According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.

Now ubiquitous, in current usage the term " cyberspace " stands for the global network of interdependent information technology infrastructures, telecommunications networks and computer processing systems.

Criticisms of mainstream psychology consistent with current critical psychology usage have existed since psychology's modern development in the late 19th century.

" The Greek and Latin term referred to any great serpent, not necessarily mythological, and this usage was also current in English up to the 18th century.

In current usage, one approach to defining euthanasia has been to mirror Suetonius, regarding it as the " painless inducement of a quick death ".

" Aside from words derived from " angry " and " hungry ," there is no stand-alone word ending in "- gry " that is in current usage.

The mainstream media's current usage of the term may be traced back to the early 1980s.

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

It predates C and most other popular languages in current usage, and has very different syntax and terminology.

In current usage, a paraphyletic group consists of all of the descendants of a possibly hypothetical closest common ancestor minus one or more monophyletic groups ( most usually one ).

A usage that is archaic in most, but not all, current English dialects is the singular second-person pronoun thou ( accusative thee ).

In current usage, the term is primarily pejorative, while the term politically incorrect has been used as an implicitly positive self-description.

The current usage of republic in Muslim countries is borrowed from the western meaning, adopted into the language in the late 19th century.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

* In Jewish folklore, rabbits ( shfanim שפנים ) are associated with cowardice, a usage still current in contemporary Israeli spoken Hebrew ( similar to English colloquial use of " chicken " to denote cowardice ).

A significant development, that has spread across all current Smalltalk environments, is the increasing usage of two web frameworks, Seaside and AIDA / Web, to simplify the building of complex web applications.

Historical use of the term humanism ( reflected in some current academic usage ), is related to the writings of pre-Socratic philosophers.

In current usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

The past and current usage of the term in respect of European art can only be described as confused and inconsistent.

* Drought monitoring-Continuous observation of rainfall levels and comparisons with current usage levels can help prevent man-made drought.

Higher exhaust velocity has both benefit and tradeoff, increasing propellant usage efficiency ( more momentum per unit mass of propellant expelled ) but decreasing thrust and the current rate of spacecraft acceleration if available input power is constant ( less momentum per unit of energy given to propellant ).

`` I am worried about the current meanings of the word funny.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

Although the more radical consequences of the global communication network predicted by some cyberspace proponents ( i. e. the diminishing of state influence envisioned by John Perry Barlow ) failed to materialize and the word lost some of its novelty appeal, it remains current as of 2006.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

Having noted the current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of feudalism, she argued that the word is only a construct with no basis in medieval reality, an invention of modern historians read back " tyrannically " into the historical record.

The word holiday derived from the notion of " Holy Day ", and gradually evolved to its current form.

Its current name is derived from the word " Jayakarta ".

It was formerly referred to as Serpentarius (; also Anguitenens ), a Latin word meaning the same as its current name.

The current word plough comes from Old Norse plógr, and therefore Germanic, but it appears relatively late ( it is absent from Gothic ), and is thought to be a loanword from one of the north Italic languages.

The word is used in " Svea rike ", with the current spelling Sverige, the name of Sweden in Swedish.

They also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

By the 16th century the word theosophy was being used in at least one of its current meanings.

The current letterhead wording and arrangement " The White House " with the word " Washington " centered beneath goes back to the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Most current word processors can calculate various statistics pertaining to a document.

The inventors also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

Although in current media ( standard American English ) this word rhymes with " furrow ", Edward Emerson wrote that the name should be pronounced " Thó-row, the h sounded, and accent on the first syllable.

It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word " gospel " in the gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current contemporary Christian music ( CCM ).

The word turnpike came into common use in the names of these roadways and companies, and is essentially used interchangeably with toll road in current terminology.

In current British usage, a " wardrobe " can also be built-in, and the word " cupboard " can be used to refer to a closet.

The current Greek name for Sunday, Κυριακή ( Kyriake ), means " Lord's Day " coming from the word Κύριος ( Kyrios ), which is the Greek word for " Lord ".