Search results for "Colloquial" - New World Encyclopedia
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- == Colloquial terminology == Propellers of all types are referred to as screws, though those on aircraft are usually referred to as airscrews ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian Jews was Aramaic, Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q: Sources for the ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- ===In colloquial speech=== Colloquially, actions or statements, or both, are said to contradict each other when they are or are perceived as being ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- and cohorts, it is also much more pleasantly colloquial and much less intense than much of the ambitious poetry of the seventeenth century. Herrick ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
- of rhyme and meter, a much more colloquial tone and—most importantly—a radical change in subject-matter. While Lowell's early poems ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- element, not necessarily derived from the colloquial English name. (e.g. sodium has chemical symbol 'Na' after the Latin natrium). ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- synonym for the sea or the ocean itself, as in colloquial phrases such as that which refers to "Neptune's mighty roar." ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- with the Russian public on account of their colloquial, modernized dialogues, but the critics accused him of "Pasternakizing" the English ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- quot; in mammals is imprecise and only colloquial. ==Insect metamorphosis== {| class="wikitable" align="right" ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- the same meaning as improvisation. Colloquial terms such as "lets play it by ear," "take it as it comes," and "make ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- neither gamefowl nor waterfowl. However, in colloquial speech, the term "fowl" often is used nearly interchangeably with "poultry" ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- diction, mixing eighteenth-century archaisms with colloquial slang. Berryman's fame, however, would ultimately rest on a long sequence of ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- South Slavic elements. The first work in colloquial Russian, the autobiography ... South Slavic elements. The first work in colloquial Russian, the autobiography ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- ascribe the name carp to all cyprinid fishes. In colloquial use, however, carp usually refers only to several larger cyprinid species, such as Cyprinus ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- that they have become a part of the colloquial currency. Despite its moderate length, as well as its expression of values and morals offensive ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- rhythm of conversation and is more easily colloquial than any prose. It is full of wit, variety, and character, and is a veritable store book of the ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- the level of speech is considered more colloquial and personal. ... in Urdu nāt ranges from the intensely colloquial to a highly Persianized ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Taken from the original meaning, in colloquial speech, "limbo" often refers to a place or state of restraint, confinement or delay ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- is well known in his poetry for his use of the colloquial mixed occasionally with the antique, his masterful command of rhyme, enjambment and meter, ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- and encyclopedic sex manual well-known in colloquial Western understandings of Indian culture. This text expounds upon the various intricacies of ...13 KB (1,937 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
