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

Terms used to describe the motor neuron diseases can be confusing ; in the UK " motor neuron disease " ( with " neuron " sometimes spelt " neurone ") refers to both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( the most common form of disease ) and to the broader spectrum of motor neuron diseases including progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, and progressive bulbar palsy.

* Accreditation of Prior Learning ( UK ) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

All further-and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to Janet, as are all the Research Councils ; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks ( though Janet refers to these as Regional Networks, emphasising that Janet connections are not just confined to a metropolitan area ) across the UK.

In the UK, the word " repeat " refers only to a single episode ; " rerun " or " rerunning " is the preferred term for an entire series / season.

In ordinary usage, skepticism ( US ) or scepticism ( UK ) ( Greek: ' σκέπτομαι ' skeptomai, to think, to look about, to consider ; see also spelling differences ) refers to:

The actual term ' stock cars ' in the UK refers to a specialised form of racing that bears little resemblance to any road car.

The UK Ministry of Defence refers to the AGM-114N as an " enhanced blast weapon ".

In the context of United Kingdom politics, it refers to a possible alliance on certain issues between the Conservative Party and ecologists or environmentalists such as those found in the UK Green Party.

* On the sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show, the sketch that mocks UK children's show Blue Peter, refers to a time capsule, to be dug up in the year 2025.

In the UK, however, the term threadworm refers to nematodes of the family Enterobius.

In North America, Australia, NZ and the UK, the word " lollipop " refers specifically to sugar candy with flavoring on a stick.

In an episode of the UK TV sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, Tom refers to Linda as a fag hag.

Lemonade generally refers to a clear, fizzy beverage in the UK.

In February 2000, the Salvation Army publicly ( in their publication known as " War Cry " and in a letter to a Scottish Parliament committee ) opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act ( 1988 ) However, The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland website refers to the organisation offering ' unconditional assistance and support regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual choices, respecting the identity and choices of all those referred to them .... As well as having a right to be dealt with professionally, people can expect from us encouragement and a respect for their individual beliefs, ambitions and preferences.

The term " new town " often refers in the UK to towns built after World War II under the New Towns Act 1946.

In the UK and Commonwealth countries, the term points refers to the entire mechanism, whereas in North America the term refers only to the movable rails.

The term Sloane Ranger ( often shortened to Sloane or less frequently Sloanie ) refers to a stereotype in the UK of young, upper class or upper-middle-class women, or men who share distinctive and common lifestyle traits.

In the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong, the term baked beans refers almost exclusively to canned beans in a tomato sauce.

Pigs in blankets ( also known as worstenbroodjes or saucijzenbroodjes ( Dutch ), kilted sausages ( UK ), or in Danish pølse i svøb ) refers to different sausage-based foods in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Canada, and Japan.

In the United Kingdom, many sheer cotton fabrics are called muslin, while in the United States, muslin sometimes refers to a firm cloth for everyday use, which in the UK and Australia is known as calico.