The director of the National Museums of Ceylon, P. E. P. Deraniyagala, decided that it was different from the other Mesoplodon species known at that time, and assigned it the name hotaula, meaning "pointed beak" in the local Sinhala language.
The specific name, acutirostris, derives from Latin acutus, meaning "sharp pointed", and rostrum, meaning "beak", and refers to the beak of the female.
Like Mr. Liccardi, Lynne Hefner Ferrante pays homage to the assemblages of Alfonso Ossorio, whose "congregations" invested found objects -- toys and other items -- with complex new meanings, making pointed social and political critiques.
The proprioceptive drift is always positive meaning that the pointed location is always further from the tip of the thumb after each session.
Point to its pointed teeth.
All models are also sparse distributions, meaning that they are more pointed in the peak and heavier tailed than the Gaussian.
In one of the company's older pieces, the dancers, after much pointed discussion of gender, bit into large, warty pickles, with clear meaning).
(That includes women as well as African-Americans. In one of the company's older pieces, the dancers, after much pointed discussion of gender, bit into large, warty pickles, with clear meaning).
The Latin term for falcon, falco, is related to falx, the Latin word meaning sickle, in reference to the silhouette of the falcon's long, pointed wings in flight.
Throughout, Mr. Forsman and his cast seem determined to supply emotional meaning where none is meant to reside, adding an extraneous layer to the pointed pointlessness of the playwright's language.
As his book progresses, he introduces many of these words into his own text, so that vividly onomatopoeic sentences such as "the wind flung rain against the windows with a fat clatter" are counter-pointed by unfamiliar nouns, verbs and adjectives that sparkle like ammil (a Devon word meaning the effect of morning sunlight on hoar frost).
