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Basket (section Figurative and literary usage)A basket is a container that is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers, and can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners...10 KB (877 words) - 07:27, 7 May 2024
Forked tongue (section Literary usage)A forked tongue is a tongue split into two distinct tines at the tip; this is a feature common to many species of reptiles. Reptiles smell using the tip...9 KB (1,080 words) - 01:33, 8 June 2023
ISBN 978-0-226-65306-8. Nicomachean Ethics, 2.7.1108b1-10 Patrick O'Brian's usage of the tag in his Aubrey-Maturin historical novels is reflected in Dean...35 KB (3,803 words) - 22:07, 7 May 2024
Soli Deo gloria (section Musical and literary usage)Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Christoph Graupner...8 KB (882 words) - 19:17, 12 April 2024- Information wants to be free (section Literary usage)"Information wants to be free" is an expression that means either that all people should be able to access information freely, or that information (formulated...11 KB (1,219 words) - 18:59, 18 February 2024
Matthew 7:1 (section Cultural and literary usage)Matthew 7:1 is the first verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This well-known...8 KB (1,100 words) - 06:43, 13 April 2022- Kartoffel (section Literal and Literary Usage)self-denomination. In English, kartoffel can also be used literally, or for literary effect, to mean potato. "Kartoffel" refers to a person of German descent...8 KB (806 words) - 12:18, 31 March 2024
Isabelline (colour) (section Literary usage)variously described as cream, pale gold or almost white; this is the primary usage of the French (isabelle) and German (Isabella) versions of the word. In...10 KB (1,049 words) - 09:21, 4 April 2024
the type in Byron's work, Childe Harold, draws on a variety of earlier literary characters including Hamlet, Goethe's Werther (1774), and William Godwin's...17 KB (2,136 words) - 02:00, 25 April 2024- Several late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British literary usages suggest neutral usage. The popular Victorian era entertainment, the Gilbert and...39 KB (4,693 words) - 11:34, 14 April 2024
- periodic sentence term was coined circa 1928, but there is evidence of its usage in a separate sense dating from 1766. A periodic sentence unfolds gradually...10 KB (1,252 words) - 20:21, 9 March 2024
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Twain may refer to: The number 2 (dated or literary usage) Mark Twain, pen name of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910)...571 bytes (104 words) - 22:11, 4 January 2024
- List of narrative techniques (redirect from Literary device)A narrative technique (known among literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific...35 KB (419 words) - 19:11, 8 April 2024
Guardian angel (section Literary usage)offer competing advice (Act 2, scene 1, etc.). Guardian angels appear in literary works of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Later the Anglican English...41 KB (5,197 words) - 02:13, 30 April 2024- discharging the diseased tissue that caused or occurred with the pain. In literary usage, the word has escaped its strictly medical meaning to convey anything...3 KB (294 words) - 22:54, 24 July 2023
- Look up bromide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bromide in literary usage means a phrase, cliché, or platitude that is trite or unoriginal. It can...4 KB (504 words) - 03:30, 5 October 2022
allusion and pastiche are mechanisms of intertextuality. In literary usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek...16 KB (1,722 words) - 16:22, 6 May 2024- Covering cherub (category Literary criticism)Covering cherub (in literary usage) is the obstructing presence for the artist of the inherited tradition, and cultural predecessors, with which they are...3 KB (359 words) - 15:01, 19 April 2023
Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing....13 KB (1,503 words) - 20:15, 26 January 2024- franca throughout Brazil by Europeans and aboriginal Americans, and had literary usage, but it was later suppressed almost to extinction. Today, its sole living...43 KB (4,694 words) - 17:07, 13 May 2024
- places, but as the literary usage embraces the dialects current in different localities, save a few archaic survivals, the literary usage has been adopted
- variations also. And in the case Malayanma, the complexity of the script, Tamil usage and conventional abbreviations for words made it unintelligible to the rest
- You (plural) / Ustedes You (singular, formal, literary usage) / Vos You (plurar, formal, literary usage) / Vosotros He / Él She / Ella They (female) /