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  2. Householder (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist monks giving a teaching or blessing to lay people in Myanmar. In English translations of Buddhist texts, householder denotes a variety of terms. Most broadly, it refers to any layperson, and most narrowly, to a wealthy and prestigious familial patriarch. [1]

  3. Laity - Wikipedia

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    The word laity means "common people" and comes from the Greek: λαϊκός, romanized: laikos, meaning "of the people", from λαός, laos, meaning "people" at large. [7] [8] The word lay (part of layperson, etc.) derives from the Greek word via Anglo-French lai, from Late Latin laicus.

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a striking success; used in the phrases "go (like) a bomb" and "go down a bomb"; Go like a bomb also means, when used of a vehicle, to go very fast an explosive weapon (v.) to be a failure ("the show bombed"); also as n. (n., used with the) something outstanding ("that show was the bomb"); sometimes spelled da bomb: bombardier

  5. Laypeople - Wikipedia

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    Laypeople or laypersons may refer to: Someone who is not an expert in a particular field of study Lay judge. Lay judges in Japan; Laity, members of a church who are not clergy Lay brother; Lay sister; Lay preacher; Lay apostolate; Lay cardinal; Lay reader; Lay speaker; Lay leader

  6. Going to Work - Wikipedia

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    Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North. [1]

  7. Five precepts - Wikipedia

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    After the lay people have repeated the five precepts after the monk, the monk will close the ceremony reciting: "These five precepts lead with good behavior to bliss, with good behavior to wealth and success, they lead with good behavior to happiness, therefore purify behavior." (Imāni pañca sikkhāpadāni. Sīlena sugatiṃ yanti, sīlena ...

  8. Jargon - Wikipedia

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    Jargon, also referred to as "technical language", is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group". [8] Most jargon is technical terminology (technical terms), involving terms of art [9] or industry terms, with particular meaning within a specific industry.

  9. Plain English - Wikipedia

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    The term derives from the 16th-century idiom "in plain English", meaning "in clear, straightforward language" [2] as well as the Latin planus ("flat"). Another name for the term, layman's terms, is derived from the idiom "in layman's terms" which refers to language phrased simply enough that a layman, or common person without expertise on the subject, can understand.