For some bizarre reason my Random House Unabridged Dictionary does not list the word at all, but my trusty Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language (second edition, 1961) lists two meanings. The first is the return, revisit, go back usage while the second meaning is ...
In Middle English largely with positive senses, including "bring back to virtue, restore to God; bring back to health." The specific meaning "bring to an inferior condition" is by 1570s; that of "bring to a lower rank" is by 1640s (militaryreduce to ranksis from 1802); that of "sub...
self-fulfillment, meaning and community, cooperation and empathy.Footnote6These values had more intrinsic meaning than conformity, competition, self-aggrandizement materialism, and consumerism. Inglehart’s (1971) extensive large
Either borrowed into Germanic before both Grimm’s law and the *o > *a merger or etymologically nativized, it ended up as the Germanic word for “Roman(ce)” and was passed on to Slavic in that meaning. Even if we accept that the ultimate etymon is *tewtéh₂, it could just as ...
I'm meaning to write about that in a future post. Thanks for the reminder, it kind of slipped off my radar. PatriotB October 26, 2005 Please, PLEASE tell me the final "skin" for Office 12 will fit in with the OS that it is running on. Office has always done its own thing, ...
InRolling Realms Redux, players compete to earn the most stars over 3 rounds in a series of minigames (there are 12 different all-new “realms” included in the game). This is a roll-and-write game, meaning that players will write on the game components using dry-erase markers. ...
Remove the THIEF photo downsides (Optional): NOTE: There's two patches for this. One that says "Normal Redux ONLY" and another that says "Font Improvement ONLY". Remove the THIEF photo punishment, meaning that you won't get your character named THIEF for obtaining the thief photo. The Dea...
Our name “Toptal” comes from Top Talent—meaning we constantly strive to find and work with the best from around the world. Our rigorous screening process identifies experts in their domains who have passion and drive.Of the thousands of applications Toptal sees each month, typically fewer than...
Then another colleague follows up this story with one that begins in English but lapses into Swiss-German and never returns. This story puts Washburn into the position of guessing at its meaning sonically. Intuiting a hypothetical, personalized fictive meaning according to the rhythms and cadences...
This polarises combat with humans, meaning things can go wrong with the simplest mistake. Human are easier to kill, but there is less room for error. A configurable module called Adaptive Human Intelligence is also introduced, where human opponents in a group will become better fighters as they...