In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

The distinctions also reflect an important and significant technical difference between memory and mass storage devices, which has been blurred by the historical usage of the term storage.

The study of placenames is called toponymy, while that of the origin and historical usage of placenames as words is etymology.

Dynamite is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, construction, and demolition industries, and it has had some historical usage in warfare.

With these professional schools and graduate programs, conventional American usage would accord Dartmouth the label of " Dartmouth University "; however, because of historical and nostalgic reasons ( such as Dartmouth College v. Woodward ), the school uses the name " Dartmouth College " to refer to the entire institution.

In 1880, about three years before Marx died, Friedrich Engels indicated that he accepted the usage of the term " historical materialism ".

A well-known example of this legal usage is The Cases of Judge Dee ( 狄公案 Di Gongan in Chinese ), a Ming dynasty novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.

In historical navy usage, a long gun was the standard type of cannon mounted by a sailing vessel, called such to distinguish it from the much shorter carronades.

This usage dates from a historical period where classes and sets were not distinguished as they are in modern set-theoretic terminology.

This usage has been common since the pagan revival in the 1970s, and is now used by academics and adherents alike to identify new religious movements that emphasize pantheism or nature-worship, or that revive or reconstruct aspects of historical polytheism.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

The trivial name is assigned based on historical precedent or popular usage rather than a standardized naming convention.

The meaning of " love of learning and literature " was narrowed to " the study of the historical development of languages " ( historical linguistics ) in 19th-century usage of the term.

In British English usage, and in British academia, " philology " remains largely synonymous with " historical linguistics ", while in US English, and US academia, the wider meaning of " study of a language's grammar, history and literary tradition " remains more widespread.

Some have a cultural usage (" the Gilded Age "), others refer to prominent historical events (" the Inter-War years: 1918 – 1939 "), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (" the 1960s ", " the 17th century ").

The term publican ( in historical Roman usage a public contractor or tax farmer ) has come into use since Victorian times to designate the pub landlord.

The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.

The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.

Robert J. Graham, a Renaissance literary scholar, notes that “ questions of whose language is privileged at any given historical moment are deeply implicated in matters of personal, social and cultural significance ”, which he states is the primary reason for Castiglione ’ s usage of the native vernacular.

The battle peaked from 1895 to about 1898, and historical usage often refers specifically to this period.

Mecklenburg however is within the historical Low German language area, and the " c " appeared in its name during the period of transition to Standard, i. e. High German usage ( Low German authors wrote the name Meklenborg or Męklenborg, depicting proper Low German pronunciation, which itself was a syncope of Middle Low German Mekelenborg ).

It is sometimes spelled " Konoye " based on historical kana usage.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The word " chemotherapy " without a modifier usually refers to cancer treatment, but its historical meaning is broader.

The term often refers to a book written by a chronicler in the Middle Ages describing historical events in a country, or the lives of a nobleman or a clergyman, although it is also applied to a record of public events.

The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and mostly imperialistic influence several European nations have had on this historical development of Afghanistan.

Ethiopia – Namibia relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Ethiopia and Namibia.

Historiography refers either to the study of the methodology and development of " history " ( as a discipline ), or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic.

According to many Marxists influenced by Soviet Marxism, historical materialism is a specifically sociological method, while dialectical materialism refers to a more general, abstract, philosophy.

Liberia – Namibia relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Liberia and Namibia.

Latin spelling or orthography refers to the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin, from Old Latin to the present.

A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the Aegean Sea.

Contemporary Paganism, Modern Paganism, or Neopaganism, refers to a variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe.

Heathenism, also known as Germanic Neopaganism, refers to a series of contemporary Pagan traditions that are based upon the historical religions, culture and literature of Germanic-speaking Europe.

However, it also refers specifically to the flag owned by Driver, which has become one of the U. S .' s most treasured historical artifacts.

However, the term " Baroque " as applied to art ( for example Rubens ) refers to a much earlier historical period than when applied to music ( Händel, Bach ).

The group continues its rolled zinc activity under the brand VMZinc which still refers back to the historical link with Vieille Montagne.

Suspicions aroused by the facts that the Zohar was discovered by one person, and that it refers to historical events of the post-Talmudic period while purporting to be from an earlier time, caused the authorship to be questioned from the outset.

In most competitions, including all those that subscribe to the BJCP style guidelines, as well as the International Mead Fest, the term " traditional mead " refers to this variety ( because mead is historically a variable product, these guidelines are a recent expedient, designed to provide a common language for competition judging ; style guidelines per se do not apply to commercial or historical examples of this or any other type of mead.

The name Iberia refers to three historical regions of the old world:

When used of historical periods since the 16th century, ' Western Christianity ' refers collectively to Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, especially in referral to aspects shared ( for example ritually, doctrinally, historically and politically ) rather than aspects differing between them.

A literal interpretation of the passages, in which the command refers specifically to a manual strike against the side of a person's face, can be supported by reference to historical and other factors.

Indigenous peoples primarily refers to ethnic groups that have historical ties to groups that existed in a territory prior to colonization or formation of a nation state, and which normally preserve a degree of cultural and political separation from the mainstream culture and political system of the nation state within the border of which the indigenous group is located.

The term " Quadruple Alliance " ( Quadruplex Foedus ) refers to several historical military alliances ; none of which remain in effect.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.