions and not to bruise our satisfactions with his word, and God's.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

Similarly, if the equivalents for the forms of a word do not vary, the equivalents need be entered only once with an indication that they apply to each form.

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.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

His second conclusion, on semantic word classes, agrees with mine.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

Mrs. Child, true to her word, helped place Anna and her four children with a Quaker family named Hathaway near Canandaigua, New York.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

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

And he knew in that moment, with a cold sinking of despair, a dying of old hopes, that Mae had spread some kind of word there among the neighbors.

The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!

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.

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.

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.

The Targum connects the name with the Persian word for " star ", ستاره setareh, explaining that Esther was so named for being as beautiful as the Morning Star.

With an adjectival or verbal root, the nominal suffix-o indicates an abstraction: parolo ( an act of speech, one's word ) from the verbal root paroli ( to speak ); belo ( beauty ) from the adjectival root bela ( beautiful ); whereas with a noun, the nominal suffix simply indicates the noun.

In Greek, the word is καλλίστῃ ( the dative singular of the feminine superlative of καλος, beautiful ).

The name comes from the Occitan word " merlot ", which means " young blackbird " (" merle " is the French word for several kinds of thrushes, including blackbirds ); the name was thought to have been given either because of the grape's beautiful dark-blue color, or the blackbirds ' fondness for grapes.

A common classical idea of beautiful art involves the word mimesis, the imitation of nature.

The province is named after Lake Ontario, which is thought to have been derived from Ontarí: io, a Huron ( Wyandot ) word meaning " great lake ", or possibly skanadario which means " beautiful water " in the Iroquoian languages.

A poll of non-English speakers by the British Council in 2004 found that " oi " was considered the 61st most beautiful word in the English language.

During the millennium celebrations in 2000, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word " Eternity ", as a tribute to the legacy of Arthur Stace a Sydney artist who for many years inscribed that word on pavements in chalk in beautiful copperplate writing despite the fact that he was illiterate.

In German, the equivalent is Krieg ; the equivalent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian words for " war " is guerra, derived from the Germanic werra (“ fight ”, “ tumult ”).< ref > Diccionario de la Lengua Española, 21 < sup > a </ sup > edición ( 1992 ) p. 1071 </ ref > Etymologic legend has it that the Romanic peoples adopted a foreign, Germanic word for " war ", to avoid using the Latin bellum, because, when sounded, it tended to merge with the sound of the word bello (" beautiful ")

In Romanian the word stem bucur means ' joy ', (" beautiful ") and it is believed to be of Dacian origin.

The name Allegany may come from a local Lenape word, welhik hane or oolikhanna, which means ' best flowing river of the hills ' or ' beautiful stream '.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the GorgonsGorgonsportrayed in later folklore as half women-half birds, ( birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do ); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids.

Another theory holds it could be derived from the Hebrew verb root חפה ( hafa ), meaning to cover or shield, i. e. Mount Carmel covers Haifa ; others point to a possible origin in the Hebrew word חו ֹ ף ( hof ), meaning shore, or חו ֹ ף י ָ פ ֶ ה ( hof yafe ), meaning beautiful shore.

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way — a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word " beat " spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America — beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction.

Rather, the name came about because the Russian word красная ( krasnaya ) can mean either " red " or " beautiful " ( the latter being rather archaic ; cf.

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

The word derives from the Dutch, Frisian, and Low German word mo ( o ) i, meaning " beautiful " or " good ".

It was named for the Watauga River, whose name is said to be a Native American word, the meaning of which is in dispute among various histories with translations ranging from beautiful water, whispering waters, village of many springs, and river of islands, to name a few.

This word pulotu may or may not be related with the word purotu ( and variants ) found in many eastern Polynesian languages, meaning beautiful ( person ).