As well as the usual yellow-orange-brown that is associated with the color " amber ", amber itself can range from a whitish color through a pale lemon yellow, to brown and almost black.

After a week of singing the psalms without the usual antiphons, Ceolfrith " could not bear it any longer ", and the two managed to restore the usual service, " with no little labour ".

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

It is important to note that, although li is sometimes translated as " ritual " or " rites ", it has developed a specialized meaning in Confucianism, as opposed to its usual religious meanings.

This is what has come to be called " single frame animation " or " object animation ", and it needs a slightly adapted camera that exposes only one frame for each turn of the crank handle, rather than the usual eight frames per turn.

Edge hitting of the ball underwent a two year " experimental period ", twice the usual length of an " experimental trial " and is still a matter of some controversy within the sport.

The usual meaning of gnostikos in Classical Greek texts is " learned " or " intellectual ", such as used in the comparison of " practical " ( praktikos ) and " intellectual " ( gnostikos ) in Plato's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ( 258e ).

The more usual term in Antiquity is ( Hellēnogalátai ) of Diodorus Siculus ' Biblioteca historica v. 32. 5, in a passage that is translated "... and were called Gallo-Graeci because of their connection with the Greeks ", identifying Galatia in the Greek East as opposed to Gallia in the West.

The group ’ s next release, Apocalypse ' 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like " Can't Truss It ", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression ; " I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga ", a track addresses on how the urban culture uses the word nigga outside of its usual derogatory context.

In Japan, the usual symbol for a pawn shop is a circled digit seven, as " shichi ", the Japanese word for seven, sounds similar to the word for " pawn " ().

The word Prakrit itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as " original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual ", or " vernacular ", in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of Sanskrit.

In the Manchester district the public bar was known as the " vault ", other rooms being the lounge and snug as usual elsewhere.

The beliefs of this group also did not appear to contain any more than usual of " new age " ideas ( broadly defined ) and the authors interpreted their ideas on reincarnation as " one way of tackling issues of suffering ", but noted that this seemed to have little effect on their private lives.

In the series ' final episode, " What You Leave Behind ", Odo refuses to admit the friendship he had developed with Quark, turning away with his usual contempt.

For the film's look, the Coens wanted to avoid the usual retro 1960s clichés like lava lamps, Day-Glo posters, and Grateful Dead music and for it to be " consistent with the whole bowling thing, we wanted to keep the movie pretty bright and poppy ", Joel said in an interview.

Ankaray is called " light metro ", but the vehicles are clearly heavier and longer than usual trams, and also mostly underground and grade-separated.

After crash-landing on its back in Amelia Pond's garden in " The Eleventh Hour ", the doors uncharacteristically open outward ; additionally, the left door opened in tandem with the usual right door in that instance.

When hovering against a building in the same ' doors-up ' horizontal orientation in " Day of the Moon ", however, the doors opened inward as usual for the arrival of Amelia's daughter, River Song.

The clock of the staying twin shows " 1 year after launch " in the screen of the ship, and during the 3 years of the trip back it increases up to " 10 years after launch ", so the clock in the screen seems to be advancing 3 times faster than usual.

Roosevelt dismissed the complaint as " trifling ", and Taft, in his usual style, let it go.

They are rather derived from the Germanic term walha, " foreigner, Romanized person ", an exonym applied by Germanic speakers to Celts, likely via a Latinization of Frankish * Walholant " Gaul ", literally " Land of the Foreigners / Romans ", making it partially cognate with the names Wales and Wallachia ), the usual word for the non-Germanic-speaking peoples ( Celtic-speaking and Latin-speaking indiscriminately ).

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* Carina ( constellation ), astronomical constellation abbreviation " Car ", as standardized by the International Astronomical Union

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).

The name Capcom is an abbreviation of " Capsule Computers ", a term coined by the company to describe the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread at that time.

(" Metro " in this case being an abbreviation of " metropolitan ", to distinguish these services from regional trains under the V / Line brand.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Heart of Midlothian are known as the " Jambos ", which comes from " Jam Tarts " which is the rhyming slang for " Hearts " which is the common abbreviation of the Clubs name.

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

" Doktór " is the masculine form, which retains the abbreviation Dr .; the feminine form is " Doktóra ", and is abbreviated usually as " Dra.

The name " Erlang ", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been understood as a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang, and ( initially at least ) simultaneously as an abbreviation of " Ericsson Language ".

The word " honey ", along with variations like " honey bun " and the abbreviation " hon ", has become a term of endearment in most of the English-speaking world.

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

The word " hypnosis " ( from the Greek hypnos, " sleep ") is an abbreviation of James Braid's ( 1841 ) term " neuro-hypnotism ", meaning " sleep of the nervous system ".

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

* " Mon " is also used in slang, usually either as a means of address ( believed to be a replacement for the endearing term " man "), or as an abbreviation of " Come on " ( e. g. " Mon the Biffy ", a slogan used by rock band Biffy Clyro ).

It was originally referred to as " emocore ", an abbreviation of " emotive hardcore ".

Smoking PCP is known as " getting wet ", and a cigarette or joint which has been dipped in PCP may be referred to on the street as a " fry stick ," " sherm ," " leak ," " amp ," " lovely ," " KJ ( an abbreviation for ' Killer Joint ')," " toe tag ", " dipper ", " happy stick ," or " wet stick.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

" We believe that the ability to perceive other people's actions as meaningful is critical for altruism ", said lead study investigator Dharol Tankersley.

A Luwian etymology suggested for Apaliunas makes Apollo " The One of Entrapment ", perhaps in the sense of " Hunter ".

He was also called Agyieus ( ; Ἀγυιεύς, Aguīeus, from ἄγυια, " street ") for his role in protecting roads and homes ; and as Nomius ( ; Νόμιος, Nomios, literally " pastoral ") and Nymphegetes ( ; Νυμφηγέτης, Numphēgetēs, from Νύμφη, " Nymph ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ") in his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life.

In the last oracle is mentioned that the " water which could speak ", has been lost for ever.

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Notably, for skewed distributions, the arithmetic mean may not accord with one's notion of " middle ", and robust statistics such as the median may be a better description of central tendency.

He composed the tune for the old hymn " O Mother Dear, Jerusalem ", retitling the work " Materna ".

If, for instance, someone says " I buried $ 100 in the bank ", most people would not think someone used a shovel to dig in the mud.

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

" He ate the cookies on the couch ", for example, could mean that he ate those cookies which were on the couch ( as opposed to those that were on the table ), or it could mean that he was sitting on the couch when he ate the cookies.

* " Animals ", by Coldplay as one of the B-sides for " Clocks " ( song )

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.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.