Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

* Benefit Crystallisation Event-a term introduced by the UK Finance Act 2004

* Police, with ' old bill ' as a slang term in the UK

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

In the US the term " combat engineer vehicle ( CEV )" is used, in the UK the term " Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers ( AVRE )" is used, while in Canada and other commonwealth nations the term " armoured engineer vehicle ( AEV )" is used.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

* Mullions-Smaller optional vertical boards that run between two rails, and split the door into two or more columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for verticals in doors, but more often ( UK and Australia ) it refers to verticals in windows.

This distinction is, however, not made in the UK, where the generic term for practitioners is " educational psychologist.

It was Shepherd who first used the English term " first aid for the injured " First aid training began to spread through the empire through organisations such as St. John, often starting, as in the UK, with high risk activities such as ports and railways.

The UK and Australia also refer to School holidays ( typically Christmas, Easter, and Summer ) for the periods between School terms when children are not required to go to school, and Half-term holidays for the short break ( usually one week ) part-way through each School term.

In parliamentary systems the head of state may be merely the nominal chief executive officer of the state, possessing executive power ( hence the description of the monarch's governments in the UK Commonwealth realms as His / Her Majesty's Government ; a term indicating that all power belongs to the sovereign and the government acts on Her Majesty's behalf, not parliament's ).

Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies ( a term the UK has used in the post-World War II period ) to collectivist.

In the UK, the term has been " knitting circle " since the early 20th century.

The term Anglo-Mauritian, a term that may include Mauritians living in the UK, is used unofficially.

All other uses ( not self-improvement educational consulting businesses ), it can be freely used ( generic term ), as was confirmed in 2007 by a UK court.

" A UK newspaper reported the case of a self-taught gunsmith named Grant Wilkinson, who " was ordered to serve a minimum term of 11 years after a jury found him guilty of running a gun factory supplying lethal Mac-10 weapons to criminals, mainly in London ".

The UK Census figures do not allow an accurate breakdown of traditions within the pagan heading, as a campaign by the Pagan Federation before the census encouraged Wiccans, Heathens, Druids and others all to use the same write-in term ' Pagan ' in order to maximise the numbers reported.

* Neighbourhood Policing Team, UK Police term for a group of officers dedicated to policing specific neighbourhoods

Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang " the dog's bollocks " or " the mutt's nuts ", meaning " the absolute best ".

* Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation

Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit ( and first UK Number 1 hit ), " Hot Love ".

While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States ; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as " glitter rock " and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts.

Glam or glitter rock developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s.

Glam or glitter rock developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s.

It has been claimed that glam rock began with the release of this album, though this is also attributed to Marc Bolan's appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in December 1970 wearing glitter, to perform what would be his first UK hit single under the name T. Rex, " Ride a White Swan ", which peaked at Number 2 in the UK chart.

Other variations were that some had glitter and non glittery eyes, and the adult bear even has different names depending on the US or UK version.

* Ark ( UK band ), a melodic rock band

In 2007 Bronski remixed the song " Stranger To None " by the UK alternative rock band, All Living Fear.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

* The Enemy ( UK band ), an indie rock band from Coventry, England

The scene appears to have taken the gothic name from an article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: " The face of Punk Gothique ", written by Steve Keaton and published in February 1981.

The bands that embraced the Gothic rock genre included Bauhaus, The Damned, The Cure, early Adam and the Ants, The Birthday Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Christian Death and Killing Joke.

Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK.

Grant maintained an aggressive pro-album stance, particularly in the UK where there were few radio and TV outlets for playing rock music.

In October, The Damned became the first UK punk rock band to release a single, the romance-themed " New Rose ".

While punk rock remained largely an underground phenomenon in North America, Australia, and the new spots where it was emerging, in the UK it briefly became a major sensation.

When this proved too small he took over Winterland and then the Fillmore West ( in San Francisco ) and the Fillmore East ( in New York City ), where the major rock artists, from both the US and the UK, came to play.

In the UK the Madchester scene influenced the early sound of 1990s Britpop bands like Blur, and Oasis who drew on 1960s psychedelic pop and rock, particularly on the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants ( 2000 ).

* Psi Power, a 1978 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind

* The Rocks ( band ), a former UK indie rock band

* Spontaneous Combustion, UK progressive rock band of the early 1970s

After his career as an early -' 60s rock ' n ' roll attraction, it became customary for the UK press to refer to him as " Screaming Lord Sutch ", or simply " Lord Sutch ".

While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from New Wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

UK punk rock band The Cribs cite The Replacements as a key influence, and covered " Bastards of Young " on the B-Side to their " I'm a Realist " single.

* UK ( band ), a British progressive rock supergroup

Inspired by the burgeoning UK punk scene, Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.