One of these is the orphan Esther, whose Jewish name is Hadassah.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

The Major-General and his many daughters escape from the tender-hearted Pirates of Penzance, who are all orphans, on the false plea that he is an orphan himself.

In many novels the hero is an orphan or unusual sibling, often with an extraordinary talent for magic or combat.

John Trenchard is an orphan who lives with his aunt, Miss Arnold.

Serge discovers that Kid is an orphan, hoping to exact revenge upon Lynx for killing her caretaker, Lucca.

A zombie process is not the same as an orphan process.

An orphan process is a process that is still executing, but whose parent has died.

Under the instruction of Cosmas, who also taught John's orphan friend ( the future St. Cosmas of Maiuma ), John is said to have made great advances in music, astronomy and theology, soon rivalling Pythagoras in arithmetic and Euclid in geometry.

The orphan son of an impoverished nobleman, Lionel is originally lawless, self-willed, and resentful of the nobility for casting aside his father.

Growing up an orphan, Perdita was independent, distrustful, and proud, but she is softened by love for Raymond, to whom she is fiercely loyal.

Especially Russia is believed to house thousands of orphan sources, which were lost following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Although a terrorist organization might obtain radioactive material through the " black market ", and there has been a steady increase in illicit trafficking of radioactive sources from 1996 to 2004, these recorded trafficking incidents mainly refer to rediscovered orphan sources without any sign of criminal activity, and it has been argued that there is no conclusive evidence for such a market.

The two older men spot Theaetetus rubbing himself down with oil, and Theodorus reviews the facts about him, that he is intelligent, virile, and an orphan whose inheritance has been squandered by trustees.

In Italy the pansy is known as flammola ( little flame ), and in Hungary it is known as árvácska ( small orphan ).

Regeneration is a 1915 American silent film which tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob, until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change.

When Sam initially believes Tess is pregnant with their child, he is thrilled, but upon meeting Chris, he is at first unconvinced about taking on an unrelated orphan with whom he cannot even communicate.

They are Parris Mitchell ( Robert Cummings ), who lives with his grandmother ( Maria Ouspenskaya ); Cassandra Tower ( Betty Field ), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower ( Claude Rains ); the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ); Louise Gordon ( Nancy Coleman ), daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon ( Charles Coburn ), who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic ; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan ( Ann Sheridan ), whose father ( Ernest Cossart ) is a railroad worker.

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

The organisation is usually referred to by its French initialism, BIPM.

CGMP is an initialism.

CNO is a three-letter initialism.

The terminology is further blurred by the ( now rare ) synonym finite Fourier transform for the DFT, which apparently predates the term " fast Fourier transform " ( Cooley et al., 1969 ) but has the same initialism.

" FAQ " is usually pronounced as an initialism rather than an acronym, but an acronym form does exist.

ICC is an initialism, which may refer to:

The KDE initialism is therefore expanded to " K Desktop Environment ".

KSR is an initialism that may mean:

MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981.

Conventional PCI ( PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to PCI ) is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer.

is an initialism of the Latin phrase, which translates as " which was to be demonstrated ".

RPG is an initialism from the Russian language РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт ( transliterated as " ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot "), meaning " hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher ".

The Franz Joseph Blueprints, the book The Making of Star Trek and a handful of Star Trek novels state that NCC is an initialism for " Naval Construction Contract ".

The Segway PT ( PT is an initialism for personal transporter while the old suffix HT was an initialism for human transporter ) has electric motors powered by Valence Technology phosphate-based lithium-ion batteries which can be charged from household current.

The name is an initialism for Transaction Processing Facility.

* University of Kansas in the United States ( note: the " UK " initialism is locally stigmatized, with " KU " preferred )

UOP is an initialism that may stand for the following:

A recursive acronym ( synonymous with metacronym, recursive initialism, and recursive backronym ) is an initialism that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands.

They are examples of, or may be referred to as, backronymization, where the official meaning of an acronym or initialism is changed.