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    shapes have metaphorical names, i.e., their names are metaphors: these shapes are named after a most common object that has it. For example, "U-shape"...
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    rods (learning aid) Geometric shape Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names List of symbols Pattern Blocks (learning...
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    natural shapes vary. There is also clear evidence that shapes guide human attention. Area Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names Lists of shapes Shape factor...
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  • Recession shapes or recovery shapes are used by economists to describe different types of recessions and their subsequent recoveries. There is no specific...
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  • The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the...
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  • hence general names, and these general names , without any metaphorical effort, become applicable to a large number of new objects, and are afterwards called...
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    language in essence as metaphorical. The etymology of a word may uncover a metaphorical usage which has since become obscured with persistent use - such...
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  • This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...
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  • compared it with some abstract shapes in the final scenes of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is named after Ramiel, the angel of thunder...
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    Sefirot (redirect from Tree of Sephiroth)
    Hebrew name represents the unique essence of the object. This reflects the belief that the universe is created through the metaphorical speech of God, as...
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  • conventional and indoor. Some of these terms are also in use in Canadian football; for a list of terms unique to that code, see Glossary of Canadian football. 0–9...
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  • unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; metaphorically: bad human output, such as a weak argument or a poorly written novel...
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  • tinkering which merely modifies an existing arrangement. The term is used metaphorically to describe inventive philosophy, theories, and practices in business...
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  • This is the glossary of Shinto, including major terms on the subject. Words followed by an asterisk (*) are illustrated by an image in one of the photo...
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    in the range of visual perception referred to as scotopic vision. The emotional response to darkness has generated metaphorical usages of the term in many...
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  • front door areas. powdered sugar (UK: icing sugar) rain check used metaphorically to indicate that the person cannot accept the current invitation but...
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    incarnation of God, no "Son of God", etc.) but a power behind all aspects of the universe, only knowable through his creation, signs in nature, metaphorical stories...
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    shift, the word peranakan has come to be used as a "metaphorical" adjective that has the meaning of "locally born but non-indigenous". In Indonesian, it...
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    The wide breadth of expressive possibilities ranges from metaphorical uses of seismic issues, to the more straightforward exposure of seismic technology...
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    mention of a divine monkey is in hymn 10.86 of the Rigveda, dated to between 1500 and 1200 BCE. The twenty-three verses of the hymn are a metaphorical and...
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  • Lowachee, Karin (2003). "Space, symbols, and synth-rock imbue the metaphoric musical world of 30 Seconds To Mars". Mars Dust. Mysterian Media. Archived from...
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    through the Yogacāra concept of the alaya consciousness. The technical term used in the AMF which functions as a metaphorical synonym for interpenetration...
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    machines will result when the metaphorical golden spike is driven uniting the two efforts." AI winter was first used as the title of a seminar on the subject...
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    "the sister of Aaron", alluding to Miriam from the Hebrew Bible. However, the title of "the sister of Aaron" is confirmed to be metaphorical (which is a...
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  • 10th century Old English Cleopatra Glossaries, about which Thomas Wright wrote: "Orcus was the name for Pluto, the god of the infernal regions, hence we can...
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    when the metaphorical golden spike is driven uniting the two efforts. However, even at the time, this was disputed. For example, Stevan Harnad of Princeton...
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    Breaking wheel (category Catherine of Alexandria)
    Dictionary and Glossary. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Baker Voorheis and Co. p. 620. Retrieved 21 March 2010. Rudolf Kühnapfel, assassin of Andreas Stanislaus...
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    15. The apparatus consisted of a dark chamber with a small aperture that let light in. With it, he saw that whatever shape he made the hole, the sun's...
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    invisible"). In a literal sense, God has no gender in Sikhism, but metaphorically, God is presented as masculine and God's power as feminine. For example...
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