According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term describes " an extreme or militant feminist ".

* 2007: According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, " Myth: " 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first use of the term " snail mail " was in 1983.

According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary the word assessment comes from the root word assess which is defined as:

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the term dates from 1706 and is defined as " a person who adheres strictly and often excessively to a tradition ", especially " one preoccupied with the purity of a language and its protection from the use of foreign or altered forms.

According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, " debunk " is defined as 1.

According to Merriam-Webster the word was first used in 1928.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of mammy is " a black woman serving as a nurse to white children especially formerly in the southern United States ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term derives from ' do as in hairdo.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is, “ dwarfism associated with anterior pituitary deficiencies and marked by essentially normal intelligence and proportions though often retarded sexual development ”.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to Grove Music Online, the term " pop music " " originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced ...".

According to Grove Music Online, " Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures ".

According to Garowe Online, to bolster the region's justice system, numerous new prosecutors, judges and other court personnel as well as additional prison guards were hired and trained.

According to Heritage Online, nearly 65 % of the total seminaries ( Madrasah ) in Pakistan are run by Deobandis, 25 % by the Barelvis, 6 % by the Ahle Hadith and 3 % by various Shia organizations.

According to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article " Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment ?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Sevier County has the highest rate of online pornography usage in the United States.

According to the Handbook of Texas Online referencing Oscar Haas, History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas, 1844-1946 ( Austin: Steck, 1968 ), Bulverde was settled in 1850 and called Pieper Settlement, after Anton Pieper.

According to Martin Donell Kohout of The Handbook of Texas Online:

According to the Handbook of Texas Online, "... at times they appear colored as they twinkle in the distance.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the old system of delivering mail was referred to as snail mail in 1983 as a comparison to electronic mail ( email ) begun in 1982.

According to Nielsen Online, NBCNews. com has risen above Yahoo!

According to Nations Online, the member countries of NATO after the Cold War included:

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word coward came into English from the Old French word coart ( modern French couard ), a combination of the word for " tail " ( Modern French queue, Latin cauda ) and an agent noun suffix.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word infrastructure has been used in English since at least 1927, originally meaning " The installations that form the basis for any operation or system ".

According to Britannica Online, " In feudal Japan sumptuary laws were passed with a frequency and minuteness of scope that had no parallel in the history of the Western world.

According to Dorine C. Andrews, author of Audience-Specific Online Community Design there are three parts to building an online community: starting the online community, encouraging early online interaction, and moving to a self-sustaining interactive environment.

According to and article published in Volume 21, Issue 5, of the European Management Journal titled Learning in Online Forums, they conducted a series of researches about online learning, and they found that while strong online learning is a bit more difficult to form, it is still quite conducive to educational learning.

According to The Handbook of Texas Online, the Chronicle generally represented very conservative political views during the 1950s:

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term zero tolerance was in 1972.

According to the American Bar Association outline on Online Transaction Management, the primary points of US Federal and State statutes enacted regarding digital signatures has been to " prevent conflicting and overly burdensome local regulation and to establish that electronic writings satisfy the traditional requirements associated with paper documents.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word was first used to describe having permission from authorities in the 1530s.

According to Asia Times Online, one important mission of NRO satellites is the tracking of non-US submarines on patrol or on training missions in the world's oceans and seas.

According to Times Online, two senior figures in the process that chose zur Hausen also had strong links with AstraZeneca.

According to The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, " the Zeno affair remains one of the most preposterous and at the same time one of the most successful fabrications in the history of exploration.

According to Yaska, Sanskrit scholar of the 5th century BCE, who made various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies in his work Nirukta ( Etymology ) ( 12, 12 ), the time of Savitr ’ s appearance is when darkness has been removed.

According to the Etymology Dictionary, firearms were often named after animals, and the word musket derived from the French word mousquette, which is a male sparrowhawk.

According to Bart Bandy's Lexicon of Canadian Etymology ( Don Mills, Ont., C. Farquharson, 1994 ), the term evolved from the French word canule around the time of the American Revolution, but its path of evolution is still not clear.

According to Etymology Online the verb assay, at least since the 13th century meant " to try, endeavor, strive ; test the quality of ," from Anglo-Fr.

According to Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, " Polack " meant as " Polish immigrant, person of Polish descent " was used in American English until the late 19th century ( 1879 ) to describe a " Polish person " in a non-offensive way ( 1574 ).

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary ( OED ) the etymology of the words that make up the phrase " information infrastructure " are as follows: