The Bible tells the story of how humanity came to be in possession of theWord of God, which is the set of immutable laws upon which the universe runs (Colossians 1:15-17), and upon which a perfect society would run too if humanity would ever figure out how to apply them (that societ...
The modern term “dictionary” comes to us from Latin dictionarium through French dictionnaire which properly means “a book of sayings”. There is a synonym for the word dictionary which comes from Greek, known as a lexicon; and guess what, it literally means a “book of words”. The ter...
Just lots of bronze, and even a (mythological) bronze robot named Talos that ran like a guard around the island. Also on Crete was the legendary Minotaur, whose labyrinth was built by Daedalus, the man who gave wings to man (and his son Icarus) and sails to boats, which may actually ...
published in 1944, and included in his well-known collection of short stories I, Robot. From page 1 of "Catch That Rabbit": "U.S. Robots had to get the bugs out of the multiple robot, and there were plenty of bugs, and there are always at least half a ...
robot obituary psychology lotus a name given to various plants, not all related or alike, 1540s, from Latin lotus, from Greek lotos, a word used as a name for several plants before it came to mean Egyptian white lotus (a sense attested in English from 1580s). It is perhaps from Semiti...
the progress of work—everything that makes man more expensive. In fact, he rejected man and made the Robot. My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are, they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul." ["R.U.R...
robot 1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory s...
robot 1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory s...
robot from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge... grind work Jack masc. proper name, attested by 1218, probably via Anglo-French Jake, Jaikes, from Old French Jacques (which was a diminutive of Latin Jac...
"occurring in the same geographic region," 1904, from assimilated form of syn- +… See origin and meaning of sympatric.