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  2. Template:Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Takes groups of three parameters (triplets) that indicate a part of an etymology and produces formatted output Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Language 1 1 ISO 639 code or name for the language of the word or first root Example gre String suggested Orthography 1 2 How the word or first root is written in the original language Example ''βίος ...

  3. Timetable (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    School timetable, a table for coordinating students, teachers, rooms, and other resources; Time horizon, a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end; Timeline, a project artifact. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and (usually ...

  4. Schedule - Wikipedia

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    An example of an internal schedule is a workplace schedule, which lists the hours that specific employees are expected to be in a workplace, ensure sufficient staffing at all times while in some instances avoiding overstaffing. A work schedule for a business that is open to the public must correspond to the hours of operation of the business ...

  5. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any language, the etymology will be uncertain, disputed, or simply unknown.

  6. Say Uncle - Wikipedia

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    Due to heavy Irish immigration in eastern Canada and New England in the 19th century, it is likely an anglicization of the Irish 'anacal', meaning deliverance or quarter. [ 2 ] A less likely theory is that it derives from a phrase uttered by youngsters in the Roman Empire who got into trouble, patrue mi patruissime (“uncle, my best of uncles”).

  7. Public transport timetable - Wikipedia

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    The latter could take the form of a book, leaflet, billboard, or a (set of) computer file(s), and makes it much easier to find out, for example, whether a transport service at a particular time is offered every day at that time, and if not, on which days; with a journey planner one may have to check every day of the year separately for this.

  8. Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The term calendar applies not only to a given scheme of timekeeping but also to a specific record or device displaying such a scheme, for example, an appointment book in the form of a pocket calendar (or personal organizer), desktop calendar, a wall calendar, etc.

  9. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Francis Galton used the English term median for the first time in 1881 having earlier used the terms middle-most value in 1869 and the medium in 1880. [ 21 ] Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), another important founder of statistics, introduced the notion of the "average man" ( l'homme moyen ) as a means of understanding complex social phenomena ...