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51Baroque music — Private baroque theatre in Český Krumlov …
52Free improvisation — Stylistic origins Free jazz Avant garde jazz 20th century classical music Serialism Aleatoric music Cultural origins Mid 1960s United States, UK, and Europe Typical instruments Varies …
53Idiom dictionary — The h word idiom was itself derived from the Greek “ἰδίωμα (idioma), which can be variously translated as peculiarity, property, or peculiar phraseology. Hence the word has come to be used to describe the form of speech peculiar to a people or… …
54Magical thinking — For the book, see Magical Thinking (book). Magical thinking is causal reasoning that looks for correlation between acts or utterances and certain events. In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious… …
55Chengyu — Not to be confused with Cheng Yu. 成語/成语 Chéngyǔ Chengyu (simplified Chinese: 成语; …
56Phrasal verb — A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition, any of which are part of the syntax of the sentence, and so are a complete semantic unit. Sentences, however, may… …
57Damon and Pythias — For the 1962 film, see Damon and Pythias (film). For the Richard Edwards play, see Damon and Pythias (play). In Greek mythology, the legend of Damon and Pythias (or Phintias) symbolizes trust and loyalty in a true friendship. Contents 1 Greek… …
58Lexis (linguistics) — In linguistics, lexis (in Greek λέξις = word) describes the storage of language in our mental lexicon as prefabricated patterns (lexical units) that can be recalled and sorted into meaningful speech and writing. Recent research in corpus… …
59Dona-sutta — The Dona sutta is a short Buddhist discourse between a brahmin and the Buddha concerning his nature or identity. It is preserved in five versions: one in Pali ( Anguttara ii.37 30), one in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts and three in Chinese… …
60Fat comma — is a programming term primarily associated with the Perl and Ruby programming languages, though others doubtless also employ the token. It refers to an operator, indicated as => , that can be used as a substitute for the comma operator and is an… …
