In American the meaning of the name Malcolm is: Servant of Saint Columba. Gaelic Meaning: The name Malcolm is a Gaelic baby name. In Gaelic the meaning of the name Malcolm is: Servant/disciple of Columba. Famous Bearers: Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent and U.S. black militant Malcolm X (Malcolm Little).
The basic definition of SORAS is the process whereby infants, toddlers, tweens and teens are aged in a rapid fashion in order to spice up their storylines and make their characters more interesting. In short, the natural aging process is sometimes lost on the pediatric crowd on the soaps.
And yet, abrase lives on in its descendant abrasive, which was formed by combining the verb with the -ive suffix. Both of the verbs, and by extension abrasive, can be traced back to the Latin verb abradere, meaning to scrape off.. Abradere in turn is a combination of ab- and radere, meaning to scrape..