In common parlance they would be described as misses -- misinterpreters, misunderstanders, misdirectors and kindred misdeeds.

Like the Authorized King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered common parlance.

As a result, the term " eureka " entered common parlance and is used today to indicate a moment of enlightenment.

Technically, rated ships with fewer than 28 guns could not be classed as frigates but as " post ships "; however, in common parlance most post ships were often described as " frigates ", the same casual misuse of the term being extended to smaller two-decked ships that were too small to stand in the line of battle.

Ostdeutschland ( an ambiguous term meaning simultaneously East or Eastern Germany ) was not commonly used in East or West German common parlance to refer to the German Democratic Republic, because Ostdeutschland usually referred to the former eastern territories of Germany.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

However, in common parlance sometimes people use the general term takkanah to refer either gezeirot or takkanot.

In the later Roman Empire the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos .< ref > Xavier Delamarre, entry on caballos, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise ( Éditions Errance, 2003 ), p. 96.

Nowadays, in common parlance, land mines generally refer to devices specifically manufactured as anti-personnel or anti-vehicle weapons.

However, the OO community was beginning to recognize the benefits that industry standardization would bring: not just a good way of doing things, but the good way, which would lead to common parlance and practice among developers.

In common English parlance, the doctrine of predestination often has particular reference to the doctrines of Calvinism.

Similarly, in common parlance, the opposite of a dove is a hawk or war hawk.

In common parlance a republic is a state that does not practice direct democracy but rather has a government indirectly controlled by the people.

In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom, Canada and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in the United States.

In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology.

* Frindle, a children's novel in which a fictitious word passes into common parlance

During his reign he said use of the word nigger was " disgraceful " despite it then being in common parlance.

In common parlance political and constitutional aspects ( e. g. giving citizens or their elected representatives more power in political decision-making, establishment of subnational political entities for decision making and making them politically accountable to local electorate which often entails constitutional or statutory reforms like providing for representation of the member states, the strengthening of legislatures, creation of local political units along with the encouragement of effective public interest groups and pluralistic political parties ) are considered crucial for federalism.

In addition some of the terms are used differently in common parlance than they are by medical professionals.

In common parlance, however, the word " menopause " usually refers not to one day, but to the whole of the menopause transition years.

In common parlance, the difference between a " spore " and a " gamete " ( both together called gonites ) is that a spore will germinate and develop into a sporeling, while a gamete needs to combine with another gamete before developing further.

A trial at a criminal court, the Old Bailey in London In common parlance, law means a rule which ( unlike a rule of ethics ) is capable of enforcement through institutions.

This means that, in common parlance, the term " Rolemaster Second Edition " ( RM2 ) is often used to refer everything published from 1984 to 1994.

The term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.

In the United States the most common terms used are ALS ( both specifically for ALS and as a blanket term ) or " Lou Gehrig's disease ".

It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years ( especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy ), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period.

the inclusion of the term " indivisible " in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag ); before this, the construction " the United States are " was more common.

Arab culture is a term that draws together the common themes and overtones found in the Arab countries, especially those of the Middle-Eastern countries.

After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap year — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas ; Dürer was to spend about four years away.

The most common use of the term is in the case of English peerage dignities.

The term is less common in modern texts, and was originally derived from a dichotomy with major tranquilizers, also known as neuroleptics or antipsychotics.

It is a common term and part of every day conversation on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network ( AVEN ) forums, and many members will refer to themselves as " orientation asexuals ".

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day ( cf.

While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.

When murmur is included under the term aspiration, as is common in Indo-Aryan linguistics, " voiceless aspiration " is called just that to avoid ambiguity.

The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical, both terms having a common antecedent in the term latten.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

* Hex ( or cell )— in hexagon-based board games, this is the common term for a standard space on the board.