As in practical arts, the presence and meaning of love becomes validated and grasped not by words and reflections alone, but in the making of the connection.

St Thomas interprets ' You should love your neighbour as yourself ' from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22 as meaning that love for ourselves is the exemplar of love for others.

* Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman ( Ibid.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

An extremophile ( from Latin meaning " extreme " and Greek () meaning " love ") is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth.

One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

The literal meaning of " Hasid " derives from Chesed -" kindness ", the outward expression of love of God and other people.

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

" amō is the basic verb meaning I love, with the infinitive amare (“ to love ”) as it still is in Italian today.

" Caritas is used in Latin translations of the Christian Bible to mean " charitable love "; this meaning, however, is not found in Classical pagan Roman literature.

Intended as an attack on his hated enemy the artist Caravaggio, it shows a boy ( hinting at Caravaggio's homosexuality ) on one side, a devil with Caravaggio's face on the other, and between an angel representing pure, meaning non-erotic, love.

The word philosophy is of Ancient Greek origin: φιλοσοφία ( philosophía ), meaning " love of wisdom.

" However, few sources give " love of wisdom " as a possible meaning of the term, and others say the etymology is " not much help ".

There are two references to ( dûdã ' im )-- literally meaning “ love plant ”-- in the Jewish scriptures.

The term appears to have initially had the same meaning in other countries, but has since been used in many places to refer either to a budget-priced hotel with limited amenities or a love hotel, depending on the country and language.

The connotations of " motel " as adult motel or love hotel in both the Spanish and Portuguese languages can be awkward for US-based chains accustomed to using the term in its original meaning, although this issue is diminishing as chains ( such as Super 8 Motels ) increasingly drop the word " motel " from their corporate identities at home.

The term philology is derived from the Greek ( philologia ), from the terms ( philos ), meaning " love, affection, loved, beloved, dear, friend " and ( logos ), meaning " word, articulation, reason ", describing a love of learning, of literature as well as of argument and reasoning, reflecting the range of activities included under the notion of.

Bruner ’ s analysis of developmental psychology became the core of a pedagogical movement known as constructivism, which argues that the child is an active participant in making meaning and must be engaged in the progress of education for learning to be effective.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

( The word history — from the Ancient Greek ιστορία, or istoria, meaning " a learning or knowing by inquiry "— is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his.

The word appears to come from an irregular formation of the Greek words ευρετικός ( heurista ) meaning to “ discover ,” εφευρετικός ( heuretikos ) meaning " inventive ," εύρημα ( heuriskein ) meaning to " find ," and άγω ( ago ) to " lead "; so it is construed to mean " to lead to invention, discoveries, findings " and consists of learning strategies focused on mature learners where a facilitator enables quested learning to allow for modification of existing knowledge and creation of new knowledge.

Shaw also introduces the term " contextual learning object ", to describe a learning object that has been " designed to have specific meaning and purpose to an intended learner ".

Additionally, Sanskrit grammarians debated for over twelve centuries whether humans ' ability to recognize the meaning of words was god-given ( possibly innate ) or passed down by previous generations and learned from already established conventions — e. g. a child learning the word for cow by listening to trusted speakers talking about cows.

According to several linguists, neurocognitive research has confirmed many standards of language learning, such as: " learning engages the entire person ( cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains ), the human brain seeks patterns in its searching for meaning, emotions affect all aspects of learning, retention and recall, past experience always affects new learning, the brain's working memory has a limited capacity, lecture usually results in the lowest degree of retention, rehearsal is essential for retention, practice does not make perfect, and each brain is unique " ( Sousa, 2006, p. 274 ).

It says, " Learn till old, live till old, and there is still one-third not learned ," meaning that no matter how old you are, there is still more learning or studying left to do.

With it, any student who has been introduced to its study by a teacher can continue learning on his own, deciphering its language and meaning with the aid of Rashi.

By learning the alphabetic code early, she argued, students can quickly free up mental energy they had used for word analysis and devote this mental effort to meaning, leading to stronger comprehension earlier in elementary school.

The word cognition comes from the Latin verb congnosco ( con ' with ' + gnōscō ' know '), itself a loanword from the Ancient Greek verb gnόsko " γνώσκω " meaning ' learning ' ( noun: gnόsis " γνώσις "

The name of the college and city was derived from two Greek words meaning " lover of learning ".

The transference in meaning of the term from the learning session to the institution itself appears to have occurred by the time of the great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, Sura and Pumbedita, which were known as shte ha-yeshivot, " the two colleges.

I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.

In the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text.

The second meaning of critical theory is the theory used in literary criticism and in the analysis and understanding of literature.

The original Norse meaning of the word is ghost, and older literature makes clear distinctions between sea-draug and land-draug.

Deque is sometimes written dequeue, but this use is generally deprecated in technical literature or technical writing because dequeue is also a verb meaning " to remove from a queue ".

He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface.

August Wilhelm's Vienna lectures on dramatic art and literature went through four editions between 1809 and 1846 and, in them, he opined that Euripides " not only destroyed the external order of tragedy but missed its entire meaning ," a view that came to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, who however seems not to have known the Euripidean plays at all well.

The Latin word for guilt is culpa, a word sometimes seen in law literature, for instance in mea culpa meaning " my fault ( guilt ).

Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.

In rabbinic literature, the Rabbis elaborated and explained the prophecies that were found in the Hebrew Bible along with the oral law and Rabbinic traditions about its meaning.

These teachings are thus held by followers in Judaism to define the inner meaning of both the Hebrew Bible and traditional Rabbinic literature, their formerly concealed transmitted dimension, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances.

" Also in 1990, Thomas McFarland stated, " Judging by the number and variety of critical effort to interpret their meaning, there may be no more palpably symbolic poems in all of English literature than Kubla Khan and The Ancient Mariner.

The flatworms, known in scientific literature as Platyhelminthes or Plathelminthes ( from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning " flat " and ἕλμινς ( root: ἑλμινθ -), helminth -, meaning worm ) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrate animals.

Without a central fixation on the author, post-structuralists examine other sources for meaning ( e. g., readers, cultural norms, other literature, etc .).

The work is much more accessible than Sana ’ i ’ s for instance ; " Every line of the Rubaiyat has more meaning than almost anything you could read in Sufi literature ".

Drawing on the breadth of Midrashic, Talmudic and Aggadic literature ( including literature that is no longer extant ), as well as his knowledge of grammar, halakhah, and how things work, Rashi clarifies the " simple " meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it.

Not only “ In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time ”, but also some of the Sages interpreted the " cockcrow " to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties and used as such because the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a " rooster " in addition to the meaning of " man, strong man ".

The word vëme first appears in the Middle High German literature of the 13th century as a noun with the meaning of " punishment ".

Although this gradual change in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s, a small acceleration of the process in the scientific literature was observed when the Food and Drug Administration started to use " gender " instead of " sex " in 1993.