" Shorts " is used unqualified in British English to refer to sports shorts, athletic shorts, or casual shorts, the last nowadays being in the United Kingdom itself, commonplace in warm weather.

As if divining my thoughts, the girl Songau smiled warmly and said in the casual tone an American woman might use in describing her rose garden:

The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were commonly used in casual and humorous writing. They are used mainly in text messages and emails.

Despite Roe's somewhat casual use of the term ' atheist ', he could not quite put his finger on Jahangir's real beliefs.

For more casual use of leet, the primary strategy is to use homoglyphs, symbols that closely resemble ( to varying degrees ) the letters for which they stand.

Availability of WYSIWYG (" what you see is what you get ") publishing software supplanted much use of these languages among casual users, though serious publishing work still uses markup to specify the non-visual structure of texts, and WYSIWYG editors now usually save documents in a markup-language-based format.

Many scholars in other fields use the term " myth " in somewhat different ways ; in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story or, in casual use, a popular misconception or imaginary entity.

While other names of God in Judaism are generally restricted to use in a liturgical context, HaShem is used in more casual circumstances.

In casual use, the term may include the territorial sea and even the continental shelf.

At the same time, the author is able to write about the most important topics in the form of an ostensibly casual anecdote and to use the whole range of literary devices.

Given the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the term zeppelin in casual use came to refer to all rigid airships.

Keynes was on occasion heard making statements which could be perceived as racist: for example, he would use the word " niggers " to refer to black people in casual conversations.

He started smoking at age nine, drinking and casual marijuana use at age thirteen, but never took hard drugs.

While primitive, this teen exploitation film contained the foundations of Altman's later work in its use of casual, naturalistic dialogue.

The aunt might speak in a casual register with many dialect features or might use a more formal register and careful grammatically " standard " forms.

By the 1960s, refinements in ballpoint pen production gradually ensured its dominance over the fountain pen for casual use.

Later variants of the worm would use a false From address, picking an e-mail address at random from the infected machine's Outlook or Outlook Express address book, making it impossible for casual observers to determine which machine is infected, and making it difficult for experts to determine anything more than the infected machine's Internet Service Provider.

Astaire remained a male fashion icon even into his later years, eschewing his trademark top hat, white tie and tails ( for which he never really cared ) in favor of a breezy casual style of tailored sports jackets, colored shirts, cravats and slacks — the latter usually held up by the idiosyncratic use of an old tie in place of a belt.

Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his discovery of the use of flash in photography.

Other instances of vehicle audio can simply just involve propping a handheld transistor radio on top the dashboard with no mounting brackets whatsoever since some vehicles like older work trucks are less of a concern for the drivers and owners of them who only have casual needs for radio or audio use.

The first film appeared the year after the repeal of Prohibition, and the series is also notable for the extensive and casual use of alcohol by the main characters.

Typically BBs are used for indoor practice, casual outdoor plinking, training children, or for air gun enthusiasts who like to practice, but cannot afford high-powered air gun systems that use pellets.

Cultural contributions include the works of Ansel Adams, George Lucas, and Clint Eastwood, as well as beatniks, the Summer of Love, winemaking, and the open, casual workplace first popularized in the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and now widely in use around the world.

Some hanja characters have simplified forms ( 약자, 略字, yakja ) that can be seen in casual use.

His dress sense was unpredictable and usually casual.

A local scene usually has a small group of dedicated punks surrounded by a more casual periphery.

In the former case, customers usually wear casual clothing.

Video game development is usually performed in an extremely casual business environment with T-shirts and sandals being common work attire.

* Costuming: Square dance clubs often have a dress code ; gay square dance clubs usually are " casual ", that is, no costume or special clothing requirement.

The game is usually played at a fast time control ; this, together with the passing and dropping of pieces, can make the game look chaotic and random to the casual onlooker ; hence the name bughouse, which is slang for mental hospital.

A is a Japanese garment, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric, and unlined.

They are usually not form-fitting when worn by men or female athletes, but are often form-fitting when worn by women as casual dress.

She usually wears formal dresses and whenever she's not at work, she'll wear her usual casual clothes.

Subscriptions make up 97 % of the newspaper's circulation and the lack of a need to attract casual readers on newsstands had led to the front page usually being totally devoted to advertisements.

* T-shirt – also " tee shirt ", a casual shirt without a collar or buttons, made of a stretchy, finely knit fabric, usually cotton, and usually short-sleeved.

To prevent casual use or misuse, the hydrant requires special tools to be opened, usually a large wrench with a pentagon-shaped socket.

Besides the dining room, modern cruise ships also usually feature one or more casual buffet-style eateries, often open 24 hours and with menus that vary throughout the day to provide meals ranging from breakfast to late-night snacks.

* Quantitative text analysis is a set of techniques stemming from the social sciences where either a human judge or a computer extracts semantic or grammatical relationships between words in order to find out the meaning or stylistic patterns of, usually, a casual personal text for the purpose of psychological profiling etc.

He dresses in casual clothing more frequently in the anime than in the manga, but usually retains a slight hint of formality.

In casual play, the tee a player hits from is usually their prerogative ( there is no rule prohibiting a man from hitting off the closest tee box, nor any prohibiting a woman from using the tournament tee ), but players will generally gravitate toward the traditional tee for their gender and / or age, as this will provide the best results given a player's nominal drive distance.

Cruising for sex, or cruising is the act of walking or driving about a locality in search of a sex partner, usually of the anonymous, casual, one-time variety.

Of medium size ( about 24 cm ( 9 in ) long ) and lacking bright colours, the Grey Shrikethrush — usually just thrush in casual conversation — has an extraordinary gift for ringing melody, unmatched by any other Australasian species save perhaps the two lyrebirds and its northern relative, the Sandstone Shrike-thrush.

An informal assessment usually occurs in a more casual manner and may include observation, inventories, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, performance and portfolio assessments, participation, peer and self-evaluation, and discussion.

In some areas there are other ways to obtain immediate wins, usually among casual playing groups.

Whereas geology, mineralogy, and rockhounding groups, clubs, and societies as well as museums usually date ( of find and geologic ), photograph, and note location of minerals, much of the retail mineral and jewellery trade can be somewhat casual about dates, locations, and descriptive claims.

Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language, usually speaking in a casual, monotone or cantankerous voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or artificially grave demeanor.