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1. Croatian dictionaries
   Croatian dictionaries Croatian dictionaries before the 20th century 1595 Faust Vrančić, Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmaticae et Ungaricae (the first Croatian printed dictionary in the form of a separate work). 1599 Bartul Kašić, Razlika skladanja slovinska (Various Slavic compositions) (a Croatian—Italian manuscript dictionary). 1649 Jakov Micaglia, Blago jezika
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2. Kenneth Richard Norris
   title of Associate Chief in 1977. During his long career he undertook important pioneering research on serious pests such as the red-legged earth mite, buffalo fly, lucerne fly, cattle tick, clothes moth and the New Guinea screw-worm fly. However, he was perhaps best known as a leading authority on Australian blowflies. He was often consulted by Australian police and health authorities over forensic matters, and appeared in an Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) documentary on the subject a few years ago. After retirement in 1979 he continued as an honorary research fellow with the CSIRO well into his eighties. His last scientific
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3. Virus (disambiguation)
   rapidly by "infecting" their hosts (see also meme). Certain types of software licence have been called "viral" because they require that derivative works be released under the same licence, GPL being a prominent example. Virus is the title of no fewer than 5 feature films: Virus (2002 movie) Virus (2001 movie) Virus (1999 movie) Virus (1995 movie) Virus (1981 movie) Plural form There is some controversy about the plural form of 'virus' in English. One position is that 'viruses' is the correct plural; this view can be justified on these grounds: Wikipedia (see English plural) and most English language dictionaries give
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4. John Wesley
   Ordination of Ministers As his societies multiplied, and the elements of an ecclesiastical system were gradually adopted, the breach between Wesley and the Church of England widened. The question of separation from that church, urged, on the one side, by some of his preachers and societies, but most strenuously opposed by his brother Charles and others, needed to be considered, but was not settled. In 1745 Wesley wrote that he would make any concession which his conscience permitted, in order to live in harmony with the clergy, but could not give up the doctrine of an inward and present salvation by
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5. John Potter
   the son of a linen-draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was born about 1674. At the age of fourteen he entered University College, Oxford, and in 1693 he published notes on Plutarch's De audiendis poetis and Basil's Oratio ad juvenes. In 1694 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College, and in 1697 his edition of Lycophron appeared. It was followed by his Arckaeologia graeca (2 vols. 8vo, 1697—1798), the popularity of which endured till the advent of Dr William Smith's dictionaries. A reprint of his Lycophron in 1702 was dedicated to Graevius, and the Antiquities was afterwards published in Latin in the
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6. Yale Romanization
   in "sheep," but it Yale it is written as "syi." "Zh" in pinyin sounds something like the "ger" in "gerbil," and is written as "jr" in Yale romanization. In Wade-Giles, knowledge is "chi-shih", in pinyin it is written "zhishi", but in Yale romanization it is written "jr-shr", and only the latter will get the unprepared reader anywhere near to pronouncing the Chinese word correctly. If an American soldier, s 2000 peaking "Wade-Giles" asked, "Where is the Japanese guys' machine gun?" He would perhaps utter something like "Jippen jenty cheekwan chong tsai nay pien?" A Chinese soldier with a little English might strain something
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7. Idiom dictionary
   Idiom dictionary An idiom dictionary explains idiosyncratic stock phrases and metaphors in language. Typical English idiom dictionaries, e.g. that published by Longmans, define about 4000 phrases, e.g. "buy the farm", "hit the road", "canary in a coal mine". Of these, a tiny subset are very basic to the language, and qualify as conceptual metaphors without which English is quite hard to understand, e.g. "time
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8. Victorien Sardou
   dramatist, was born in Paris. The Sardous were settled at Le Cannet, a village near Cannes, where they owned an estate, planted with olive trees. A night's frost killed all the trees and the family was ruined. Victorien's father, Antoine Léandre Sardou, came to Paris in search of employment. He was in succession a book-keeper at a commercial establishment, a professor of book-keeping, the head of a provincial school, then a private tutor and a schoolmaster in Paris, besides editing grammars, dictionaries and treatises on various subjects. With all these occupations, he hardly succeeded in making a livelihood, and when he
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9. Inflection
   to its grammatical function (number, case, or grammatical gender) conjugation, in which a verb changes according to number, person (subject or object), tense (time), or mood. There are two basic types of inflection: weak: by the addition of affixes and strong: by changing the stem Linguistically, the former is strictly called agglutination, and the latter is the true sense of the word inflection. However, in the popular imagination, agglutination is discarded and the umbrella term inflection used. Words often do not appear in a fundamental form (the word root) except in dictionaries and grammars. A schema of all inflections for a
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10. Infallibility
    The two classical examples are, "when you feel pain, you can't be wrong" and "when you say one plus one equals two, you're infallible." Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Other Definitions 2 Psychological Aspects 3 Philosophical Aspects 4 See also Other Definitions Infallibility is often defined as the 'inability to err', this implies that infallibility is a condition or character instead of a description of an event. As such it means that the being in question is incapable of error for the term of it's life. Concise dictionaries often give this definition. There is also a school of thought [help please]
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11. Information science glossary of terms
    records. These connections (for example between "marketing" and "promotion") make browsing very productive and allow related-items searches. A descriptor is an index term used to identify a record in a database. It can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. It can describe the content of the record or be an arbitrary code. When a descriptor is descriptive, it can be an effective search parameter. A dissertation is a written treatise or thesis, usually lengthy, usually authored by a doctoral candidate, usually directed by a faculty advisor, and usually intended to advance the state of the art in a given
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12. Interrobang
    the head of an advertising agency, believed that advertising copywriters could use a single mark instead of multiplied punctuation to convey surprised queries. He proposed the concept that would become the interrobang in an article he wrote for the magazine TYPEtalks. Speckter asked readers to submit possible names for the new character. Contenders included 'rhet', 'exclarotive', and 'exclamaquest', but Speckter settled on 'interrobang'. He chose the name to reference the punctuation marks that inspired it. 'Interrogatio' is Latin for 'question' or 'query'; 'bang' is printer's slang for 'exclamation point'. Graphic designs for the new mark were also submitted in response to
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13. Hanja
    Unlike the Japanese Kanji, which has altered and simplified many characters, Hanja are almost entirely identical to modern traditional Chinese Hanzi, although a minority of the standard characters of Hanja are variant Hanzi also used in standard Kanji. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Character Formation 3 Hun and Eum 4 Education 5 Uses 5.1 Hanja in Print Media 5.2 Hanja in Dictionaries 5.3 Hanja in Personal Names 5.4 Hanja in Place Names 6 Pronunciation 7 Vocabulary 8 See also 9 External Link 10 References History One of the major impetuses for the introduction of Hanja into Korea was the
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14. Hadhramaut
    sparse network of deeply sunk wadis (seasonal watercourses). The undefined northern edge of the Hadhramaut slopes down to the Rub al-Khali desert of the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. The Hadranis live in densely-built towns centered on traditional watering stations along the wadis. Hadranis harvest crops of wheat, millet, tend date and coconut groves, and grow some coffee. On the plateau Bedouins tend sheep and goats. Society is still highly tribal, with the old Seyyid aristocracy descended from Muhammad, traditionally educated and strict in their Islamic observance, highly respected in religious and secular affairs. Hadhramaut emigration on a large scale since
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15. Head
    head is the highest placed part of the human body, or from the fact that the brain and therefore cognitive functions and decision making is located in the head. Example of a flower head () The term head has a technical meaning in botany. A head is a type of inflorescence, previously known as a composite flower — a structure composed of numerous individual flowers. Species of plants of the Family Asteraceae typically have flower heads. In fluid dynamics, head refers to the constant right hand side in the incompressible steady version of Bernoulli's equation. It is possible to express head
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16. Hiragana
    the long "k" in the English word "bookkeeper." It is Romanized by doubling the following consonant. For instance, the city of Sapporo would have its name written in hiragana as さっぽろ. NOTE: The small tsu cannot be used to double the consonants "m" and "n". For example: おっな cannot be a word; however, おんな is read "onna" and means "woman". The special "n" kana (ん) can never be at the beginning of a word. This fact is at the basis of the word game shiritori. (Technically, you CAN have the "n" kana at the beginning of a word, but that only
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17. History of the Hebrew language
    it gave way to Arabic, as it had given way to other local languages wherever the Jews had gone. Hebrew was not used as a spoken language for about 2300 years. However the Jews have always devoted much effort to maintaining high standards of literacy among themselves, the main purpose being to let any Jew read the Hebrew Bible and the accompanying religious works in the original. It is interesting to note that the dialects that the Jews have adopted from their environment, namely Ladino and Yiddish were not directly connected to Hebrew (former being ba 2000 sed on Spanish and Arabic borrowings,
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18. Hiberno-Latin
    period from the sixth century to the tenth century. Hiberno-Latin was notable for its curiously learned vocabulary. While neither Hebrew nor Greek were widely known in Europe during this period --- and it is unlikely the Irish monks were fluent themselves --- odd words from these sources, as well as from Celtic sources were added to Latin vocabulary for effect by these authors. It has been suggested that the curiously learned vocabulary of the poems was caused by the monks learning Latin words from dictionaries and glossaries, so as to mix together unfamiliar words with ordinary ones; unlike many others in
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19. Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaanders
    Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaanders The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaanders (Society for Real Afrikaners) was formed on Saturday 14 August 1875 in the town of Paarl by a group of Afrikaans speakers from the Cape. It published a journal in Afrikaans called "Die Patriot" as well as a number of books, including grammars, dictionaries, religious material and histories. Arnoldus Pannevis, a teacher, is generally considered to be the spiritual father of the society. The actual founding members were Gideon Malherbe, CP Hoogenhout, DF du Toit
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20. Given name
    origin. Examples: Caitlyn, Ashley, Brian Greek and Latin names can be derived from the Greco-roman gods, or may have other meanings. Examples: Laura, Stephen, Melissa, Alexander, Victoria, Peter Recent Names come from English vocabulary words. These are usually girls' names. Flowers, birds, gemstones and aspiring traits. Examples: Lily, Mavis, Amber, Serenity. Recent Coinages and Variants are created by parents who want to give thier child a new version of an old name. Names which are currently in fashion tend to be varied the most. Also, many masculine names have had feminine versions created, especially by adding the suffix -a. Pet forms
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