One derivation is that the town's name means "Farmstead on the River Culm" with Culm probably meaning knot or tie (referring to the river's twists and loops).
Ralph, Calvin, Donna, Diane, with their one-name-only presidential-style monikers, loomed over Seventh Avenue while the rank-and-file of designers tied themselves in knots overthinking the meaning of cashmere and racking their brains for 32 synonyms of grey to fill the programme notes.
However, few viewers standing in front of the work itself could fail to sense that this is not the meretricious gobbledygook of the contemporary art world taken to a new level but that, for the artist, there is something meaningful going on, however knotted or nebulous that meaning might be.
Early test runs clock its speed at more than 47 knots or about 54 miles an hour, meaning the trips across Lake Ontario will last about 2 hours 15 minutes.
Military bases in northern Guam entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1, meaning that winds of 50 knots or higher were expected within 12 hours.
In many ways it's the antidote to funga ndao — meaning to marry, or "tie the knot".
Take a look at the article from The Knot, found at http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/wedding-flowers/articles/symbolic-wedding-flower-meanings.aspx MsdVisit=1, to tell you about flower meaning as well as when each flower is in season.
They can twist the language, invert the meaning of words, tie themselves into logical knots and then get admired for it.
Before the series started, Bennett said he would not start a race in unsettled breezes, meaning winds in the 6- to 8-knot range, with shifts of 30 to 40 degrees, conditions that might skew the results.
But Jesus, therefore Christmas, is about hope, order, forgiveness, transformation and meaning in all of that wretched temporal Gordian Knot.
