"Poilu", a word meaning hairy or tough, is the affectionate name given since Napoleonic times to French foot soldiers.
Temenos -- a Greek word meaning sanctuary -- was soon beset with problems.
But she later stumbled while attempting to spell "melocoton, " a word meaning a peach grafted on a quince root stalk.
Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
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He would say that his government does have a big idea: to bring excellence and choice to the public services through a combination of increased funding and (New Labour buzz-word meaning competition) contestability.
It comes from a dialect word meaning glacier.
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Among them are "bucket list" (popularized by the eponymous movie), "gassed" (a slang word meaning drained of energy), and Oprah Winfrey's signature phrase, "aha moment" (a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension).
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Integration is often dismissed as a buzz word, meaning little more than the co-ordination of bus, tube and train time-tables.
To avoid stuffing their work with dead coinages, the editors use a five-and-five rule: to merit entry, a word or meaning has to be backed by five written uses spread over five years.
So in the film, the word has no meaning, although it acts as a powerful keepsake from the children's magical adventure.
Scientists think a word's meaning, pronunciation and spelling are stored there too.
The accusations sparked a debate over cultural differences over the word's meaning.
On average, audiences gave "Iron Man 3" an A grade, according to market research firm CinemaScore, meaning word-of-mouth for the film should be strong.
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Mr Kitson, who lived in Northern Ireland himself as a child, said the Provo name actually comes from the Italian word prova, meaning test or trial, or prototype.
The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
One pathway, known as the ventral route, is direct and efficient: We see a group of letters, convert those letters into a word and then directly grasp the word's meaning.
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After criticizing George of Bush the 2nd for starting wars with two enemy kingdoms, he used the same advisors and continued to waste the scare resources of the kingdom in faraway lands where victory was a word with no meaning.
Nano is a prefix (from the Greek word for dwarf) meaning a billionth of something.
At the top of the winner list is very, a word that carries little meaning on its own but to create a sense of urgency.
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" The first word has a loaded double meaning, conveying both "outlying" and "eccentric.
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To call this a business, however, is to distort the meaning of the word.
As Plato said, it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
Kristen Gillespie reports on some exiles who give new meaning to the word: telecommuting.
Lord Singh said that they were concerned about the changing the meaning of the word "marriage".
Mr Moynihan argued that it was wrong to start with a narrow meaning of the word "participation".
Shirky, however, was referring to a different and by now largely forgotten meaning of the word.
They have been our partner and ally in the traditional meaning of the word in the fight against terrorism.
The meaning of a word can be derived from its etymology or it can be assigned arbitrarily and artificially.
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