Sentences with phrase «greek alphabet»

Perhaps, we'll get several more letters into the Greek alphabet.

This year was so busy the Hurricane Center ran out of names and had to switch to the Greek alphabet for the first time.

Last year, when the World Meteorological Organization ran out of names for hurricanes they went to the Greek alphabet.

If any tropical storms and subsequent hurricanes form before the season ends on Nov. 30, they will be classified using the Greek alphabet, beginning with Alpha.

Jack Whitten Study for Greek Alphabet Series # 3 (1977) Graphite, colored pencil, and whiting on paper; 17h x 19.5 w in (43.2 h x 49.5 w cm)

Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, suggests clothing for «end times.»

Works on paper and examples of paintings from Greek Alphabet series of the late 1970s will also be on hand.

Benglis has been represented in Storm King's permanent collection since 1974, when «Nu», a knotted work made that year that is part of a series of characters from the Greek alphabet (and which is on view in this exhibition), was acquired.

Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, continues this tradition, suggesting clothing for «end times.»

The first works by the late African American artist Jack Whitten to enter the museum's collection are the painting on paper Form (3rd Set) 2 (1965) and the drawing Study for Greek Alphabet Series # 2 (1978).

Study for Greek Alphabet Series # 2 is a symphony of visual noise with the artist abrading and scratching into the layered surface of graphite applied over a chalk ground.

Simultaneously hobnail heels and parodies of the letter «omega» — the last in the Greek alphabet — Guston's quiet apocalypse also doubles as timely pictorial metaphor.

These factors are referred to as «the Greeks» and are named using letters of the Greek alphabet - delta, theta, rho, gamma, and vega.

It emerged in the later Greek alphabet as a capital letter with a shape close to its modern form.

The purpose of this lesson is to consolidate the knowledge gained in the three previous lessons: Lesson One: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet Lesson Two: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!

Children used a sheet containing the ancient Greek alphabet to complete the worksheet.

Wordsearch Puzzle sheet on the theme of «The Greek Alphabet».

Written for a mixed year 4/5 class, but easily adapted Objectives covered include: The geography of the ancient world Greek daily life Life in Athens and Sparta School in Ancient Greece The Greek Alphabet.

Describing Zeus - picture and word mat to support a writing activity (describing Zeus) Greek alphabet - activity

In the Greek alphabet, alpha comes before beta.

What was the Greek alphabet?

Unique styles include floral prints, nautical script, Greek alphabet characters for sorority or fraternity events, and even unfinished wood for a rustic look.

Speaking in strict linguistic terms Omega — styled as «Ω» is the 24th and final letter of the Greek alphabet.

However, most stars that we study are too faint for this system — there are not enough letters in the Greek alphabet to name the 13,234 th brightest star in Orion!.

Gamow added the famous physicist Hans Bethe as the third co-author, not because Bethe was involved but because his inclusion would turn the author list into Alpher, Bethe and Gamow — a play on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.

Then he took the number 318 and converted it into the Greek alphabet, kind of like Roman numerals.

3) In about the 3rd century, a Russian Monk (now St. Cyril) used the Greek alphabet to develop Cyrillic — used thoughout Russia.

While we are not great fans of greek alphabets, investors could look at some metrics like Portfolio Beta or Standard Deviation and look at our portfolio volatility in the past.

Not exact matches

Future Trojans also made the Greeks write in that crazy hand - cramping alphabet.

The meaning of the nine - letter Canaanite inscription is unclear, but the excavators say it provides significant information about the development of the Canaanite alphabet, and ultimately Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets.

There was relatively little writing in those days, not because the people did not know how to write, for a good many of them did, using the old Semitic alphabet script in Old Testament times and Greek in the New.

Luther's studies were becoming more exciting than ever, because he had time to start Greek, the original language of the Christian source texts and was dabbling in Hebrew the language of the Old Testament, getting to know at least the alphabet, and a few words, from Reuchlin's Rudiments which he already possessed.

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Think of the hundreds of generations of shamans, bards and storytellers keeping safe the lore of the tribe by memorizing it to particular rhythms and melodies, down to relatively recent times: the Iliad was sung for centuries before the Greeks had a written alphabet.

Until now, scholars believed that the forefather of written Hebrew, Arabic, Greek — virtually all alphabets, including ours — was invented in the 1700s B.C..

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

Ultimate guide to Greek history, mythology, alphabet, language, and culture.

The Greeks bemoaned the invention of the alphabet because people did not have to memorize the Iliad anymore.

D, d The fourth letter of the alphabet since Semitic times, D derives from Greek delta,?.

Originally a consonant, aleph (meaning «ox»), in the Semitic alphabet, it became the vowel alpha in Greek.

E, e E was a consonant symbol in the Semitic alphabet, but was used as a vowel in Greek, one of its shapes emerging in Latin and eventually in English as the capital letter.

L, l L was a symbol in the Semitic alphabet, and developed via Greek, Etruscan and Latin into the modern capital form, with a horizontal line replacing an earlier oblique.

I, i I was a consonant in the Semitic alphabet, represented a vowel in Greek, and came into Latin with both vowel and consonant values.

NOOK supports ebooks containing embedded fonts — although this support might be limited to Cyrillic, Greek, Hangeul, Vietnamese, and other alphabets that read left - to - right and top - to - bottom — but the title - and - author display on the library listings might not be legible.

I was joking, but I know know more about Greek and that we use it for software not the phonetic alphabet which was hanging up everywhere in the last place I worked.

Highlighting the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual art, Greek artist Anastasia Mastrakouli used the nude human form in various compositions to spell out the alphabet.

Governments and private researchers gather data on consumer spending, on investment spending and on the market value of all the stuff called «k.» Economists plug these data into computer - based mathematical models filled with «C's» and «I's» and «k's» and other symbols from alphabets both Latin and Greek.