The word ham, with all its connotations, swirls in one's mind when one is watching -- well, hearing, well, let's just say experiencing -- the inimitable Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall on Monday night.
"A snakebite is regarded as funny, scary, sort of biblical in its connotations, and something that can be laughed off and denied".
Thus, because of its pejorative connotation in lay usage and because of confusion about its definition, the word impotence has been eliminated from the technical vocabulary in favour of the term "erectile dysfunction".
The "studio" (the partners shun the term incubator because of its various connotations) is in its second day of existence and houses mainly commerce marketplace and data focused startups.
The term has lost its negative connotation in Silicon Valley; freewheeling coding sessions and virtual breaking and entering have become the same thing.
However, the use of readily fermentable agricultural feedstocks like sugar cane and corn for the production of bioethanol is less desirable because of its negative connotation in the "food versus fuel" debate [ 1].
In its connotation of killing or destroying, the phrase is perhaps aptly American: The Oxford English Dictionary traces this slang usage to 1939, to Raymond Chandler's seminal detective potboiler "The Big Sleep" ("I'll take him out," the gumshoe Philip Marlowe says. "He'll think a bridge fell on him").
This must be so despite the very same arrangement being officially considered sub-optimal, as implicit in its connotation of transitory phase towards aquaculture.
Although in general the use of the term adherence is preferred because of its connotation of voluntary cooperation, in this case we define them as follows.
The song was subject to a U.S. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics.
