Sentence examples for element of the word from inspiring English sources

The term haiku is derived from the first element of the word haikai (a humorous form of renga, or linked-verse poem) and the second element of the word hokku (the initial stanza of a renga).

Despite linguistic difficulties, a number of 20th-century scholars have maintained modified versions of this etymology, linking the first element of the word with the Gaulish god Belenos (Irish: Belenus).

Owen thought the name Mastodonsaurus "ought not to be retained, because it recalls unavoidably the idea of the mammalian genus Mastodon, or else a mammilloid form of the tooth... and because the second element of the word, saurus, indicates a false affinity, the remains belonging, not to the Saurian, but to the Batrachian order of Reptiles".

Whether human or virtual, the act of selecting something and serving it up can miss an essential element of the word's original meaning.

Writing something, whether it is an English word or a Chinese character, involves retrieving the basic elements of the word -- either letters or brush strokes -- from memory.

There is an element of reclaiming the word that I love.

Osawatomie, city, Miami county, eastern Kansas, U.S. It lies along the Marais des Cygnes River at the mouth of Pottawatomie Creek; its name combines elements of the words Osage and Pottawatomie.

The code word is an element of the code book A*, the finite set of all code words.

This could only occur, they reasoned, when neurons associated with different elements of the test word fire synchronously.

You could also find pictures and paintings that include words as a key element of the image, with words forming a meaningful statement or graphic.

But that's why I love practicing yoga outside of my element: While the word for "breathe" may be spoken in the native language of whatever country I'm in at the time, I'll eventually recognize it as it's used frequently throughout and the only audible direction I need to guide me through the asanas.