Sentences with phrase «original meaning of the term»

Again, a simple Google search on the original meaning of the term «born eunuch» will tell anyone who wants to know what it meant.

The Foresight Institute is still focused on the original meaning of the term: atomically - precise manufacturing or «molecular manufacturing».

Not exact matches

The term «democracy» these days has lost its original meaning of majority rule.

The self - reversing nature of the Fed's repos and reverse repos, many of which are «overnight» rather than «term» agreements (that is, ones providing for repurchase a day after the original purchase) has caused the Fed to prefer them as a means for achieving temporary adjustments to the money stock, while treating outright security purchases as a way of providing for permanent monetary expansion, and especially for secular growth in the demand for Federal Reserve notes.

The immediate liquidity of these tokens means those participating in the original sale are often more interested in dumping the coin on someone else via an exchange rather than investing in the long - term promise of the project in question.

A return to the origins and original meaning of buyer personas that was lost as the term went viral.

The term and the practice of buyer persona development must once again be firmly rooted in its origins and original meaning.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

To explain more fully what he meant by the term «pattern,» Sullivan invoked his own original definition, namely «a pattern is the envelope of insignificant particular differences» (ITP 104).

The Hebrew terms denoting compassion — noun, verb, and adjective from a root rhm of uncertain original meaning — appear not uncommonly through the prophetic books, and sometimes in conjunction with the root denoting love, «hb.

The original text of the Bible never condemned gay people but please stop trying to say you've somehow solved what those terms in Corinthians meant because no one truly knows.

@Ethan / Dave... I think that Ethan's original post was poorly said, but I do see where he is coming from with his later post... just in terms of what a «naked man» might mean.

He prefers the term «mandate» to express some of the original meanings of the rejected words.

So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.

I try to keep it out as much as possible, and I don't usually mention it in terms of «original word says etc...» but rather just explain what it means.

Although its real use is the existential or metaphysical use of clarifying our original confidence in the worth of life, the terms and categories in which it speaks are not derived from our inner awareness of our existence in relation to totality, but from our external perception of the world by means of our senses.

The terms were not original to William of Ockham (ca. 1285 — 1347), but he was the one who did the most to explicate their meaning.

By that time, in the latter days of antiquity, democracy had long since ceased to carry its original explosive charge — something like dictatorship of the proletariat, in Marxist terms — and its meaning was reduced to «riot,» a characteristically Byzantine misreading of democracy as merely ochlocracy or mob rule.

Yet such usage is nearest to the original, etymological meaning of the term «history» (lit.

Moreover, the official ecumenical discussions and agreements acknowledge the relativity of the meaning of the original terms of the debate to the various cultures of the time.

Besides, the original language of that passage (Proverbs 29: 18) doesn't mean «vision» as in a corporate long - term goal.

That is, in its original philosophical use, the term conceiving» meant a mental «taking hold of» the form of definiteness manifested in an individual existent.

In it Rosin cites the meaning of the term in Latin, but points out that the Latin term was used far more in German texts than in English, and that it had already been invested with so much new content that the original meaning (s?)

The term philosophy is also an attractive one, as the original Greek word would mean «love of Wisdom» (SOPHIA).

One is asked, as it were, to find features of the old in the new; one is offered new ways of looking at a phenomenon.29 Harré has pointed out that many scientific terms are themselves metaphorical and carry an important component of meaning from their original context.

Just as there are no longer «apostles» in the same sense as in the days of Peter and Paul, so there are no longer «prophets» in the original high meaning of that term.

When the English translators of the King James version of the Bible encountered the Hebrew words hupakouo / hupakoe and shema / lishmoa they discovered that there wasn't an exact English equivalent, so they chose the word hearken in their translations which subsequently became an archaic term and was later changed to obey.24 So, what exactly do the original words in the Bible mean?

[200] The original Akan name of the cloth was nsaduaso or nwontoma, meaning «a cloth hand - woven on a loom»; however, «kente» is the most frequently used term today.

What they are is a collection of topics, each containing an original word search and a word scramble (made, not downloaded from the internet) on common terms that maintain your student's concentration and focus between activities, as a means of extra credit, or left as a sub plan.

Most likely meant to evoke the term «cyborg,» Xyboard has thus far met with mostly universal confusion: we can see why Verizon might want to distance itself from the original Xoom (never a breakaway hit), but the choice of a Transformers - like name may not have been the best way to get adults to fork over hundreds of dollars in cash.

Up until now, all the people who wanted to make an AOSP custom ROM, which in plain terms means building on the original source code of the Android 4.0 ICS would have to use the Android 4.0.3 source code.

If the terms of the unsecured loan are good, it means less is paid each month than would have been with the original repayments.

That leaves you with your original $ 7,000 down payment returned to you in cash, and you're even in accounting terms (which means in finance terms you're behind; that $ 7,000 invested at 3 % historical average rate of inflation would have earned you about $ 800 in those four years, meaning you need to stick around about 5.5 years before you «break even» in TVM terms).

Just because the lender funded your loan goes out of business doean't mean the terms of your loan changes... right now guidelines are much tighter and the original OP should probably work on improving scores a little be fore attempting a refi... however there are still funding sources out there albeit with tighter guidelines and higher rates.

That means that over time your portfolio will deviate from the original mix you set, or, to put it technical terms, «get out of whack.»

Comparison is / was simply meant in terms of the original hedge fund spirit.

Amortizing a loan means calculating a fixed monthly payment that will cover interest and repay the principal (the original amount you borrowed) over the course of your loan term.

That means at the end of the loan term, the loan will be completely extinguished (including 100 % of your original principal invested).

That means a GIC with an original term of seven years, for example, is not insured and does not become insured when two years of that term have passed and five years are left.

On February 15, our volunteers came to the rescue of an abandoned and malnourished black coat (term that means an elephant seal that is less than 6 weeks old and still has his original birth «coat») at Lawson's Landing in northern Marin County.

Spin - offs and prequels seldom turn out as demonstrably better than their originals, and in gaming terms, that often means delving into a lesser - formed version of a given protagonist or motivation.

The documents we've received note that the HDD in the NEO is the same as that in the original PlayStation 4, but it's not clear if that means in terms of capacity or connection speed.

It's not bad by any means — it just doesn't do much original in the terms of the genres featured in it.

[Incredible Technologies] had been advised that the connotations of the original name «Target Toss Pro: Bags» may have different means in the UK... The Oxford English Dictionary has «tosser» — defined as a term of contempt or abuse for a person; a «jerk», established in 1977, and so resident in most European obscenity - checker email blockers.»

So, in terms of collecting, having the Retro Bit Trio means that you can collect the original games for all three of those systems!

He was original, not afraid to be an individual, kicked the group's shins, redefined the meaning of sins, he had a clear vision and roadmap of the near and medium - term future, and knew exactly where his market and strength was: nurture

Originally referring to the ecstatic verses created by ancient Greek followers of Dionysus, the term, for him, stands for what the wall texts call «the primacy of the artist's expressive power over the subject» — that is, the nominal subject that triggered the improvisatory process of picture - making loses its original meaning by being translated into this new state of being, since any painting is both abstract and a fiction.

The latest such informal treaty text to speed around the halls at the Bella Center was the most important — a six - page partial draft summarizing the work of what's called the Ad - Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (which basically means an unofficial compilation of the views of all of 192 countries that have signed onto the original 1992 climate treaty, which serves as a foundation for whatever comes next).

Denier is a very specific term that I use sparingly usually to describe a form of motivated idiocy just like the original meaning.

The whole point of my original comment directed to no one in particular was to get lay people to think in more in terms of «thermal mass and inertia» and all the means of thermal transfer, rather than relying upon simplistic radiative vector algebra.