The story goes: Ghanaian soldiers at the American base adopted – and adapted – the term, turning Charlie into chale.
John Grierson, a Scottish educator who had studied mass communication in the United States, adapted the term in the mid-1920s from the French word documentaire.
Plato adapted the term, which in ancient Greece had originally been the ordinary word for "craftsman," or "artisan" (broadly interpreted to include not only manual workers but also heralds, soothsayers, and physicians), and which in the 5th century bc had come to designate certain magistrates or elected officials.
This paper revisits the mainstream definitions of 'ethnic enclave', by taking into account new approaches that can be used to adapt the term to the dynamics of global economy and to disassociate it from a territorially fixed and circumscribed place.
^ Theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman adapted the term "adjacent possible" from chemistry.
Being familiar with the works of Virgil and Ovid and seeing an analogy that fit with his naming scheme, Linnaeus adapted the term "lemur" for these nocturnal primates.
The name "Qui-Gon" adapts the term Qigong, which refers to a Chinese discipline involving meditation and cultivation of the flow of the vital energy called "Chi" or "Qi" for healing, health and combat.
We have adapted the term 'infon' from the writings of Devlin (1), where it is given the sense of a discrete item of information.
We have adapted the term 'partial LOH' from LOH studies conducted on the chromosomal level, showing for instance partial LOH confined to one arm of a chromosome [ 48], and have used this term to signify concurrent retention of heterozygosity of at least one marker and loss of heterozygosity of at least one other marker within the gene.
We have taken care to adapt the terms to the intended target audience, i.e. professional developers, not researchers.
