Sentence examples for was originally applied from inspiring English sources

The word 'triage' originates from the French 'trier' (to choose from among several) and was originally applied around 1792 by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon in chief to Napoleon's Imperial Guard, as a process of sorting wounded soldiers.

The word "skyscraper," by the way, was originally applied to the mast of a tall ship.

The term junzi was originally applied to princes or aristocratic men.

Zero tolerance was originally applied to gun possession when President Bill Clinton signed the Gun Free Schools Act in 1994.

The term stoker was originally applied to the man who performed the operation by hand e.g., aboard ship.

In China, knockoff or pirated goods are called shanzhai, a term that was originally applied to fake cell phones.

The word relaxation was originally applied to a molecular process by the English physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

She said the house owned by Ms. Reynolds was known as the Hammock, a designation a local history book indicates was originally applied to the terrain.

The word carillon was originally applied in France to four stationary clock bells (hence the medieval Latin name quadrilionem) and later referred to any group of fixed bells.

The term neocolonialism was originally applied to European policies that were seen as schemes to maintain control of African and other dependencies.

The stator serves as a reaction member providing more torque to turn the turbine than was originally applied to the pump impeller by the engine.