Which word in relation to bones and writing means 'Wedge Shaped'?
"keeping accounts, using a round-shaped stylus impressed into soft clay at different angles for recording numbers. This was gradually augmented with pictographic writing by using a sharp stylus to indicate what was being counted. Round-stylus and sharp-stylus writing were gradually replaced around 2700–2500 BC by writing using a wedge-shaped stylus (hence the term cuneiform), at first only for logograms, but developed to include phonetic elements by the 29th century BC. About 2600 BC, cuneiform began to represent syllables of the Sumerian language. Finally, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers. From the 26th century"
"Bone folder A bone folder, bonefolder, or folding bone is a dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease material in crafts such as bookbinding, cardmaking, origami, and other paper crafts that require a sharp crease or fold. The tool was also used when correspondence by letter writing was more formal and an art. Often made from the leg bone of a cow, deer, or similar animal and ivory. Alternatives made from plastic now exist; however, those made from bone may be less likely to leave residue on the workpiece. In Japan, the equivalent folding tool is traditionally made from"
"bamboo, although alternatives include a Japanese fabric marking tool (""hera"") and a Western bone folder. Bone folder A bone folder, bonefolder, or folding bone is a dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease material in crafts such as bookbinding, cardmaking, origami, and other paper crafts that require a sharp crease or fold. The tool was also used when correspondence by letter writing was more formal and an art. Often made from the leg bone of a cow, deer, or similar animal and ivory. Alternatives made from plastic now exist; however, those made from bone may be less likely to"
"deep wound. An incised structure is one with a deep ""V"" shaped notch, often used to refer to the outline of a leaf, or the membranes on a fish's fin. Incised in archaeology and the plastic arts refers to cutting into the surface of a medium, for example stone or wood. It often refers to the use of a ""V"" shaped tool to carve out the design. Writing carved into stone tablets or columns is often referred to as ""incised"". Incised is a sans-serif typeface. Incised Incised means cut, particularly with a ""V"" shape. It is a term found in"
"Scapula In anatomy, the scapula (plural scapulae or scapulas), also known as shoulder bone, shoulder blade, wing bone or blade bone, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone). Like their connected bones the scapulae are paired, with the scapula on either side of the body being roughly a mirror image of the other. The name derives from early Roman times when it was thought that the bone resembled a trowel or small shovel. In compound terms, the prefix omo- is used for the shoulder blade in Latin medical terminology. The prefix is"
"Bone-with-meat (hieroglyph) The ancient Egyptian Bone-with-meat hieroglyph (Gardiner F44) represented: ""ancestry, inherit"", and phonetic ""isw, iw' "" (inherit, etc.); a determinative for the femur, (iw'); and ""swt"", for the tibia. The Old Kingdom usage on slab steles, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare ribs or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib. An example of a wall relief scene from Edfu at the Temple of"
"""shaped like a leaf"". ""Filiform"" (pronounced \ˈfi-lə-ˌfȯrm-\) is from the Latin word ""fīlum"" (thread), and means ""shaped like a filament or thread"". Foliate papillae are fairly rudimentary structures in humans, representing evolutionary vestiges of similar structures in many other mammals. Lingual papillae Lingual papillae (singular papilla) are the small, nipple-like structures on the upper surface of the tongue that give it its characteristic rough texture. The four types of papillae on the human tongue have different structures and are accordingly classfied as circumvallate (or vallate), fungiform, filiform, and foliate. All except the filiform papillae are associated with taste buds. In"
"to derive from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (yoke), from verb *yeug- (join, unite). This root has descendants in almost all known Indo-European languages including German ""Joch"", Latin ""iugum"", Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zygon), Persian یوغ (yuğ), Sanskrit युग (yugá), Hittite 𒄿𒌑𒃷 (iúkan), Old Church Slavonic иго (igo), Lithuanian ""jungas"", Old Irish ""cuing"", Armenian լուծ (luç), etc. (all meaning ""yoke""). The verb to ""subjugate"" derives from the Latin form. A ""bow yoke"" is a shaped wooden crosspiece bound to the necks of a pair of oxen (or occasionally to horses). It is held on the animals' necks by an oxbow, from which it gets"
"related to bone, are still used commonly today. Some examples of terms used to describe bones include the term ""foramen"" to describe a hole through which something passes, and a ""canal"" or ""meatus"" to describe a tunnel-like structure. A protrusion from a bone can be called a number of terms, including a ""condyle"", ""crest"", ""spine"", ""eminence"", ""tubercle"" or ""tuberosity"", depending on the protrusion's shape and location. In general, long bones are said to have a ""head"", ""neck"", and ""body"". When two bones join together, they are said to ""articulate"". If the two bones have a fibrous connection and are relatively"
"to their fine and complex structure. A ""sinus"" refers to a bony cavity, usually within the skull. A joint, or articulation is the region where adjacent bones contact each other, for example the elbow, shoulder, or costovertebral joint. Terms that refer to joints include: Bones are commonly described with the terms ""head"", ""neck"", ""shaft"", ""body"" and ""base"" The ""head"" of a bone usually refers to the proximal end of the bone. The shaft refers to the elongated sections of long bone, and the ""neck"" the segment between the head and shaft (or body). The end of the long bone opposite"
"writing on perishable materials, as suggested by the appearance on oracle bones of the character ""cè"" ""records"". The character is thought to depict bamboo or wooden strips tied together with leather thongs, a writing material known from later archaeological finds. Development and simplification of the script continued during the pre-Classical and Classical periods, with characters becoming less pictorial and more linear and regular, with rounded strokes being replaced by sharp angles. The language developed compound words, so that characters came to represent morphemes, though almost all morphemes could be used as independent words. Hundreds of morphemes of two or more"
"the tissue linking the structures is ligamentous. A gomphosis is a specialized fibrous joint in which a conical process or peg of one bone fits into a hole or socket in another bone. (gomphos is a Greek word meaning bolt). Small quantity of fibrous tissue holds the bones together. No movement is possible at such peg-and-socket joints. Fibrous joint Fibrous joints are connected by dense connective tissue, consisting mainly of collagen. These are fixed joints where bones are united by a layer of white fibrous tissue of varying thickness. In the skull the joints between the bones are called sutures."
"are anchored to bone. The word tongue derives from the Old English ""tunge"", which comes from Proto-Germanic *""tungōn"". It has cognates in other Germanic languages — for example ""tonge"" in West Frisian, ""tong"" in Dutch and Afrikaans, ""Zunge"" in German, ""tunge"" in Danish and Norwegian, and ""tunga"" in Icelandic, Faroese and Swedish. The ""ue"" ending of the word seems to be a fourteenth-century attempt to show ""proper pronunciation"", but it is ""neither etymological nor phonetic"". Some used the spelling ""tunge"" and ""tonge"" as late as the sixteenth century. The tongue is a muscular hydrostat that forms part of the floor"
"and so on). The poet Seamus Heaney regularly employed kennings in his work; for example, 'bone-house' for ""skeleton"". Kenning A kenning ( , ) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Old English poetry. They usually consist of two words, and are often hyphenated. For example, Old Norse poets might replace ""sverð"" ""sword"" with an abstract compound such as ""wound-hoe"" (Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8) or a genitive phrase such as ""randa íss"" ""ice"
"meanings of: knot, tie, ligature, backbone, vertebrae, spine, etc. The knot used as an article of jewellery was especially known in the Middle Kingdom. It can be found in necklaces (see gallery photo), and as a small brooch. In ""Amulets of Ancient Egypt,"" a two-part, hollow gold piece is shown, with a detailed rope-detailed fiber; it is made with a tongue and groove closure for the parts. Knot (hieroglyph) The ancient Egyptian knot hieroglyph, or ""girdle knot"", Gardiner sign listed no. S24, portrays a reef knot. Besides its use as a hieroglyph, it has usage in statuary and reliefs. The"
"word has two given derivations. states it to be a contraction of 'dobbel osse', or 'gambling' (Afrikaans) 'bones' (from Latin). Boshof and Nienaber state it to be a contraction of 'dollen os', or 'play' (old Dutch) 'oxen' (Afrikaans). The first is a meaning-shifted reference to ox knuckle-joint bones used in divination practices by ""sangomas"", Southern African traditional healers. They somewhat resemble these bones. The second is a reference to ox or lamb knuckle bones used by African children at play. The name was attached to the objects when Kruger's father, Joe Kruger, who also worked in the harbour, came upon"
"like an architectural column; a metal instrument resembling a pencil in size and shape, used for writing or recording impressions upon waxed tablets. It signifies: ""An iron instrument (Ov. Met. IX.521; Martial, XIV.21), resembling a pencil in size and shape, used for writing upon waxed tablets (Plaut. Bacch. IV.4.63; Plin. H.N. XXXIV.14). At one end it was sharpened to a point for scratching the characters upon the wax (Quintil. i.1 §27), while the other end being flat and circular served to render the surface of the tablets smooth again, and so to obliterate what had been written. Thus, vertere stilum"
"Virge A virge or verge () is a type of rod, made of wood. Originally it was one or more branches (the French often use ""verges"", the plural of its equivalent, as the normal word for a rod, the rarer singular ""verge"" rather indicates a switch) used as an instrument for corporal punishment, or as a riding crop. It later became a symbol of civil office, used in ceremonies of swearing fealty (from which the legal term ""tenant by the verge"" is derived). Further deriving from this use is the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of"
"Codex A codex () (from the Latin ""caudex"" for ""trunk of a tree"" or ""block of wood"", ""book""), plural ""codices"" (), is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials. The term is now usually only used of manuscript books, with hand-written contents, but describes the format that is now near-universal for printed books in the Western world. The book is usually bound by stacking the pages and fixing one edge to a bookbinding, which may just be thicker paper (paperback or softback), or with stiff boards, called a hardback, or in elaborate"
"Anatomical terms of bone Many anatomical terms descriptive of bone are defined in anatomical terminology, and are often derived from Greek and Latin. A long bone is one that is cylindrical in shape, being longer than it is wide. However, the term describes the shape of a bone, not its size, which is relative. Long bones are found in the arms (humerus, ulna, radius) and legs (femur, tibia, fibula), as well as in the fingers (metacarpals, phalanges) and toes (metatarsals, phalanges). Long bones function as levers; they move when muscles contract. They are responsible for the body's height. A short"
"Bearded axe A bearded axe, or Skeggøx (from Old Norse ""Skegg"", beard + ""øx"", axe) refers to various axes, used as a tool and weapon, as early as the 6th century AD. It is most commonly associated with Viking Age Scandinavians. The lower portion of an axe bit is called the ""beard"" and the cutting edge of the bearded axe extends below the width of the butt to provide a wide cutting surface while keeping the overall weight of the axe low. The hook, or ""beard"" of the axe would also have been useful in battle, for example to pull"
"Fasces Fasces (, ; a ""plurale tantum"", from the Latin word ""fascis"", meaning ""bundle""; ) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The axe originally associated with the symbol, the Labrys (Greek: , """") the double-bitted axe, originally from Crete, is one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization. To the Romans, it was known as a ""bipennis"". Commonly, the symbol was associated with female deities, from prehistoric"
"with the one receiving the larger part making a wish developed in the early 17th century. At that time, the name of the bone was a ""merrythought"". The name ""wishbone"" in reference to this custom is recorded from 1860. Furcula The (""""little fork"""" in Latin) or wishbone is a forked bone found in birds and some dinosaurs, and is formed by the fusion of the two clavicles. In birds, its primary function is in the strengthening of the thoracic skeleton to withstand the rigors of flight. The furcula works as a strut between a bird's shoulders, and articulates to each"
"the language Ropponen used to correspond with Gaston. Still, it is worth wondering (a) why it would be called ""whip"" knot, and (b) why there has been no further evidence of such supposed history. (Might the strangle knot have been intended by Gaston --a knot that is also sometimes called ""blood"" knot for use as knobs in the tails of a whip?) In fact, by accident of imprecise tying-direction arrows, the constrictor is presented in the 1933 edition of George Russell Shaw's book! (His shown fully tied knot is sloppy but more like another miller's/sack knot.) The method shown below"
"in actual heraldry are extremely hard to find. An ordinary ""embowed"" has the edges bowed inwards producing a concavity; this is sometimes more explicitly blazoned ""inwardly embowed"". Its opposite is ""enarched"". This variation is most often applied to the chevron and pile. The term ""embowed"" is also applied to bent arms and legs, arched fish, and serpents in circles. The chevron ""ecimé"" has its peak ""blunted"", i.e. squared off rather than meeting in a point. Much more common is ""couped at the peak (or point)"" or even truncated. In the Canadian Public Register truncated is used in the Anglophone versions"
"Hamate bone The hamate bone or unciform bone (from Latin ""uncus"", ""hook"") is a bone in the human wrist readily distinguishable by its wedge shape and a hook-like process (""hamulus"") projecting from its palmar surface. The hamate is an irregularly shaped carpal bone found within the hand. The hamate is found within the distal row of carpal bones, and abuts the metacarpals of the little finger and ring finger. Adjacent to the hamate on the ulnar side, and slightly above it, is the pisiform bone. Adjacent on the radial side is the capitate, and proximal is the lunate. The hamate"
"Kenning A kenning ( , ) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Old English poetry. They usually consist of two words, and are often hyphenated. For example, Old Norse poets might replace ""sverð"" ""sword"" with an abstract compound such as ""wound-hoe"" (Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8) or a genitive phrase such as ""randa íss"" ""ice of shields"" (Einarr Skúlason: 'Øxarflokkr' 9). Modern scholars have also applied the term kenning to similar figures of"
"(for example, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) ""буква"" (bukva—""letter"") is cognate with ""beech"". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, the word ""букварь"" (bukvar') or ""буквар"" (bukvar) refers specifically to a primary school textbook that helps young children master the techniques of reading and writing. It is thus conjectured that the earliest Indo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood. Similarly, the Latin word ""codex"", meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant ""block of wood"". When writing systems were created in ancient civilizations, a variety of objects, such as stone, clay, tree bark, metal"
"Bind rune A bind rune () is a ligature of two or more runes. They are extremely rare in Viking Age inscriptions, but are common in earlier (Proto-Norse) and later (medieval) inscriptions. On some runestones, bind runes may have been ornamental and used to highlight the name of the carver. There are two types of bind runes. Normal bind runes are formed of two (or rarely three) adjacent runes which are joined together to form a single conjoined glyph, usually sharing a common vertical stroke (see ""Hadda"" example below). Another type of bind rune called a same-stave rune, which is"
"Trapezoid bone The trapezoid bone (lesser multangular bone) is a carpal bone in tetrapods, including humans. It is the smallest bone in the distal row of carpal bones that give structure to the palm of the hand. It may be known by its wedge-shaped form, the broad end of the wedge constituting the dorsal, the narrow end the palmar surface; and by its having four articular facets touching each other, and separated by sharp edges. It is homologous with the ""second distal carpal"" of reptiles and amphibians. The trapezoid is a four-sided carpal bone found within the hand. The trapezoid"
"Sesamoid bone In anatomy, a sesamoid bone () is a bone embedded within a tendon or a muscle. It is derived from the Latin word (""sesame seed""), due to the small size of most sesamoids. Often, these bones form in response to strain, or can be present as a normal variant. The kneecap is the largest sesamoid bone in the body. Sesamoids act like pulleys, providing a smooth surface for tendons to slide over, increasing the tendon's ability to transmit muscular forces. The sesamoid is a small nodular bone most often present embedded in tendons in the region of the"
"those on bronzes, and also that the majority of writing occurred with a brush on such books. Additional support for this notion includes the reorientation of some graphs, by turning them 90 degrees as if to better fit on tall, narrow slats; this style must have developed on bamboo or wood slat books and then carried over to the oracle bone script. Additionally, the writing of characters in vertical columns, from top to bottom, is for the most part carried over from the bamboo books to oracle bone inscriptions. In some instances lines are written horizontally so as to match"
"words are contractions: Bumbye and bimeby are short for by-and-by, didden means didn't and gramfer and grammer are grandfather and grandmother respectively. The word 'like' is often used as a qualifier for an adjective and is attached to the end of the sentence. To say, ""He's ill, like"" means he is 'rather' ill. William Barnes was born in the Bagber in 1801. He wrote three volumes poetry in the Dorset dialect, the first, ""Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect"" was published in 1844. Barnes hated what he called 'foreign' words and avoided the use of them in his"