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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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-al1 suffix repr. L.
-ālis forming adjs. from sbs. with the sense ‘of the kind of, pertaining to’. It became
-el in OF., with which many F. words were adopted, e.g.
actuel,
mortel; this form, to some extent in F. and gen. in Eng., was refash. after L. as
-al, whence L. adjs. in
-ālis and F. adjs. in
-el have been adopted with
-al unrestrictedly.
The L. adjs. were primarily f. sbs., as
ōrālis ORAL, f.
ōs,
ōr- mouth. This type was greatly increased in medL. and modL. and consequently in the Rom. languages by formations not only on L. but on Gr. stems (after L.
boreālis,
hebdomadālis). In L. itself
-ālis was added to existing adjs., as
annuālis (f.
annuus),
infernālis (f.
infernus); hence the suffix is added freely in the mod. langs. to many classes of formations, including those with suffixes of Gr. origin,
-ac,
-ic,
-oid (see
-ACAL,
-ICAL,
-OIDAL).
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Choosing the right stat. (photostat) (column)
Magazine article from: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management; 11/1/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...what a stat is. "Stat" is an abbreviation for photostat. A true photostat requires the shooting of a negative, development...a process that produced something quite like a photostat, but using diffusion transfer processing. PMT...
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COURT- (SC administration installs Photostat machine).
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 8/10/2003; 380 words
; ...administration has installed its own Photostat machine at its reception to facilitate...SC administration had removed the Photostat Machines installed at bar premises, on the allegations that the Photostat machines owners were using the paper...
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COURT- (SC administration directs to remove Photostat machines).
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 7/30/2003; 468 words
; ...Wednesday issued orders for the removal of Photostat Machines installed at its premises...decision after an inquiry revealed that Photostat machine owners were using the paper stolen...as a result of a probe, owners of Photostat machines were found guilty of using SC...
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Forty sen for photostat copy!
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 8/30/2000; ; 430 words
; BE prepared to spend 40 sen to photostat a document at the Sultan Abdul Aziz Airport...also saw others charged 40 sen for the photostat service. "It normally costs not more...He said he noticed the high-priced photostat service since convenience shops at the...
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Ten Photostat machines and 2000 can wine seized.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 10/13/2005; 345 words
; ...Oct 13 (UNB) - Coast Guard members in a raid recovered 10 Photostat machines and 2000 cans of wine from a foreign flag carrier ship at the outer anchorage of the Chittagong port Wednesday. Photostat machines and wine worth Tk 18 lakh were recovered from the...
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Police arrest 11 Photostat shop owners.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 4/20/2007; 414 words
; ...Muhammad Aslam Sheikh along with SHO PS Town Alam Khan Abbasi conducted raids and arrested eleven Photostat shop owners for preparing Photostat copies of original examination papers and selling them to students. Those, who apprehended were...
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Tender Notice: Airports Authority Seeks Photostat, Secretarial, STD, Fax Services (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/31/2009; 321 words
; ...31 -- Airports Authority, Srinagar, said it was soliciting photostat, secretarial, STD and fax services. According to the description: "Tenders are invited for Photostat/ Secretarial/ STD & Fax Services at Srinagar International...
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Tender Notice: Nagar palika Seeks Photostat Services (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/28/2009; 352 words
; RAJASTHAN, India, Sept. 28 -- Nagar palika, Kota, said it was soliciting services for photostat. According to the description: "Tenders are invited for various works of photostate, printing, videography and supply of somputer...
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Tender Notice: Pakistan National Shipping Seeks Photostat Papers (Pakistan)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/16/2009; 324 words
; KARACHI, Pakistan, July 16 -- Pakistan National Shipping Corp., said it had a requirement of photostat papers. Bidding type is an international competitive bidding. The tender notice no. is Admin/1046/PP/2009-10. The last...
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Tender Notice: Director, L.R.S. Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Seeks Photostat Services (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/18/2009; 337 words
; ...July 18 -- Director, L.R.S. Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases said it was soliciting services for the photostat services. Bidding type is a domestic competitive bidding. The tender notice no. is LRS/Ten./2009-10/2. The last...
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photostat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
photostat , reproduction of any printed or simple black-and-white material, such as drawings or manuscripts, made by the Photostat, a photographic camera. While slower and more expensive than xerography , the process is still used where...
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Document Forgery
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...1982, the British magazine, New Statesman published a photostat of a letter supposedly from a South African official to Kirkpatrick...forgery. The New Statesman countered this by printing another photostat of the forgery with entirely different spacing between the...
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Dead Sea scrolls
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...Large quantities of the scrolls have been taken to safety and assembled by a team of experts. Many have been published and photostat copies of much material still to be officially published has found its way abroad, for example to the Huntington library...
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photocopying
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...process is popularly almost synonymous with photocopying). Two well-known silver halide processes, photostating (see photostat ) and microfilming, use cameras to make photographic copies of an original. Microfilming generates copies that are from...
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stat
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
stat 1 / stat / inf. • abbr. ∎ photostat. ∎ statistic. ∎ statistics: [as adj. ] a stat sheet. ∎ thermostat...
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