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• Medium
  ==English== *:[[Rhymes:English:-iːdiəm|Rhymes: -iːdiəm]]
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• Language
  ...language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses. ...uage''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
  13 KB (2,044 words) - 22:21, 12 December 2020
• Learning curve
  ...ford English Dictionary]], The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary define a learning curve as t
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• Rhyme
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''rime'', from Anglo-French ...#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (Old English rīm [[meaning]] "enumeration, series, numeral") and Old High German rīm,
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• Ethnic
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ...rom the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethnikos was used as the LXX t
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• Oxford Dictionary of Law
  ...in the UK or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law.
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• Shalom
  ...n many other expressions and names. Its equivalent [[cognate]] in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] is ''[[salaam]]'' and ''sälam'' in [[Ethiopian Semitic languages] ...n]]-[[lamedh|lamed]]-[[mem]] (ש.ל.ם), which has cognates in many [[Semitic language]]s, came to be connected with concepts of ''completeness'', ''fulfilment'',
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• Proverb
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] proverbe, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] proverbium, from pro- + verbum ...[[cultures]], and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the [[Bible]] ([[Book of Proverbs|Book of Proverbs]]) and medieval La
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• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
  ...lary]] for everyday [[Archaeology|archaeological]] work in the [[English]] language, this up-to-date dictionary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of i
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• Sanskrit
  ...skrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil which have already been given the classical-language status.'' and one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and [[Buddha|Budd ...age]], and one of the earliest attested members of the [[Indo-European]] [[language]] family.
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• Vocabulary
  *2a : a sum or stock of words employed by a [[language]], [[group]], [[individual]], or [[work]] or in a field of [[knowledge]] ...]'s '''vocabulary''' is the set of [[words]] they are familiar with in a [[language]]. A vocabulary usually [[grows]] and evolves with age, and serves as a use
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• Worship
  ...ly directed to one or more [[deity|deities]]. It is the informal term in [[English]] for what [[Sociology|sociologists]] call a ''[[cult|cultus]]'', the [[bod In its older sense in the [[English]] language of ''worthiness'' or ''respect'' (Anglo-Saxon ''weorðscipe''), ''worship''
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• Hebrews
  ...as a synonym for Israelites, and sometimes for the users of the [[Hebrew]] language ([[Jews]] and [[Israel]]is). From Middle English ''Ebreu'' Old French ''Ebreu'' Latin ''Hebraeus'' or ''Hebraic'', Ancient G
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• Plagiarism
  ...es." "''Plagiary''", a derivative of "''plagiarus''" was introduced into [[English]] in 1601 by dramatist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson Ben Jonson The derived form ''plagiarism'' was introduced into English around 1620. The Latin ''plagiārius'', "kidnapper", and ''plagium'', "kidn
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• Words
  A '''word''' is a unit of [[language]] that represents a [[concepts|concept]] which can be expressively [[commun ...m and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. A word consisting of two or more s
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• Truth
  ...C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''trēowth'' [[fidelity]]; akin to Old English ''trēowe'' faithful ...th continue to be debated among scholars, philosophers, and theologians. [[Language]] and words are a means by which humans convey [[information]] to one anoth
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• Zero
  ...ic صفر, ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero", "nothing". The first known English use was in 1598. ...d "to keep the rows". This circle was called صفر (ṣifr, "empty") in Arabic language. That was the earliest mention of the name ''ṣifr'' that eventually becam
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• World War II
  ...Second World War, for example ''Zweiter Weltkrieg'' in German. Non-English-language use typically translates to Second World War, for instance the Spanish ''Se
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• Mindfulness
  The [[Buddhist]] term translated into [[English]] as "mindfulness" originates in the Pali term sati and its Sanskrit counte ...s_Davids Thomas William Rhys Davids] (1881) first [[translated]] sati as [[English]] mindfulness in sammā-sati "Right Mindfulness; the active, watchful [[min
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• Autumn
  ...fall in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English American] [[English]]) is one of the four [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate temperate] [ ...ly those who could [[read]] and [[write]], the only people whose use of [[language]] we now know), the word harvest lost its [[reference]] to the time of year
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