Sentence examples for source of the term from inspiring English sources

The source of the term, however, is British.

An article on Feb. 11 about Disney's California Adventure theme park misstated the literary source of the term "feelies".

JAMES STERNGOLD Correction: February 25 , 2001 Sunday An article on Feb. 11 about Disney's California Adventure theme park misstated the literary source of the term "feelies".

As farmers, Ancestral Pueblo peoples and their nomadic neighbours were often mutually hostile; this is the source of the term Anasazi, a Navajo word meaning "ancestors of the enemy," which once served as the customary scientific name for this group.

Huncke, a legendary junkie, hustler, vagrant, and muse, and a minor, though vivid, writer, may or may not have been the source of the term "Beat"; he appears in lightly fictionalized form in William S. Burroughs's "Junkie," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and John Clellon Holmes's "Go".

During a summer trip to Paris in 1925, she visited the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the source of the term Art Deco — which exhibited work by leading new designers like Le Corbusier and which introduced Ms. Zeisel to modern movements like the Bauhaus and the International style.

The second subsystem also works around an ontology whose concepts are the source of the terms for the annotation of the exercises.

Since a woman without a husband might have to rely on spinning as a source of income, the term became associated with unmarried women, eventually becoming the legal way to refer to one.

The generic name is from the Greek words μνριός, meaning "countless" and στόμα, meaning "mouth" (the source of the technical term stoma).

Thus, uncia designated both a unit of weight and one of length and is the source of the modern terms inch and ounce.

Therefore, the financing provided by suppliers is the main source of the short-term financing of our sample's firms.