lexicon

Because we need a lexicon. What is a lexicon?

Anthrax becomes part of the social lexicon.

I need to have a health care lexicon.

And in that I need a surgery lexicon.

A lexicon is a body of words that describes a domain.

How rich I would think, is the lexicon of our self absolving.

UNIDIR's lexicon of arms control, disarmament and security terms entitled Coming to terms with security a lexicon for arms control, disarmament and confidence building, has now been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Hungarian and Korean.

Now most environmentalists don't say growth is good, because, in our lexicon, asphalt is two words assigning blame.

My work is so personal and so strange that I have to invent my own lexicon for it.

But in her lexicon, sorry, the rest unknown, thank you is sorry, the rest unknown, go to hell, because she couldn't care less.

For example, in oceanography, a lexicon of dolphin language is actually being created by basically visualizing the sonar beams that the dolphins emit.

UNIDIR's lexicon of arms control, disarmament and security terms, Coming to terms with security a lexicon for arms control, disarmament and confidence building and its companion volume Coming to terms with security a handbook on verification and compliance have each been published as a back to back English Arabic volume to facilitate arms control in the Middle East.

Accordingly, and while the term has been deleted from the conventional policy lexicon, strategic industrial policies have a key role to play in this regard.

The word agile entered the lexicon in 2001 when Jeff Sutherland and a group of designers met in Utah and wrote a 12 point Agile Manifesto.

So, it is the idea of sequencing all of the genes in the cancer, and giving us a new lexicon, a new dictionary to describe it.

By including the 200 letters (or nucleotides, per the artist's sophisticated scientific lexicon), Dewey Hagborg hoped to illustrate how astoundingly similar, at least in biological makeup, we all are.

What I hope you think, is that bacteria can talk to each other, they use chemicals as their words, they have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that we're just now starting to learn about.

When you think about that, let me go back to what Lionel Trilling, in his seminal book on authenticity, Sincerity and Authenticity came out in 1960 points to as the seminal point at which authenticity entered the lexicon, if you will.

Though such a scenario was inconceivable five years ago, when the Greek crisis first erupted, the term Grexit entered the European lexicon soon after, when the crisis reached a new peak. But European leaders seemed to recognize the implications of allowing a country even small, crisis stricken Greece to exit the eurozone.

The former is described in the trade negotiators lexicon as the most favored nation principle, which essentially seeks to ensure that trade benefits provided to one country are provided to all. The latter requires member states to provide the same treatment to trading partners within national borders as that provided to nationals.

LONDON In recent decades, the Arabic word jihad once used to describe the duty of all Muslims to act according to their faith has become overwhelmingly associated with the waging of violent war against non believers. With the rise of the Islamic State, another term has been refashioned for inclusion in the lexicon of extremist violence hijra.

PARIS A new and important acronym has entered the French political lexicon QPC, which stands for the rather austere sounding Priority preliminary ruling on the question of constitutionality. Under QPC, which was part of the constitutional reforms that France implemented in July 2008, any citizen involved in legal proceedings can now contest the constitutionality of a legislative provision.

Enlargement fatigue entered the European political lexicon in the wake of the dramatic failures of the French and Dutch referenda on the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005. The seismic shock of the treaty s rejection by two original EU members cried out for a scapegoat, and the big bang enlargement completed the previous year in which eight post communist countries (along with Cyprus and Malta) joined simultaneously seemed a good place to put the blame.