(n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
(n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one can point out from some languages, living as well as extincted ones, the words for time are derived etymologically from several roots or stems, respectively, which mostly represent different meanings.
(2) The psychodrama aims to the liberation of the human being alienated in his individuality thus giving him back a creative and relational spontaneity owing to the cathartic value of the collective game and drama (taken is its etymological sense).
(3) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(4) And let us hope that we will all enjoy fulfilling the symposium in its entire etymological meaning this evening.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to restore the concept of "handicap" to its original etymologic meaning as a term that identifies a relationship rather than a property concerning only one subject.
(6) The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran Read more Etymology can often mislead.
(7) We didn't want to hide behind 'erotica' – because it's not etymologically accurate for one thing, and I'm very fussy about that kind of stuff, and there's a class element to it.
(8) Etymologically and semantically bound to nursing, little is known about the term nurturance.
(9) Oxford Dictionaries don’t seem to have questioned the etymology of post-truth: “post-” means “after-”, but post-truth is not after-truth, it’s anti-truth.
(10) While there are many holes to pick in this statement, one of the more fundamental is to do with the etymology of the word itself.
(11) The etymology of the word "tic" still remains mysterious.
(12) According to etymology, the word means 'loss of mind'.
(13) It seems preferable to make Brexit feminine,” it said, “since etymologically, the component exit has a corresponding Italian noun, ‘ uscita ’”, which is feminine.
(14) Etymological channels about green and red are studied for many words belonging to the pharmaceutical vocabulary and the authorized dying matters.
(15) Etymologically Sufi, as an Arabic word, means woolen-clad.
(16) "Algeria in Arabic is al-jazâ'ir , which is both very similar to al-jazîra and, etymologically speaking, is in fact simply a variation of the word, which means 'island'.
(17) The listed terms have been used in German veterinary and special veterinary anatomical hand- and textbooks since 1774; etymological remarks are made on some unusual words.
(18) A study of the etymology and pathology of metastasis leads to the conclusion that the essential feature is transportation and not distance.
(19) Both etymologically and in literal meaning the term "oviductal" is overwhelmingly preferable to "oviducal."
(20) Moreover, passion is suffering according to its etymology: until the XVIth century, the word "passionate" meant somebody who suffered physically.
Geology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.
(n.) A treatise on the science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(2) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(3) The US Geological Survey said it was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s and one of the biggest recorded in the world.
(4) "Autumn colours are very patchy and depend on regional variation in climate and differences in geology.
(5) A tentative analysis of the data with regard to the geological situation is presented.
(6) In December the US Geological Survey also warned that sea-level rise could be even worse than feared, as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, partly due to increased melting of the volume of water stored in glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
(7) The possible association between the geological nature of the soil, as related to radioactivity, and lung cancer occurrence has been explored in an Italian province.
(8) The authors relate the tentative measurement data on radon-222 concentrations in different buildings situated in the Ukrainian bedrock geological region.
(9) Europe is geologically resource poor [so] there is a lot of scope to try to move towards an economic development [model] that would be decoupled from the consumption of resources and move more towards the reuse of the resources we already have”, he says.
(10) A total of 435 United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service workers in Alaska were studied for serologic evidence of past infections with four arboviruses known or suspected to be human pathogens.
(11) This is a big deal.” geology graphic He said that the scale and rate of change on measures such as CO2 and methane concentrations in the atmosphere were much larger and faster than the changes that defined the start of the holocene.
(12) The determination of platinum in geological samples by this method has been compared with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric method.
(13) There are 4,000 SSSIs, described by government officials as the “best of our wildlife, geological and physiographical heritage” in England.
(14) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
(15) The northerly region has become a new frontier for exploration since global warming caused ice to melt, oil escalated in value to its current $114 a barrel and the US Geological Survey concluded that almost a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie in the Arctic.
(16) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
(17) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
(18) Prof Hugh Sinclair, a specialist in surface geology and one of 59 Productions’ advisers, said he felt frustrated that there was no statue to Hutton anywhere in Edinburgh, despite the huge significance of his work.
(19) These revisions suggest sea-level rises could easily top a metre by 2100 - a figure that is backed by the US Geological Survey, which this year warned that they could reach as much as 1.5 metres.
(20) Many of the contemporary correlations between geological factors and human behavior are also apparent within historical data.