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Hawaiian Dictionary

By: Mary Kawena Pukui

... years, of revising a work of considerable size. We are grateful to have had this privilege, because the need for a complete revision of the Hawaiian Dictionary has long been evident, judging from the response of scholars and of many other readers, not only in Hawai?i, but from all parts of the world. Work of revision, begun in 1972, has taken so long that the compilers of...

...In the revised dictionary we have attempted to credit Greek, Hebrew, and Latin as sources of many loan words in Hawaiian, drawing on Elbert and Knowlton's unpublished paper (1985) that lists words probably from Greek (mostly in the New Test...

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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...shadow of a doubt exactly who He is, or that He even exists? REASON Webster’s Dictionary offers two definitions for the term, “reason.” The first de...

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Place Names of Hawaii - Hawaii Dictionary

By: Mary Kawena Pukui

... special interest or importance. In general only those Honolulu street names were included that have meanings not easily discoverable in the Hawaiian Dictionary. The important difference between place names in Hawai i and those on the United States mainland is that in Hawai i about 86 percent of the names are in the language of the aboriginal population—a single language ...

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Hulili Vol. 1 No. 1 2004

By: Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, Ph. D.

...linary, peer-reviewed journal on Hawaiian well-being. The word hulili is defined as “ladder, bridge, as to scale a cliff or cross a gully” (Hawaiian Dictionary, Pukui & Elbert, 1986, p. 89). Our vision for Hulili is to create a multidisciplinary forum for current research that examines the nature, needs, and strengths of Hawaiians, their families, and their communities....

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Today's Take on Einstein's Relativity

By: Homer B. Titon and Florentin Smarandache

...ink.com/dcforum/general_astro/3.html. 10. Illingworth, Valerie, editor, "Dictionary of Physics", The Penguin, London, New York, Victoria, Toronto...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...twentieth century. Published in 1984, my Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary still treated them as singles, defining information on page 620... ... definition of information technology between them.) In its 2011 online dictionary, however, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―th... ...ing ―happens in the real world in alphabetical order,‖ an Oxford American Dictionary editor once remarked.) The DDC established these initial div... ...appened often enough for ETAOIN SHRDLU to be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. CHAPT... ...can Library, 1967. Blake, N. F. Caxton, William (1415~24–1492): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... few things must be taken for granted, and the traditional territory of the dictionary has only exceptionally been in- vaded. It does not presume to... ...t Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Crucifixion," and "Crusade" in Hast- ing~' Dictionary of the Bible; The subject of the lecture was 'Japan-Its Past,... ...third, to single for a fourth, and so on: "The orator then proceeded: 'The dictionary tells us that "the words 'freedom' and 'liberty,' though ofte... ...duce a formal statement, an extract, a speech in a dialogue, etc." (Century Dictionary), (unless this is preceded by a conjunction, like "that," im... ...cal construction, the marking of which contributes to clearness " (Century Dictionary) : "Here, as in many other cases, what is sometimes popularly...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...s for sixpence; I might have had to give five shillings for it. I can buy the Dictionary, the entire genuine Dictionary, for two guineas, perhaps for l... ..._ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 288 9. E. Cobham Brewer, The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (London: John Cassell, 1894), 1111–1112. 1...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... often. What does it mean? It’s a word with many meanings. The Hawaiian Dictionary by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert ofers more than 30 ...

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Under the Deodars

By: Rudyard Kipling

...successfully tracked an obscure word 26 Under the Deodars through a large dictionary. ‘Did you ever hear of anything so mad so ab- surd? And he had t...

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The He Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

By: Mark Twain

...smiling, and con gratulating, and saying this thing adds a new word to the dictionary—Hadleyburg, synonym for incorruptable—des tined to live in d...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ut Aryan or Brahminism. If you have any doubts regarding this, kindly see the dictionary written by intellectuals. Don’t become victims of the trait... ... else will he do? Even the words, “Oh it is pathetic!” does not exist in his dictionary. 236 If we observe, is it not because of our propaganda ... ...hristians) are low and made us hate them are the Mlechas. They have written a dictionary that Aryans are Mlechas (foreigners). We have started work... ...e called Swaraj? “I am a Sudra (a prostitute’s son) according to the Aryan’s dictionary. My friend is an untouchable (he is a Panchama and Chandala... ... should be there in this nation. The word Brahmin should not be there in the dictionary. The stories of Ravanan, Soorapadman etc. were created to t... ... should forever remove the words: talent, quality, and qualification from its dictionary. Because communal representation was against the Brahmins, ...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... for her teacher in the studies she resumed with her mother; but after the dictionary, encyclopaedia and other authorities, including Mr. Ogilvie, pro...

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Me and My Friend President Obama : Concise Memos of my Cooperation with The White House and CIA all around the Hell

By: Peiman Ghasemi (Author); Barack Obama (Foreword)

...f the notes what Bill Gates gave me before to submit it in my book. It's a pleasure that I could receive only a few words from Stephen Hawking from a dictionary and I added them to my book. I decided to write a nonfiction book and describe the realities to researchers who like to learn more about some parts of my life and also some parts of president Obama’s life, for wh...

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The Best of Four

By: Paul Surdi

...ons for these terms. Perhaps a better definition can be found in a college dictionary, where the usual definition includes “a struc turally independ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...e the origin of the word pool—from “palus,” a marsh, as we were told, some dictionary attesting to the fact, and such a marsh might cover a large expa...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...these days there shall be written a ‘Godfather’s Assistant,’ in shape of a dictionary of names, with their concomitant virtues and vices; and this boo...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ements, with no more colour or coherence than so many index-words out of a dictionary? I do not know that we can say anything, but that it is a prodi-... ...ot dis- pense with your society.” His education! as though a friend were a dictionary. And with all this, not one word about pleasure, or laughter, or... ...f Scotland, edition of the Wodrow Society, iii. 51-54. *Bayle’s Historical Dictionary, art. Knox, remark G. 208 Robert Louis Stevenson culine superio...

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