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How big that charge is depends on the materials from which conductors and insulator are made, and also on their geometric configuration.By sandwiching a layer of ordinary fabric between two layers of fabric dipped in carbon-nanotube ink, Dr Cui found he could produce a combination that stored enough charge to qualify for the "super" epithet.
The early literature, itself known as Saṅgam, comprises 2,381 poems, ranging from four to nearly 800 lines each and assigned to 473 poets who are known by name or epithet ; about 100 poems are anonymous.
The knowledge of these sources – usually cited by Falaquera by name or epithet – and Maimonides' agreement or disagreement with them is essential for a proper understanding of the Guide.
Sextus' (ca. 160 210 CE) epithet , Empiricus, indicates that he at least at some point in his life belonged to the empiricists, a medical school (on the relationship between medicine and skeptical therapeutic argument, cf. Voelke 1990).
The accounts of the three individuals attacked in New York City reflect the typical hate-speech deployed during America's "War on Terror", which unleashed a new derogatory epithet for the apparent Muslim – "terrorist".
Some onlookers dubbed the couple who kissed and cuddled on the balcony from time to time "Romeo and Juliet", an epithet they both accepted.
His next stop will be the White House.(Photo credit: DON EMMERT / AFP Editor's note: The second sentence of this blog post was changed on September 29th to make clear that The Economist does not consider Mr Modi to be a "pain in the ass"; that epithet is merely how we imagined an uninformed New Yorker might feel about someone who causes a traffic jam.
It is no time to be an academic!" By August 25th this year, when Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke to a second, four-year term, what had once been an epithet had become a source of strength.
For the left, anti-government conspiracy theories have proven a double-edged sword: the conspiratorial bent that swept much of the New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which treated government as part of "the man" and made "liberal" an epithet of contempt, tore the Democratic Party apart for a generation.
Mr Blair refuses to espouse it: in an article in the Times he criticises "rigid selection" of the sort practised in the days before comprehensives, and does not go on to explain what he thinks of flexible selection, or selection with any other epithet that may sound nicer.
Mr Rothman's epithet will not hold for ever.
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The primary grammatical function of "epithet" is as a noun . It serves to identify a descriptive word or phrase. As Ludwig AI states, it can be a term used to characterize someone or something, either neutrally or pejoratively.
Expression frequency: Very common
